History Headscratchers / Clonus

** "A small civilization" that is about as big and well equipped as your average college campus housing and feeding maybe a few thousand, except all the 'students' are docile human cattle who are providing free labor without question with funding provided by the most powerful and wealthy who see it as a means of saving their own lives? "Peak physical condition" consists of providing nutritious meals, regular medical checkups and telling them to exercise all the time. Most people are going to be in excellent physical shape under those conditions. There would be staff to employ, like guards, sure but Clonus wouldn't cost much more to run than the average college campus or state prison. Probably less because again the inmates are docile human cattle. And security at Clonus was actually terrible.

** Regardless of how justified Richard's suspensions are, the scene still serves to tell the audience that the guards are clandestinely moving cargo from place to place, and the audience will (perhaps correctly) guess that the cargo is either dead or unconscious bodies, all the more because it later ties into Lena's experience of seeing a dead body of one of the clones being transported.

** Regardless of how justified Richard's suspensions are, the scene still serves to tell the audience that the guards are clandestinely moving cargo from place to place, and the audience will (perhaps correctly) guess that the cargo is either dead or unconscious bodies, all the more because it later ties into Lena's experience of seeing a dead body of the one of the clones being transported.

** "A small civilization" that is about as big and well equipped as your average college campus housing and feeding maybe a few thousand, except all the 'students' are docile human cattle who are providing free labor without question with funding provided by the most powerful and wealthy who see it as a means of saving their own lives? "Top physical shape" consists of providing nutritious meals, regular medical checkups and telling them to exercise. There would be staff to employ, like guards, sure but Clonus wouldn't cost much more to run than the average college campus or state prison. And security at Clonus was actually terrible.

** "A small civilization" that is about as big and well equipped as your average college campus housing and feeding maybe a few thousand, except all the 'students' are docile human cattle who are providing free labor without question with funding provided by the most powerful and wealthy who see it as a means of saving their own lives? Clones wouldn't cost much more to run than the average college campus or state prison. And security at Clonus was actually terrible.

** "A small civilization" that is about as big and well equipped as your average college campus housing and feesing maybe a few thousand, except all the 'students' are docile human cattle who are providing free labor without question with funding provided by the most powerful and wealthy who see it as a means of saving their own lives? Clones wouldn't cost much more to run than the average state prison. And security at Clonus was actually terrible.

** Considering how much money, time and effort it would take to raise of just one clone, would you just throw away a perfectly good source of potential organs to provide for a lesser client? It dosen't take any effort to freeze and store them.
** And just how useful is this whole idea anyway? The vast majority of people will go through life never needing an organ transplant. Think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars and decades of time it takes to raise ''each'' of the clones to adulthood, keep them in peak physical condition, and then preserve them on the off chance that one of the important people they were cloned from needs a liver or something on down the line. With that amount of time and resources, surely more efficient (and humane) methods could be found to secure a compatable replacement part.

* Old!Richard is ostensibly murdered by his brother's goons at the end, so why'd they bother freezing Clone!Richard afterwards? His specific organ recipient isn't around anymore. That said, as a clone of his brother Richard's organs would likely be usable in the event that Senator Knight needed anything.
** Considering how much money, time and effort it would take to raise of just one clone, would you just throw away a perfectly good source of potential organs to provide for a lesser client? It dosen't take any effort to freeze and store them.
** And just how useful is this whole idea anyway? The vast majority of people will go through life never needing an organ transplant. Think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars and decades of time it takes to raise ''each'' of the clones to adulthood, keep them in peak physical condition, and then preserve them on the off chance that one of the important people they were cloned from needs a liver or something on down the line. With that amount of time and resources, surely more efficient (and humane) methods could be found to secure a compatable replacement part.
*** It's the Illuminati, they have resources to burn. Plus the other possible uses for clones had yet to be explored, not just potential organ donors but also infiltrators, cloned armies, slave labor. Those scientists weren't just content to let the clones grow up, they were also "monitoring their interaction," performing all kinds of experiments. Clonus is described as a "self-supporting center of research" after all.
*** Transplants might be more popular if there was no chance of rejection (clones being genetically identical to the progenitor, though I doubt it's that simple) and there was a larger supply of organs.

*** Didn't you see the old eye-patched guy's ring? It was a pyramid with an eye in it. That means the Illuminati were running the Clone farm, which means they would probably have access to Applied Phlebotinum like the secrets of Atlantis, Roswell UFO technology, the Ark of the Convenant, and the knowledge from the legions of Hell. Human cloning would be easy for them.