Justifying bioroids

[AlexanderHowl]

Who said anything about bioroids coming from sperm and eggs? Bioroid embryos would be used and, when they are sexual mature and implanted with cloned human sex organs, they could produce human children through sexual reproduction.

[the-red-scare]

Yeah, no. Bioroids are always assembled. Unless polymer and carbon composites grow from embryos, bioroids are always built at their final size. I’m sure you could rationalize a way to make some model mature in some way but it defeats the entire purpose of having bioroids, which is essentially just to have replicants from Blade Runner in your game.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

Who said anything about bioroids coming from sperm and eggs?

That's the implication of having an embryo form.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

Bioroid embryos would be used

No such thing. Bioroids are by definition assembled from heterogeneous biological and nanotech materials using "biogenesis" (which is bio-TL 10). That's what "bioroid" means, per GURPS Bio-Tech p.27 Any artificial organism that develops from an embryo is not a bioroid but a parahuman or other neogenetic organism. Those require "neogenesis" (which is bio-TL 11).