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Originally Posted by Danukian
I am not sure if you realize I said Platinum not Plutonium, but either way, it will bend science far less than races inter-breeding with unrelated species or magic - both staples of Harn.
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The element thing will bend science far more than the genetics just because it's more fundamental. You have to create elements before you can make organisms out of elements.
I did catch platinum instead of plutonium but platinum still has to be produced by nucleosynthesis and a world that makes more platimum than iron has highly variant laws of physics.
Shifting a couple of genes is trivial by comparison. It stlil probably shouldn't happen "naturally" but it's small potatoes. As an example (generally speaking), interbreeding 2 different species is TL9 stuff while mass nucleosynthesis is TL12 with a ^ on top.
Now, magic is hard but it usually seems to fit into a category of an "extra" set of laws superposed with the regular laws of physics. It doesn't _have_ to completely modify the fundamental laws of physics. Wariant nucleosynthesis does.