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Flockingbird said:
(Now imagine being one of those clones.

Cloning was all the rage in 70s-early 80s sf. I’ve forgotten who wrote the short story that best illustrates this point, but basically a guy stops by a government cloning machine to do his patriotic duty to make a clone to help mine the asteroids. He wakes up in one of the mining belt colonies because hello that perfect clone is a perfect copy up to and including all his memories: by cloning himself he has sent himself there. :eek: )

I fear Emu may feel that conducting this AAR is like herding cats who keep chasing sunmotes instead of the game’s laser points. :)
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Lol. Hearding cats is easy. Catnip on a string tied to a pole and the cats follow you very willingly.
 
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Flockingbird said:
AFAIK we have no substitute for human parents in child-rearing. Humans have all kinds of psychosocial problems when they have ever-changing caretakers.


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You advocated artificial wombs, I am just taking that to its logical conclusion. Using hyperbole to illustrate why it is a bad idea imo anyway.
 
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son of liberty said:
Ok, "clone" was the wrong term. Why not just collect DNA samples from everyone and then select the best gene sequences for the desired outcomes and grow those in the artificial wombs? Then you could grow your population as fast as desired. No need to deal with the muss and fuss of childbirth and rearing. Just playing devils advocate here.

ETA: who needs random mutations when you can just use gene editing and get the changes you desire?
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The short version: Diversity. You need genetic and mitochondrial variety to make sure you have the resilience to deal with whatever challenge appears next. Biological is one aspect - viruses and bacteria, but it may also be environmental. You can't predict what will be needed so it's better to mix things up.

Of course if you use genetic engineering to *introduce* variety it's a different matter, but if you commercialize gene editing everyone is going to want kids with the same characteristics. Smart, blonde, blue eyed, athletic males. And god forbid they have 'harmful' traits like non-conforming brains ..

That way lies quick extermination of our resilience and therefore the death of the species.
 
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son of liberty said:
Ok, "clone" was the wrong term. Why not just collect DNA samples from everyone and then select the best gene sequences for the desired outcomes and grow those in the artificial wombs? Then you could grow your population as fast as desired. No need to deal with the muss and fuss of childbirth and rearing. Just playing devils advocate here.

ETA: who needs random mutations when you can just use gene editing and get the changes you desire?
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Because you can't, and shan't, play God.
Just leafs ti bad places.
We don't fully understand genes, and there's also.the fact that often it's just that there's a chance kf trait this or that, not a certainty.
Plus, genes interact in very complex ways. And we can't fully determine if we're throwing away gold with what we don't select.
 
blue emu said:
We are using one of the surrendered ships to pick up the enemy life-pods.
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Smart. Life pods equals intelligence. With a bit of luck we'll learn more of the layout of their empire that way.
 
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randakar said:
Smart. Life pods equals intelligence. With a bit of luck we'll learn more of the layout of their empire that way.
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Yep.
As many life pods as possible.
 
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son of liberty said:
You advocated artificial wombs, I am just taking that to its logical conclusion. Using hyperbole to illustrate why it is a bad idea imo anyway.
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If our imaginary spacefaring civilization needs women to bear 6+ children apiece, our imaginary spacefaring civilization can jolly well invent artificial wombs. We’ll still have twice as many people for raising the children as* we have for bearing them.

*The more I use the internet, the more my grammatical knowledge decays. :( “Than” sounded better than “as” but I don’t think it’s right? I learned this stuff by osmosis :p rather than formal instruction and that’s evidently not a firm enough basis to persist in the face of my exposure to Internet English. :p
 
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My only comment on Genetic Engineering as it pertains to the game is that Genetically Engineered Space Marines are supposed to be more combat-effective than "vanilla" Humans are... but for role-play reasons I'm planning to stick with unmodified Humans.

If it turns out that our "new subjects" the Modrons are highly effective soldiers, then naturally recruiting much of our military on Mechanus would make sense.
 
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blue emu said:
My only comment on Genetic Engineering as it pertains to the game is that Genetically Engineered Space Marines are supposed to be more combat-effective than "vanilla" Humans are... but for role-play reasons I'm planning to stick with unmodified Humans.

If it turns out that our "new subjects" the Modrons are highly effective soldiers, then naturally recruiting much of our military on Mechanus would make sense.
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IF they are effective soldiers, conquering them will be harder.
 
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From the fourth squadron of 10 Freighters: three immobilized and seven wrecked.

Now heading for the last visible enemy formation, a squadron of three Freighters.

Total so far, from the four enemy Freighter squadrons:

23 Freighters wrecked, 14 immobilized, three struck their colors.

... and three more to go.
 
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And that's the end of the Freighter stampede.

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One of those Sabre X's has 13 kills!
 
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Good progress. Lots of building materials for the empire. After we dismantle them.
 
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The Sabres will return to outposting the jump point.
 
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So for the moment, the excitement seems to be over.

Lernea is clear of enemy (except for occasional Mayenne scouts).
Harmony is clear of enemy except for immobilized Freighters awaiting capture, or mining colonies awaiting our Drop-Racks.
The Neutral Zone is clear of enemy. As far as we can see with our DSTS on the comet.

Our fleet is gathering at planet Harmony for resupply, except for a few detachments like the Gunships which are outposting the Harmony => Neutral Zone jump point, and some Intel ships and a Jump Tender which are attempting to insert the Intel ships into the Neutral Zone.

The Lernea => Harmony jump point is being guarded by that group of Sabres that just dealt with the Freighter rush, an AWACS, and three squadrons of Fighters based on space stations.

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So:
We got all their armed ships,
We got all their civilian ships:
Are there still any Mayenne fast scouts left or is Harmony ALL OURS again?
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The Mayennes are mostly behind us, in our rear area.

Proxima Centauri. Teegarten's Star. Lernea. Possibly the Black Hole system.
 
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Culise and Yvanoff are also taking their Scientist class scout ships to the Neutral Zone.
 
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The Harmony battle-space, after the battle.

Littered with 201 wrecks.

Plus over a dozen immobilized ships, theirs and ours.

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Will the Sabres need R&R, spare parts?
 
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