Uh.. hm. [He's pacing himself now, biting a nail and thinking] When we're made, there's no real parent at all.. just a manipulation of subatomic matter and genetics.

It has made copies in the past. The Nebula. Some of the hell creatures were failed attempts. [Okay, so Lynn's a teeniest bit wayward, but she's hardly hell material] Maybe it's had successes that we don't know about?