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[meret.livejournal.com]

Speculation based on last night's ep

I wonder where the cylons are getting the biological material to make cyborgs? Are they growing it in a lab, or are they cannabalizing and transforming humans they've captured in the past? Maybe the Boomers are clones of a real person with a cylon chip of some sort that can take control when needed. Perhaps that's how she's able to try and fight the cylon influence. Just a thought.

Comments

[ilanala]

I was under the impression that they're synthetic. With the appropriate raw materials and level of technology you could, conceivably synethesize everything that makes a person: the genes, all the different cell types, etc. You wouldn't need to start with biological material, just the various elements that make up biological systems. And you might not even need those all the time, judging by the talk in the miniseries about Cylons having silica relays (presumably instead of neurons).

This is why I don't really understand the Boomer-as-a-clone thing (although it may very well be what the writers are going for). From a sci fi point of view, you could make an entire person without having to clone them from someone else, and if they have more of a computerized brain, you could program them to do whatever you want.

[meret.livejournal.com]

They definitely wouldn't have to have a person to use as base material, but I think it would be easier, and a lot more intereting in terms of the story.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

My gut feel is that they're clones of originals - although whether the originals are alive or dead or being kept in cryogenic deep-freeze in some kind of Cylon genetic material library is anyone's guess.

There's no reason, of course, why the Cylons couldn't construct entirely synthetic humans, but why go to all that trouble when there were billions of existing genetic patterns to choose from? Plus, if you want a spy to blend in better, it's easier if they're already somebody who officially exists, and has whatever the Colonial equivalent of a national insurance number is. Finally, if the Cylons aimed to place an infiltrator in a particular role in society, it'd be quicker to target and replace someone already in that role than to go through the lengthy process of grooming one of their own for it.

[meret.livejournal.com]

There's no reason, of course, why the Cylons couldn't construct entirely synthetic humans, but why go to all that trouble when there were billions of existing genetic patterns to choose from? Plus, if you want a spy to blend in better, it's easier if they're already somebody who officially exists,

Absolutely! Plus, I think it would be more interesting in terms of the story that way.

[the-outsider.livejournal.com]

I'd think it would be a lot easier for them to make a "new" person than have an imposter imitate a "real" person. A real person would have a family and friends and it'd be way more difficult for an imposter to fool them than it would be for an imposter with no friends or family to fit in. It seems like faking a Colonial equivalent of a birth certificate and stuff like that would take a lot less work than trying to make an imposter who was so realistic that even the real person's family would be fooled.

[meret.livejournal.com]

If the clone had the person's memories, that wouldn't be a problem IMO. Or they could do waht people do now to get fake IDs. Pick someone who died as a child.

It seems like faking a Colonial equivalent of a birth certificate and stuff like that would take a lot less work than trying to make an imposter who was so realistic that even the real person's family would be fooled.

I can see them doing it either way. I think it would be more interesting if they use a real person though.