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Grand Army of the Republic: A Star Wars Plan Quest

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Modus_Tollens said:
What you are telling me is that we need to start hunting down another specialist, one with a background a little more appropriate. There is no shortage of races where something we consider superhuman, even with the clones' vastly improved baseline, is bog standard and Desnos is simply insufficiently versed. We need to find people for whom this is their bread and butter.

*mad rambling about creating the master race*
*mutter mutter mutter*
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If nothing else, we need someone who will have new ideas for research. I'd hate to just... not have any projects available in that category.
 
I floated the idea of genetically enhanced animal auxiliaries before. I recall Oshha saying that they would consider it if we blew through our research options and limited it to one species.
 
Spart117MC said:
I floated the idea of genetically enhanced animal auxiliaries before. I recall Oshha saying that they would consider it if we blew through our research options and limited it to one species.
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A couple creatures come to mind. Acklays are cool, semi-aquatic, tough to kill, and can be kind of goaded into being war creatures. That said they are aggressive, dangerous, and hungry. Predators are costly. The other, more serious suggestion, that comes to mind is the Gundark. They're semi-sentient/sapient, live in family groups, understand social hierarchy, can use basic tools, feel empathy for others of their group, and are tough. They're used in fights against rancors and can win despite being smaller.

If do actually start making animal auxiliaries it should be Gundarks. If we can tweak them to be more accepting of human handlers, mellow them out, and maybe turn them omnivorous so they eat less rations, then they'd actually be really good animal auxiliaries. They could act as labourers when not fighting and the pre-existing social structure makes it easier for us to slot handlers into.
 
Kiba said:
We are probably pushing the limit of Star Wars science at this point.
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We absolutely are pushing the limits of mainstream Star Wars science, as it is commonly understood in the Core or the somewhat more advanced Arkanians, at least in the field of genetic science, is comfortable with. But that is not a hard limit, not even the furthest other powers have reached, and is simply the end of the low hanging fruit. And now we must learn to climb.

Right now we have pushed the baseline up to the point that we are setting the new biological standard for the rest of galactic history but there are still biological elements we can weave in. Then there are refinements and optimizations, some of which we'll need to see combat or exposure to exotic conditions before we even see the need for. We haven't even developed the methodology for making the most of our augmentations as that would require full scale war games under varied conditions.
Spart117MC said:
I floated the idea of genetically enhanced animal auxiliaries before. I recall Oshha saying that they would consider it if we blew through our research options and limited it to one species.
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I rather think the Basilisk War Droid, updated with modern bleeding edge, would fill that niche rather well. They are an old Mandalorian standard that lost favor but remained effective until their dying breath. Biotechnology makes sense with soldiers because you are going to be using them in every single circumstance but its a huge research soak with beasts unless you have millennia of biological templates like with the Vong.

I'm tempted to lean into the cybernetics angle just for a proper mind machine interface but there is a lot of cultural pushback there. Cybernetics are likely to be almost exclusively for prosthesis, though having biologically identical recipients would allow for bulk ordered pre-manufactured prosthetic suites. I shrug.

If I biologically engineered anything besides our baseline clone it would be Bacta. That microorganism is a paramount strategic resource for any army made mostly of meat but its facing a severe bottleneck. Ideally we would have a symbiotic variant.
 
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I don't think Basilisk War Droids are an option. Besides the fact that I think the designs are lost Oshha's stated before we're not getting battledroids and Basilisks are technically battledroids. I considered going with exotic animals too but then realized that's extra research work for Oshha too, so there's that.

Personally I would be happy with an army of genetically enhanced dogs. Genetically enhanced D-Dogs.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QJQObeFlTY


Look at the good boy. He can sneak and tell you where bad guys are and he has a knife!
 
Modus_Tollens said:
We absolutely are pushing the limits of mainstream Star Wars science, as it is commonly understood in the Core or the somewhat more advanced Arkanians, at least in the field of genetic science, is comfortable with. But that is not a hard limit, not even the furthest other powers have reached, and is simply the end of the low hanging fruit. And now we must learn to climb.

Right now we have pushed the baseline up to the point that we are setting the new biological standard for the rest of galactic history but there are still biological elements we can weave in. Then there are refinements and optimizations, some of which we'll need to see combat or exposure to exotic conditions before we even see the need for. We haven't even developed the methodology for making the most of our augmentations as that would require full scale war games under varied conditions.
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The problem with pushing the frontier of science is that failure could lead to moral harm. Failure in itself is not a bad thing. it is how we learn things, after all, but the stakes are higher when you attempt to apply them to clones.
 
Well, looks like we're getting close to the end. I hope we have a way to prevent Sidious from sweeping up the loose end that is Jango.
 
I've been going over all of the various thread marks, but I can't find the current status of the clones and the army.

How do the current efforts compare to Canon? What are all the gene mods that are currently applied, and what effects they have?

I'm sure this is all in the thread somewhere, but it could use an Informational thread mark.
 
Kiba said:
We are probably pushing the limit of Star Wars science at this point.
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we can probably go for compatibility with machinery augments?

cyrbogs are a thing on star wars,so improving a creating a sub-class of specialists built around fucking around with tech might be nice
like echo from the bad batch but on steroids when it comes to cyber-warfare

Modus_Tollens said:
If I biologically engineered anything besides our baseline clone it would be Bacta. That microorganism is a paramount strategic resource for any army made mostly of meat but its facing a severe bottleneck. Ideally we would have a symbiotic variant.
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thats great too,improved bacta production

and we could set the bad batch program (take some clones and tweak them towards super-specialization in order to create special task forces for very specific scenarios,scalpels compared to the average/every porpuse hammer our baseline clones are)
 
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