Theta's exploration

Checking out a local pharmaceutical gets you all sorts of strange things. Bottles of pills and tablets and liquids, labeled with odd, chemically names and only occasionally seeing a label with the function of the medicine on it. You find condoms, which is probably to be expected, as well as other chemical contraceptives. Their opposite also happens to be here - fertility drugs, mostly meant for women, but there are a few for men that 'increase volume and production', as the label advertises. It's a wonder these things would still be any good. You can find various other tools, that seem to definitely scream more modern science than what Gaia has available. Hygiene products of all kinds, too, for different needs.

Looking around, Theta can also find a 'family planning' brochure in the place. It talks about the following things:

* A reminder that a family is only allowed to have one biological child at a time.
* That you should feel encouraged to have that one child to keep the ship's population growth inside of the predicted guidelines.
* What sort of positions to encourage your children to shoot for.
* That sort of thing.

It doesn't seem like they had ISSUES having children as much as they had to keep a very careful watch on their population totals. Too few and they wouldn't be able to populate a new planet. Too many and they would run out of resources on the ship.

Part 2

Should Theta check out one of the medical offices, he'd find a number of interesting machines and notes - abandoned projects, such as implantable wombs for Manikins, though the development of artificial gonads and ovaries capable of making functioning sex cells has been a bit of a wash. If you're interested, you could take these plans so that someone could continue the work on Gaia. You could even try your own hand with Elizabeth's help if you really wanted to.

Genetic manipulation is also an available subject. Seems like they could manipulate traits in the fetuses before the babies were even born. Things like hair color, eye color, etc. There are machines on hand capable of doing this sort of thing but the ethics may be somewhat questionable.

That said, they're not ENTIRELY scientific. It seems magic did exist where they came from, but they didn't have a lot of it available due to being so distant from their home world for so long. If you did happen to check for cross-species reproduction, there's not much to see. Apparently their world had elves and dwarves and mermaids too, but none of them came aboard the Enterprise, so scientific research on the subject had been given up. There were theories, at least, that with the right applications of science and magic one could craft an elixir to trick the world itself into thinking two unrelated species were compatible and force the evolution of a cross-species, but no such luck before they packed up and left.

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Mist's room... You're not sure what you expected, but here it is. It's an apartment on the north side of the residential level, with baby blue wall color, navy carpet, and a very well-kept bed, the sheets being little shooting stars hurtling by planetoids. A pink pillow rests on the bed, and a large, plush teddy bear lays forgotten on the bed, all alone. She has a bookshelf with quite a few old books - surprising to even see books at all in the digital age. Must be a collector. Most of them are adventure stories about dashing men in wide hats, exploring dangerous places. Usually some sort of romance theme, though nothing lewd. There are some jog weights in the room, and a number of different outfits in her closet. A magazine lays next to the bed, showing pictures of couples holding hands or cuddling in public, leaning on each other, that sort of thing. It's entitled "Modest Love". A laptop is closed on her desk, and you could go further into her apartment, where the kitchen and living room are, if you wished.

Part 2

A quick sweep of the kitchen reveals boxes and boxes of devoured chocolates, not properly thrown away. The fridge just has milk and eggs in it. What the fuck did she subsist on? Checking the living room reveals a box of tissues next to the couch. Doesn't seem like the place was used very much by the other inhabitants of the apartment. There's some sort of thin box on the table that almost looks like a book with no pages and holds a disc inside. It seems to advertise a much less modest romantic comedy about a woman who, like Mist, couldn't get a date.