Human + Rachni = Profit???

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    • #672
      Mr.Green
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      Here is an idea for truly hideous and fucked-up science.

      You want to take Project Novensiles to the Cthulu-level; why not try splicing human DNA with rachni DNA?

      Can I get a human/zerg hybrid here? Acid bite, carapace thick-skin, sharp claws, maybe some bug-wings? xD

      No, but seriously here – how possible is the factor of combining human and rachni DNA into a new template? Something along the line of an Infected Human-Zerg Hybrid like from the Starcraft-series? Only without the total mindless and ugly looks?

    • #674
      metaladdict
      Participant

      This sounds like a Richard Williams project…….

    • #678
      Logical Premise
      Keymaster

      The problem with it is that it doesn’t serve any useful purpose that isn’t counterbalanced by the problems.

      Saren had help from Okeer, Collectors and Reapers and hybridizing rachni and krogan still was a mess that only worked because Nazara basically cheated. (Which is why when he withdrew his attention from them they sort of melted into goop).

      Rachni genetics and mental patterns are completely alien to those of humans, and rachni blood chemistry is also utterly against other forms of life. Swapping genes between humans, asari, salarians, batarians, turians, drell and quarians is easy because they’re all built off of Leviathan DNA patterns scattered around to seed life. Elcor, volus, hanar, Inusannon, rachni, Tho’ian and raloi are NOT built off such patterns (which is why they look so alien and their chemistry is so VASTLY different than humanoids).

      More importantly, there’s no good way to utilize them without turning the full might of the Citadel Races against the Alliance. NOVENSILES is ultimately designed to leave humans looking perfectly human, and to be subtle in introduction over time over the course of a century.

      Rachni/human crossbreeds might be good on an infantry level, but the sort of ansible instant communication the hive mind used would not be replicatible.

      Most of what I introduce has to be able to not instantly destablize the political situation. NOVENSILES is skirting the line heavily, but since the big genetics companies of Sol would be in on it, and since the Salarians and Asari have no reason to be constantly scanning the human genome, they could get away with it at least for a while. I don’t see how you hide the hybrids that easily.

      Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

    • #679
      Mr.Green
      Participant

      Wonder how bad the fall-out would be with a return of the Shepard, that is holding up a data-pad with information of Project Novensiles to the Council – I wonder, if anybody will puke or simpy to an ‘evil-mustache-twirl’.

    • #680
      Himura
      Participant

      Wonder how bad the fall-out would be with a return of the Shepard, that is holding up a data-pad with information of Project Novensiles to the Council – I wonder, if anybody will puke or simpy to an ‘evil-mustache-twirl’.

      Seeing as the Thirty pretty much did their own NOVENSILES thousands of years ago… and the salarians are even now working on their version… and in both cases someone, somewhere must be aware of it? Cerberus knows the LGM are cheating nature and torquing the evolutionary processes of their race. The consequences of NV going ‘viral’ could potentially bring down the house of cards that is the Citadel Council. Humanity wouldn’t take it lying down and would push back. Notice that in vol 1 of OSABC the Council goes WTF-Silence when Udina starts calling them on their shit when they try to put pressure on the SA in the aftermath of the Thorian an Cerberus incidents. The Big Three aren’t accustomed to some species suddenly telling them to eat crow and take a hike. Humanity’s been pretty much giving them the middle finger and daring them to try something while all the while hinting at what they know about the Big Three.

      Swapping genes between humans, asari, salarians, batarians, turians, drell and quarians is easy because they’re all built off of Leviathan DNA patterns scattered around to seed life.

      Huh. Any chances Levi’s been trying to sabotage Reapers with processed DNA goo when Reapers are done processing a species?

    • #681
      Liethr
      Participant

      Swapping genes between humans, asari, salarians, batarians, turians, drell and quarians is easy because they’re all built off of Leviathan DNA patterns scattered around to seed life.

      Huh. Any chances Levi’s been trying to sabotage Reapers with processed DNA goo when Reapers are done processing a species?

      I doubt it, since Leviathans are still waiting for their little machine children to come back home and help papa fight the Darkness, they do not want to destroy the Reapers before that at least, after that, it’s anybody’s guess.

    • #688
      Logical Premise
      Keymaster

      Huh. Any chances Levi’s been trying to sabotage Reapers with processed DNA goo when Reapers are done processing a species?

      Yes and no. 😀

      Purge the alien. Kill the heretic. Suffer not the witch to live.

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