Keeping a line
One line in a studbook: keepers and openings, what every birth costs, the pairings close kin can’t make, and letting a moeba go.
What the film says
Keeping moebas means choosing. Whoever holds a moeba is its keeper. Some of this line carry a look they don’t show.
A moeba can be kept, sold or given. Breeding two of your own needs nobody’s leave. Others can breed with it only if its keeper opens it, at a price they set, and they bring one of their own: the child goes home with them. An opening is its keeper’s: when the moeba changes hands, it no longer holds.
Every birth uses one of a limited number of births, from both parents. And a newborn has to grow up before it can breed.
Close kin can’t breed: not a moeba with its own parent or child, nor two with the same two parents. Half-siblings can, and breeders use that to bring hidden copies together. About one child in four shows the look both parents hide.
A keeper can always let a moeba go. It can’t be bred again; what it carried lives on in its descendants.
The rules are kept by the species on the ledger, not by a website. Anyone can read the record, and draw the moebas.
A small species, grown from its genome. Start a line of your own. Every genome is written on a public ledger.
The film belongs with Keeping moebas, which goes further in words.
