No Biochemical Barriers: Difference between revisions

* Not disease, but medicine - ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' averts this nicely by having characters have med-kits in their [[Tank Goodness|tanks]] specific to their species. These so far have not worked on other species, though there haven't (yet) been any incidences of adverse effects. Medical nanites are more-or-less universal, however (that's more of a software problem).

** Speaking of nanites, while many species eat the same stuff, there are big exclusions. Such as critters of Eina-Oafa who (presumably) come from the Oafan metal-rich homeworld, and then co-evolved for millions of years with runaway nanobots of ancient Oafa and moved very far from typical organic biochemistry. They got not only metal ''compounds'' in concentrations toxic for almost anything else, but ''inclusions'' of deposited amorphous metals reinforcingthat reinforce carapaces, bones or structural components of muscles.