Having healthy children born safely here was considered a miracle. A child conceived the natural way, without a single lab between two bodies, was rarer than that.
It was a thing most couples saved a decade to even attempt. The price this era paid to have long lives and healthy mixed-race babies.
It might look like a large number of children were being produced due to a large number of children waiting to be adopted in the orphanages.
But it wasn't true.
Because those in the orphanages were defective children. One way or another, those children were abandoned and probably came from planets far away from the Imperial Star.
Those children might have problems in their biology, their gender, risking the possibility of secondary differentiation. Or they wouldn't be able to live as long as the normal people in the era would.
