Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-68.229.119.75-20161124160543/@comment-68.229.119.75-20161126021730

Neithan02 wrote:

I really feel like repeating myself....

As I said before, ROUGUE TRADER... does anybody actually read before typing? sidenote that concept was axed when 2nd edition hit, so ~20 years ago.

And honestly: for arousal and the will to engage in coitus you need attraction,You literally need to want to mate with that other being. How else would you get to the complex of interracial offsprings without having members of those 2 races getting it on with one another.

But hey, now we could also go for som "xenobiology books" in w40k publications that define eldar as being vastly different, once you start opening up their innards.

Which basiccally says: that human and eldar do not share a genetic heritage that would mean that they could procreate easily.. aka: you have 2 different species (like I used chicken and humans in my 1st post) aka impossible... Heck, even if humans have sex with gorillas, you will not have offspring. You really should stop the nonsense.

About this bit:

-As I said before, ROUGUE TRADER... does anybody actually read before typing?

sidenote that concept was axed when 2nd edition hit, so ~20 years ago.-

You said 'rogue trader' sans capitalization. As I was unfamiliar with the publication at the time I responded, it meant nothing to me.

About this bit:

- And honestly: for arousal and the will to engage in coitus you need attraction,You literally need to want to mate with that other being.-

Coitus is not necessary. There is artificial insemination. Genetic material (semen) could be collected any number of ways. So, no. Your logic on this does not hold.

About this:

- But hey, now we could also go for som "xenobiology books" in w40k publications that define eldar as being vastly different, once you start opening up their innards.-

Again, meaningless. You are trying to draw a conclusion from material given based upon an understanding of science in a game setting that has nothing to do with science when I didn't ask for a conclusion to be drawn from material given. Despite these differences, an author or game developer can still make it so with the stroke of a pen. I asked for whether or not there is specific material on this- whether or not that pen brush of confirmation or denial has been made.

So, now I know that there was at least one specific piece of fluff that explicitly named a character as half-human and half-eldar. I know that was in the old Rogue Trader publication but that old information has been retconned out of existence. So, that character never existed.

That still doesn't answer the question. Is the somewhere in the rules or fluff where the developers (from our world) or a fluff character said such a thing is possible or impossible?

I found at least one novel where (within the novel) the suggestion was made that a character might have an eldar lineage but it was neither confirmed true or confirmed not true. Thus, the suggestion was left open- it could be true or it could be superstitious fancy from characters in a world with little understanding of science. It depends upon what the developers/authors want it to be.

Sometimes developers and authors don't explicitly say something so as to not explicitly answer something and leave it open. Sometimes they make explicit comments. I am asking for such info. When it appeared there was miscommunication on this and it seemed I was the recipient of condescension, I took responsibility for the miscommunication (when I said perhaps my inclusion of reasons why I wanted the info may have obfuscasted the situation) and asked again. I expect better than more condescension based upon poorly thought logical arguents.

Is there any info out there that I am looking for?