Message no. 1

From:	Brian Johnson expatrie@*******.net
Subject:	Dragon Kin / biology
Date:	Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:26:36 -0500

> defy any laws of biology?

Well, yes / but so what?

Not that I recommend it (I mean reading it, since it's mostly trekie drivel /
apologetics), but I browsed a chapter from "the biology of star trek"
(inshallah, no, I won't buy that stuff). It was written by actual biologists,
and they discussed interspecies breeding's oddness and improbability.

Side note: appearance could depend on parent genders. Case: Mule is male horse,
female donkey, whereas Hinney (not sure of word or spelling) is male donkey,
female horse. The forms are radically different. Hinney is short and fat, not
preferred.

Dragons produce fertility magic to enable cross-breeding. Or mix without
authorization, using gene swapping / etc. `a la alien: resurrection (which I
haven't seen). (Dunkelzahn's corpse? Coroner?) They've created mice that glow in
the dark, which is interesting, but besides helping out the cats to find them,
seems rather irrelevant.

To digress, why is it always "exceedingly rare" characters that appeal as player
chars? In the biotech example, should be strong desire to keep info secret, and
maintain close supervision of subjects, right?

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