Create Hussars, Genies, & Highmates.

[TurtleKnight]

Is it possible to recreate those xenotypes using the gene assembler? I don't mean like just slap on the exact genes the xenotypes have, put on a label and call it a day. I mean recreate them fully so the game would consider them as a Hussar or Genie, rather then a custom race called "Hussar" or "Genie"? A colony I'm currently running has Baseliners, Hussars and Genies as preferred Xenotypes and I was wondering if it's possible to actually do that so I don't need to get all my Hussars and Genies from captures.

[marcusaddamsson]

We actually kinda just had this discussion. "how to venerate a race" or something like that...

[boytype]

Originally posted by TurtleKnight:

Is it possible to recreate those xenotypes using the gene assembler?

Yes, sort of.

Originally posted by TurtleKnight:

I don't mean like just slap on the exact genes the xenotypes have, put on a label and call it a day. I mean recreate them fully so the game would consider them as a Hussar or Genie, rather then a custom race called "Hussar" or "Genie"?

Then, no lol

There are no "premade" xenogene templates available in the game that you can purchase and use on a pawn to turn them into one of the preexisting types either. You can recreate the exactly and name them "Hussar" or "Genie". Thats about it.

But there is nothing that can be done in the game to cause them to be recognized as "the same" as the AI generated pawns that have the preexisting templates.

[Siamese55]

I'm still testing, but I think you might have to go the natural route. Aka, using not xenogenes but endogenes via reproduction. I'd assume HIghmate + Highmate = Highmate.

Then again, go into dev mod and give one of them the gene implanter organ from the sanguinophages and see if it changes the label.

[marcusaddamsson]

I dunno about hussars, but highmates are just normal humans, in terms of reproduction. All the 'high mate' stuff was added to them later in life, aka xenogenes.

[Siamese55]

Originally posted by marcusaddamsson:

I dunno about hussars, but highmates are just normal humans, in terms of reproduction. All the 'high mate' stuff was added to them later in life, aka xenogenes.

So you've had two high mates bind and produce a child that was a baseliner?

[boytype]

Originally posted by Siamese55:

Originally posted by marcusaddamsson:

I dunno about hussars, but highmates are just normal humans, in terms of reproduction. All the 'high mate' stuff was added to them later in life, aka xenogenes.

So you've had two high mates bind and produce a child that was a baseliner?

Exactly.
Also, Highmate + Baseliner = Baseliner.

Highmate genes are xenogenes and do not pass on to children, and the xenotype name does not pass on either.

[Siamese55]

Originally posted by boytype:

Originally posted by Siamese55:

So you've had two high mates bind and produce a child that was a baseliner?

Exactly.
Also, Highmate + Baseliner = Baseliner.

Highmate genes are xenogenes and do not pass on to children, and the xenotype name does not pass on either.

I knew the xenogenes wouldn't pass, but I figured the subspecies name would. Good to know.

I just need to load some test colonies and see if all the new xenotypes do that. (Although it would be really odd if ones like Yttakin don't pass through.)