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[Remuthra]

True enough. What are you going to use for the creature?

[Origami_Psycho]

My Idea:
Aim for about 2m tall, heavily muscled, as agile as we can make 'em, give them rapid asexual reproduction, greatly enhanced senses, and a carapace similar to that of the mantis shrimp.  Along with that we should aim for redundancy of necessary organs, and possibly a distributed central nervous system, to make them even more resilient to damage.

If we have any willing hummies we can use a particularly nice specimen as the template, and then our soldiers also give us an exponential mana increase.
As far as humans for modification, look amongst the old, infirm, and invalid for our first candidates for transformation, offer it as a way of life extension, with obligatory military service being the price.

Once again, I ask what you guys think.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I suggest we use better weapons than YouTube.

Oh look, we're back on-topic.

My Idea:
Okay, let's aim for about 2m tall, heavily muscled, as agile as we can make 'em, give them rapid asexual reproduction, greatly enhanced senses, and a carapace similar to that of the mantis shrimp.  Along with that we should aim for redundancy of necessary organs, and possibly a distributed central nervous system, to make them even more resilient to damage.

I'm not sure about all that. I was imagining of us making more of a "prototype" critter.

If we have any willing hummies we can use a particularly nice specimen as the template, and then our soldiers also give us an exponential mana increase.

I dunno...

As far as humans for modification, look amongst the old, infirm, and invalid for our first candidates for transformation, offer it as a way of life extension, with obligatory military service being the price.

This might work. I guess. We should make it willing and vetoable by any close member of the family.

[Origami_Psycho]

I suggest we use better weapons than YouTube.

Oh look, we're back on-topic.

My Idea:
Okay, let's aim for about 2m tall, heavily muscled, as agile as we can make 'em, give them rapid asexual reproduction, greatly enhanced senses, and a carapace similar to that of the mantis shrimp.  Along with that we should aim for redundancy of necessary organs, and possibly a distributed central nervous system, to make them even more resilient to damage.

I'm not sure about all that. I was imagining of us making more of a "prototype" critter.

If we have any willing hummies we can use a particularly nice specimen as the template, and then our soldiers also give us an exponential mana increase.

I dunno...

As far as humans for modification, look amongst the old, infirm, and invalid for our first candidates for transformation, offer it as a way of life extension, with obligatory military service being the price.

This might work. I guess. We should make it willing and vetoable by any close member of the family.

1/ We don't exactly have time for prototypes, we need as many functional soldiers asap

2 & 3/ I would say otherwise, but I suppose this is gonna turn into an exact mirror of the euthanasia debate

[Remuthra]

Are you going to wait for the trappers to arrive as well?

[GreatWyrmGold]

I suggest we use better weapons than YouTube.

Oh look, we're back on-topic.

My Idea:
Okay, let's aim for about 2m tall, heavily muscled, as agile as we can make 'em, give them rapid asexual reproduction, greatly enhanced senses, and a carapace similar to that of the mantis shrimp.  Along with that we should aim for redundancy of necessary organs, and possibly a distributed central nervous system, to make them even more resilient to damage.

I'm not sure about all that. I was imagining of us making more of a "prototype" critter.

If we have any willing hummies we can use a particularly nice specimen as the template, and then our soldiers also give us an exponential mana increase.

I dunno...

As far as humans for modification, look amongst the old, infirm, and invalid for our first candidates for transformation, offer it as a way of life extension, with obligatory military service being the price.

This might work. I guess. We should make it willing and vetoable by any close member of the family.

1/ We don't exactly have time for prototypes, we need as many functional soldiers asap

2 & 3/ I would say otherwise, but I suppose this is gonna turn into an exact mirror of the euthanasia debate

1. Point. It goes against my sensibilities, but we don't have time for those.
2-3. I'd be interested to hear why you think that we shouldn't make sure they and their families are willing.

[Origami_Psycho]

Primarily because when it comes down to it it is the decision of the individual, and we're offering them quite literally a cure from all disease, injury, infirmity, and the ability to live on, albeit in a slightly modified form.  Why would the family want him or her to die?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Primarily because when it comes down to it it is the decision of the individual, and we're offering them quite literally a cure from all disease, injury, infirmity, and the ability to live on, albeit in a slightly modified form.  Why would the family want him or her to die?

Why would the family want him/her to become a horrible abomination that's going to be away in the military all the time?
It depends on the family. Some would do it for the chance of living a little longer, some would do it to serve their god, but some would decline for various reasons and we shouldn't stop that.

[Origami_Psycho]

Primarily because when it comes down to it it is the decision of the individual, and we're offering them quite literally a cure from all disease, injury, infirmity, and the ability to live on, albeit in a slightly modified form.  Why would the family want him or her to die?

Why would the family want him/her to become a horrible abomination that's going to be away in the military all the time?
It depends on the family. Some would do it for the chance of living a little longer, some would do it to serve their god, but some would decline for various reasons and we shouldn't stop that.

I still think that the decision should be left up to the individual, after all, it's their choice what they do with their life.

[Gentlefish]

Yeah, they're still willing and able to make choices. As will all medical decisions, if they're conscious (and of age of majority), they can make their own decisions.

If they want to move their soul into a stronger body, let them. They'll be influenced by their family, but letting the family say no and have that be final is too much.

[Origami_Psycho]

Yeah, they're still willing and able to make choices. As will all medical decisions, if they're conscious (and of age of majority), they can make their own decisions.

If they want to move their soul into a stronger body, let them. They'll be influenced by their family, but letting the family say no and have that be final is too much.

Those are good points.
If there's a plague going around make sure we clean up all the infected by giving them this opportunity.

[Gentlefish]

Good point. Like a Leper colony on an island. Except they're super soldiers and not falling apart and not on an island.

[Origami_Psycho]

Good point. Like a Leper colony on an island. Except they're super soldiers and not falling apart and not on an island.

EXACTLY!  And they don't die natural deaths.

[Remuthra]

I may have underestimated the amount of time it takes to run this. I should have more time now that school is drawing to a close, but I feel this needs to get updated much more regularly and frequently to succeed. I'm pretty determined to not let this die until I've made a worthy companion to You Are a New God, so I am officially presenting an update schedule. I will update once a week at least. If I don't please stone me with PMs.

(This is where the update goes when I finish writing it. Which will be sometime tomorrow.)

[Eotyrannus]

I highly approve of this development.