Roxy nodded. "It's a bit complicated and I got the stories in bits and pieces, but I think I was one of the direct clones, and some of the others in our little group of crazy adventurers were mixtures of us direct cloners, it gets really fuckin's weird," she explained with a shrug.

"And no. I had one cat. Then I started experimenting with the ectobiology equipment and you've gotta have the right setting for straight up clone, so it was a buncha mutations. Eventually got one that lived. Then I made more...then I thought they should have girlfriends and boy, was THAT an adventure in chromosome fuckery, but then there were girls, and then they started breeding...." Which was kind of a mistake to let happen. "Last count was a hundred and thirty-six cats."