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Precautions: In order to prevent uncontrolled populations of engineered life, Dachlyd scientists have created organisms which require synthesized food. As a further precaution, LEOs have no reproductive systems. This lack of dangerous organs also saves on the cost of creating and supporting an engingeered organism. An additional precaution is that LEOs are "lifespan-terminated" meaning that they live set length of time, whether hours, days, months, or years depends upon their function and their artificial genes. Having a set lifespan reduces instances of mutation and also ensures demand for new replacement organisms. Finally, there is "The Gap". "The Gap" is a political and ethical boundary which governs the creation of biological entities: Rules limit development to lower animal life, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autotroph autotrophs] and plants being outright banned; further any creature displaying sentient behavior to the extent of self-awareness must be euthanized and further development of such organisms halted. By requiring a diet which does not naturally occur, lacking natural reproduction, dying after a determined lifespan, and not being capable of producing its own energy nor being conscious, a LEO presents only a marginal risk to naturally occurring lifeforms. | Precautions: In order to prevent uncontrolled populations of engineered life, Dachlyd scientists have created organisms which require synthesized food. As a further precaution, LEOs have no reproductive systems. This lack of dangerous organs also saves on the cost of creating and supporting an engingeered organism. An additional precaution is that LEOs are "lifespan-terminated" meaning that they live set length of time, whether hours, days, months, or years depends upon their function and their artificial genes. Having a set lifespan reduces instances of mutation and also ensures demand for new replacement organisms. Finally, there is "The Gap". "The Gap" is a political and ethical boundary which governs the creation of biological entities: Rules limit development to lower animal life, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autotroph autotrophs] and plants being outright banned; further any creature displaying sentient behavior to the extent of self-awareness must be euthanized and further development of such organisms halted. By requiring a diet which does not naturally occur, lacking natural reproduction, dying after a determined lifespan, and not being capable of producing its own energy nor being conscious, a LEO presents only a marginal risk to naturally occurring lifeforms. | ||
Rumors: Among elite scientists and certain philosophers, there are whisperings that any biologically engineered organism capable of surviving the vacuum and raw radiations present in spaceflight would need to be at least somewhat sentient to be capable of governing its complex functions. | |||
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