I have this idea in my head, and wanted to get it out - that, and I wanted to see what people thought of it.
Current standards with handwavium is one biomod only, and as a general limit that's a good thing. However, I imagine the Jason is tinkering with finding
ways around this; it would be far too helpful in his profession to be able to keep changing things. I think I might have an idea for how to do it, but I wanted
to see what people thought. As is, it's safest for plants. The Jason wouldn't want to use it on a person unless it was a life-or-death situation, such
as a critically-injured, already-biomodded person. In fact, this would probably be the one way that people would find out the Jason HAD figured something out.
As to the idea...cells are most vulnerable to being affected by outside influences when they're undergoing mitosis/meiosis. That's why radiation
therapy works, in general terms. The cancer cells are undergoing uncontrolled rapid reproduction, and thus are more likely to be affected by the radiation than
normal, healthy cells, since more of the cancer cells will be in the vulnerable stage at any given moment. Given that premise...I wondered what would happen if
you sped up the cells that are handwaved. In other words, use the Expresso strain of handwavium to metabolically supercharge handwaved cells...and then hit
them with another dose of guacamole, or honey, or whatever you want to try. Again, this would put a fair amount of stress on a body, which is why the Jason
wouldn't want to use it on a person unless necessary. But for his usual plant-based mods, it would be highly useful. In fact, if people are Ok with it,
I'd like to say that he was tinkering/experimenting with such on Yggdrasil. I'd like to use the idea to explain some of her more interesting
quirks, and why she's a bit different from the others of her type. So...thoughts?
*grin* If people like the idea, I might have the Jason actually carry around a small vial of an expresso/golden apple cider mix. Emergency medicine at its
finest. Probably the vilest combination of tastes you could imagine, but if you're dying, beggars can't be choosers. I leave that idea open in case
anybody ever wants to use it in a story, if the board agrees on this and wants the knowledge to eventually get out.
Current standards with handwavium is one biomod only, and as a general limit that's a good thing. However, I imagine the Jason is tinkering with finding
ways around this; it would be far too helpful in his profession to be able to keep changing things. I think I might have an idea for how to do it, but I wanted
to see what people thought. As is, it's safest for plants. The Jason wouldn't want to use it on a person unless it was a life-or-death situation, such
as a critically-injured, already-biomodded person. In fact, this would probably be the one way that people would find out the Jason HAD figured something out.
As to the idea...cells are most vulnerable to being affected by outside influences when they're undergoing mitosis/meiosis. That's why radiation
therapy works, in general terms. The cancer cells are undergoing uncontrolled rapid reproduction, and thus are more likely to be affected by the radiation than
normal, healthy cells, since more of the cancer cells will be in the vulnerable stage at any given moment. Given that premise...I wondered what would happen if
you sped up the cells that are handwaved. In other words, use the Expresso strain of handwavium to metabolically supercharge handwaved cells...and then hit
them with another dose of guacamole, or honey, or whatever you want to try. Again, this would put a fair amount of stress on a body, which is why the Jason
wouldn't want to use it on a person unless necessary. But for his usual plant-based mods, it would be highly useful. In fact, if people are Ok with it,
I'd like to say that he was tinkering/experimenting with such on Yggdrasil. I'd like to use the idea to explain some of her more interesting
quirks, and why she's a bit different from the others of her type. So...thoughts?
*grin* If people like the idea, I might have the Jason actually carry around a small vial of an expresso/golden apple cider mix. Emergency medicine at its
finest. Probably the vilest combination of tastes you could imagine, but if you're dying, beggars can't be choosers. I leave that idea open in case
anybody ever wants to use it in a story, if the board agrees on this and wants the knowledge to eventually get out.