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Natural Born Morph

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GregH GregH's picture
Natural Born Morph
Another side query on Morphs. Are there any individuals that are born as morphs (perhaps the bodies are offshots of genetically-altered humans), or are there no "Altered Humans" in the game... but people that are born as "flats" and then take on a morph body later on (wondering what it would be like to be born a bouncer then resleeve into a "flat" for example). And are morphs bodies capable of reproduction and passing on their genengineered traits, perhaps leading to people with "morph" traits inherited? Or are there safeguards against that?
RobBoyle RobBoyle's picture
Most biomorphs are capable of
Most biomorphs are capable of standard sexual reproduction, though genefixing the fertilized egg is standard and possibly necessary with certain morph types. Some people carry babies to term the old-fashioned way, but exowombs are common too.

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Monican Monican's picture
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I've houseruled that people's egos (and cortical stacks) carry a copy of their original DNA, if they have such a thing. For example a human born naturally on old Earth, before the Fall in a world we might recognize (pre singularity) who then uploaded later, would someday be able to grow a morph that is a clone of their original body, and have children using that body who would themselves be natural biological children similar to the parent. If they wanted to.
Axel the Chimeric Axel the Chimeric's picture
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I imagine the only remaining "natural" humans are born in the Jovian system. Most transhumans elsewhere are splicers, largely because so few people actually survived the Fall. The rest have likely already had genefixing done because, frankly, they'd sort of wear down if they didn't. The standards of what people can do for reproduction likely vary greatly, for a number of reasons. GRM (Genetic Rights Management) might be programmed into certain morphs to ensure that any fetuses die before a certain level of development, or they might simply have arbitrary numbers of chromosomes added to ensure sexual incompatibility with other humans. As it stands, though, that seems likely to be rare. Most likely, kids are born all the time who never know a life without hyperspectral vision or skin that changes colour. That's not likely to be that common outside of anarchist habs, though.
Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture
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my personal stance on the reproduction in EP is such: -in PC locations, all children are born from exowombs in clinics. Couples that want a child get a license after long interviews (generally down in simulspaces with forks of the parents) and background checks. When adoption is granted, the child's memories are edited so he or she will only remember spending time with his or her new parents. When the kid reach maturity, he and the parents get the chance to have their memories edited again or keep the memories (inspiration: Terra-E) -on Scum barges, kids are born naturally and raised mostly by the parents, but also on a communal fashion -kinda paradoxal when most scum are individualist, but it's a good way to earn easy rep and pass useful skills and spread some memes- and when the kids reach a certain age, they leave the barge for another (inspiration: the Quarians from Mass Effect verse) -Brinkers pretty much do things as they like, and that can vary in a great many ways, from cloning to old fashioned way
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Angry_Ghost Angry_Ghost's picture
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I really like how Quincey has gone about it. However it's a major topic really that I would love to explained in depth in future supplement, or at least various ways of handling new morphs and egos - and how different factions might go about it.
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Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture
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another point is: at what time do the children get their mesh inserts and stacks?
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Herbo Herbo's picture
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/Incoming non-canon response :) In my version of the EP-a-verse (let me pre-stamp this with a big fat YMMV) some biomorphs are breedable (by early 21st century standards) and others are created by or require the dedicated use of sci-fi technology. So for me: Exalts, Splicers, Rusters, Bouncers & Flats (and other unlisted morphs I may include later) are able to generate offspring in an antiquated manner (in the back seat of a mini cooper at the space-prom). Only flats receive no in utero tampering/modifications however. Most transhumans get fiddled with at leeeast a little bit. Meanwhile: Ghosts, Slyphs, Neotenics, Furies, Remades, etc emerge from their creation process ready to accept an ego transfer and don't really have a nascent, or adolescent stage (neotenics don't count since they just stay 10 forever..or whatever the pre-programed age is). You won't be seeing a pimply Ghost bio-morph pining for the Slyph cheerleader in his VR simulspace class. Also, while Uplifts are able to be young, they almost all have locked genetics so they get lumped into this category of non-breeders...damn the hypercorps! In the future of my version of EP, the more bizzarre biomorphs could likely become breedable which would put transhumanity closer to posthuman (100% free breeding Uplift societies, etc). In my view, pushing the fringe biomorph clades into self-sustaining replication is one potential outcome of the scientific community's reaction to the near extinction of the Fall. Whether this will come from the more controlled hypercorps or the avant garde autonomous collectives or some combination...I haven't figured that one out yet. /end of Herbo's custom interpretation nonsense
fafromnice fafromnice's picture
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I think some of the morph have a copyright on it ... so the genetical patern of a fury v2.1 is own by the hyper-corpo who selling it the ego on it have the morph and not the DNA of it, in this line of thought i think then most gene tweak morph are not able to natural reproduction ... it always possible to pay for reproduction capability, who say expensive ? some morph like flat is the "starting" morph of a person and probably are able to rproduce themselves ... who says sleeving an AI just for reproduction :O anyway my english is rusty, i hope is was a little bit clear :P

What do you mean a butterfly cause this ? How a butterfly can cause an enviromental system overload on the other side of a 10 000 egos habitat ?