Well the ai is able to rebuild the whole ship. so building a c.f. Bay seems possible and less resource intensive than a super robot.... But yes the so also had to know how to efficiently clone so easily. Maybe cloning is fine but the use of the dead admiral is the issue. Like he made a strange comment about his body a few chapters back. If it's this easy to clone and you can have nano mind interfaces a extra body for mind transfers seems possible. But maybe full clones are taboo. Irk it's super cool