Photocopy Person Technology was a cloning technology from the world of Gundam SEED. Compared to ordinary cloning technology, it was at least a level more advanced. It could imprint memories and abilities into genes, producing fully qualified individuals. It was an excellent technology for mass-producing capable pilots.
Moreover, because these mass-produced pilots were replicated from the genetic level onward, the resulting Photocopy Persons could also possess the abilities of their originals. Xiao Ran did not know whether mental abilities such as NT could be replicated, but the abilities of Coordinators could be preserved perfectly.
The only issue was that the replicated Photocopy Persons possessed their own thoughts and abilities. Even if they were implanted with exactly the same data, there was no guarantee their personalities would be identical. Individual differences would still exist, making them genuine lives. Once their numbers grew, it would be difficult to say whether some uncontrollable individuals might emerge.
That would create a difficult-to-control situation. What Xiao Ran wanted were weapons capable of fighting aliens, not creations with independent minds. The reason he had Durandal prepare the Photocopy Persons was to produce a batch of biohumans with no thoughts, only combat instincts, to serve as expendables—a batch of expendables with advanced piloting abilities.
However, drones could achieve the same goal. The only problem was that Xiao Ran's side had yet to make any major breakthroughs in drone technology. It was not a matter of mecha models or Mecha Performance, but of the core needed to truly bring that performance out. At most, they could only produce drones at C+ to B- level.
But with biohuman pilots possessing combat instincts, they could use Photocopy Person Technology to mass-produce B-Class and Pseudo A-Class pilots as cores, creating a vanguard force that feared neither death nor battle and possessed