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acceleration.

Adamists, however, remain totally opposed to using the affinity bond (see below for
exceptions). Although it began as a mild disagreement between users and nonusers to
start with (2050тАУ2090), this attitude is now irrevocably entrenched among them, and
has become the symbolic difference between the two principal human cultures.
Because of its association with bitek (which it was originally designed to control),
this affinity-bond technology has also been virtually abandoned by Adamists. Both
Islam and the Christian Unity Church have proscribed the affinity gene as inhuman.
The rationale is that the affinity gene is not part of the genetic heritage which was
given to us by God, but instead was artificially designed and has to be sequenced into
a fetusтАЩs DNA.

Geneering, which is the alteration (the more devout say тАЬtampering withтАЭ) of existing
genes, is permissible (principally because it brought so many medical benefits to the
masses that it became impossible for nonfundamentalist Churches to oppose it).
Shinto, Buddhism, and Hinduism are not so vigorous in their condemnation; affinity-
bond domination of animals, or human communion, is not forbidden but it is frowned
upon. No priests in those religions possess affinity bonds.

There are nevertheless some exceptions to this prohibition of employing the affinity
bond. Because of cheapness, there is still a limited use of affinity-bonded animals on
colony worlds in the first stages of their development (though never on Kulu
Principality worlds), before an economy capable of producing domestic consumer
mechanoids and cybernetics can be established. The application tends to die out after
this phase, as servitor animals are replaced by mechanoids for all mundane tasks.

Such animals are mainly bought from Edenists, along with bitek products (typically
landcoral for cheap housing). There are few Adamist sources for these products.
Tropicana is virtually the only Adamist world which has no proscription against bitek,
and its economy is based around selling affinity-bonded servitors and simple bitek to
Adamists (it also has a large proportion of clinics offering rejuvenation treatments of
dubious value). Bitek can also be purchased from the five independent habitats, which
provide the most prominent exception to the Adamist refusal to use affinity bonds and
bitek. These habitats are the main source of blackhawks, whose captain-owners are
not the kind of people renowned for their religious principles. (For the origin of
blackhawks see Valisk,page 208 .)
The other exception of note is the Lord of Ruin, who is affinity capable (see
Tranquillity and Kulu Kingdom, pages 127 and 108).


Nanonics
Nanonic technology is widespread in Adamist culture. It is a broad-ranging term
covering both artificial neural circuits and cellular-replacement systems, as well as
medical packages. The most common are as follows.

Neural nanonics, a web of neural-amplification circuits that are meshed directly with
the brain, providing a datavise link with electronic circuitry. Most Confederation
processors have a datavise facility, enabling an operator to interface directly with
equipment, spacesuits, vehicles, etc.; this also provides a link with local