Goonhub
06-04-2015, 09:18 AM
One of my friends suggested this in a Skype chat: Unless it got changed, you can already kinda sorta revive someone as a human by transplanting the brain to a monkey and then cloning the monkey, or something. Haven't personally done it, myself. Why not expand on that a bit and make it into the primary method of reviving someone as a human? Get the corpse, get a monkey or other genetic baseline, work some sort of mad science magic (possibly involving a minigame of some sort), and boom! You've got a clone.
It could even pave the way for other shenanigans if you put something besides a monkey in the "genetic base" field. Using space bee DNA would make the person hop out of the cloner as a sentient bee instead of an actual person, and other such nonsense. Cloning requiring biomass, as I mentioned before, seems to be an absolute non-issue due to how much of it is around the station. This would help balance cloning vs. borging, because the likelihood of coming out as a normal human depends on the competence and/or whimsy of the person manning the console, as well as the availability of creatures to use as a genetic base.
It's just an idea I'm throwing at the wall and hoping it sticks.
It could even pave the way for other shenanigans if you put something besides a monkey in the "genetic base" field. Using space bee DNA would make the person hop out of the cloner as a sentient bee instead of an actual person, and other such nonsense. Cloning requiring biomass, as I mentioned before, seems to be an absolute non-issue due to how much of it is around the station. This would help balance cloning vs. borging, because the likelihood of coming out as a normal human depends on the competence and/or whimsy of the person manning the console, as well as the availability of creatures to use as a genetic base.
It's just an idea I'm throwing at the wall and hoping it sticks.