Talk:The Constellar Imperium/@comment-34656539-20180428005651

How exactly can all these different constellators be descendants of the same person? They're different species. Unless you're trying to say that all of these different species from different worlds are not only biologically compatible (unlikely), they are reproductively compatible (nigh impossible), and that their children were also reproductively compatible (actually impossible). The reproductive... fluids of each of these races, even if they were all actually liquids (not a guarantee), would more than likely be poisonous to each of the other races, if not outright corrosive, radioactive, or otherwise chemically reactive. I suppose a case could be made that each and every one of them is a test tube baby, made from splicing Sijir Constell’s DNA or his “descendant’s” with that of some person’s of another species to make a hybrid, but that’s not really how genetics works. Furthermore, none, literally none of these people, save the ones who were the same species as Sijir Constell, would be pureblood’s of their species even if you could get the splicing to work. I don’t want to tell you what you are and are not allowed to write a story about, but this is literally impossible without fundamental differences in the way genetics work in your story as opposed to real life. If you do have such differences, then I would suggest explaining what those differences are, and take into consideration the consequences. If species actually could be spliced together, then there would likely be no requirement that the species be sentient, and you would have had hundreds of years of humans experimenting and splicing to create dozens of human-hybrid species and hundreds of entirely new species. Even worse, if such disparate species from different planets could just naturally have children together, then you will have had 10,000 years of human bestiality creating every kind of furry race you can think of with the far more similar species of Earth, in addition to all of the wild species breeding with each other to create a zoology that is so chaotic as to be completely and utterly random. This is without even mentioning that wild species tend to take a progressive view, not a conservative view, when it comes to identifying potential mates. That means that if we were reproductively compatible, they would know, and the amount of animals raping humans all across time will be vastly greater. In conclusion, write what want, but please reconsider how this specific thing works in your universe.