Ideas of questionable quality

[Dr Zoidcrab]

Make genetic consoles produce beakers of a reagent instead of injectors. The beakers contain 50u of the reagent. The reagent depletes while inside a living mob at 0.1u/tick. While the reagent is inside someone they have the mutation. If they have mutadone inside them they deplete much faster (5u/tick?).

If they manage to keep the reagent inside of them for 200 ticks (so having to top up at least 3 times) they develop it permanently, and then it can be removed via mutadone/the genetics console as normal.

The reagents have a small chance of adding radiation to the consumer - amount varies based on the power, with speech ones having no chance and things like thermal resistance having a higher amount. If it's stabilized it has the amount of radiation it adds reduced.

Have radiation resistance ignore that built up from genetic reagents.

Enjoy watching geneticists having to pop pentetic acid pills like it's candy to keep them from becoming a gibbering, blind, deaf, dwarf while repeatedly pumping themselves full of the genetic reagents to keep their superpowers going as the pentetic acid is depleting them.

Have fun chowing down on mashed potatoes with tourettes gravy.

Wait if we can research, identify and manipulate the DNA of humans and monkeys with a scanner why can't we do the same with pathogens? Why cant we splice mutations into viruses and make everyone superhuman hulks or obeise monkeys?