What if cloning
someday becomes economical? Ethics often quickly erode where there is
money to be made, and if cloning could produce a cheaper work-force
for large corporations, we may have to worry about more than robots
taking our jobs away. Assuming that someday technology will exist to
produce a fully-grown human, a company may decide to generate its own
work-force through a person's DNA, licensed for use. Someone might be
able to go in for a job interview, prove themselves capable of a job,
and simply submit their DNA to a company, then sit back and earn
licensing fees as the company produces cloned workers from that DNA
sample. In the Solar Echoes universe, for instance, the Union Guard
clones its highly-specialized, deceased agents to save money on
having to retrain new recruits. All of this, of course, assumes that
somehow cloning will be able to capture a person's knowledge via a
neurological “brain map,” but perhaps this will be possible some
day in our future as well.
As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.
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