Lazarus Project

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The Lazarus Project was a cloning programme undertaken by the Republic of Coruscant to preserve CivGeneral's consciousness in the event of his physical death. It is first mentioned in DRAW Your Own Story 11, serving as a plot device for the introduction of Mariko Antilles.

DRAW Your Own Story 4 first established a body back-up project in the form of MegaTech, a company involved in manufacturing prosthetic bodies. When CivGeneral was caught in a spam attack by CurtSibling, his cyberbrain was recovered, but a separate attack destroyed the factory and he piggybacked off Major Kusanagi's consciousness until a new body was available. Whether Lazarus was this same project or a replacement is unknown.

Later, the approach shifted from body substitution to direct genetic cloning. Lazarus was established at Vault 55, overseen by Dr. Galney. The only known clone created, "CivGeneral Alpha", was grown to physical maturity matching CivGeneral's own age, but was kept "offline". Intended as a vehicle similar to the prosthetic bodies, the clone proper did not have its own consciousness, but a local computer contained a memory databank current to DRAW Your Own Story 9.

Vault 55 was abandoned during the Avatar Wars, apparently in an attempt to hide it from Mara Jade. When she returned with the Umbrella Corporation in DYOS 11, she found the facility intact, activating the clone to create Mariko Antilles.

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