Object
Mariposa Cloning Banks
A row of clinical cloning banks built into a sterile laboratory wall: stainless-steel frames with glass-topped incubation chambers, docking ports and recessed tubing, now all ajar and visibly empty. Residual condensate and smeared antiseptic streaks trace where tissue modules once nested. Surgeons and attendant clone nurses work at the open bays—long, needle-like extraction instruments breach unconscious chests while bodies are held steady—transforming the banks from passive incubators into sites of organized harvest. The units appear industrial-scale, cold to the touch, and stripped of genetic stock, their openness signaling recent, methodical removal rather than abandonment.
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Purpose
To house, sustain and provide access to cultivated tissue and developing clones for genetic-stock replacement and regenerative procedures.
Significance
Serves as incontrovertible physical evidence of deliberate biological extraction; the empty banks convert an abstract survival ethic into an outright violation, triggering Riker's impending retaliation and collapsing diplomatic trust between visiting officers and Mariposan authorities.
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