Thanks for the vote of confidence!
I had some new ideas in regards to bioships. One of these ideas is a Space Ark type bioship. I imagine the ship would be built by an ancient race of aliens, known as the Handlers/Masters, the ship would go around collecting all the DNA samples of the all the superior and strongest species it encounters (collecting data of the best specimens to clone) throughout the Galaxy and stores the collected DNA in the ship's gene banks. The ship can then resurrect creatures it has encountered from it's data/seed/sperm/cell/gene banks. I have not figure how the ark bioship should look like yet, but I imagine it functions like a hive ship, so it might have a honeycomb structure and or queen bee hive design elements.
The Ark ship would carry with it the cellular genomic goo that is the building blocks of life which the bioships use to clone beings. These Bio-Engineered Ships who's aged cannot be verified because these organisms have longer life spans than the handler species they are basically living fossils. The next generation of the Master's, not knowing the details of birth dates the Masters would turn to myth and legends to understand the birth of these ancient creatures.
I asked myself what kind of culture would be able to and or choose to use biotech? I would believe it would be a culture which has mastered the genome, granting them powers like:
- Immortality - they live forever. IOW Not dying from/through natural causes
- Eternal Youth - they are forever young (non aging)
- Cloning - Resurrection and replication bringing back the dead and the power to bring back extinct species
- Reincarnation - cloning bodies and the transferring of the Masters minds to new better types of bodies
- Regeneration - healing and re growing of limbs
- Genetic engineering, modification, and artificial selection
- Virgin Birth - abiogenesis from pool of genetic goo and Test tube babies - Artificial breeding and growth
- DNA mapping / Seed banks and mapping of the genome - a large library of genes
- Extensive understanding in Ecology Botany and Zoology
- Germ warfare - biological and chemical weapons
- Ritual self training and animal training - bonding with the intellect of bioships
- Mind over matter and mastery over self - cognitive self-programming
- Breeding and Artificial insemination
- Virus immunization and superior cells which fight off all diseases
- Bacteria cellular nanobots which when injected into subject can modify the being from inside out
I imagine perhaps the alien Masters in the past tampered with their own genes and developed bio-weapons, perhaps they even developed a viral disease that mutated and ran out of control on their planet and turned the Master's home world into a dsytopian toxic world. The Master's had to go on a mass exodus off world and journey to new planets and as they spread throughout the galaxy, they began collecting the best specimens in hopes to stop the mass pandemic that was occurring on their home world, the Masters started breeding the collected species out to create the perfect specimen / being that could help the Masters save their home world. The Alpha was the name of the first being that the Masters attempt at developing clones. The Omega the ultimate being combined from the best DNA genes of all creatures. Eventually they were able to modify their genes so much they were able to decide what they wished to become.
With the Masters faith in the biochemistry and bio-engineering they would believe in and have myths about mastering the genome. Their belief that life on their home planet arose from and was born from the bubbling pool of chemicals near underwater geological vents - the heat and conditions allowed chemicals to bond and form skins and pockets of RNA proteins. In these underwater volcanic vents bubbling forth chemicals, needed for carbon life, known as the fountain of life - was pools of bubbles forming, combining (eating or encapsulating other pockets of chemical proteins), bumping into each other, exploding and releasing new combinations of chemicals that combined when encapsulated in a skin pocket, these formations of chemicals eventually lead to the regulation of RNA proteins into simple celled organisms.
From the stew in the bubbling pool of chemicals formed strands of simple chemical proteins (RNA) which was the basis of carbon based life.
BTW Sorry for the poor grammar.
