Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7699236-20130626164907/@comment-7699236-20130626180221

Tomj8937 wrote: Well lets look into it from the start from a gentic point of view...

Being so far from each other genetically, there are 2 outcomes to the merging of eldar and human genetics via miosis:

1. If we presume that the Eldar are simply a subspecies of homo Sapien, they're is a chance that the child will be born, however he would be completely infertile and have a large amount of genetic deviance from the baseline human DNA.

2: If we presume that Eldar is a totally different species, then the result would be similar to having a human mate with an animal (i.e: it wouldn't happen) and you wouldnt have a halfbreed youth.

Now, lets assume its theory 1 and that the Eldar baseline DNA is still in the homo sapiens family, the youth as stated would have a large amount of genetic deviance from the baseline DNA (the DNA structure used by the geneticists to key to the seed and turn a youth into an astartes in the first place), placing a gene seed inside one would result in a similar result to trying to turn a female or an ogryn into a space marine, meaning that the seed wont be able to bond with the host, would reject it and the youth would die.

So sadly, its impossible. Damn, and there was me thinking that I had the best idea for a character in a novel...