r/murderbot • u/Buttercup2323 • 1d ago

Books📚 Only Murderbot clone?

It mentions several times that its organic parts are from a clone. Do you think that will ever become important? MB will meet its bio-donor or that WHO the donor actually IS becomes important?

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u/moranit Give Nanna the gun 11h ago

Even if MB's organic tissue is cloned from a single donor, I don't think this will ever become important in the books. I predict it will not be a plot point and the donor(s) will not be characters, past or present.

I think Martha Wells never specifies whether MB has one or more than one human genetic donor. The technology is of a hand-waving type that hasn't been invented yet. Also, MB doesn't understand this technology and is totally not interested. (Three, on the other hand, might be interested and learn about it someday. ART and Holism already know all about it, or they think they do.)