AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: A tool for growing clones, designer babies, organs, and more.
- Image Source: Womb by Erik van Helvoirt
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Artificial Womb | Clone Vat | AN-X1 "Paradigm" Genetic Matrix
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Model: AN-O1 "Ambertear" Exowomb
- Modularity: Significant; can be scaled up to fit unusually large creatures, up to and including full-grown Rancors, or down to more compactly suit babies, small creatures, or even organs, with the latter often taking being organised in rows and rows of stacked exowombs.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Synthetic Tissue, Nutrient/Hormone Dispenser, Biometrics, Misc. Components.
- The Globex Ambertear is a versatile design that comes in a number of sizes but usually takes the form of a more or less transparent (degree of transparency up to and including opaqueness is adjustable on connected consoles) tear-shaped synthetic womb with a distinctly amber colouration, thus the name. Unsurprisingly, clones and babies require more oversight than organs.
- With specialised competence and the appropriate retroviruses, alchemical serums, or whathaveyou, an Ambertear can host and stabilise an individual undergoing a metamorphosis of sorts, such as transformation into a Sithspawn or significant genetic alterations. The Ambertear would be operating solely as a medium of storage, any special properties will need to be derived from the aforementioned.
- Flexible Nurturer: Ambertears can be used for the cloning of individuals/organs, are well-suited for the creation of designer babies or as an alternative to those unable (or unwilling!) to reproduce naturally, and can even be used as a vessel for metamorphosing beings.
- Destructible: Though able to dampen kinetic force of the blunt variety (wouldn't want shaken babies), Ambertears are eminently destructible.
- Open Space: Unlike certain cloning tank models, the synthetic tissue that makes up Ambertears are not rated for the vacuum of space, with extreme temperatures and other such conditions being comparably destructive. They are best kept in labs with liveable conditions.
While cloning tanks and the occasional biological analogue is nothing new, the Globex Corporation's idiosyncratic preference for developing its own products to fill its own needs led to the establishment of a working group with a broad mandate, plentiful funding, and some of the brightest minds money could buy. Surprising even the Broad with their productivity, years of development led to not one but two distinct technologies...
... namely, the exowomb described herein and its counterpart the genetic matrix.
Conceptually simpler than its counterpart yet remarkable in its versatility, Ambertear exowombs quickly became a staple of Globex-affiliated fertility clinics and cloning facilities alike, with some making their way to... shadier actors.
