scotkrow wrote...
You know people keep bringing up this inbreeding thing, but if you do things intelligently then a few dozen people can sustain a viable population if people are only able to have children with particular individuals. And after a couple generations yeah everyone is some sort of cousin or another to everone else, but those cousins can set it up that they only have children with their most distant relatives and eventually a few generations after that it doesn't matter anymore because other than your closest family members everyone else is so distant a relative and theres so many people that you can be aloud to just date and have families with whomever you please, except your closest cousins yadda yadda.
The SR-2 doesn't even have a crew large enough to sustain a genetically-viable population, and that's even assuming the ideal ratio of men to women (it's not) and everyone survives the crash landing (and that's not guaranteed or necessarily implied even in the best ending).
Now, all the talk about minimum viable populations takes into account attrition due to untimely death, malnutrition, stillbirth and problem birth, et cetera. The reason minimum viable populations trend higher for animals is due to higher attrition rates that wouldn't necessarily be present in socialized, sapient beings. I do remember reading an article in a science journal -- I think it was
Scientific American -- way back in the day that made the case under perfect circumstances (zero attrition, ideal male-to-female ratio, and an extremely rigid repopulation plan) minimum viable population can be less than two dozen. You end up with a founder effect that'd last practically indefinitely, but on the other hand the population would be viable.
Not that the Normandy SR-2 would have anything approaching perfect circumstances. Seriously, their best-case scenario
is Planet Deliverance.
And in a side note,
what the hell Samantha Traynor is identical to my vanguad femshep. Oh, there will be words.
Modifié par humes spork, 01 mars 2012 - 10:21 .