Robert
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Does the Cetagandan Empire generically engineer the commoners directly with injections/treatments, use trickle down genetics like a ghem trophy wife/husband or are they totally ignored? I’d think they watched and at the very least gave them resistance to illness
Lois McMaster Bujold
Textev never says outright, but the facts of their shown tech level implies they are certainly not below galactic standard in health care including basic genetic tweaking against gene-based disorders or deficits; and for those who use replicators, any fresh mutational accidents that happen during the chromosome do-si-do of fertilization as well. Cosmetic changes, hm. Basic ones probably allowed, but there might be a borderline at which such measures might start to impinge on the haut monopoly of the superpersons project. The haut would always stay a couple of generations ahead in any case.
Advanced tech levels pretty much have to be supported bottom-up, even if partially directed top-down, just to have the necessary educated people to do All. That. Work. At which point such persons will also be taking care of themselves and their own. The average Cetagandans probably find their 8 planets pretty nice places to live, and brush up against the secretive haut very seldom. The ghem would be more visible.
Real population sizes not addressed, but nowhere is as dense as Old Earth yet. Then or now.
Ta, L.
Textev never says outright, but the facts of their shown tech level implies they are certainly not below galactic standard in health care including basic genetic tweaking against gene-based disorders or deficits; and for those who use replicators, any fresh mutational accidents that happen during the chromosome do-si-do of fertilization as well. Cosmetic changes, hm. Basic ones probably allowed, but there might be a borderline at which such measures might start to impinge on the haut monopoly of the superpersons project. The haut would always stay a couple of generations ahead in any case.
Advanced tech levels pretty much have to be supported bottom-up, even if partially directed top-down, just to have the necessary educated people to do All. That. Work. At which point such persons will also be taking care of themselves and their own. The average Cetagandans probably find their 8 planets pretty nice places to live, and brush up against the secretive haut very seldom. The ghem would be more visible.
Real population sizes not addressed, but nowhere is as dense as Old Earth yet. Then or now.
Ta, L.
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