Undocumented Canon
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I keep running across comments about different aspects of the Swarm Cycle Universe that is considered canon by the older (more experienced) writers but is not written in the wiki-site.
As I run across these omissions I will place them here.
Each new entry contain a quote and will be prefixed with the Authors Name and the date. I am sorry that I do not have access to the early mailing list as I believe that there is much that is lost to the rest of us.
My first entry is:
Med-tubes
When it comes to regeneration
Frostfire Oct 19 2013 in reference to regeneration of testes
Canon is WON'T not CAN'T. Some type of Confederacy morality. Same reason they WON'T reverse completed menopause, even though its possible for them.
Nuke Danger Oct 17 2013 in response to Medics question about the existence of a Med-tube wiki page.
We have had interminable debates over how these things work since they cannot "make" living tissue. Also, many of these debates, I believe, pre-date a fair number of current list participants.
My own take-- which there is little consensus for, so I'm gonna try to gain approval AGAIN:
1) Medtubes first treat every appropriate cell w/ telomerase to push back the Hayflick limit and kill off any cancer cells as they are recognized (and, likely, leaving some cancer cell detection nanites floating around);
2) Tissue "creation" may be done by turning off a cell's "specialization", rendering it into a "generic" stem cell, encourage reproduction levels that would boggle the ambitions of even the most aggressive varieties of cancer cells, and re-specialize them as they are placed into the appropriate tissues;
3) The tubes provide power to the nanites as well as using the nanogel "fluid" to transport heat out of the body, ensuring that it doesn't get cooked by the wild-assed cellular reproduction;
4) Mechanical devices-- augments-- may emplaced... or replicated on-the-spot... inside a human subject's body;
5) During mechanical operations, a form of nanite-induced cryptobiostasis is induced (see Drexler's book) in order to reduce stress and trauma on the patient;
6) A myriad of precision tractor/pressor projectors line the interior of a medtube to provide positioning, massaging, traction, etc, for the subject within the tube, like when re-assembling arms and legs (or just repairing breaks);
7) Sadly, the rules keep germ cell lines from being replicated, so, once you are in a space battle and lose, say, both testes, you are sterile for the rest of your life, even though the cells producing various hormones will still be around.
Med-Tubes are NOT that "reactor" thingie you may have seen in "The Fifth Element".
OK, so I merged a bunch of different things together, but, then, I claim to be a "Stand Up Philosopher", fortunately without (currently) needing to collect vnemoloyment insvrance.
Let the arguments resume!!!
-nukie
Akarge August 23 2015
RE the menopause reversal. They WILL do certain procedures while fixing the body. This MAY result in reversing the Menopause status and giving a few years (maybe 5 or 10) of viable pregnancies. However it seems to be a SPONTANEOUS reversal in only certain individuals. The younger the patient and the more recent the change, the more likely the reversal. This seems to me to indicate that certain women had an early onset of menopause thd this procedure can reverse that.
Ovaries, on the other hand will NOT be replaced, just as testes are not.
Akarge
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