Notwithstanding how long it takes to “make” a replicant, and even allowing for horizontal and vertical scaling of operations to make them more efficient, any manufacturing process has to contend with limited resources, among them time. Procreation or breeding, on the other hand, has an exponential function, making the…

I believe it’s a map to the first Jedi temple, not to Luke per se. This would explain why the First Order also had a copy of the map (save the missing piece contained by BB-8). Kylo Ren states that the First Order was able to download a copy of the navigational chart from the Empire archives, meaning the map likely…