[Medicine] Quarian born with functioning immune system

Quarian born with functioning immune system

Sarris’El vas Rannoch, Rannoch Herald

Less than two months after conclusion of the first post-war elections, the unified people of Rannoch have reached another historic milestone: early prognosis indicates that Spera’Tal vas Rannoch, barely a day old, will live the rest of her life without the confinement of an envirosuit.

Named after the Khelish word for ‘hope’, Spera’Tal was born without complications after an eight-month period of examination and in-utero therapy from the Rannoch Division of Special Projects. Subsequent tests revealed that her baseline allergic reaction to nonsterile substances was only slightly inferior to a turian’s. “Nothing I could say would do justice to this feeling,” said Maia’Tal vas Rannoch, fresh from maternity decontamination, at the Special Projects announcement this morning. “To know that my child will grow up without the problems that plagued the quarians forever, and that a whole generation will follow her...considering what it means for our people, ‘Spera’ was really the only name we could’ve chosen.”

Special Projects member Raeda’Carr vas Lemwill, head of the research team behind Spera’Tal’s development, extolled both the scientists and the tech that made the project possible. “None of this would have been possible without a united Rannoch,” she stated to the press, alongside Executive Researcher Telesis. “Our expertise and technological prowess, along with those of the geth, have made it possible for us to someday leave these suits behind, and for future generations to never need them at all. Through the geth, we can clearly see the future of the quarian people.”

Admiral Quorum, representing the Admiralty at the presentation, declined to comment beyond stating that Carr’s assertion was ‘demonstrably correct’ and that Spera’Tal’s birth was ‘an historic occasion for the people of Rannoch.’

Ah, exile tears. The most wondrous of ambrosias.

Wow. This really is beautiful. The idea that Spera will be the first among many to feel the sun on her face without fear of illness or death

Not really, its not like in utero gene therapy is uncommon. If anything, it looks like all they did was bring her immune system back to the Pre-war levels. That's three centuries of quarantine induced weakness gone in a matter of months. Impressive, but they're not rewriting her genetic code. Its more of a reset, than anything else.


Well, its been one year without genocides, along with oodles of contributions to galactic society. And now this.

Scary, aren't they?

That is not geth technology. That is Reaper technology. You would know that if you spent five seconds off your extranet soapbox actually brushing up on your skills with something useful. You stupid bitch.

I'm not a quarian, nor do I quite understand what their immune systems do to their lives. The best parallel I can give to their situation would be if, hypothetically, the Primacy discovered a way to treat or prevent Kerpal's Syndrome.

So blessings be upon this new child, and here's hoping that the research and treatments continue to be fruitful.

oh, this is great news!
So it is possible after all. Maybe not on grand scale yet but even this step is happeing faster than I'd have expected.

I am happy for you Quarians, another silver lining.
Maybe in 200, 300 years I'll see a whole lot of you without suits around (or at least helmets because your suits are just too beauitiful and come on, you'd miss all the cooler functions)

Congratulations to all Quarians!

If I'm not mistaken the Quarian immune system was already weak before the exile, so does it mean those children have the best immune system in Quarian history?

Okay, first up, isn't it wonderful that the galactic demand for tissues and cough medicine is about to plummet yadda yadda yadda 'grats quarians, I'm real happy for you.

But second, has this board just forgotten Eden Prime? What the geth did there?


You especially. You can fuck right off. It might be Reaper tech, but that didn't stop the geth using it to turn hundreds of colonists into monsters did it? Who knows what other Reaper tech they integrated?

What about Feros? About all those ships lost near the Perseus Veil?

Look, I know we eventually got 'em on side, and they were a big help over Earth and all, and I don't wanna be seen to be defending an exile but...

Well, you guys are really hating on her for expressing a view I can't help but feel has some sense to it.

Don't get me wrong, this is great news, and I'm all for letting the geth help out Rannoch and everywhere else they've been working, I just don't think they've earned blind faith yet, you know? They sure as hell haven't earned my forgiveness yet.

I guess my take home message here is 'hey quarians: be careful, yeah?'

I don't mean to be inflammatory mister Vasey, but I believe the Geth weren't the only species to attack Eden Prime and implant people their with reaper tech. I'm referring of course to Cerberus, reaper-controlled humans...

No, that's not inflammatory that's... well, that's actually a very good point. You know, for a slaver you can put things pretty delicately. Stop it.

My weak ass counter is that humans aren't a giant networked consciousness. We have a lot of, um, intellectual diversity. I mean that a lot of us are fucking stupid. But that also means we don't make decisions as a species. You know, decisions like 'do we worship giant living machines that want to wipe out all life and then storm around the galaxy impaling people on our giant zombifying murder boners?'

So I'm going to keep being suspicious of the geth. But anyone who wants to be suspicious of my species because of Cerberus, well I understand where you're coming from. You go right ahead.

I wasn't critisizing the procedure, I was critisizing the doctors. Who were geth. I'm sorry, but I'm just not ready to trust them blindly yet.

A year. For a species that doesn't age, and probably doesn't regard time as an important thing at all like we do. They're AI, they can suddenly think, like a thousand years from now, that we're holding them back or something like that and decide to wipe us out if the situation changes.

Fuck the geth. They can't do anything we can't do - they just do what we can do quicker.

Don't trust anyone who doesn't bleed. And especially don't trust anyone who's philosophy's supposed to be based on finding your own way through life and spends all their time giving other people short cuts.

I concur. This development would have happened sooner or later anyway, geth or no, as soon as the quarians acquired a stable industrial base and medical R&D sector which the material poverty of the Migrant Fleet prevented them from developing. Let's not rush to give them too much credit.

This board has been treating every piece of positive news out of Rannoch as cause for unbridled optimism. Have the quarians so quickly forgotten the last lesson history taught them on the dangers of over-reliance on machine-slaves, or have they simply resigned themselves to a future over which they look to possess so little ability to effect?

Sure, but speed and fluency has a value of it's own-for example, go compute pi with an abacus.

And immune issues are really something where we shouldn't wait if we don't have to. There have been three times where I've nearly died from immune reactions, and everyone on the fleet knows someone who's died from something that shouldn't have been lethal.

One's ability to make one's own way through life is severely impaired when one's eyes are caked shut with pus and one's throat is closing. Besides, a shortcut would be giving us a stronger-than-average immune system, this is a return to pre-Morning War status quo.


Or the lesson about slamming on the brakes and attacking one's allies just because some biochauvanists got spooked? Though, to be honest, I think the key to long-term co-operation with the Geth is found in old quarian culture-our custom of Ancestor Programs, greyboxes and brain uploads.

Since I've yet to hear of a krogan dying from natural causes, I'm not certain the argument can be made that no organic could ever perceive the passing of time like that.

As for the threat they possess, the way I see it, they're machines and therefore lack the emotions we possess, and while they're capable of learning/installing emotions, they're always going fall back onto logic when it comes to most of their decision making. Currently, it is illogical to attack us en masse because they're existing with the rest of the galaxy with mutual benefits on both sides. Short of attempting to enslave them, or everyone becoming significantly vulnerable, they won't attack us. The fact that they haven't in over a year, save one notable aberration, keeps me optimistic.

If anything, the presence of something like the Beast seems evidence that they're becoming more relatable to us, if they're capable of producing criminals. Something we all have in common, unfortunately.

Bullets're natural causes.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you: the Krogan mind.

I hate to be a dark cloud on this sunrise. It is undoubtedly a good thing and I do believe that the Geth have had a sincere change of heart and are attempting to work with the Quarian people. It's Xen that scares me. I've heard about some of the things she's up to and her goals, and it truly sounds to me as if her goal is to use the geth as a weapon to make the quarians the rulers of the galaxy.

I'd like to hope that this sort of research means she's turned over a new leaf, but from what I heard of those recordings about that rogue geth fleet, I doubt it.

Xen's nucking futs. So hey, good luck to her if she tries to do anything involving the weaponization of the Geth when everyone's keeping some sharp eyes on her.

Or eye, if you're a killbot.

Anyway, I'm not a fan of the geth. Really, really not. But this right here? This is ok in my book. Now if my race can resist the urge to bend over backwards and let roborailing in the government happen because of this sort of thing, I've got hope for the future of my people.

You say "test subjects" like it's some universally horrible thing. Like experiments don't produce good things from time to time, whether or not they were done with the best intentions. I don't see why you can't be happy for her.

Same here. I still don't trust the geth as far as I can throw them but the thought that any hypothetical younger siblings I may get in the future will be able to feel the wind in their hair kind of over-rules any suspicious thoughts I may have had.