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[Vaenier]

With sufficient technology, you could just design a hybrid species from scratch, or mod one of the mom's eggs to have traits similar to the father. hell, you could just clone the mother if you want the easy way out.

We have people today giving birth to other women's children, they are giving birth to their twin sister. Give it a few hundred years and it would be common practice.

[chem light]

Hmmm...has anyone thought of poor FemShep in this thread. Imagine giving birth to a spikey headed turian. Won't someone think of FemShep!

[Jigero]

Vaenier wrote...

With sufficient technology, you could just design a hybrid species from scratch, or mod one of the mom's eggs to have traits similar to the father. hell, you could just clone the mother if you want the easy way out.
We have people today giving birth to other women's children, they are giving birth to their twin sister. Give it a few hundred years and it would be common practice.

Yea you have absolutly no idea what your talking about. Putting one womens egg in another is not that hard, but sticking a Cats egg in a human women that's an entirly diffrent ball game. Also Hybrid speaices aren't perfect, they have **** tons of problems and they are infertile.

[lyssalu]

Promethean 47 wrote...

This thread is full of sadness.

lmao lmoa lmao

[Lord Atlia]

I'll reiterate my first post and say Bioware has the final say. To everyone who responded to this thread using actual science, I shake my fist at you. Could you please use your science to explain the brood mother phenomena? The world of ME is an amazing and well written space opera world, it is not a realistic science fiction world. It has more in common with Star Wars than 1984. Why are all the aliens humanoid, where are the alien aliens so to speak? How does biotics work? Why did the Asari develop feminine traits (and human traits) if they reproduce differently? What actual takes place during an Asari union because sex isn't always involved? How did Shepard come back from the dead? What exactly are they melting humans down into to make a Reaper? Can lifeforms really exist with dextro amino acids in the first place? (My science is actually very poor so if some of these questions have sensible answers then my bad) My point is Bioware asks us to suspend disbelief when playing ME, so far we have seen no inter species offspring nor heard of them so all evidence points to it not being possible (similar to reality) but don't assume that science is canon in a galaxy that walks the fine line between sense and nonsense.

[Naughty Bear]

Luc0s wrote...

Interspecies pregnancy is not possible in reallife, so why would it be possible in Mass Effect?

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Oh yeah i forgot aliens actually exist and we have formed a Galatic community and we are all friends. Infact i just had a chit-chat with a volus on the planet of Googoogaloo. Oh and did i mention i slept with 5 Asari's?

[Meta-Scourge]

lyssalu wrote...

Promethean 47 wrote...

This thread is full of sadness.

lmao lmoa lmao

I'm just trying to be level-headed and non-biased.

[Llandaryn]

Jigero wrote...

Yea you have absolutly no idea what your talking about. Putting one womens egg in another is not that hard, but sticking a Cats egg in a human women that's an entirly diffrent ball game. Also Hybrid speaices aren't perfect, they have **** tons of problems and they are infertile.

Not to mention the mother's immune system attacking any such conceived embryo. It can happen even amongst humans, problems with rhesus blood status.

Even if hell was to freeze over and by some act of divine intervention, a human female was able to conceive a child with a Quarian/Turian male, how long would the embryo feasibly survive? A baby gets everything that its mother gets, via the placenta. If human food is poisonous to Quarians/Turians, and vice versa, it's just not going to work.

[Daewan]

You know, I saw this thread title and my brain came up with a Binary Helix commercial for ex utero hybrid development services. "Gestation period too long? Incompatible DNA? Binary Helix has the solution: ex utero gestation!"

[Llandaryn]

Lord Atlia wrote...

 My point is Bioware asks us to
suspend disbelief when playing ME

What? No, we're asked to suspend belief when playing DnD. I mean, dragons. Magic missiles. Elminster.

The writers of ME have actually gone to great lengths to make ME a believable sci-fi world. They spent 6+ months before working on the actual game just coming up with the world and all the races/characters/abilities.

That's why we call it SCIENCE-fiction and not FANTASY-fiction. Because it has its basis in science.

[ThatDancingTurian]

I think people aren't considering that even if you managed to flip off science, you wouldn't want a human-alien hybrid with anyone but Asari. Let's face it, it would look messed up, and would never fit in in society.

Look at D'Argo and Jothee from Farscape. D'Argo looks like a respectable Luxon, but his half-Sebacean (human in appearance) kid is just freaky.

I don't think Tali fans are really considering that though because they mostly imagine Tali looking like a purple-skinned human. Which, I'm totally not seeing.

[Lord Atlia]

Llandaryn wrote...

Lord Atlia wrote...

 My point is Bioware asks us to
suspend disbelief when playing ME

What? No, we're asked to suspend belief when playing DnD. I mean, dragons. Magic missiles. Elminster.

The writers of ME have actually gone to great lengths to make ME a believable sci-fi world. They spent 6+ months before working on the actual game just coming up with the world and all the races/characters/abilities.

That's why we call it SCIENCE-fiction and not FANTASY-fiction. Because it has its basis in science.

Huh...(sincerity) Well maybe my science is just bad. It just seems to me that for every plausible thing in the ME universe there is something equally implausible.

[Vaenier]

Take a human embryo. modify the genetic structure to blend the appearance of the other species, essentially remaining mostly with human guts. put in tank with warm water and wait a few months. tada.

With sufficient technology.

If the ME universe has such tech available is in question.

[Daewan]

Well, the Mission Computer suggests that it is in fact available, since it is illegal to do high level genetic modification on humans (how did Miranda's dad get past that anyway?).

[AK118]

people have tried that here. it doesn't work.

[Willowhugger]

Daewan wrote...

Well, the Mission Computer suggests that it is in fact available, since it is illegal to do high level genetic modification on humans (how did Miranda's dad get past that anyway?).

Money?

[Landline]

Fun fact: Scientists identify species based on the ability to produce live offspring.



Basically a human and any Mass Effect alien having a child would have the exact same genetic probability as a human and a dog having a child.

[Internet Kraken]

Daewan wrote...

Well, the Mission Computer suggests that it is in fact available, since it is illegal to do high level genetic modification on humans (how did Miranda's dad get past that anyway?).

I thought it was only illegal to genetically modify an embryo to develop non-human triats, like a tail. Or, you know, a human-alien hybrid.

Considering how BioWare has attempted to give a somewhat scientific explanation for most of the things in the ME universe, randomly throwing human-alien hybrids feels unnesecary and foolish.

Modifié par Internet Kraken, 09 février 2010 - 03:04 .

[AtreiyaN7]

Unless we share the same chirality, I'm going with alien hybrids being totally out of the question. Therefore, human-turian and human-quarians are impossible. They're dextro DNA, and we're levo DNA I believe, so I don't think that's happening. Even if we share DNA with the same chirality, I still doubt it, but who knows.

Modifié par AtreiyaN7, 09 février 2010 - 03:17 .

[Mal_Luck]

We should ask Mordin. <3

[PARAGON87]

Is it me or the mods really don't moderate this forum like the old one?



Half of the posters here are trolls, for god's sake.



Oh well, in before lock in any case.

[SharpEdgeSoda]

Half species are cute concepts found in tales as old as Greek Mythology, and have been in tales as famous as those by Tolkien. Expecting it in any fiction isn't wrong.



It is ultimately up to the developers, and since we have so much SCIIIIENNCE so far in Mass Effect...we probably won't see it.



Sorry. No adorable half quarian babies with Tali.

[Collider]

Landline is the right. Species are often divided according to their ability to produce offspring, who in turn can produce more offspring. Meaning fertile, not sterile offspring. People have crossed different animal species to produce hybrids, but they are often infertile, and have health complications. In the wild, they may have little chance for survival.



A cross-species child, you could be sure, would be ostracized in society. Possibly prone to health complications. Is it worth it? We've no mention of cross-species offspring aside from the Asari, and even then it's not really the same thing. So where is Shepard going to get the technology and means to do it? And why so eager to? The galaxy is a mean place. Still, I trust Bioware to use it's best judgement.

[Brahlis]

Personally, I want to a see a half Krogan half Turian.



Face. It will break yours.

[PiercedMonk]

Lord Atlia wrote...

I'll reiterate my first post and say Bioware has the final say.

Absolutely.

However, it would appear that the good folks are BioWare are more than smart enough to realise that inter-species mating is something that should be kept off the table. They went out of their way to come up with a half-viable concept for the asari to be able to produce offspring with other beings, and those kids are still 100% asari; going from that to allowing other species to create mixed species children wouldn't just be a step backwards, it would be turning around and sprinting in the wrong direction.