What are your country's Genetics programs like?

[Muir Island]

In Muir Island we strive to center our everyday lives completely around the pursuit of higher genetic performance amongst out citizenry. Thanks to the medical professionals at GenetaTech and MetaCorps Labs we've progressed quite far in some areas of Physical and Neurological enhancement.


I was wondering how far the eugenics programs of other member nations have progressed?

[Atlantae]

Our genetics program is the only reason one of our member species still exists, after they sterilized themselves in a massive chemical and nuclear war over an issue no one ever explained to us.* The cloning program did the immediate recreation of the species, but the genetics program is why they are still capable of evolution and not evolutionary stagnant. And we can't have any stagnation in one of our member species or we would have to wipe them out.
*We think it was religious in context, and as such we subtly modified their Gods to be more about honor and less about slaughter.

[The Tavan Race]

Our kind greatly modifies a wide variety of organisms, for a wide variety or purposes. However, we typically refrain from modifying ourselves. Minor surgical and cybernetic modifications are generally accepted in the upper class, but genetic modification of any kind is highly illegal and not practiced. Eugenics is the road to extinction.

As for other species, the majority of our genetics work goes into creating organics capable of resource generation. The usual candidates for this are pulmolusia, with archaeffectoridae as a close second, due to the fact that many already have systems in place for generating inorganic material, and we need only modify the specifics. Silk and chitin are already produced by pulmolusia, and modified versions are capable of efficient production of pure metals when fed the proper ore. For their part, archaeffectoridae naturally produce a wide variety of medicinal and psychoactive chemicals, with modified versions capable of producing nearly any type of drug you could want.

The second most common use for genetically modified organisms are as bioweapons. Pulmolusia are again the most popular candidates, due to their typically small size and incredible durability. Modified pulmolusia are capable of withstanding extreme temperatures and pressures, dissolving even corrosion-resistant armor, and reproducing incredibly quickly through the energy they gain from doing so. Even their unmodified counterparts can prove troublesome to invaders, as our modifications in this regard are of scale rather than type.

[Krupp]

Genetics programs have helped us keep the lower classes stupid and easily manipulated, thus preventing a reproduction of Russia after World War I. They are also how we have secured our dominance over the rest of humanity, who are by this point outdated and as far beneath us as a roach is beneath them. So they are going spectacularly.

[Atsurion]

Genetics programs in Atsurion are practically nonexistent. Most people are indifferent towards the thought rather than supportive of it.

[Muir Island]

Genetics programs have helped us keep the lower classes stupid and easily manipulated, thus preventing a reproduction of Russia after World War I. They are also how we have secured our dominance over the rest of humanity, who are by this point outdated and as far beneath us as a roach is beneath them. So they are going spectacularly.

What kind of advancements have you been able to achieve?

[United Timelines Outpost Number 99999999]

Our genetics program looks like, oh I don't know, our only method of food production in the colony. Everything outside the arcologies are wastelands, and we don't have the resources to conduct traditional farming. We have used gene engineering to remove the capacity for the majority of the population to get cancer, and give them a heightened immune system. We have also created animals to help us claim and occupy the wastelands, including dogs and hawks, which went extinct when the wastelands formed. The government also provides gene therapies, transgenic grafting, and designer babies to those who can afford it. Finally, we have created uplifted animals to serve either as citizens of the colony or as a bioshell for another species.

Usually, the variety of augmentations available prevents genetic stagnation, but we are still watching out for the possibility.

[Meridiani Planum]

We clone over 90% of our nation's population, and we have reintroduced genes for intelligence that have been diluted from the human population for the past few thousand years.

[Muir Island]

Just an FYI, I'm considering an Act that would allow for the trade and sale of genetic material between nations.

[The Emerald Legion]

Essentially limited to the mass production of artificial humans, who are then conditioned to self hatred of their flesh, leading to 100% of all living citizens sustaining massive cybernetic enhancement.

[Cameroi]

genetic science in cameroi is primarily cosmetic. cameroi like to be creative with their physical appearance, and we have the science to do so.

people of all species and genders come from all over the known universe, to be re-geneticized in our cliniques. or to study the technology in our universities.

[United States of Raptors]

We pull a jurassic park. However we use friggin bird DNA to fill in the gaps rather than frog DNA.

[Eaischpnaeieacgkque Bhcieaghpodsttditf]

we strive to center our everyday lives completely around the pursuit of higher genetic performance amongst out citizenry. Thanks to the medical professionals at GenetaTech and MetaCorps Labs we've progressed quite far in some areas of Physical and Neurological enhancement.

pretty much this.

[Nationalist Tantalus]

Vast, militarized and frightening.

Really. Genetic engineering is the only way by which we may mass-produce smallpox and other human pathogens modified for infecting a broad spectrum of carbon-based lifeforms: On the desert world of New Mesopotamia, we have fenced-off military research compounds which burrow deep underground into small subterranean BSL-3 suites which produce industrial quantities of genetically-modified Francisella t., Yersinia p. and Bacillus anthracis. In addition to offensive biological WMDs, however, we also provide defensive countermeasures against our own pathogens in the form of nanobot cocktails, recombinant vaccines and semi-artificial phages which protect our NBC-unprotected infantrymen from aerosolized bacteria which might have lingered in the aftermath of a bomblet deployment.

Genetically-augmented super soldiers are, to the surprise of some of our fellow molecular biology-oriented peers, viewed as redundant in the eyes of our scientists: Why bother to send in a lightly-armed soldier with just above-average reflexes and higher respiratory requirements when a nuclear-powered tank can provide superior protection and firepower? As such, we are among the few FT nations which do not try to befoul our DNA supply anything beyond simple genetic resistance to pathogenic materiel.

[Muir Island]

It becomes a more worth while endeavor if you can enhance them well beyond simple strength augmentation.

[Lorethia]

We..Creates "Zombies",Humanoids....Human-Reptilian Hybrids..

Bio-Organic Weapons....

[Openl]

It is used only for agronomy and military purposes: the creation of stronger national army soldiers, better crops, more dangerous bio-weapons, and more effective means of surviving bio-attacks. Direct human improvements for non-military use has been outlawed by the majority of district leaders as the disputes over fairness proved intractable and divisive in the few districts that did allow it.

[Hircus]

Since we do not cling to after life ideologies, We try to aid and enhance the lives of all our citizen to create a better civilization through all disciplines of understanding.

[New Phyrreus]

Soldiers go through neurological and physical enhancements before enlistment, usually enhanced fast-twitch muscular build up and enhanced synaptic response therapy, but we've recently seen newer developments in enhanced pain suppression and Immuno-stimulant production, and they're soon to be introduced.

Civilian programs are available nationwide, and treatments for various genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease are given to affected individuals at birth or when symptom's become apparent.

Treatments usually consist of the injection of genetically tailored retrovirus cells, which are attracted to affected areas by pheromonal stimulants. The genetic code is re-written in specialised cells and faulty genes are removed.

So far the treatments have had a 98% success rate, and improvements are still being made.

Programmes to introduce nanites into genetic operations are also being considered.

[Muir Island]

We would be interested in getting a look at your Nanite tech.

[Victorious Decepticons]

Our genetics programs are highly advanced. Biologicals are seen almost as raw materials or base ideas for what they can eventually become, and we quite enjoy modifying them. The Bureau of Biological Research is dedicated to this, and is responsible for all of the versions of humans in the Empire. Even the "original" human genome isn't all-original anymore, having been updated with gene-based immunity to germs. Human 4.0 is the most radically different from the original, and contains much code ported from other species along with some that was custom-developed.

Its scientists also have their own pet projects, and it is possible to see many modified or even all-new creatures roaming its halls. These beings generally have the intelligence of a smart dog. They are also sterile, which prevents them from being able to become invasive species.

We are not worried about genetic stagnation in our human stock. Quite the opposite, in fact - we do not want their genome changing! Random changes are bad for quality control. We want their Code to stay exactly as we wrote it unless we intentionally patch in some upgrades. The failure rate inherent in the evolutionary model is quite unacceptable!

In fact, all of our humans except for the 1.0s are sterile - they are grown in our cloning centers instead of by the usual biological methods. This is so that if they ever do successfully revolt, they will, by design, die off after just one generation. Then we can simply resume our operations on Decepticon Earth, fix whatever genetic error allowed the last batch of humans to be able to revolt, and clone up a replacement population.

As for our own species, we're robots, so genetics do not apply. Instead, we constantly upgrade ourselves thanks to the work of our expert engineers. All of our parts are made to exacting specifications, so there is nothing that would be the equivalent of birth defects in our people. What really makes our individuals truly individual is our mind-code, usually referred to simply as Code.

While this Code must be written to follow established quality standards (as in, it can't be "spaghetti code" or contain programming errors) and include certain "instincts" that make our kind a unique species, the details vary almost infinitely. The variance is caused by the fact that each Coder, or parent, will write base code that he thinks will be best according to his own life experiences. Since everyone's life experiences are different, this means that every offspring will also be different.

Plus, a Decepticon's base Code is just the foundation of his personality. His own life experiences will affect how his mind develops, much like how life experience affects human development. The end result is a person that is definitely a Decepticon, yet is also a unique individual.

[Venetoland]

Genetic Engineering is banned in Venetoland.

[TurtleShroom]

Genetic research is solely for knowledge and traditional preparation and prevention of conditions. The modification, alteration, or any form of tampering with DNA is strictly prohibited under the iron force of law. Genetic researchers who perform dark deeds like trying to alter DNA or perform experiments on creatures- particularly humans -are either put to death (for human experimentation) or expelled from the country.

[Aristoleia]

All Aristoleians are synthesized in Synthesis Centres, so naturally our genetics program is inclusive of a wide range of gene therapy regiments, none of which are geared towards unsustainable enhancements.

[Imeriata]

So far have it not been very developed even if there have been various attempts to implement eugenics programs but they all fell flat due to lack of interest, people having trouble defining what genes that were inferior or the churches demanding that tampering in creation would be a sin and should not be funded by the state as a result.