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Pregnancy in Eclipse Phase

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Thu, 2011-10-27 16:03

weaver95

Pregnancy in Eclipse Phase

apologies if this has been covered before...but I was curious about birth rates in the main eclipse phase universe. I believe I remember reading that one of the reasons for the 'Lost' project was due to declining birth rates after the Fall. But, I was wondering - how do people um...have kids? do they design them from scratch or grown them in pods or what?

Thu, 2011-10-27 18:12

Herbo

Re: Pregnancy in Eclipse Phase

Essentially ANY method you can concieve of (pun intended) is possible in Eclipse Phase. No babies, some babies, lots of babies, old men living in the body of a baby, two egos getting merged to make a new ego, copy-paste, rumpy-pumpy, exo-wombs, built from old earth car parts, shot out of a body dispensing tube from Futurama...anything...

The general consensus that I've seen thus far is that there really is no consensus and it really depends upon an individual group's preferences. Some people prefer not to even "go there" and focus more on body hoping and creating space meth from octopus pheromones. Then again some people go hog wild with baby making schemes that would be at home in a Monty Python interlude cartoon.

There are some pretty lengthy discussions that I've stumbled accross around here that might be useful to you...lemme see if my link-fu works:

http://www.eclipsephase.com/reproduction-age-transhumanity

http://www.eclipsephase.com/mommy-daddy-where-do-babies-come-real-ep-que...

http://www.eclipsephase.com/natural-born-morph

http://www.eclipsephase.com/morphs-and-having-children

Thu, 2011-10-27 18:54

weaver95

Re: Pregnancy in Eclipse Phase

oooo...thanks for the links! I'm gearing up to start an eclipse phase campaign here within the next two weeks and i'm being weirdly obsessive about the background world setting i'm placing my players into.

Fri, 2011-10-28 03:10

Smokeskin

Re: Pregnancy in Eclipse Phase

Herbo wrote:
The general consensus that I've seen thus far is that there really is no consensus and it really depends upon an individual group's preferences.

And money, resources, licensing rights, etc. You might be sleeved in a morph with copyrighted genes, but don't have the money to pay for a reproduction license and the enzymes needed for a fetus to develop succesfully from your genes. You might pay a black market geneticist to unlock your reproductive abilities anyway, and your child is born a living intellectual property infringement, the very baby body liable for seizure (as scary scenarios go, Repo Men go home).

Fri, 2011-10-28 22:15

weaver95

Re: Pregnancy in Eclipse Phase

Smokeskin wrote:
And money, resources, licensing rights, etc. You might be sleeved in a morph with copyrighted genes, but don't have the money to pay for a reproduction license and the enzymes needed for a fetus to develop succesfully from your genes. You might pay a black market geneticist to unlock your reproductive abilities anyway, and your child is born a living intellectual property infringement, the very baby body liable for seizure (as scary scenarios go, Repo Men go home).

And thank YOU for the nightmares....