Hmmmmmmm.
Critique first. The biggest break in my suspension of disbelief was the choice of examples in the business case. The United States Army felt like the immediate first thing to come to anyone's head and only to exist to have something normal to put in front of the GOC. I realize I'm probably jaded about this from being indirectly exposed to actual military procurement and r&d, but the author shooting it off the cuff like that with no further comment suggests they have no idea what they're talking about. (Bonus points, if this is before 1990, you could include the Soviets. Or the People's Liberation Army.) That's not near as bad as the Monsanto comment… I know we as a society like to think of Monsanto as the Umbrella Corporation, but they're an agrichemichal firm. They genetically engineer plants, and they largely only do that so they can survive being doused with their brand of pesticide.
(And if anyone is thinking it, no, I wouldn't take the grant's author's ignorance as a "feature." Even mad scientists have people to punch up their documents.)
Other than that… Ok, the idea is fairly intriguing, but outside of the inclusion of the Prometheus technobabble it's pretty much packed with modern typical robot/genetic engineering tropes. If there was a connection between the ANAs and some existing anomaly or canon, then I missed it, and would be very interested in knowing what it was. If this is just Prometheus dipping their toe in the clone slave business, it had it's possible(edit: positive) moments (e.g., the first mention of animal traits was a kick), but ultimately didn't do much else to establish itself as a unique story. It currently reads too much for my tastes like the setting narration at the beginning of a near-future anime, but we never see the rest of the episode.
No vote.
