Inter-species Breeding and Fertility Treatments

[Dragonspiderkitsune]

But wouldn't that make us age a decade every time we use a mod...

Given that rich people in the TITS universe can extend their life span pretty much indefinitely, the age lost by TF can simply be added back I suppose? If age reduction due to TFs is really a thing, I'd assume the TFs produced by big companies would already have rejuvenation substances in them. At least the better quality ones.

 

[Breider32]

I'm thinking that non-species morphs aren't inheritable because the designers put in failsafes to make the changes solely cosmetic and whatnot for smaller mods, while species morphs are a more general blanket change to make the user match the target species. 

 

[Ormael]

Who is Lessau, he's not on the wiki.

NPC wirtten by Couch for Uveto. Expect some good stuff from him like starting point to visit much closer to Uveto core place than we can access so far combined with few useful items hidden there and even something for our resident grey goo armor girl ^^

 

[Couch]

But wouldn't that make us age a decade every time we use a mod...

Space.  Magic.


If you absolutely need pseudoscience, slapping some extra telomerase on the end of the DNA prevents the aging.  This is not entirely accurate to how aging works, but it's close enough when we're talking about eating some catnip causing you to grow a gigantic snake tail.

Then what are they interested in it for, if not making sure their species survives?

Making sure their species survives in the more immediate sense of the army of red myr literally on their doorstep waiting to swarm in and exterminate them.  Xenogen lead researcher Dr. McAllister's unabashed favoritism towards the gold myr is the only thing that keeps the UGC fleet in orbit.

Who is Lessau, he's not on the wiki.

The head of Steele Tech's biomedical division, located on Uveto.  He has a one-line mention of his presence when you first board the elevator to the surface, and will eventually be accessible on the planet where he provides a trove of various quests and transformatives.

 

[Zavos]

Who is Lessau, he's not on the wiki.

He is a biomedical researcher that leads Steele's efforts on Uveto.  His main purpose is to allow Steele to have new mods synthesized (such as honey fluid tfs as a Steele product if you miss the job offer on Men'gha), alongside a Minotaur (with bubble butt) and werewolf (with pheromone perk) TFs initially available.  He also provides a deck 13-esque mission with enemies Nova will take an interest in, and if carried will gain elec resist and shield upgrades. 


Keep in mind that none of this is in yet, and is all subject to change.   And it will certainly be implemented in phases. 

 

[Hlord369]

Space.  Magic.


If you absolutely need pseudoscience, slapping some extra telomerase on the end of the DNA prevents the aging.  This is not entirely accurate to how aging works, but it's close enough when we're talking about eating some catnip causing you to grow a gigantic snake tail.


Making sure their species survives in the more immediate sense of the army of red myr literally on their doorstep waiting to swarm in and exterminate them.  Xenogen lead researcher Dr. McAllister's unabashed favoritism towards the gold myr is the only thing that keeps the UGC fleet in orbit.


The head of Steele Tech's biomedical division, located on Uveto.  He has a one-line mention of his presence when you first board the elevator to the surface, and will eventually be accessible on the planet where he provides a trove of various quests and transformatives.

So, they're using his liking of their culture to keep him there, in order to keep the cease-fire in place, because they're afraid that the red myr will pick up where they left off and blow Gildenmire to kingdom come? Has McAllister ever taken the Queens up on their offer of breeding?

 

[EmperorG]

So, they're using his liking of their culture to keep him there, in order to keep the cease-fire in place, because they're afraid that the red myr will pick up where they left off and blow Gildenmire to kingdom come? Has McAllister ever taken the Queens up on their offer of breeding?

Numerous times, or at least that's what McAllister's assistant Nevrie tells you when you ask where her boss is. It seems McAllister spends a lot of time at parties thrown by the Queens in his honor, which he does use as an opportunity to have sex with them.

 

[Dualitas]

Numerous times, or at least that's what McAllister's assistant Nevrie tells you when you ask where her boss is. It seems McAllister spends a lot of time at parties thrown by the Queens in his honor, which he does use as an opportunity to have sex with them.

And, honestly, who can blame him?  Good food, good drinks, good sex, especially with royalty.  Not many would pass that up given our sexually-liberate universe, especially when hailed as a hero for saving them. Throw in the fact Red Myr don't like him for that exact reason, and it's clear why he's inclined to spend most of his time in Gildenmire.


Since we're on the subject of a scientist and ants, anyway, I just have to ask:  What evolutionary problem would Red Myr have to gain their venom as is?  (And, yes, I know it's a smut game.  Feel free to laugh at me.)


Actually, now that I think about it, what are the Red Myr based off of?  Fire ants?

 

[Karretch]

Just caught up on this, there's one thing that's been passed over concerning lore and breeding. Cpt Steele's 'bots are programmed to preserve their original DNA, no matter the transformative applied. When it comes to any other characters, that failsafe isn't there. Yes, the TFs themselves may try their best, but there's always the chance that one thing slips through. Mod inheritance makes sense, even factoring in the Space Magic, and lore rewrites don't need to be done.

 

[Lashcharge]

Just caught up on this, there's one thing that's been passed over concerning lore and breeding. Cpt Steele's 'bots are programmed to preserve their original DNA, no matter the transformative applied. When it comes to any other characters, that failsafe isn't there. Yes, the TFs themselves may try their best, but there's always the chance that one thing slips through. Mod inheritance makes sense, even factoring in the Space Magic, and lore rewrites don't need to be done.

No it doesn't. Besides being biological nonsense, it doesn't make sense for companies to spend money to put that feature in transformatives and risk potential lawsuits and also dangerous. It also doesn't make sense for the transformations that are granted by the nanomachines trying to make your body fit the food you eat to change your reproductive genome "accidentally" when they were explicitly made to not let such things happen.


The only situation where "transformative" inheritance makes sense is the two situations already given: Viruses and mod abuse by a population over several generations.

 

[Karretch]

it doesn't make sense for companies to spend money to put that feature in transformatives and risk potential lawsuits and also dangerous.

Companies can't calculate everything, there's bound to be people out there that react differently to mods than the mass population. There's already so much handwaving going on this one is trivial.


If anything, this is a point we'll have to just disagree on.

 

[Lashcharge]

Companies can't calculate everything, there's bound to be people out there that react differently to mods than the mass population. There's already so much handwaving going on this one is trivial.


If anything, this is a point we'll have to just disagree on.

Why would anybody do that in the first place. The way cells work it would mean someone would have to intentionally and expensively create a program to change the DNA of of sperm-producing cells. Doing it by accident and not resulting in anything close to a Mongrelmen syndrome is nonsense.


Saying this one is "trivial", is seriously ignoring the repercussions that "mod inheritance" would have. It would be active genetic pollution, as in no matter what you're probably screwing up your children's future, either socially or medically. Second TiTs is a lawsuit heavy setting, if a company didn't take all the precautions to prevent that, they would be sued to oblivion and probably nobody would ever buy their products, because of "think of your children".


It doesn't matter either way. Fen already said that this is not how mods work and that Kelly doesn't know what she's talking about.