Incredible Regenerating Elder Races, was Re: Poisoning the Sa vasku

G'day,

> Anyway, not likely for an advanced organism (starfish,

They're the highest that can regrow FROM an arm, salamanders and other
amphibians can regrow limbs and lizards regrow tails, though not 100% like the
real thing it is serviceable. Its hard for laterally symmetrical bodies to
regrow from a part, but radially symetrical things (like starfish)
can...
so are the SV laterally or radially symmetrical?;)

> and none can regrow completely from a skin

Nothing big can, some slimey stuff can. As were discussing an alien race that
can "grow drones" etc I wouldn't underestimate their capabilities just yet;)

> Besides, my cultures are grown in what are

Unfortunately that doesn't work on 100% of the animal world... my personal
favourite being the tardigrade (survives microwaves, pure acid, 100s of years
of desiccation....)

> And we'd have surgically implanted self-destruct

Well if the self-destruct has.... I can just imagine the look on your
face when you walk into find a lab full of cages with happy little
self-destruct
bombs sitting in them, but no aliens. Sentient beings may just figure out how
to get such bombs out, and by the sounds of it SV may also be the kind of
organism that could parcel off and potentially even eject such a foreign body.
I think it would be the case of taking a level 4 biohazard and ramping up
several orders of magnitude!

Cheers