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>>6080768 said there is not really anything to worry about for now. Since most of the ships which Newb has remastered are designs which will first exist potentially several hundreds of years later. Anything we encounter in this time will be ancient for most purposes in the 289'ish years it will take before it catches up with the original Broken Empire quest.
>>6080354>>6080359I can follow your point in many ways, and you have my sympathies about the situation with your family member. I can imagine it must have been hard to watch someone close go through that :(
There definitely is some sudden randomness caused by external factors we currently have no idea about. But generally, biology isn't nondeterministic on a small chemical scale. And we already currently know of many mental illnesses that have certain triggers or are more easily able to be triggered due to outside stimuli. Chromosome 6 is a good example of potential vulnerabilities since you mentioned schizophrenia.
Madman definitely would have had a much easier time not realizing he has been going mad over time without external input from others. So things that can develop through social isolation are definitely on the table.
I would imagine that as a geneticist, the highest likelihood of how he might have gone as deeply insane as he acts might just have been him fucking around with his own genetics. Him not caring what inserting crab DNA might do to his brain chemistry or the potential social problems due to a lack of thinking about his project on a scale larger than himself and his already at-the-time developing anti-social tendencies.
And thanks for the input.
>>6080611 you as well. I put quite a bit of effort into this quest and my suggestions since I've been following Broken Empire as one of the first quests that got me interested in this board and lies quite close to my heart. So I also care a lot about if I might fuck up unknowingly. As I did with the merchant land agreement.
