San 'Shyuum Restoration Program

The San 'Shyuum Restoration Program, also known as the SSRP, was an extensive operation which aimed at finding a method of restoring the San 'Shyuum species from its known population of just 1,150 on the known planets to 10,000,000 or more by 2640. The program was unbelievably successful, tough their achievments only came with a number of coincidental findings.

Origins
The thoughts of the program originated from the middle-aged San 'Shyuum known as Doh Ebrae who had recently completed his education in cloning in early 2552. He would experience the mass killings around the San 'Shyuum territories and, just two months after the war, shared his new idea with the remaining elders of the species. His idea was that all possible scientific research be aimed at techniques in increasing the population. The small refugee town he lived in, which held three hundred of the remaining denizens of their homeworld, attempted to begin focusing researching new methods. All women of the species were given different medicines that would increase their fertility. In just five years, the small town had grown radically in population through a number of methods, though the fertile soil surrounding the village meant their was plenty of food to go around.

Early Years
Six years after Ebrae's plan was put into action, a scout group discovered a town with an intact cloning facility where three workers still survived and began using their new method of "cross-cloning" to increase the population. The method included taking traits from two individuals and creating an embryo which developed 10% quicker than normal (the method was quite successful seeing as it had been illegally practiced on consenting individuals for more than three decades). For eight years, the growing program, which had finally been given the official designation it would indefinitely maintain, would continue to slowly but surely succeed at its goal, giving the town a population of nine hundred, though this time a refugee group of 210 individuals contributed to such.

Boost
In 2567, a small spacefaring vessel operated by Unggoy located the growing settlement and linked them with the colony of Shendarao which had survived fairly well and had a population of 104,000 San 'Shyuum. The colony was located from the extent of damage by the Civil War and the Covenant territories, being 200 lightyears outside the former "border" of the Covenant. With a small bribe, the