Lintilla was--and undoubtedly still is--a resourceful and good-looking woman selected to be cloned for use in the Brantisvogon escort service.

The machine used to clone her, already in the middle of cloning a group of lonely business executives to keep the laws of supply and demand working profitably, had a slight break down. The machine cloned proper, fully-formed individuals, however: by the time one Lintilla clone had already been created, a half a clone had already been started.

The thing could not be shut off without technically committing murder. Until the cloning machine company's lawyers could figure out a way around this fact, the machine would be allowed to continue cloning indefinitely.

At this time, there exists approximately eight hundred million Lintilla clones in the Galaxy, and still more on the way.

In an attempt to stem the tide of Lintillas, a group of Allitnils have been deployed:, anti-clones designed to eliminate the Lintillas in the most humane and legally defensible way possible.

A group of archaeologist Lintillas were last seen working on the abandoned planet of Brontitall.