Re: Babies
Posted by:
Thomas G (IP Logged)
Date: November 2, 2015 03:02PM
Seriously though, given that it's Sufficiently Advanced Technology that achieves not only its obvious purpose of keeping the colonists running a little longer than standard but also affects everything of sufficient size, my guess is nanomachines (or other jargon) that permeate the environment, only affect suitable hosts, but whose parameters for "suitable host" ended up being a little too wide (unless They intended us to have plenty of game meat, I guess? Or to run our cattle through a rez bed slaughterhouse, for many extra servings of beef?).
Various colonies may have opinions about when you "get" it, ceremonial or perfunctory, but it will happen without that. Maybe there's a visible process that kickstarts it, but there's there's an clearly an autostart after a little bit out of the womb or else too many people and fauna would be left out (and you wouldn't' want it activating before then, right? Jeepers).