Well, hmm. Cant speak for Ace, but I was actually kinda more thinking about the Sammie uniforms and thought of you as the logical go to person about it instead of biomoding.
As to this material, I think your pretty spot on. Though from the sound of it, maybe we should go with 10% 'Obvious' biomods, (like Cat Girls and other anthromorphs) and another 10% not quite so obvious (IE you'd not know it was a biomod without doing some digging or the person volenteered the info) That gives an overall 1 in 5 rate of all biomods, but only a 1 in 10 as far as obvious folk like Anthromorphs, making them common but not so common as to crowd out other folks.
Yes, I agree with the skewing of percentages in favor of certain factions, it makes sense to me that groups like the Supers and Furries would have a lot of the 'obvious' biomods, while a group like the Belters or pulpers would be more 'normals' / inobvious biomods
and aside from the rule of cool, I quite agree. the 'more powerfull' a biomod potentially is, the more counteracting quirks and limitations it should have as a balance.
Races... hmm.
"While there is a sizable percentage of Fen who either have, or are hoping to, biomod themselves to resemble a member of many of the races found in their fandoms, It should not be forgotten that bio mods are just that... BIOlogical MODification. The underlying DNA remains human, which means that technically there are no 'races' other than human. Each member must biomod themselves, and the results have yet to be copied to the DNA level. So, in theory, and two members of any 'race' could interbreed (assuming their 'plumbing' can connect or artificial insemination) however, their child would be a normal unmodified human unless special steps are taken. And at this time, no KNOWN Mad of any stripe has been amoral enough to consider just what that might entail; or rather, if they have they've been wise enough to keep their mouth shut to avoid lynching. FenKinder are the fandom's future, to do anything that might endanger them is pretty much guaranteed to attract all sorts of attention of a type that in general leaves the recepient feeling like (s)he's been run over by a truck, or worse. And can expect to find themselves facing a highly unsympathetic justice system after they recover"
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
As to this material, I think your pretty spot on. Though from the sound of it, maybe we should go with 10% 'Obvious' biomods, (like Cat Girls and other anthromorphs) and another 10% not quite so obvious (IE you'd not know it was a biomod without doing some digging or the person volenteered the info) That gives an overall 1 in 5 rate of all biomods, but only a 1 in 10 as far as obvious folk like Anthromorphs, making them common but not so common as to crowd out other folks.
Yes, I agree with the skewing of percentages in favor of certain factions, it makes sense to me that groups like the Supers and Furries would have a lot of the 'obvious' biomods, while a group like the Belters or pulpers would be more 'normals' / inobvious biomods
and aside from the rule of cool, I quite agree. the 'more powerfull' a biomod potentially is, the more counteracting quirks and limitations it should have as a balance.
Races... hmm.
"While there is a sizable percentage of Fen who either have, or are hoping to, biomod themselves to resemble a member of many of the races found in their fandoms, It should not be forgotten that bio mods are just that... BIOlogical MODification. The underlying DNA remains human, which means that technically there are no 'races' other than human. Each member must biomod themselves, and the results have yet to be copied to the DNA level. So, in theory, and two members of any 'race' could interbreed (assuming their 'plumbing' can connect or artificial insemination) however, their child would be a normal unmodified human unless special steps are taken. And at this time, no KNOWN Mad of any stripe has been amoral enough to consider just what that might entail; or rather, if they have they've been wise enough to keep their mouth shut to avoid lynching. FenKinder are the fandom's future, to do anything that might endanger them is pretty much guaranteed to attract all sorts of attention of a type that in general leaves the recepient feeling like (s)he's been run over by a truck, or worse. And can expect to find themselves facing a highly unsympathetic justice system after they recover"
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children