Re: Medtech a la Los
From: "Jesse Casey" <jessecasey@n...>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 21:40:06 -0600
Subject: Re: Medtech a la Los
----- Original Message -----
<snipped>
> Yuk! But, of course, you're quite right. Sure you've got tongue in
cheek
> here to some degree, but why not? Cloning tech that can produce a
fighter
> fast, who has very limited socialization (all s/he can do is fight,
and
> conduct the basics of survival ie sleep, eat)... so you run into
problems
> like hyper aging a-la dolly. So what. You use them up fast, and if
they
> die off in a couple of years, who cares. All they need to do is be
able
to
> learn a bunch of standard battle drills and operate their personal
> equipment. For intelligence you add in some "real" humans in CnC
<snipped>
> ...And they cause terror in Hand to Hand, like the Ghurkas, 'cause
everyone
> knows what they are...
You know this sounds like the "tanks" in "Space: Above and Beyond".
Force grown troops/workers used for those jobs "real humans" found too
"unpleasant".
"S:AAB" was a fairly good show and could have been much better if it
hadn't
got jack-up by the corporate wankers.
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