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Post by contributor on Apr 21, 2019 17:20:39 GMT -5
It's been too long since Cory Trese has shot this down so I figure it's time to try again. Come on, all those crew, cramped together in a tin can in space, facing harrowing situations together. It's bound to happen... |
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Post by Swami on Apr 21, 2019 18:57:50 GMT -5
Water fuel is a contraceptive.
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Post by LordofSyn on Apr 21, 2019 19:42:07 GMT -5
They cannot have babies. They can try, but being around the HyperJump drives makes you sterile. Full stop.
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Post by resistor on Apr 21, 2019 20:28:48 GMT -5
They cannot have babies. They can try, but being around the HyperJump drives makes you sterile. Full stop. It's actually the void engine that does that, not the hyperdrive. |
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Post by LordofSyn on Apr 21, 2019 20:31:07 GMT -5
They cannot have babies. They can try, but being around the HyperJump drives makes you sterile. Full stop. It's actually the void engine that does that, not the hyperdrive. My bad. I was in the right mind... |
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Post by fallen on Apr 21, 2019 21:46:45 GMT -5
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Post by drspendlove on Apr 21, 2019 21:51:52 GMT -5
Actually... what if a crew member is pregnant (like 1 month or something) before joining on the ship?
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Post by fallen on Apr 21, 2019 21:55:50 GMT -5
undefined results, sadly predictably unfortunate I imagine.
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Post by veyer on Apr 22, 2019 6:41:50 GMT -5
Let's not ruin it for our crews guys. As it is right now, they can have all the fun with none of the headaches; let's keep it that way.  |
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Post by pendell on Apr 22, 2019 7:41:03 GMT -5
Believe it or not, people DO occasionally want to have children deliberately. I ... can't. It's not what it's cracked up to be.
At any rate, from the perspective of lore, the indications are that if a star trader wants to have children, there are at least two options:
1) Freeze genetic material before going onboard, have children in vitro.
2) At some point, if a star trader wants a family, they're going to have to become a grav. Perhaps there will be nurseries or such for STs on 'temporary duty' as they raise their families? With a life span in the centuries, a few decades here or there to raise kids isn't such a hardship.
3) Have children in an orbital. No void engine, so no infertility, but you still get the health benefits of zero-g.
The thing I find annoying is that it means the human race is irrevocably tied to planets , since there can be no reproduction apart from them. I know that if I lived in that universe ensuring fertility was possible on spaceships would be priority research, because only then could the human race be truly free, rather than forever squabbling over the small number of habitable planets in the galaxy.
In Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galaxy", the Free Trader ships are literally family ships, where people may be born, raised and die on ship without ever setting foot on planet (though in fact many do). That is the universe I imagine in a fan-fictiony way, even if it diverges from the actual ST canon set by the Trese brothers.
ETA: I'm curious as to how the Zendu bloodline fits into this story. For the Zendu, celibacy is NOT an option, as they MUST pass on their memories. How could Templars spend years on a spear cutter and yet still pass on their legacies?
Respectfully,
Brian P.
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Post by resistor on Apr 22, 2019 11:24:01 GMT -5
...ETA: I'm curious as to how the Zendu bloodline fits into this story. For the Zendu, celibacy is NOT an option, as they MUST pass on their memories. How could Templars spend years on a spear cutter and yet still pass on their legacies? Respectfully, Brian P. I assume Templars have enclaves/embassies on faction worlds for this and other reasons. |
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Post by contributor on Apr 22, 2019 14:06:19 GMT -5
Geeez I guess I'm really on my own on this. No love for kiddos around here.
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on Apr 22, 2019 14:12:51 GMT -5
ETA: I'm curious as to how the Zendu bloodline fits into this story. For the Zendu, celibacy is NOT an option, as they MUST pass on their memories. How could Templars spend years on a spear cutter and yet still pass on their legacies? Templars don't all spend years on end onboard starships, and a large enough ship doesn't have the Void Field render everyone infertile. That and the infertility is temporary, if the person spends enough time off of a ship, their bodily functions return to normal.
The Colony Hives and other transports that ferried the Star Traders were generation ships, with only the engineering crew suffering the effects of long space travel. |
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