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[[File:Daisies - Homecoming.png|thumb|300px|[[Daisy-023]] confronts her flash clone, | [[File:Daisies - Homecoming.png|thumb|300px|[[Daisy-023]] confronts her flash clone, confined to a wheelchair due to metabolic cascade failure]] | ||
{{quote|Doctor speak for 'Everything falls apart.'|[[Kamal Zaman]] | {{quote|Doctor speak for 'Everything falls apart.'|[[Kamal Zaman]]<ref name="ilb"/>}} | ||
'''Metabolic | '''Metabolic Cascade Failure''' is a medical condition suffered by [[Flash cloning|flash cloned]] [[human]] beings.<ref name="ilb">'''[[Axon Clips Chapter 3]]''', ''[[Media:your_fault.ogg|your_fault.ogg]]''</ref> It is a series of neurological diseases that occur in short succession, typically rendering the human dead within the span of a year. Metabolic Cascade Failure is the eventual fate of the majority of flash clones, although select few are projected to live a normal lifespan. Because human flash clones are grown a hundred times faster than natural-born humans (hence the name), many anomalies appear. The clones lack the [[Wikipedia:muscle memory|muscle memory]] and [[Wikipedia:socialization|socialization]] of their hosts. While these problems can be remedied with intensive therapy, compounding biological defects cannot be corrected. Rapid flash cloning of such immense volumes of tissue induces gross DNA base-pair errors; congenital defects increase 42 percent and incidents of [[Wikipedia:Parkinson's disease|Parkinson's]]-plus syndromes increase 67 percent. The average half-life of a human flash clone is 14.7 weeks in laboratory conditions.<ref>'''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''', ''September 8, 2511''</ref> | ||
Most of the clones used to replace the [[SPARTAN-II]] children succumbed to this condition. Contrary to Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]]'s expectations, many of the clones lived far longer than previously estimated based on laboratory conditions,<ref>'''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''', ''December 24, 2517''</ref> with at least four surviving until [[2525]].<ref>'''Halo Legends''' - ''[[Homecoming]]''</ref> | Most of the clones used to replace the [[SPARTAN-II]] children succumbed to this condition. Contrary to Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]]'s expectations, many of the clones lived far longer than previously estimated based on laboratory conditions,<ref>'''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''', ''December 24, 2517''</ref> with at least four surviving until [[2525]].<ref>'''Halo Legends''' - ''[[Homecoming]]''</ref> | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
While the biological degeneration of the SPARTAN-II flash clones is described in multiple sources, the condition is only identified as "metabolic cascade failure" in ''[[i love bees]]''. | While the biological degeneration of the SPARTAN-II flash clones is described in multiple sources, the condition is only identified as "metabolic cascade failure" in ''[[i love bees]]''. | ||
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==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{Fm}} | *''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{Fm}} | ||
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*''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
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[[Category:Diseases]] | [[Category:Diseases]] | ||
