Durandal saw nothing inappropriate in Xiao Ran's plan to use those clones to form a new unit. From the very beginning, the clones Yuzes had created were meant to form a force capable of rivaling, or even surpassing, the Steel Dragon Squad.
Every clone had been engineered to serve as a pilot, and all possessed considerable Piloting Skill. Of course, differences in the adjustment process and individual variation meant that their abilities varied as well. But even the weakest among them possessed strength comparable to the captain of an ordinary MS Unit. With so many gathered together to form a unit, they would be an elite force no matter how one looked at it.
These clones had major issues with their identities. Whether they were dispersed or assigned to different units, not only would that scatter this force, but they would also have difficulty integrating into other units. Leaving such a force unused would be a waste, so Xiao Ran decided he might as well grant Yuzes's wish and organize the clones into a single unit.
The unit's original name should have been Sword of Earth. Xiao Ran was merely returning that name and placing it upon this group. To Xiao Ran, it was no big deal. Photocopy Person Technology alone far surpassed ordinary cloning technology by an unknown margin, especially when it came to memory writing.
Current cloning technology did not involve memory writing at all. What Yuzes had done to Gurin Mai and the people of White Star back then had merely been a form of control, modification, or hypnosis. He would have done the same to these clones in time.
But the memory writing of Photocopy Persons was a different matter. It truly created genuine memories for these clones from nothing. Those memories might have been false