"Through my father and mother both actually. Although it's true that even if my mother had been a Baseline, I would still have been an Augment. Perhaps slightly less enhanced than one bred of two augments, but the difference would have been negligible. " He did not seem to consider her question invasive or too personal. In fact, he might be about to provide more information than she wanted.<br/><br/>"The basecodes that carry over nintey percent of the Augmentations in our genes are provided by the father, when the spermazoa are first generated in our testes. It is possible for a baseline father to create an augment child by impregnating an Augment woman, but the chances are considerably lower, and even if Augmentation takes it could be up to 20 percent less potent than it would have been if the father had been the Augmented partner instead. Of course, how this plays out in inter-species breeding is unknown at this time. Well, it wouldn't surprise me to learn the company has researched the matter. Even tested it. But if so they have not made the results known and, until now they've kept a tight leash on Augments. They fear what might happen if they allowed a superior subspecies of humanity to breed freely.  They are wise to fear it.  " He said very matter-of-factly. Survival of the Fittest. It was an ancient truth that no level of technology had been able to change. Not yet anyway. Introduce a superior lifeform, and all else being equal, the superior lifeform will eventually push the inferior one to the edge of extinction. Even without ever intending to.