Cloning: A Discussion

[Mr. Moriarty]

Yeah monkey cloning feels like a weird unintended way to just work around the puritan drawback.

I would be entirely in favour of puritan persisting through monkey cloning; they should still fall out of the cloner on the brink of death even if their brain was transplanted into a monkey. SR should also have a major downside when used with puritans, perhaps the same effects as when cloned, but more inventive solutions may be devised.

That being said, puritans can be saved if RNG is on your side. Currently, puritans exit the cloner with 0-100 brute damage, 250 toxin damage, roll a 50% chance per limb to lose it, and have the premature clone trait, meaning they gib on death. This gives them a 3.5% chance to die every life cycle (which I think is 1.75% per second, correct me if I am wrong), increasing with the damage associated with deep critical, however if one uses the correct chemical mix, it makes it possible, even if incredibly difficult, to save them.

Alongside changing puritan to persist across brain transplants, monkey cloning, or other cloner wizardry, I would also suggest making it slightly less impossible to try to save them, likely through use of a short grace period where they cannot roll the chance to die, challenging Doctors to actively try to save them, rather than the clone being unlucky and immediately gibbing, although it could be argued that is part of choosing the trait.