Hello, we just started gaming this week but I have a question, my character has Open Source Society and Freedom of information as motivations, in the game there is a new military model we have to recover for Direct Action, so i wanted to get enough info so anyone could be able to produce this morph thus mantaining the balance, just like the atomic bombs do it right now, nobody launch the first bomb fearing the reprisal ¿how could i do it?
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Cloning a prototype?
Fri, 2011-08-19 08:07
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Rex0
Cloning a prototype?
Fri, 2011-08-19 09:39
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Arenamontanus
Re: Cloning a prototype?
Having two nuclear powers balancing each other might be good for balance (this was the motivation for a few of the spies in the 1940s), but having everybody as a nuclear power might be destabilizing instead. However, a morph is hardly going to be a major determinant of power. It is more like stealing the blueprints for a military helicopter. And of course we want everybody to be able to make their own high-end military materiel, right?
Practically, I think the problem is that reverse engineering a morph is very complex. To use the above examples, the important nuclear secrets dealt with how the bombs functioned and some key methods for making them (a fairly small amount of data), but in order to reverse engineer an AgustaWestland Apache helicopter you need to pick it apart, measure everything, disassemble the software and figure out how they made the special materials (a lot of data).
My suggestion would be to try to get a few samples from it that contain the information repair spray nanites use to repair it, and then try to reconstruct useful data from that.
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Fri, 2011-08-19 10:46
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Axel the Chimeric
Re: Cloning a prototype?
One of the things this brings up is also the useful addition of "sucide gene" in morph DNA. If certain chemicals are not introduced at the right times in morph development (with the chemicals and development times being naturally random), the morph either dies in the tank or grows up crippled and deformed. This way, you can't just mass-copy a morph without corporate consent, or at least a lot of hard work to try and figure out which is the suicide gene.
This makes theft a lot more difficult than just nabbing the DNA and waiting for a year or two for it to fast-grow.
Synthmorphs are easier, but I can't imagine there are no safeguards there either. Maybe fake blueprints or nano-sprays mixed into the bunch to trick would-be thieves/infiltrators?
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Fri, 2011-08-19 12:00
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Rex0
Re: Cloning a prototype?
Well, in real world we could see the example in India-Pakistan conflict, the only thing that keeps India from invading Pakistan is the declared intentions from the Muslims to nuke India if they dare to begin an invasion. Also, we see some examples in sci-fi, specially in Frank Herbert's Dune. You're right it was exaggerated, it really is more like leaking some helicopter's blueprint, well i'm not USamerican and maybe that's why i think there should not be a military superpower, i'd rather balance, a situation where everyone knows the neighbour can use the same weapons to retaliate any aggresion, so no one can dominate other with violence to make his will.
Well I was thinking about that, because all we know this prototype is huge, strong and with a super-accelerated (maybe exaggerated) healing rate, I thought to steal some tissue to decode ADN (is a Biomorph) but i think i couldn't know anything more, like the implants and nanotechnology inside the morph, well I have skinlink, could this help me in some way?