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Being one of the many technologies developed in the [[Dark Age of Technology]], a great deal of processes and techniques to create successful and fuctioning clones was lost. These include the purification of the blood to be used in the cloning proceedure and also the elimination of [[gene flaw]]s. Due to the loss of these techniques mutations and other deformities have occur. These include extra limbs eg tentacles, other growths such as claws and fangs and also metal and pyschological changes, including fury and predatory blood lust.
The replicae process can also magnify and accentuate already present gene flaws. In many cases depositions present in the gene stock can take disturbing and horrific shapes in the [[Replicae]]. One example of this is the gene flaws [[black rage]] and [[red thirst]] in the [[Blood Angels]] chapter, which cause replicae to mutate with the red thirst, into vampire like organisms.
=Known Attempts=
* [[Corax]] and the [[Raven Guard]]: Due to the heavy losses the [[Raven Guard]] chapter sustained during the [[Horus Heresy]] many accounts describe the chapter implementing the Art of Replicae to bolster their dwindling numbers in an effort to quicken the recruitment process. Due to the secretive nature of the [[Raven Guard]] chapter little is known of the success of the chapter's attempt at cloning, however many rumours circulate in the ranks of other chapters describing the outbreak of mutants in the [[Raven Guard]] ranks.
* Apothecary Majoris Caecus of the [[Blood Angels]]
=References=
* [[Red Fury]] by [[James Swallow]]
