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7th May '13 9:57:31 AM Viira

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*** The aforementioned "dextro-amino acids" are not just TechnoBabble. Levo (left-handed) and Dextro (right-handed) indicate the direction of the rotation of the spiral that is the chemical structure of the molecule. Proteins can only be one or the other. All amino acids on Earth are left-handed, except for some bacteria (like penicillin). ''MassEffect'' makes a big deal about how consuming food suitable for Turians or Quarians could cause allergic reactions or even kill a human. This is a case where BioWare didn't do the research... ''enough'' research, anyway. D-amino acids are ''not toxic''. Have you ever had mint? The flavor of mint is due to a D-amino protein that gives it flavor. So does common table sugar. If what ''MassEffect'' says about D-amino and L-amino acids was true, drinking tea with mint and sugar could kill a human. In fact, if Female!Shepard romanced Garrus and did somehow accidentally *ahem* ''ingest'', it would quite probably taste sweet, if it had any flavor at all. Interbreeding would still be impossible, of course, even with scientific assistance (there would be no half-Human/half-Turian or half-Human/half-Quarian offspring, no matter how much fandom tries to ship Shepard/Garrus or Shepard/Tali together). And before you ask... yes, this does result in UnfortunateImplications when the Normandy runs out of sugar and Female!Shepard has to figure out how to sweeten her morning cup of coffee. Best not to think about it too much.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the Space Marines superficially resemble oversized humans, but that's where the resemblance ends, as the process that turns them into Marines involves surgical insertions of multiple extra organs, restructuring of their skeletons, and other changes.
** Eldar are also a lot more inhuman than their appearance would suggest. Physically they look like [[{{OurElvesAreBetter}} tall pointy-eared humans with almond-shaped eyes]], but their musculature is somewhat different (making them stronger than their lithe appearance migth suggest) and reflexes are far superior to human ones, and they experience emotions far more strongly than humans do. Eldar pregnancy also lasts much longer than humans (exact lenght is not mentioned, but it's implied to be several years). According to ''Xenology'' (a background book which contains reports of autopsies of several different alien specimens, written form an in-universe point of view), Eldar internal organs also differ from human ones, their skeleton is of entirely different composure (being more flexible and plastic-like than human bones), their droppings are crystalline and their DNA is composed of two entwining double helixes. Also their ears may be erogenous zones. However, Xenology is not the most reliable source, and much of what is written in it is directly contradicted by other sources.
* Invoked in TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse, with the Ananasi were-spiders. The splatbook mentions that while they look outwardly human, their internal organs are nothing of the sort, instead being a blend of human and spider organs.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The Space Marines superficially resemble oversized humans, but that's where the resemblance ends, as the process that turns them into Marines involves surgical insertions of multiple extra organs, restructuring of their skeletons, and other changes.
** Eldar are also a lot more inhuman than their appearance would suggest. Physically they look like [[SpaceElves tall pointy-eared humans with almond-shaped eyes]], but their musculature is somewhat different (making them stronger than their lithe appearance might suggest), their reflexes are far superior to human ones, and they experience emotions far more strongly than humans do. Eldar pregnancy also lasts much longer than humans (exact length is not mentioned, but it's implied to be several years). According to ''Xenology'' (a background book which contains reports of autopsies of several different alien specimens, written from an in-universe point of view), Eldar internal organs also differ from human ones, their skeleton is of entirely different composure (being more flexible and plastic-like than human bones), their droppings are crystalline. and their DNA is composed of two entwining double helixes. Also, their ears may be erogenous zones. However, ''Xenology'' is not the most reliable source, and much of what is written in it is directly contradicted by other sources.
* Invoked in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', with the Ananasi were-spiders. The splatbook mentions that while they look outwardly human, their internal organs are nothing of the sort, instead being a blend of human and spider organs.

3rd May '13 2:32:19 PM Seanette

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