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arolesbianism · 23 days ago

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I've been playing oni all day again and I'm rotating various dupe hcs in my mind... Might take a stab at designing some random dupes later to fuck around and wait nvm it's past midnight god damnit

#rat rambles #oni posting #well. alas.#anyways Ive been thinking abt how its likely that the bionic dupes and freyja aren't as close to normal clones as the main dupes are #and thinking abt other hypothetical genetic niches would likely have dupes built for them #in my minds eye bionic dupes were planned to be much larger scale and some within the team working on them had hopes they'd completely #replace the normal dupes but after various data leaks and drama with the vertex institute the project was put on hold and it never quite #came to life again and as such while there's enough stuff in the pod's database for them to be usable they are an unfinished project #a huge part of this can be seen in the bionic dupes inability to naturally level their skills as currently any physical action is run #through specific commands that are stored within the boosters #bionic dupes are equally sentient to normal dupes to be clear but they are basically constantly having to manually give commands to their #bodies to perform actions so they are heavily limiteds by what commands they have available to them #the boosters do also help take the strain off the rest of their systems tho which is why athletics goes up with every booster #but yeah most of thsis stuff was still in the works before as the process of more seemlessly merging their biological and mechanical parts #was still ongoing as it was more important at this point in the project to make sure that it wouldn't take too much time and resources for #a pod to print a bionic dupe compared to a normal dupe #similar problems also tend to apply to more soecialized dupes but on a much smaller scale #generally they just require more space to store the data for them but some (like freyja) are physically larger #the far bigger problem in their development was actually being given the time and resources To develop them given theyre inherently #situational and the more specialized they get the worse at surviving in other environments which means the data for them would just be #taking up space in the pod which is space that could be being used to store some other solution that isnt another mouth to feed #and also simply within the labs making these dupes they're having to ask for a lot of resources and time #these soecialized dupes require a lot more genetic tinkering than normal dupes which means you can't just slap the dna of one of your #coworkers in and call it a day you actually have to be selective with your samples and fuck around with them more #so when the dupe you just spent ages engineering solves the same problem that putting on a coat does you might have a hard time continuing #not to say freyja isnt borderline necessary for a starting ceres colony I love you girlie #just that from the perspective of jackie a. stern this might feel like a waste of time

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