Bioengineering

The Monsians are the leaders on Bio engineering, but each faction has it so some degree.

The Monsians are capable of;

• Developing strains of any living thing that maximizes its useful traits and removes negative traits. This extends to Monsians.

• Editing genes in unborn Monsians changing their personality, interest, and innate skills.

• Getting old is now a choice one can simply ignore, if one does not wish to die from their body failing it can be made so.

• Recent technology released to the public is a gene altering product that changes the color of your scales. You can go to any gene editing clinic and use pre-made schemes or make your own. You can then download that scheme into a gene editing serum that once injected will begin to replace the genes that assign the color to each scale. The modification replicates at the same speed regardless of complexity, but complex schemes may not turn out correctly.

The Dynasty and Vullities are more or less in the same place with bio engineering, they have it in it's early stages and can do most basic things but anything modestly advanced is either very expensive, prone to failure or both. For both the tech to postpone aging is still well outside of capabilities, but a path towards it has been identified.

Within Compact space bio engineering is moderately tech advanced but a few firms have something like a monopoly on it. They price the services very high and cater to the elite classes. Because the tech is difficult to replicate and the bio engineering firms have played the games will they know when competition is trying to stand up and they're able to play them well to either destroy them or buy them out. While the technology rivals Monsians in complexity and sophistication, it is not widely deployed.

The Republic highly regulates gene editing. This has caused the industries around it to be small, therefor growth is tiny. Exceptions to the laws exist for the elite class, which has allowed the industry to make some progress. Very few gene editing for Tutinari technologies have been made, mostly around extending the life span and preventing disease. In order for a product to go to market its required to have a near 0 fail rate. Gene editing for any other living thing is further advanced, but not far beyond ideal agriculture.

The Arita Confederation is better about laws in regards to gene modification, but the strict legal requirements to prevent negative things still exist and there is a lot of economic competition, not as much growth.

Across the galaxy, the most recent innovations have been around adapting to live in space. The Monsians are leading, but not sharing the information causing the Compact to be the leader in the markets for artificial organs designed for zero-g space.