Actually I think it was a dumping ground for some high-society faddists who got th idea that bioengineering was camp and tried all sorts of fashionable forms to be the coolest in their life-form-show-off salons in some other Galaxy.

Then, a bunch of environmentalists rose to power and popularized the idea that it was unethical to create life forms and then just kill them off.

So at GREAT expense they had to find some far-off planet to ship them to and drop them at where they could be left to random chance.

It went on for thousands of years.


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