Now see, I thought that you were the master architect, cause your plan for the inter-planatary fort is the most complerte and impressive. And I've sorta been elected Head of DEEPER, which is gengineering.
Spacecraft design is a hobby.
My intention is increasing the female population in order to decrease our dependance on cloning. Besides, I like sex, and this way I will have sex, so is good strategy. The need for females is that makes it possible to create a coupling of both non-bay12ers, with sane children, therefore rebellion could be started. Control must be absolute my friend. We here have a chance to create a pure society, unburdened by such things as sanity, morality, bigotry, ethics. We don't won't this to become yet another outpost of sanity in this world, do we?
Dear God, don't tell me your reasoning is being corrupted by personal pursuits of pleasure before we even get off the damn planet! Alright, time to reorganize our population strategy:
1) Somehow obtain storage of eggs+sperm before embark. Perhaps through the robbing of sperm banks and some less-than-legal surgical practices.
2) Grow test tube babies on planet of colonization.
3) Breed progressively better descendants through the use of eugenics.
4) Use the souls of undesirables to power our technology.
And of course, I mean all of that in the most ethical way possible.
EDIT: Oh, and the molding of mindsets can be done by teaching them to follow strict Mars space cult ideals from a young age. Severly reducing chances of any rebellion.
Alright...I have severe issues with this plan, which I will go over step-by-step.
0. It's a one-generational problem, unless we modify ourselves somehow to produce >50% males.
1. Stick to legal methods. Besides, since the demographics suggest that we have a male majprity, we just need to obtain some equipment for extracting sperm. And some eggs.
2. Nothing too bad with this, I guess, if we have to.
3. Long-term goal, and one we will need to hide from thr world. Eugenics got a bad name from Hitler and such.
4. Far beyond the realm of consideration. Not only have all attempts to isolate the soul failed, but I have estimated that soul-based power would be far less efficient than, say, hooking the people we'd be sucking the souls from to some kind of bicycle generator from...somewhere between 3 and 4 hours. 3.1 something.
0. But a problem nonetheless. And one that I am confident would be best dealt with via the production of test tube children, as it would give us far greater control over population numbers as well as male/female ratios for all subsequent generations to come. Not to mention, once we perfect the process, it will be a much more reliable method of bringing people into existence than the old-fashioned way.
Valid points.
1. You're thinking about it the entirely wrong way. The organization required to successfully pull off several sperm bank robberies would help us to practice the essential teamwork and communication skills that we will need for this glorious colonization effort. And the surgical operations will help us to train up the invaluable skills of our doctors before we embark.
What, we don't have any doctors playing DF?
3. If we get any criticisms about it, we'll just paint it as, "A prejudice-fueled attack on a harmless and very important part of our Martian culture." Play that card, and I can guarantee you that we will have plenty of supporters on Earth causing a commotion in order to "defend our rights" from people that shouldn't be sticking their noses in our business to begin with. Segregating our opponents even further. Besides, once people begin to see the amazing results of such programs, it will only work to win over even more of the masses.
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You underestimate the taint of the Nazi touch.
4. All the info I've accumulated concerning souls over the years has led me to believe that they are, in fact, virtually eternal. Meaning that even a single soul, should we learn to properly utilize it, could possibly work as an infinite power source. If a certain piece of technology requires more power than a single soul can supply, we'll just make some sort of multi-soul battery. We're likely going to be breaking trail on all sorts of discoveries during this endeavor. I see no reason why the exploitation of souls as a power source should not be one of them.
Even if we can master soul power, there WILL be social outcry that couldn't be worse if we wore Gestappo uniforms and massacred orphans and kittens
About radiation: I just read about radiation-eating fungi living at Chernobyl that are evidently edible. Yay, evolution! Anyone in the Russia area willing to get some samples for the spacecraft? Radiation shielding AND food!
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