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Railgun is level #5 esper, but her "sisters" only are level #2, #3 or #4,
regardless they have exactly the same DNA. Why is this so?


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Why the sisters dont have the same power than Railgun if they have exactly the same DNA?


Because Tree Diagram showed it was actually impossible to clone a Level 5
"Railgun" which was the original plan

> Before mass production of the clones could begin, the simulation that the
> Tree Diagram produced showed that it was impossible to create a level 5
> clone of Mikoto despite genetic manipulation and use of the Testament. It
> showed that the clones' specifications reached less than 1% of that of the
> real Mikoto's, which was equal to that of a level 2.

Source: [Radio Nose Project > Failure of the First Production Plan (1st
Paragraph)](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Radio_Noise_Project#Failure_of_the_First_Production_Plan)

The original plan was to make "Railgun" clones for military purposes.

the Level 6 Shift program, the one to make Accelerator a Level 6, reused the
previous work by calculating how many Level 5 "Railgun" it would take and then
calculating the equivalent with the SISTERS

> However, the Level 6 Shift program – an experiment designed to make
> Accelerator, the strongest level 5 in Academy City reach level 6 – reused
> the project. The project began after Tree Diagram calculated that
> Accelerator killing Mikoto 128 times in battle, would allow him to achieve
> level 6; however, since 128 level 5 Mikoto clones could not be prepared, it
> was calculated by Tree Diagram that Accelerator killing 20,000 clones at
> level 2-3 would achieve the same results.

Source: [Radio Noise Project > Second Production Plan: Level 6 Shift (1st
Paragraph)](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Radio_Noise_Project#Second_Production_Plan:_Level_6_Shift)

i suspect that the Level 2-3 range is because the Misaka Network is similar to
the Level Upper Network and Tree Diagram probably accounted for this (while
[Last Order](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Last_Order) is listed
as a Level 3 while all the other clones are listed as Level 2-3, given she was
made as a fail-safe to stop the SISTERS i don't think she was planned to fight
as her ID is 20001 and outside Tree Diagrams 20000 calculation)

however from the beginning the second plan was designed to fail anyway because

> Aleister Crowley purposely wanted it to fail so he could have the sister
> clones distributed all around the globe for the massive AIM-field, which was
> a crucial part to his plan to eliminate magic

* * *

> but her "sisters" only are level #2, #3 or #4

Actually the only Level 4 SISTER is [Misaka
Worst](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Misaka_Worst) who was shown
to be difference in physical appearances (as noted by the linked Wikia, Misaka
Worst is taller and have a larger chest compared to the SISTERS or Misaka).
Misaka Worst was also created after Index accidentally destroyed Orihime 1 and
Tree Diagarma and outside the Level 6 Shift Program


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