Breeding Team

The term Breeding Team refers to research groups in Pasiphae Institute that have the closest contact to extraterrestrial organisms.

A typical Breeding team consists of five to six scientists with different fields of expertise, called Breeding Specialist. They are aided by Data Analysis personnel that can perform a more thorough study of gathered data while Breeding Specialists are occupied with other tasks.

Care of Specimens
Given the nature of most species studied at Pasiphae Insitute, access to them has been restricted to breeding teams after being handed over by Discovery and Recruiting. Team members are responsible for their enclosures, and all areas where contact with specimens is possible.

PIXS administration has pivoted this direction given the number of incidents of other staff compromising data gathering via unmonitored sexual activity. As such, while all breeding team members have their areas of expertise, additional skills are expected to be developed via interaction with Maintenance staff, Recon and Acquisitions staff, and Administration staff to ensure minimal exposure of other staff to Breeding Team labs. All Breeding Specialists often also have expressed high levels of empathy, enabling them to keep even new arrivals calm and orderly as they settle in their enclosures.

Gathering Data
Breeding Teams gather all data on species outside of their natural habitat. Discovery and recon teams often observe and gather initial information, but all detailed information - vitals, stats, preferences, etc. are all gathered by observations and interactions of breeding team members with the specimens. For new specimens there tends to be a flurry of new experiments, ensuring that observations on food and habitat are correct, and then once a new species has been settled in their main task takes effect. The team will determine the best methods to ensure insemination - be it working calmly with more reclusive specimens, slowly enticing them into mounting one or more of the Breeding Specialists, or for more aggressive sorts, simply letting them loose within the labs to ‘stalk’ their prey among the Breeding Specialists and giving them the illusion that they had successfully hunted and impregnated their prey.

Data Analysis
All members of Breeding Teams are well versed in their respective fields, qualified to analyze data and refine the test hypotheses. Indeed, as many hypotheses come from within the Breeding Teams as from Breeding Data Analysis, although much of the more time intensive work has to come from Breeding Data Analysts given the frequency with which Breeding Specialists are drawn away from their workstations; be it for wrangling a loose specimen, an unscheduled checkup being required, or any of the number of issues that require Breeding Specialists to be quick to react. All of which makes analysis or experimentation that requires close, or constant observation unsuitable with their additional responsibilities.