Had an idea, since I've noticed a few folks talking about what happens when you crossbreed a Sylph with a Menton, Fury with an Olympian & some such.
Since IRL, mating two distantly related animal species results in creating a sterile creature with a few health problems & not a "best of both worlds" scenario.
I think that the same thing would apply to mating different morphs, since they;re technically different species that share a common ancestor. Any attempts to hybridize genomes the old fashioned way always creates a sterile, rather sickly-looking morphs called Mules. It may be natural or it could be a copyright-protection gene sequence put in by the designers.
Any merits?
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Mules
Sat, 2010-05-01 20:46
#1
Doc Solomon
Mules
Sat, 2010-05-01 21:37
#2
weavermount
Re: Mules
It actually comes down to how morphs genomes where created. It's reasonable to think that much care was paid keeping the genomes as compatible as possible. If you can possibly avoid the work upgrading a flat genome to splicer grade I'm sure you would do that. All the bio morphs are likely forks of a small number of ur-splicers, not flats. It makes sense "implement" mods at the highest chains possible so make it easier to stick on new mods onto next years model. There are limits. I suspect that early models have more "wiggle room" in there genomes than later versions. The earlier ones, less finely tuned, could likely reproduce better than later models.
All that said, if you like the idea of mules as a social phenomenon in your games you could plausibly tech the tech like that, I just don't think canon requires or even suggests that interpretation
Mon, 2010-05-03 15:42
#3
Decivre
Re: Mules
While I'd imagine that splicers and flats can breed perfectly well (a splicer is essentially a gene-tweaked flat created by upgrading a flat in the womb), many other transhuman morphs do not likely have such a case. It is very possible that the chromosomal count between various morph types may vary wildly. For instance, breeding will be impossible between a human and remade if the remade has 30-something chromosomal pairs... 7 more than a human at least. To that end, it is probably in the hypercorps' best interest to create morphs incompatible with other morphs... Cognite doesn't want their Futuras to breed with some rival hypercorp's morphs to create something that both of them may have patents on. It's a corporate nightmare. They likely, and intentionally, make sure that their morphs are only compatible with the same morph type, if not a specific model within that type from the same company.
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Mon, 2010-05-03 16:42
#4
CodeBreaker
Re: Mules
Could also code in a genelogical deadlock in all Morphs so that no matter what they always breed to a Splicer. Would remove any worries about copyright infringement.
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Tue, 2010-05-04 16:41
#5
GreyBrother
Re: Mules
Would also spare me as a GM the headaches, to be honest.