Science extrapolates that we'd need 40k men and women for a successfully diverse space colony...but do we? In Nova Amizonia, a colony, Caira, on a planet in the Centauri systems consists of a much smaller subset of female astronauts and a large, artificially intelligent sperm bank. The pilot opens the door on this experimental matriarchal society committed to stability, exploration, and the successful establishment of a longterm colony under the commitment to have many babies—and the political, sexual, and scientific dynamics that develop....