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Jump clones are a technology used by players to transfer their consciousnesses from one body to another. Jump clones should not be confused with the [[Medical Clone]] that is stored in a player's home station.  

Your medical clone is the new body that you wake up in should your capsule get destroyed for any reason. You only have one medical clone, but in addition to your medical clone, and depending on your skills, you may have up to ten jump clones. These will be located in places that you choose, and you can activate them whenever you wish.

You can only have one active "body", but by using clones, your body can jump from system to system regardless of the distance. In game terms, when you jump from one body to another, you take your skill points, standings, corporation membership, and [[cerebral accelerator]]s with you. However, you cannot take any items with you, including [[implants]] - these remain with your old body. In effect, your old body turns into a new inactive jump clone - you can jump back into it later.

In order to create or use jump clones, you need at least one level in the skill {{sk|Infomorph Psychology|icon=no|price=no|mult=no}}. Jump clones are purchased and installed at Clone Bay facilities in NPC stations for a moderate fee. Once you have installed a jump clone, it will continue to exist until you destroy it.

Not all stations have medical facilities, and there are a number of other locations that can create jump clones. You may install jump clones on board [[Capital Ship|capital ships]] with Clone Vat Bays fitted ([[Titan]]s and [[Rorqual]]s), or in player-owned outposts in [[System_Security#Claimable_NullSec|sovereign nullsec space]] and [[Citadels]] fitted with a Stand Up Cloning Center (fees may be set by the owner via standings).

== Activating jump clones ==

Once you have a jump clone installed, you can activate it from your [[Character_Sheet#Jump_Clones|character sheet]] after exiting your ship. Jumping is instantaneous, but you must wait up to 24 hours between clone jumps (training {{sk|Infomorph Synchronizing|icon=no|price=no|mult=no}} decreases this delay by 1 hour per skill level).

* Leaving behind, or "installing", a jump clone at the station or citadel you are jumping from requires you to pay a fee. This fee is 900k isk for NPC stations. Owners of citadels can set this usage fee as they wish.

* Jumping to a clone in the same Upwell Structure you are currently located in, does not start the jump cooldown timer.  Furthermore, you can jump to a clone in the same Upwell Structure you are currently located in, while you have an active timer.  Jumping to a clone in a different Upwell Structure, or in an NPC station, starts/is prevented by the cooldown timer, as normal.

* While you can install a clone in an Upwell structure with the clone bay service in [[w-space]], and switch clones within the same structure, you cannot clone jump into, out of, or between w-space, with the exception of [[Thera]], which acts like k-space.

==Skills related to cloning==

== Reasons for using jump clones ==

* Quickly travel to other parts of the EVE universe: You can have jump clones (with a few ships and modules) positioned in various parts of New Eden, allowing you to easily jump between these stations to participate in activities suitable for that location.  

* Safeguard valuable implants when fighting other players (PvP): you can switch to a "clean clone" (i.e. a jump clone with no implants) when there is a high chance that you will be podded while engaging in PvP, to avoid losing expensive implants (which would be destroyed when you are podded).

* Have jump clones specialized for certain tasks: As [[Implants#Skill_Hardwirings|skill hardwiring implants]] give very specific bonuses (e.g. the {{co|wheat|Zainou 'Deadeye' Large Hybrid Turret}} implant gives a bonus to damage for large hybrid turret weapons only) and cannot be removed without destroying them, it may be worth having jump clones with implant sets geared towards different activities.  

* A pilot is running high-level missions for two NPC corporations, which are located far away from each other (to, for instance, balance out his [[Faction Standings|faction standings]]). Instead of flying his slow battleship between the two mission hubs, he installs a jump clone (and stations a fully fit battleship) at each mission hub. He can then clone jump between the two locations easily to run missions for both corporations (on alternate days).

* A new member of EVE University has taken advantage of the University's [[The +3 Implants Program|implants program]] and installed a set of +3 learning implants to speed up his skill training. He wants to poke his toes into low-sec, but is worried about being ganked and losing his implants. He therefore creates a jump clone without any implants, and switches to it before heading into low-sec, thereby safeguarding his implants. He can then switch back and forth between his clone with implants (to speed up his skill training) and his clean clone (for venturing into lowsec) depending on what he wants to do that day in EVE.  

* An experienced pilot wants to specialise in running [[Incursions]], but still enjoys some frigate PvP to relax. She creates a jump clone and fits it out with high-level (and expensive!) implants to maximise the performance of her incursion-running battleship (e.g. implants to boost the amount of armor on her ship and the damage of her large laser turrets), but switches to a clone without any implants when she just wants to jump into her frigate and shoot at anything that moves.  

* An industrialist runs an extensive manufacturing operation in a quiet, out-of-the-way system. He hates hauling, so to sell his final product he ships his items via [[Contract#Courier_Contract|courier contract]] to a [[Trade hubs|trade hub]]. He then creates a jump clone at the trade hub, and uses it to periodically jump to the trade hub to sell his products (which is faster than flying back and forth in a ship).

* You may not create a jump clone at a station at which you currently have an inactive jump clone. You can easily get around this problem by choosing a different station, or by jumping to the offending jump clone and moving it somewhere else.

Once you have installed/bought a jump clone, it is yours forever. Additionally, if you get [[pod]]ded, you will find yourself at your home station (the station where you last installed your [[clone|medical clone]]), while all your inactive jump clones will still be available (although you will lose any implants that were installed in your active clone in the moment you were podded).  This new clone you find yourself in is essentially now the jump clone you were just podded in, less any implants.

There are, however, two cases which would destroy one of your jump clones:

* If an inactive jump clone is located in a [[Capital Ships|capital ship]] (with a clone vat bay module), and that ship is destroyed, the jump clone (and any implants installed in it) will be destroyed.

* If an inactive jump clone is located in a [[Citadels|citadel]], that clone will be destroyed if the citadel is destroyed, or if the owner of the citadel offlines or unplugs the Clone module.

*In Jita, you have a medical clone.  

The Clone Vat Bay is a high-slot module which can only be fitted to the Rorqual Capital Industrial Ship or Titan class vessels. The skill Cloning Facility Operation to at least level I is required for operation.

Clones are stored in an invisible part of the ship and are not destroyed if the Clone Vat Bay is unfitted, however if the host vessel is destroyed then the clones installed are lost. Clones are visible to the host vessel with the "Configure Clone Facility" option in the capacitor doughnut, which lists the pilots with clones installed, the available clone space remaining and the option to invite or destroy a clone from another pilot. Only one clone can be installed per host vessel per pilot.

Let's assume a Titan pilot in an Avatar and another pilot who is currently in a Scythe Fleet Issue cruiser. First, the Titan pilot must fit the Clone Vat Bay and have it online, and he must have sufficient Liquid Ozone in the fuel bay, since the CVB uses 1 unit of Liquid Ozone per activation. Next, he must activate the clone bay, which, given the fact that it immobilizes the Titan and has a 5 minute cycle time, requires the usual safety precautions. (Tethering is not broken when activating a Clone Vat Bay.)  

When the SFI pilot wishes to jump clone to the Titan, the Titan must first have the clone bay active. The SFI pilot then navigates to the Character Sheet and finds the jump clone stored in the Titan, and clicks the Jump button. This subtracts 900,000 ISK from the SFI pilot's wallet as a charge paid to the TransStellar Shipping for the act of jump cloning to a facility that is not a player Citadel type structure. The SFI pilot then spawns in an empty capsule about 5000m from the Titan itself.

 

Clone Vat Bays are rarely used in the current metagame, although they can offer a specific advantage or utility in extremely specific circumstances. Titan Bridges are more effective means of transport to the battle field over remote distances.

*[http://jestertrek.blogspot.de/2012/10/guide-implants-and-jump-clones-part-1.html Jester´s Guide to Implants and Jump Clones] (2012)