Eclipse Phase: Frosted Glass Discussion

[Aerozord]

honestly I was constantly resisting the urge to have Henric poke Nyx... no real reason, just to garentee her annoyance and find out a reaction

[krogothwolf]

Ellen creeps me out man, she creeps me out!

[Dracorion]

Ellen's newest victim: Desmond.

[krogothwolf]

Isn't everyone Ellen's victim anyways? Creepy weird girl!

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

By the way, how the hell does reproduction work in Eclipse Phase?

Provided you can get around sterlility, which isn't hard, you could breed within type, since their DNA matches up properly. Bear in mind that without accellerated growth, this would take relatively forever (18 years instead of 1.5, and there's only been 10 since the fall to begin with), and anything you had by then would probably be obsolete. Also you'd probably have to pull the ego and put it in a new body since the growing body can't accept even the most basic implants necessary for being a functioning person nowdays. You could force-grow the morph and ALET time dialate the Ego but look what happened to the Lost.

Basically, you could, but it's more trouble than it's worth.

Nothing creepy about Ellen, just that she's into a lot of things and seems deceptively easy. So okay, a few things are creepy.

[Dracorion]

Keyword being "deceptively".

Which reminds me, I forgot to put in my sheet that Ellen gets a +20 to Perception or Kinesics tests. Specifically:

Originally Posted by Enhanced Smell

... The character can also gain a general sense of the emotions and health of any character within 5 meters (+20 to Perception or
Kinesics Tests to do so).

If reproducing is that much of a bother, does that mean no one does it and transhumanity is effectively screwed if the TITANs decide to come back and finish the job because of their small numbers?

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

If reproducing is that much of a bother, does that mean no one does it and transhumanity is effectively screwed if the TITANs decide to come back and finish the job because of their small numbers?

Yes. In fact, it'd take a lot less than the TITANs to finish the job.

That is one of the primary reasons for Firewall, after all.

[Dracorion]

Yep. Ellen needs herself a Gate.

What did Firewall offer her to get her to join up, anyway? Or were they just dicks about it?

[Overcast]

Eventually breeding will be obsolete when all people are converted to alpha forks of one absurdly willful psi-hacker named Jim.

But I figure birthing a child only seems so difficult now since it no longer really ever happens on accident anymore.

[Aerozord]

there are alternatives though, forking and AGIs can solve the issue of new egos, and ultimately thats all that matters