Request to David / Bu9

Hello

Is there a summation or short info dump on what exactly the Beowulf Code allows / doesnt.

Not precisely. But here is what there is:


http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/en ... gton/293/0

...They don't really recognize, and certainly don't accept, Beowulf's logic, and I'm not sure I've managed to make Beowulf's position fully clear for the reader in the books to date, either.

Beowulf doesn't reject improving individuals or even modifying large groups of individuals for specific environmental concerns. For that matter, Beowulf strongly supports genetic modification to deal with disease states and inheritable congenital defects. Beowulf's geneticists will work to optimize traits, capabilities, disease resistance, etc., but except in conditions where specific physical qualities — like Honor's high-grav modifications of muscle tissue, CO2 tolerance, enhanced metabolism, etc. — are required to suit human colonists to specific environments, or in conditions where it's necessary to correct a disease state or a physical defect, they will not go one millimeter past the inherent possibilities of the individual genetic material they're working with. What that specifically means is that they won't import genetic material from another source, which is one of the things the Mesan geneticists have been doing for quite some time. Beowulf also specifically rejects the "weaponization" of genetic engineering and bio research generally, which means that something like the "assassin nanotech" is absolutely and utterly anathematized by the Beowulf Code.

The Beowulf Code's ban on weaponized biotech goes back to Old Earth's Final War....


It starts well before this and goes on for a while, so look at the site to see the rest.