

The blood and the grav drive.īlood in a cloning bay, that was different too. That was probably another reason someone was yelling. If blood was floating, that meant the grav drive that spun the ship had failed. With the smears on the outside of the vat and the purple color through the bluish fluid Maria floated in, she figured the orbs were blood drops. There were too many things wrong with such a mess. She tried to make sense of the dark round globules floating in front of her vat, but it was difficult with the freshly cloned brain being put to work for the first time. Sloppy use of a life wouldn’t make a good impression on the captain, who likely was the source of the angry chain-saw noise. Maria must have been in an accident or something soon after, killing her and requiring her next clone to wake. There they had done their first backup on the ship. The crew had just moved into their quarters on the Dormire, and the cloning bay had been the last room they’d visited on their tour. Her reluctance at her own rebirth reminded her where she was, and who she was. She couldn’t make out the words, but it didn’t sound like a situation she wanted to be involved in. Once it reached Maria Arena’s ears, it sounded like a chain saw: loud, insistent, and unending. Sound struggled to make its way through the thick synth- amneo fluid. (Exception one: A clone can sign a eu- thanasia agreement, if a qualified doctor agrees that death is imminent and they are suffering.

(Codicil 2 being an exception.) Clones must con- tinue with the DNA of their original bodies and their original mindmap. It is unlawful to modify any DNA or mindmap of any clone.They and their mindmaps are subject to search by authorities at all times. Clones must always have the most recent mindmap of their consciousness on a drive on their person.


It is unlawful for a clone to bear or father children.If a clone is multi- plied by their own hand or others, the most recent clone has claim to the identity, while the other(s) are extraneous. Cloning will be used for longevity of life, not for multiplication. It is unlawful to create more than one clone of a person at a time.International Law Regarding the Codicils to Govern the Existence of Clones
