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	== Objectives ==		== Objectives ==
			In the simplest terms, the objective of a genemod is to make a person different. Insurancewise, these are classified as either Functional or Aesthetic, and as Essential or Bullshit. Aesthetic genemods do not significantly alter the employment qualifications of the recipient, and can be considered Essential if they affirm the user's identity: Tribal identity, Corporate identity (mandated gene expressions as a uniform), and/or Personal Identity (gender, species, etc.).

	~~== Risk Factors ==~~
			The SAD does not invalidate the transgender experience, as it restores the body to what the algorithms find the Resonance to be most compatible with at the time, not what the Resonance ''wishes'' to feel most compatible as. The journey of becoming what one wishes to become is a deeply personal and unique path, though is often described in terms of "earning" one's ideal self, of convincing oneself that they "deserve" to have their desired form, of subconsciously "letting go" of what their flesh ''is'' and embracing what their flesh ''should be''. Some simply replace their hormone profile and let natural processes reshape them, the gradual process allowing for an equally gradual resonance adjustment. Some try to force the matter, undergoing extensive genemods to mold their flesh into the perfect form, then spend days to decades staring into a mirror until it feels like "them." No choice is intrinsically wrong.

			In what is considered a Sapient Rights win, the corporate destruction of Rollmagic Canonicity Index in nuclear hellfire and insurance premiums left the patents for many natural Testosterone and Estrogen production pathways in legal limbo for long enough for the lawyers of the [[Lore:Syndicate\|Sentient-Engine Liberation Front]] to establish a trust, making these genetic treatments Free to license until the patent expires, when they will become Public Domain.

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	The first genemods, following early work with [[wikipedia:CRISPR\|CRISPR-Cas9]], relied on custom-crafted viruses who, upon infecting a host, would target specific sequences in the victim's DNA and alter them, either rewriting them on the spot or injecting an extra length of codons. Later nanite-based genemods would follow this pattern of freefloating agents distributed through a body and		The first genemods, following early work with [[wikipedia:CRISPR\|CRISPR-Cas9]], relied on custom-crafted viruses who, upon infecting a host, would target specific sequences in the victim's DNA and alter them, either rewriting them on the spot or injecting an extra length of codons. Later nanite-based genemods would follow this pattern of freefloating agents distributed through a body and arbitrarily altering cells until a probabilistic threshold is reached, within the order of minutes. Longer treatments would use an external coordinator to ensure the nanites touched roughly every cell, but statistically, letting them freefloat for a few minutes had already been enough.

			Copyright

			As Genemodding is a health-centered care field, "Big Pharma" style rules apply. After all, the time spent researching novel genemods ''should'' be recompensed, to keep the research industry lively and stable.

			"Pink hair" is too generic to be copyrighted, but the pathways to induce a specific shade of pink hair can be. The simplest means, by virtue of being more easily discovered, are usually the first to be copyrighted, leaving discount and open-source genemods to necessarily take convoluted routes. Sirrus Carpor owns the patent on inducing hair folicles to produce [[wikipedia:Anthocyanin\|Anthocyanins]], derived from corn and grapes, which is the simplest, and thus most reliable, known way to achieve vibrant pink hair. Cheaper pink hair genemods may have to invoke convoluted hair shapes, forming stiffer hair with specific refractive indexes in order to make a cheaper pigment appear the desired pink. This, of course, has trivial differences that mean that an elitist can absolutely tell if you "cheaped out" on your pink hair; at least, an {{TooltipInline\|elitist with a pocket microscope\|A surprisingly large number of them. Of course, you can tell your elitist from your Elitist by the refractive lens manufacturer they source their zooms from.}}.

			Licenses to specific genemods are paid to the longest extent they might be passed down. An hourly hair extension gene is relatively cheap, but a permanent body alteration capable of being passed down to children - effectively starting a new species - is usually charged at Speciation Rates.

			These Hereditary Genemods are a transferable, limitless license granted to you and your descendants. Because there's no mandated overlap of "reproduces sexually" and "has children," this includes adopted heirs. Incest is frowned upon, not because of genetic concerns - we have the technology to fix that - but it's seen as bad faith license sharing, a "have your cake and eat it too," moment. "You wouldn't adopt your wife," as the memes say. The largest recognized class of species piggybacks off of existing Tribal laws, allowing for sharing and modding within a tribe so long as the Gene Expression in question is declared as an integral part of the Tribal Identity. Tribal indoctrination may require buying into the shared license, as well as any other well-defined cultural initiations, but the copyright owner holds no grounds to {{TooltipInline\|deny the legitimacy of a tribe's composition\|See Johnson^3 v. The Spinward Longdicks, which settled in court that "will pay 500 credits for a big appendage" is a sufficient tribal identity to allow tribal redistribution of the J3-RKoff Gene Expression.}}.

			In addition to specific gene alterations, a person's Likeness is {{TooltipInline\|inherently their own copyright\|See [[wikipedia:The Beatles\|The Beatles]]' Estate v. The Ringos of Saturn}}. It is thus illegal to sequence a person's DNA in an attempt to {{TooltipInline\|copy them wholesale\|Even if no attempt at impersonation is made. The sequencing itself is the crime; identical twins and other coincidental duplicates remain legally convoluted enough to lack a definitive ruling.}}. Specifically, the [[Guide_to_genetics#Unique_Enzymes\|"Unique Enzymes"]] and [[Guide_to_genetics#Unique_Identifiers\|"Unique Identifiers."]] Using that sequence to replicate specific copyrighted genemods is illegal through {{TooltipInline\|intellectual property pathways\|No '''federal''' law exists to police IP theft, but the Trade Clique holds enough of a monopoly on galactic trade that losing favor with them tends to doom smaller nations.}}. In the modern day, the Likeness Clause is mostly used to federally prosecute [[Lore:Changeling\|Changelings]] even in nations technically accepting of them, as most nations have broader laws about impersonation.

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= Genemodding =

Genes are notoriously easy to modify. The human body alters its genes randomly during cell division, approx 100 mutations per cell over a cell's typical lifetime. Sexual reproduction involves combining genetics from all parents, and even that results in ~70 unique alterations found in neither parent.  What makes "Genemodding" tricky is changing a large enough area at once in order to effect visible change. That is, if you want blue skin, you need all of your skin to know it should be blue now.

Stability
Synchronization
Self-Acceptance
Self - Resonance

Breeding and

The Self-Actualization Device is, despite the mocking tone of the ignorant, mostly a microwave. The SAD combines the fields of Resonance research, Genemodding, and Microwaves to analyze the Resonance presently in the body, formulate the ideal body to best host the Resonance, identify and kill what parts of the body oppose that ideal, and facilitate the growth of replacements that don't. The chance that your Resonance may reflect an angry [[Lore:Plasmaman|burning skeleton]] is low, but never zero.

The Self-Actualization Device is but one of many crowning acheivements of the Saturn-born Idealist Movements.

== Historical ==
=== Until 2100 ===

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