In the original After the Bomb game supplement for TMNT:AOS and Heroes Unlimited, the background for the setting was that radiation and fallout from a nuclear war was what killed off the majority of the human race and created the mutations that led to the rise of mutant animals. Typical for a setting that was created in the 80s.
In 2nd Edition, the setting was moved from the 80's to a period somewhere in the middle of the 21st Century where bio-tech is as commonplace as home computers and smartphones. Now, instead of the animal mutations and human death being caused by nuclear armageddon, a genetic plague is to blame. There is still nuclear armageddon, but it's more responsible to the collapse of what little society was left behind.
Today, I found the attached video which describes how gene therapy today could be used to mess with genetics. Just imagine if someone were to patch something like this onto a flu virus and loosed it on the world.
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Truly fascinating. In our effort to become like God, shall we truly destroy ourselves? It's an interesting thing to meditate upon.
I don't think it's an effort to become like gods; for most scientists, I think, it's just a byproduct of wanting to know why and how things work that has propelled us to the level of being able to do things that were once seen as only possible by "the gods".
However, when you look at the scale of what we are able to do, it's nowhere on a deific level yet. Demi-gods maybe... :)
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