Hi all !
Since everyone is interested in bio systems etc, I'd like to ask a question
thats been bugging me and I haven't yet had a chance to look up anything.
Essentially, with Traveller we assume there haven't been any evolutionary
changes in humans. Given current genetic engineering developments, would
there be human variants in the Traveller universe ? So what is the state
of genetic engineering in the Traveller universe ? Was there some catastrophic
event that banned such development or was it placed in the too hard basket
given the ethical and moral dilemmas ?
So if Darwinian evolution is less applicable to humans, is it up to ourselves
to evolve as we need ? What is current evolutionary theory and how do humans
develop any further ? Any ideas ?
A minor note, travelling to all these worlds is fun but what about the disease
and germ problems involved ?
Note that I played and used Traveller rules, not Mega Traveller.
Andrew Fong