The leadership intended the lower-order biological clones to fight a proxy war in place of the civilization itself. They were expendable supplies for warfare, no different from the various objects people used in everyday life.
The researcher Lan Feng first ran model simulations. Within the applicable data parameters, the base AI simulated tens of thousands of possible outcomes of a rebellion by the lower-order life-forms.
The results soon showed that the manufactured lower-order organisms would be easier to control than clones of the Crystal Civilization's own people.
Whether in physical strength, intelligence, or dependence on their living environment, the lower-order organisms fell short of the threshold for a spacefaring species.
Individuals of the Crystal Civilization could now survive in a vacuum. Even away from a planet's surface, they could go months without eating, capturing cosmic particles to maintain normal bodily functions. In hibernation, they could remain dormant without food or water for even longer.
In the manufacturing specifications Lan Feng provided, the lower-order organisms had extremely weak bodies and depended heavily on oxygen and food. This meant they required a highly stable living environment and logistical support, and could not individually survive direct exposure to a vacuum.
Even if they spiraled out of control, a group of deficient little dwarfs would be easier to manage than a group just as strong as their creators.
The computer completed its simulations and delivered the answer Lan Feng wanted. The organism in the cultivation tank gradually took shape, developing at astonishing speed before his eyes.
In less than three minutes, the cultivation tank held a child a meter tall, with long brown hair and delicate white skin. "It" still had the appearance of a humanoid intelligent species, with attractive, fair skin incapable of resisting intense radiation, like a little female dwarf brimming with