How did they get those memories?

[KenaiMike]

One question here, just to pass the time, how did the cylons manage to implant the memories into the "clones" in the new series comic? I understood the basic concept that they were a test run, so to speak, for the 12 "human-type" cylons, I just didn't get the jist of how they managed to make the cylons so perfect that they didn't even realize they were cylons and included all their past memories from Caprica or where ever they came from.

Any ideas out there? Did I miss the explanation in the comic?

KenaiMike

[agentalbert]

You would think that they would either need to have access to the body and be able to extract something from the brain.

I suppose another possibility is that they somehow know enough about the living that they can create and install memories in the new fake humans. For example, they would have to somehow have access to specific details about Kara and Zach's relationship so that they could implant those memories on the fake Zach. How they would do this, I don't know. Seems like the only "realistic" way for them to create these would be to have access to the body of the deceased.

It's interesting that these Cylons are facsimile's of actual humans that lived, whereas the human looking Cylons in the new tv series are new entities. There was no "real" human Sharon. They were all Cylon plants. Maybe these ones in the comic were initially planned to actually replace the real human at some point. Maybe they somehow got access to their memories while they were still alive. Then later they decided that instead of making a Cylon kill and replace a human, they could just make a new being and insert it into society somewhere.