Nashiktal wrote...
There are only three ways you can have kids with an LI.
2. Artificial insemination. It won't have the DNA of the parent not having the child, but it is a way to have a child with the actual birth process.
3. Test tube baby. Same way Miranda was born, in this way it will only have the DNA of the parent.
Not quite true.
Alien LIs:(1) With the exception of the asari, there is no way for Shepard and an alien LI to have biological offspring. Should a miraculous fertilization occur, the fetus would almost certainly be not viable. Genetic incompatibility isn't nearly as easy to overcome by reproductive technology as various types of infertility among human men and women. It should also be noted that the life of such a child, should it nonetheless come to exist, would be extremely problematical, so it is an ethical question whether to create one intentionally.
(2) With the asari, there will be children but the children will not inherit the genes of the non-asari partner, since the non-asari's genes are only used to recombine the asari genes. Also there's no genetic compatibility as well, even should the asari be based on DNA as well. Which means that any genetic traits of the non-asari will not transfer to the asari as a rule.
Human infertile LIs:(1) If the problem is conceiving a child, but carrying it to term would function, then in-vitro-fertilization is the answer. The child would be genetically normal, i.e. a mix of the mother's and the father's genes.
(2) If carrying a child to term is impossible, but conception isn't, then an artificial womb or a surrogate mother combined with IVF is the answer. The child would also be genetically normal.
(3) If either partner cannot produce gametes, then artificial gametogenesis is the answer. That technology is in the process of being researched today, and given Miranda's existence, it is plausible that it exists in the ME universe. Artificial gametogenesis would also be the solution if the woman can produce gametes (or has produced, since a woman is born with all her eggs), but they have been damaged by an external factor like eezo exposure. The children would also be genetically normal in that they'd have a mix of their parents' genes.
In short, given the general advanced level of biotech we see in the game, it is implausible that anyone - humanor non-human - would be incurably infertile beyond the means of reproductive technology to correct.
As a rule I doubt children will be mentioned anywhere in the game but in the epilogues, and that's as it should be.
Modifié par Ieldra2, 19 juin 2011 - 05:17 .
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survive. So a baby is made to suck up and contain the Archdemon's soul.
