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Reproductive Counsellors |
A fairly quiet professional group of sophonts are (usually self-titled) 'reproduction counsellors' who have training in assisting cross-clade reproduction. This group is widely scattered across the Sephirotic empires, primarily located in areas where multiple clades come into repeated close contact.
Their areas of knowledge usually include neural imaging, processor architecture, sophont design theory, cognition structuring, cloning, nanofacture, and myriad other specialist fields. They bring this knowledge to bear in developing the next generation of sophonts.
Many reproductive counsellors point at the Version Tree and the Biopolity's "Green Mother" as archailect exemplars of their profession. However, unlike those archailects, most counsellors are more skilled in cross-substrate planning.
Additionally, many voluntarily constrain their actions to local moral norms and the like, but the legends of rogue Reproductive Counsellors living at the fringes of society and willing to assist any willing sophont(s) persist most doggedly.
