Spaarti cloning cylinder

Spaarti cloning cylinders were four-meter-tall tanks that acted as mechanical wombs filled with nutrient chemicals and organic catalyzers, used for the creation of personal clone armies by those wealthy and/or well-connected enough to acquire them.

To create clones from Spaarti cylinders was the fastest known form of cloning. Kaminoan cloning had a single clone grown safely at maturity in ten years. With a Spaarti cloning cylinder, a fully-mature adult Human could be grown in a staggeringly quick one standard year. However, Kaminoan cloning was much more effective, for ten years of growing in constant learning and training resulted in creating perfect warriors despite the long wait. Spaarti clones did not receive any training, instead they had their personalities formed by a process known as "flash-pumping," which involved writing the memories of another person to a fresh clone's brain. Spaarti clones grown in less than a full year had the dangerous side effect of possible clone madness. However, Thrawn discovered that using ysalamiri to cut off the clone's connection to the Force would enable the creation of the clone within 15 to 21 standard days.

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