Gene Splicing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Gene Splicing SMAC

Gene Splicing is a Build technology 3 in Firaxis' TBS Game of 1999, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC). Gene Splicing is most notable for lifting the restrictions on nutrient production per square.

• Nutrient restrictions lifted; can produce 3+ energy/square
• Gene Splicing unlocked by: Biogenetics, Ethical Calculus
• Gene Splicing unlocks Base Facilities: Research Hospital
• Gene Splicing unlocks Technologies: Synthetic Fossil Fuels, Bio-Engineering, Ecological Engineering
• Gene Splicing unlocks Miscellaneous: Nutrient restrictions lifted; can produce 3+ nutrients per square

Widespread adoption of the philosophy of Ethical Calculus (E2) removes opposition to genetic experimentation in plant and animal DNA, while advances in Biogenetics (D1) provide techniques for the incipient field of Gene Splicing. This technology allows researchers to insert new DNA coding into existing genetic material so that entire traits, from disease resistance to a stable personality, can be copied from one organism and transferred to any number of others.

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