Read the bolded text above again, and see that I said something similar. But whichever genes influence biotic ability, the connection is, at this point, a completely random effect because humanity didn't develop natural biotics. There can't have been any evolution of those genes unless they're tied to some other trait....fongiel24 wrote...
Ieldra2 wrote...
Biotics and genetics:
Biotics aren't genetic in humans. Humans don't naturally build eezo nodules, so there can't be any genes specific to biotic ability. There may be genetic factors connected to other traits that influence how strong a biotic someone can become, but you can't make a biotic through genetic modification.
Oriana as a biotic:
I consider it unlikely. If Miranda's father has found a method of making biotics reliably through implantation of eezo nodules, as Miranda's example indicates, it's doubtful he would leave things to chance with Oriana - the eezo exposure in the womb comes with a high risk of death. The important aspect is the eezo nodules must be present before onset of puberty, so it's also unlikely Oriana would have undergone the procedure as a small child. After that, there was no more opportunity since her father lost access to her. Oriana is most likely not a biotic.
Genetics can't make a human biotic but I think a certain combination of genes would be needed for a fetus to become a biotic. The same eezo exposure that turns some people into biotics is capable of causing cancer of death in others and I doubt this is completely random.
...so if you change them, you'll probably change those other traits as well. To modify biotic ability as a separate trait, you'd need to install coding for new traits into the human genome. This is (a) extremely difficult and (What I want to know is whether humanity has discovered precisely what genes determine biotic potential or whether the Alliance and organizations like Cerberus are still dependent on finding biotic individuals by chance or hit-and-miss experimentation.
very illegal if the Codex is correct. Cerberus might have some insight into it, but I doubt the Alliance has.Perhaps you didn't understand what I meant: I think Miranda's father wanted to make Oriana a biotic using the same procedure he used with Miranda, but Oriana was taken away before he had the chance.The point about Oriana made me wonder about something. Why did Miranda's father feel it necessary to make Miranda a biotic but not Oriana?
Well, Miranda didn't get her biotics through random exposure, and she didn't go to the usual training camps. She's still a very strong biotic for a human. So it seems the "standard" ways aren't the only ones, or even the best. Maybe the risk is played up by the powers that be. As for what benefit biotics could give: we don't know the kind of business Miranda's father runs. Also, it seems he wanted the very best in abilities a human could be genetically and technically come with - which does, of course, include biotics as a newly-human ability. A matter of vanity.If his daughters are being created for the purpose of leading an empire, why risk giving them biotics at all? The process of eezo exposure, biotic amps, and training are all obviously dangerous. What benefits would biotic ability have for the head of a corporate empire? If the purpose of creating Miranda and her sisters was to forge supersoldiers or superagents I could understand it, but this is clearly not the case. Miranda seems tailormade for military/paramilitary organizations like Cerberus or the Alliance, not Miranda's father.
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