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Cloning Unit #2 (Artificial Womb)
A squat, industrial artificial womb: a steel-and-polymetric capsule stamped with the identifier "#2," rimmed by life‑support ports, braided nutrient tubing, and a smoky condensation haze. A small observation viewport and flickering diagnostic readouts betray internal activity while heavy seals and clamp fixtures imply biomedical containment. Inside, a half‑formed human likeness lies suspended in viscous medium—limbs folded, skin pallid—its development arrested when Riker violently breaches the unit. Crew members recoil from the capsule’s clinical odor and the hum of active gestational machinery as the chamber becomes the locus of shock, destruction, and forensic scrutiny.
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Purpose
To incubate and support the gestation of artificially duplicated human organisms—an isolation chamber / artificial womb used in serial cloning and development of partial human replicas.
Significance
Serves as the story’s visceral emblem of the cloning operation: a forensic clue that exposes the program’s scale and moral stakes, triggers Riker’s violent purge of duplicates, and converts medical horror into an armed political standoff when Granger and his clones seize the scene.
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