Aslan are next!

PsiTraveller

Cosmic Mongoose
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/human-pig-hybrid-embryo-chimera-organs-health-science/

Orcs today, Aslan are next.

On a serious note this is good news for people needing organs. In game terms a herd of chimera could need transportation from a high tech planet to a lower tech planet medical facility and the players have an adventure hook.
 
Interesting hook. What if the players find out the 'organ bags' are intelligent :shock: :? . Presuming your player group does have morals of course.
 
I did this in my Drinax campaign. Other pirate groups were transporting captives to medical facilities that would harvest all of the organs for sale to needy folks. No transgenic issues, all human. :twisted:
 
I had an occasion years ago where one of my players shot a couple of people -- shady people, but shady people who had the benefits of being citizens of the planet where the shootout took place. We were using rules that included hit location, and both victims were wounded to unconsciousness. He hadn't arranged for a good way to escape, and when he arrived back at the starport, found himself to be the prime suspect in a crime after the victims' neighbors called police and ambulances.

The player character was ordered to pay medical restitution. The hit location rules were pretty clear about one victim's injury -- an arm was crippled -- but just said torso for the other, so I decided that the victim's liver was crippled. They wounded arm guy was stabilized, and restored through unspecified medical procedures. But the wounded liver guy had to wait in medical cold sleep while a new liver was grown for him from his own cells.

I had heard about proposed experiments along the lines of this article -- even the idea that pigs are about the right size for human organ replacement -- and said that the new liver would be grown in a pig from the victim's own cells, and eventually transplanted back into the victim.

Given that the player character found pretty much nothing of value in the victims' apartment, it was a pretty costly crime.
 
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