>>>The Church of Man believes that the human genome is the image of God,
>>>and thus opposes in the most strenuous terms any genetic engineering
>>>or manipulation of said genome. As such, certain groups such as the
>>>colonists of Hoffmann, the telepath and hermaphrodite communities of
>>>Beta Colony, and clones of any stripe get to 'enjoy' the same level of
>>>hostility that self-aware machine intelligences get from the Church.
>>
>>So how do Detians fit into this?
>
>Badly.
>
>--G.

IMHO, horribly. First-generation Detians aren't just a polluted genome, we chose to do it to ourselves. It is one thing to be an abomination from the get-go, but much worse to forsake God's genome and abominate one's self.

Between that and cross-breeding with a "squirrel" (Salusian), I figure my avatar's face has graced not a few dartboards.

--rR