Setting Jam: Hyperbolic Trajectory

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Originally Posted by ericthered

Question: How common is human genetic engineering?

Off world at least genetic engineering is common to the point of ubiquity. Most of this genetic engineering is very minor (not enough to merit inclusion on a character sheet) a few instances of more advanced alteration are available to those with serious cash.

One exception to the current status quo exists, in the mid 22nd century there was a GE boom with dozens of companies across the globe producing very advanced designs, even by modern standards. There was a serious group of issues with the technology used at this early stage, inter-generational combination disorders. That is to say, the designers didn't pay enough attention to how stable there work was when the recipients reproduced naturally. The children of the first genetically engineered generation often had complicated and life threatening disorders. The two main ways of dealing with this was to either get the specific company to engineer the next generation or to only breed with people who had genetics from the same company.

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