The Leonese royal family had a similar philosophy. The last emperor was related to his great-great-grandmother at least fourteen different ways. It was shortly after that we became a democracy.

Adia winces and unconsciously rubs her jaw. Was it painful to get them modded?

She notices the pause in the texting, and even when Shark finally replies, all those line breaks are impossible to ignore. She stares at his words for a while, suddenly feeling quite a bit of empathy for him. It must be hard for others to see you as your own person if you're not even supposed to have your own name.

That's their loss. You're more than the sum of your genes.

The Cylons don't typically have names, either. They usually refer to themselves by their model number.