Thread: GURPS Uplift
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Old 05-20-2011, 05:55 PM   #50
Magehound
 
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Default Re: GURPS Uplift

When you say "completely produce" do you mean that as in only make a single individual, or to store all the appropriate base-pair information for the whole breed?

Since "breeds" of cattle only differ by a minimal amount relative to each other, only the specific markers to make any particular sample of a basic Bos taurus template into a Ankole-Watusi or Swedish Hornless would be important once the basic format was made.

Cut and paste and apply to other species, and then the only large stock animals you'd really have to bring are females large enough to be able to bring the largest varieties to term.

Or at least that's how I wrote mine up. However, I don't think space to save the information is a problem, since we're already capable of a "regular" person being able to obtain terabytes of data storage space now and that space is being made smaller every year.
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