[TRIPLE ZERO] Chapter 1: Kaminoans and eugenics II

[mamuzzy]

|| Republic Commando: Triple Zero || 2006 || Book series || Military, Sci-fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||

There was a long silence in the bland, peaceful, white-walled room. Evil was supposed to be black, jet black; and it wasn't supposed to be soft-spoken.

You have a haunch when the Kaminoan took a look at Kal's disabled leg and remarked him DEFECTIVE.
But when you read this scene, it is now obvious. The Kaminoans not just use eugenics in their own society. They are using it while creating the clones too.

This is how the clone babies in the tubes are introduced:

The cavern—surgically clean, polished durasteel and permaglass—was filled with structures that seemed almost like fractals. At first glance they looked like giant toroids stacked on pillars; then, as he stared, the toroids resolved into smaller rings of permaglass containers, with containers within them, and inside those
No, this wasn't happening.
Inside the transparent tubes there was fluid, and within it there was movement.
It took him several minutes of staring and refocusing on one of the tubes to realize there was a body in there, and it was alive. In fact, there was a body in every tube: row upon row of tiny bodies, children's bodies. Babies.
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“You said—”
“I said you'd be training special forces troops, and you will be. They just happen to be growing them.”
“What?”
“Clones.”

When Kal arrived here expected that he will train fully grown men to be soldiers. He didn't expect that soldiers will be harvested from these tubes. That he will find children here grown in a laboratory.

“Ko Sai said something wasn't quite right with the first test batch of clones,” said Jango, ushering Skirata ahead of him into another room. “They've tested them and they don't think these are going to make the grade. I told Orun Wa that we'd give him the benefit of our military experience and take a look.”

For the Kaminoans the clones are not children. They are products. Well cared products, but still not people. It means that however the first batch of clones ended up, they aren't meeting with their expectations. They are imperfect.

“I would still be happier if you confirmed that the first batch of units is below the acceptable standard.”

Orun Wa and Ko Sai already decided that this batch is faulty and should be terminated, but they didn't want to go behind Jango Fett's back with this decisions. They wanted Jango Fett's approval for it.

“These units are defective, and I admit that we perhaps made an error in attempting to enhance the genetic template,” Orun Wa said, utterly unmoved by their vulnerability.

Skirata had worked out fast that Kaminoans despised everything that didn't fit their intolerant, arrogant society's ideal of perfection. So … they thought Jango's genome wasn't the perfect model for a soldier without a little adjustment, then. Maybe it was his solitary nature; he'd make a rotten infantry soldier. Jango wasn't a team player.

The Kaminoans didn't find Jango Fett's genes perfect to make, so they tempered with his genes to create the "better version of himself". Ironically this made the whole experiment a disaster in their eyes. Which now they are apoligizing for.

“Chief Scientist Ko Sai apologizes, as do I,” said Orun Wa. “Six units did not survive incubation, but these developed normally and appeared to meet specifications, so they have undergone some flash-instruction and trials. Unfortunately, psychological testing indicates that they are simply too unreliable and fail to meet the personality profile required!”

They were 12 of these children. 6 of them didn't survive.
The other six were already tried for tests but it turned out, psychologically they are not adequate.

“Which is?” said Jango.
“That they can carry out orders:' Orun Wa blinked rapidly: he seemed embarrassed by error. “I can assure you that we will address these problems in the current Alpha production run. These units will be reconditioned, of course. Is there anything you wish to ask?”

This current batch is uncapable of carry out orders, but fixing is underway by developing the "Alpha Batch". Meaning, the Alpha Batch potentially will be more inclined to obey whatever is asked from them.

“Yeah,” said Skirata. “What do you mean by reconditioned?”
“In this case, terminated.”

The Kaminoans decided that these six children will die due to their psychological imperfections.

Evil was supposed to be black, jet black; and it wasn't supposed to be soft-spoken.

This quote will probably stay with me for a while.

Comments

[ithillia]

This was a very intense scene, and it might be weird, but what I really loved in it was that how it was REAL, like, genuine. I mean Orun Wa's speech is enterily business talk, like assuring a customer that there might have been set-backs but production is on-track. (I kinda also feel that they treat Jango as a customer as well, like an on-site inspector from the "jedi" (aka DookuXD), so no wonder they didn't dare to go behind his back and eliminate the Nulls without authorisation.

But also this way of handing out the facts "We tried to improve, it didn't work the way we expected, we learned a lot from it, we now have an action plan to correct any mistakes and inputs for future improvement, please approve and sign here" -> this is just literally how I was thought that it's the okay way to give explanations to the higher management about fuck-ups :D
Also the way Orun Wa words these things: “I would still be happier if you confirmed..." & "These units will be reconditioned, of course. Is there anything you wish to ask?” -> these make you feel that the RECONDITON (what a nice misleading word btw) is already decided and it's not avoidable. Communicating this AS FACT is just a polite way to coerce cooperation. Thankfully it doesn't work on Jango, let alone Kal ahahahahahaha