Sorry on a different mailer which is crap for replies. If you have the systems to gene-print for your algae, then the inbreeding issue goes away. Millions of gene patterns on hand, selected for mix and match compatibilty to get some variances.
You're more likely to run into a clone line, though. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of DataPacRat [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:20 PM To: The GURPSnet mailing list Subject: Re: [gurps] Asteroid colonization advice? > - If the society is exogamous, where will young people meet? Even with exo-wombs and a bank of frozen sperm and ova, if they maintain their separation from the rest of the system, it's going to be pretty hard to avoid in-breeding - in fact, that's likely to be one of the more significant long-term risks to the colony. Depending on how /many/ frozen gametes they bring, they might be able to hold it off for long enough to create enough daughter colonies to allow each colony to serve as a somewhat separate population... More directly to your question, with exo-wombs and frozen gametes, young people won't /need/ to meet in order to perpetuate the colony, at least for a couple of generations - by which time the whole thing is likely to have developed in ways the founders never expected (and may even find rather disturbing)._______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
