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Worries of a blue girl.

Posted on Tue May 26th, 2020 @ 12:33pm by Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi & Lieutenant JG Tovanna Mah
Edited on on Wed May 27th, 2020 @ 1:49pm

Mission: Return to the Core

You couldn't tell, but the ship's chief of engineering felt like she had a pit in her stomach. She'd been putting this off for a while, but she needed to see the doctor now more than ever. Not only was this clone business worrying her, but now she was worried about her girls. If she was a clone could that affect them? Those two creatures meant more to her than her own life and if anything happened to them.

She swallowed hoping the doctor would be along soon.

Dr. Mah came out of her office typing on her PaDD and looked up surprised to see any patients in sickbay, "Well hello, I wasn't expecting you. How are you doing?" She could see something was bothering Thex and paused, "Want to talk in my office?"

The andorian nodded as she stood up and followed the doctor into her office. As soon as the door closed the andorian had collapsed onto the stool and with an outburst that shocked even her let loose with " I'm a £$£$ing clone Mah. "

Tova rushed to Thex and wrapped her arms around her, "We will handle this together, I'm here for you." She grabbed her chair and a medical towel and sat level with the poor distraught woman in front of her keeping her hand on Thex's kness so she had the comfort of contact. Tova looked at her calmly, "First, let's wipe those tears away so we can figure out how I can help," Tova gently wiped her tears away with the towel not allowing any resistance and kept the towel nearby. "Now start from the beginning, tell me everything." She sat patient with obvious concern ready to hear what Thex had to say, no judgement, just worry.

Thex breathed in hard a few times to try and calm herself down. It didn't work, but at least she was able to speak and not just constantly sob. " When we were on Risa for the party I've told you about the heiress i ended up helping. The heiress who looked just like me. According to the Risa security teams we weren't just identical, but we were the same person. Right down to the DNA level. It's probably why the thugs mistook me for her. "

The most worrying thought pushed it's way into her head. " Could this hurt Tothye and Decises?" She asked with all the worry that a mother could have.

Tova looked at Thex with compassion, "I understand now. First, being a clone will not determine who you are. You are Thex, your genetic make-up doesn't determine that, nor will it determine the type of mother you are. Your kind heart, your wonderful soul and brilliant mind will determine what kind of parent you are. Now as to the genetic composition I can look into the methodology used for your cloning procedure." She paused and took a deep breath, "There is good news and bad news to this process as we know it. It means you either met your twin or one of your quadruplets. The safest and most common type of cloning used is what's called embryo splitting. It uses an embryo and the cells are identically replicated resulting in either twins or identical quadruplets if you want better chances of more children, though the risk is higher to the birth mother. Any other type of cloning would have resulted in sterility, genetic abnormalities on your current med scans and other such indicators. Thus I think we are looking at a standard embryonic replication. It means you met your sister, not your clone and that you are not a clone Thex. It is an accepted form of artificial fertilization for some advanced cultures with low birth rates. It's merely not used within many Federation worlds because of vast medical options that no longer risk mother or child." She looked at the poor woman she just laid a heavy amount of information on, "This begs the question however, why you would have an unknown sibling or siblings?"

Thex thought through what the doctor had just said to her. " That would make sense doctor, but the religious nutters on Andor got almost all methods of artificial fertilization banned decades ago and given my family I doubt they'd break such laws."

She thought for a second before continuing better get all this out in the open. " I know this sounds ridiculous, but while we were in that pit I had a nightmare. I was in some sought of a production line with thousands of me in tubes. Some hooded people were talking about how they needed to make more of me."

Dr. Mah nodded, "The banning of artificial fertilization doesn't completely surprise me given the family centered nature of your culture partnered with its militaristic leanings. What concerns me more is how either your mother Tora or Evylao would have been impregnated without the knowledge of your fathers Relaoss or Akal." Tova calculated the viability of such a procedure and looked concerned, "The implications of such a procedure could impact your entire cuture. I will need to review your recent medical scans again. Can you stay here for just a moment?"

Tova looked at Thex's most recent postpartum scans which would give a deep indicator to any issues during a highly stressful event. Her recovery had gone well with no uninary, perineal or obstetric complications. Despite her genetic disposition for a greater exhaustion at higher tempatures she showed no signs of problems in physical stamina during or after birth. Tova was reviewing all of the records down to her DNA variables while being haunted with the concept of what it would take to produce large numbers of clones. It would mean keeping a pregnant mother in stasis and continuely replicating the embryo until it was eventually consumed. The harvest from such a method would produce viable offspring with almost no corruption of the offspring. The issue would be finding another person, a sibling to do a genetic comparison to.

She finished her thoughts and her review and returned to Thex with her PaDD, "Okay, you are definately genetically on par with myself or anyone here. I see no higher than average levels of genetic issues, if anything you are very healthy for your age and race. It is nothing abnormally high enough to alert a medical scan, however upon review I would want to see your familial records for comparison to see their ranges and DNA profiles. Would you happen to have any type of DNA sample from your parents and siblings available? I very much doubt we will be able to get the scan from Risa." Tova sighed, her mind rushing with ideas.

" My thavan's DNA should be in the federation database he is a patient at the intel hospital on dervano 3. As for my zhavey, shreya, and charanbeing and siblings no their DNA wouldn't be in any database. Impregnated without the knowledge is a taboo on andor. It was a capital punishment on andor before we joined the federation and the death penalty was abolished. Given the religion, I doubt it would happen, but without DNA proof it may be impossible to say." Thex replied wracking her brain for any memories that could help.

Tova shook her head, "No that actually helps. The thaan in your parental bonded quadruple would have only been with each other so at no point should we see the DNA structure of your thavan." Tova looked inspired and began pacing as she brainstormed, "You are a genius Thex! Each one of your male parents holds a quarter of your DNA profile, if your thavan's profile is present then only two conclussions can be had. The first is he has somehow been included in on this issue, the second is that there was a second mating somehow. Given the protractable nature of the male gentalia of Andorains and the need for emmission of certain pheromones, it seems exceeding difficult to think this was forced upon him." She looked at Thex with a certain level of eagerness, her brain processing the issue rapid fire. "I will get the data transferred over for him and compare it to your own readings. Why don't you relax a bit and I will get this processed, it may take a bit. By the way, your thavan, he was never in a bond prior to the one he entered with your parents, correct?" Tova pulled up the records for the patient she was looking for and began the comparisons.

" None that I was ever made aware of. " Thex said scratching her head trying to think of any mention he could have made.

"Alright, I will look over these records for any possible modifications or anomilies and get back to you on the results. In the meantime I want you to relax and take it easy with the family. There is nothing to be alarmed about at this point." Dr. Mah hugged Thex, "I am here if you need me day or night okay?"

" I'll try to doctor, but something tells me that there only once place with answers for this whole mess. " Thex said as she slowly broke the hug and headed for the door. She knew where to go for answers, she now just had to break the news to the rest to them.

 

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