Centauri Genetics

Centauri Genetics
“Decipher Planet’s genetic code”
Requires	Centauri Meditation, Retroviral Engineering
Leads to	Centauri Psi
Enables
Unit	Locusts of Chiron
Facility	Brood Pit
Secret Project	The Pholus Mutagen
Bonuses
+1 mineral production in fungus
AI priority
Conquer: 0, Discover: 2, Build: 0, Explore: 5

Remember, genes are not blueprints. This means you can’t, for example,

insert “the genes for an elephant’s trunk” into a giraffe and get a
giraffe with a trunk. There are no genes for trunks. What you can do
with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance,
we can in theory splice the native plants’ talent for nitrogen fixation
into a terran plant.

—Academician Prokhor Zakharov,

“Nonlinear Genetics”

The first contacts with Planetary sentience during research on Centauri Meditation caused widespread excitement among the scientific community. They propose using new Retroviral Engineering techniques to unravel Centauri Genetics—the structural blueprint of native organisms.