Humans are the best medicine/Adaptive Immune System

Alright, tried posting it once, discovered the rules, so let's try again. Here's the post link and you can find a teaser for it down below. I will be posting my stories offsite with links like this from now on and hopefully this doesn't get taken down again for any rules violations.

Seems we are moving to royalroad after this, wattpad is apparently despised. Was experimenting with these sites so forgive this transgression.

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First contact was now a thing of the past. Ten years have passed since that time, and humanity, as well as the Retvalin, have both been living with each other, formally establishing a symbiotic relationship. In the first few years, they helped us construct the orbital station, which was named Haven, a monumental structure that stood as a symbol of cooperation between us. It took into account all of our designs to make it compatible with both species, augmenting our ability to treat them whenever they are injured or sick. 

We have all but eliminated the centicites from their population in the years that we have known one another, now we treat them for their more common illnesses and injuries. Some of the more common things that we get from them are injuries from collisions with small asteroids they didn’t see, accidentally inhaling or consuming something that didn’t agree with their system, and rarely enough, some of them end up with disease every now and then.

If it happens to be an injury with the respiratory system, we have the Retvalin in question hook themselves up to one of the service tubes on the station before we send in a team to identify the location, cause, and intensity of the damage that had been done. The team will then remove any objects that are causing discomfort or harm to them. If there was any damage to the flesh, infections, or inflammation, we administer a dose of vaporized disinfectant mixed with some gases that promote natural healing, kind of like an oversized inhaler. 

Many of the Retvalin chose to make their homes in our system. We have gas giants they can feed off, barren planets where they can make homes in the surface of them, and plenty of room for them to have children as well. The first birth of a Retvalin in our system was quite an event. For the privacy of the parent, we did not televise the process itself, but the aftermath in which the little giant floats around the parent, seeking its first meal, was one of the most watched videos in the history of the world. 

The babies are actually kind of cute in a weird way. They stay close to their parents, often latching onto their carapace or underside when they need to move as a family unit before they figure out how to move on their own. Their shell is rather soft and almost pliant, becoming firmer and more resilient to impacts the older they get. Their tentacles are short, nubby little things at first, suitable only for receiving breath and food from the parents. Because of the relatively vulnerable nature of the children, they don’t often move from the system they were born in until a few years later. 

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