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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lYes, I was talking
about Human mods... Mostly... :-P
Yeah a firm based within my soon to be writen up Midgard Herding uncanon
power is Ubique Genetics and I was looking at having them Help modify vatborn
into "supertroopers", on average Stronger, healthy, and more Dexterous then
average human, with a few other abilities built in. Of course with all
good, does
come a few bad.. of course most of these would only be known in an
RPG.
I did design them with GURPS rules, from GURPS Biotech.
As for saying all governments would produce "Vat grown Supertroopers", I
have to disagree. Some governments would have reason not, be them
religous groups opposed to them, to a fear of rebelian by the Supertroopers
against "normals".
Of course the other use I have found for "Supertroopers" are Aerospace pilots,
gives a good reason why these fighters are manned by pilots trained also long
as they can remember to be pilots.
In a message dated Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:18:31 -0500
> From: Doug Evans writes:
> Also, I think he's talking about human modification, mostly.
However,
> I'd pretty much assume that any enhancements would be pretty universal
DO NOT HATE THE WARRIOR, if you hate the war.
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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOne of the
difficulties in creating the "super trooper" is the length of time it takes.
If you want to modify something at a genetic level you have to start from
scratch. Unless you want your modifications to affect your troopers like a
magic potion.
All the stories of super genetic troopers I have read about it takes a long
time to create the body. It takes years to grow a genetically modified body to
adult size from one cell. The you have to spend ages training the troops
(which could be the time their bodies are growing) how to fight.
If you don't create the genetic material from scratch and clone it then what
do you do? Abduct human children and subject them to surgical and genetic
modification procedures?
It could take 20 years to create a battalion of genetically engineered super
soldiers. That is a large amount of secret and expensive investment. A lot of
governments don't have that kind of political will.
Then you have moral issues. You are creating a race of slave soldiers
specifically bred to fight in a war. Do they get the rights of other citizens
or are they expendable bio weapons, looked down on because they are not pure
human? If the moral dynamics of human societies in the future is similar to
the present you would get some serious opposition to a genetic creation
program.
It could also be bad for morale for the "normal" troops to have genetic
engineered units being used as the elites.
Compared with getting an adult normal human and giving them some training and
equipment, creating genetically enhanced troopers is an expensive and long
term investment. Longer than a democratically elected government.
The politics and finances could be harder than the technology.
As for corporations doing this kind of work. Who would they sell the finished
GE troopers to? If they don't sell the technology the corporation doesn't keep
going.
I could imagine quite a good RPG campaign whereby the players are trying to
gather evidence of another government or corporation pursuing illegal or
unethical genetic research, tracking sales of key technology components,
chemicals, location of scientists with the necessary knowledge. Could be hard
work to distinguish between legal organ replacement and illegal clone
creation....Of course those being investigated might not take too kindly to
being spied upon.
John
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