Re: Colony Critical Mass
From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 10:44:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Colony Critical Mass
>2. Once you have produced enough cousins that inbreeding becomes a
concern,
>given a couple thousand intial colonist (=> several centuries) the
simple
>question is How Much Eugenics Will Your People Tollerate!
Another question is: how much eugenics will the original colonists
tolerate? If you screen for people who don't _have_ the recessive genes
that can be combined by inbreeding, all you have to worry about is
radiation-induced mutation.
ObFT: various people here seem to know fragments about how FTIII will
work. Any playtest information out there?
Roger
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