Super soldiers are created as modified clones for the physical part and a computer assisted "childhood" for the mind. They are out there and fighting within weeks. Jared is slightly different, because he was born, not with an empty brain, but with the brain of a scientist, the military would very much like to interrogate. If the procedure works. And humans could really use a break in what might be a war with 3 other civilizations.
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