| abstract | - Considered "the government's worst-kept secret", the Flesh was programmable matter often used in dangerous industrial work to create clone bodies operated by human "drivers". Thousands of lives were saved by Doppelgängers being killed in the place of the human operators. The Flesh was able to self-replicate. This meant there was never a risk of work forces running out of it. When the Eleventh Doctor met the Flesh in the 22nd century, he claimed to have met it before because he was aware his companion, Amy Pond, had been replaced with a Ganger without her knowledge. In the 22nd century, a solar tsunami caused a group of active Gangers to be separated from their human controllers. Rather than reverting to Flesh as programmed, the Gangers operated independently of the humans. They still had the memories of the humans they were based on. After failed peace attempts with the humans, the Gangers rebelled for the right to exist. The Flesh created a Ganger of the Doctor without human manipulation or assistance, using the sample it had taken from the Doctor's handprint and the psychic contact it had made with him. Most of the gangers were destroyed, while the survivors of the incident evidently told the media of the flesh's sentience. (TV : The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People) The Flesh still existed in the 52nd century, when it was used by Madame Kovarian to create Gangers, of Amy Pond to fool herself and her family into thinking that she was not missing and then Melody Pond to secure her kidnapping. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
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