Gene Conditioning

The original settlers and thier progeny underwent gene conditioning after birth, using a revolutionary method of live-body mutation. Helpful gene modifications are simulated for future environmental conditions and inserted into a carrier virus that slowly mutates all the living cells of the patient's body. This therapy was also occasionaly utilized to repair DNA damage due to injuries from radiation or to correct a genetic disease which expressed itself much later in life.

Utility

Therapies for personlized gene editing helped the colonists repair DNA damage from radiation and the occasional accident. It also bolstered them for the new environment of the planet they were colonizing and many of these edits were inhereted by thier children, forming a slightly new species of human that was slightly more resiliant to the conditions of this new planet.

Manufacturing

The gene therapy was manufactured in bio-auto-printers on board the homeship and connected to the computer's mainframe. Vials of solution containing dormant virulent sporocytes were filled. They kept them in dry storage until the colonists could use them, by injection. The vials keep indefinitely unless subjected to bright UV light.

Access & Availability

Only the settlers of the homeship and the first generation progeny had access to this technology, but general purpose designer viruses were made and preserved indefinitely. Some of those preserved gene treatment vials can be found viable even today to the intrepid ruins hunter.

Complexity

Only the most highly advanced near-sentient AI systems could develop the neccesary foresight to properly encode healthy changes to a patients genome with this tech. Custom gene therapies became impossible as thier computer equipment failed in time, howerver pre-made gene therapies for general purposes were developed and manufactured in great quantity before this and some can be quite useful, although inherently dangerous.

Discovery

Caches of crates of vials were discovered in jettison pods in the high desert dunes after the shifting sands uncovered them. They appear to have been abandoned accidentaly in a false alarm on the homeship at some point.