Designer Lifeforms

Designer Life Forms
Research Cost: 30000
Summary
Genetic engineers learn to build life forms with specific purposes.
Description
Now that we can readily bend genomes to our will, we can achieve so much more than merely changing life: we can create it. Genetic editing at an embryonic level can bring about livestock able to thrive in hostile environments, fast-spreading terraforming flora, lab-grown food sources, new bacteria-based pharmaceuticals to combat new diseases, and even pets designed to be as charming and obedient as the imagination allows. Most of all, these human-designed species will help make life in space and on distant worlds not just survivable, but even pleasant. They may even ultimately be able to turn back the tide of climate change, and save the Earth itself.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Arrival Law 5000 Transform Phages 10000 Photonic Computing 1500 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Biotechnology 1500 Molecular Assemblers 25000 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 We Are Not Alone 500 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Mission To Space 250 Quantum Computing 15000 Cybernetics 5000 Predictive Genetics 5000
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	0		28000
	46500		36000
	0		7500
	3750	Total	121750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
Climate Change Mitigation • Targeted Biological Warfare		(40%)Ecological Stabilization Programs • (50%)Microbial Drills • (100%)Pherocyte Decon Operations • (100%)Invasive Species Containment • (40%)Fuel Cell III • (100%)Agriculture Complex
Effects
The Environment priority removes 10% more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The Environment priority removes 10% more methane from the atmosphere
The Environment priority removes 10% more nitrous oxide
The best sustainability value achievable by nations has improved
Quote
"There's a them, and there's an us. Always has been, as much as we kid ourselves that somehow we've become more enlightened over all these years of blood and suffering." Commander Fiona Ayouade, The Resistance SIS correspondence
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