Super_Angurius wrote...
Hybrids are iffy though. You can't just mash together two sets of DNA and expect a viable offspring. All sorts of things could go wrong. Mess with say the legs, and you've got someone who can't stand, and has agonizing pain. And that's just an external difference, what about internal anatomy? As for genetic engeneering, some stuff is permited in the ME universe, but a lot is also outlawed. It'd be a lot more practical though than a Hybrid. Both have ethical concerns though.
On the other hand with the Quarian population as low as it is, I expect they'll want everyone reproducing. Now hopefully no one would be stupid enough to tell Shepard and Tali they can't be together because of that. But they might encourege In Vitro.
The simplest way to produce a biological offspring of both tali and shep would be to take stock quarian DNA, and splice into it quarian alleles, corresponding to shep's own traits. It would not be a hybrid, but would be a full quarian that looks as much like shep as is possible for a quarian.
Nothing else classifies as "easy". Because you usually can't have two kind of DNA in a cell, you are forced to use either human or quarian DNA. It would be easier to have tali carry a
human baby to term than make a common hybrid. The only real solution is to create a wholly new form of life, with both human and quarian DNA, either in the same or different nuclei, within the same cell. This would be very difficult and more complex than building a mass relay. It would be ludicrously out of reach, even for the ME universe, because they have banned genetic engineering and don't seem to have any nanotech. But it could work. A completely new species.
Modifié par exelsis, 24 mai 2012 - 10:22 .