#rimworld

I then wanted to give myself some sort of incentive to keep up with the theming because otherwise I'd naturally begin to deviate and there wouldn't be any point. So using the ideology dlc, I made them all hate non-catgirls. I didn't know how I felt about making them racist, but... catgirls are the best

So everyone in the colony would gain a buff if everyone was a catgirl, but they would get a massive debuff if there was even one non-catgirl.

But if I did that I now needed a way to gain more catgirls or otherwise the colony would gradually lose all its population. It's not like catgirls grow on trees. I got a mod that revamps romance and fixes the frankly terrible vanilla implementation of homo/bi sexualities. It also allows women to impregnate each other.

That's too slow though. I could throw in high libido and high fertility to help, but it's not enough. I need to be able to recruit grown adults into the colony without penalties. Genetic modification is the obvious choice, but as it turns out it doesn't change your classification to Catgirl, even if you are genetically equivalent to one. I consulted a friend and she suggested i use the Gene Implanter gene, which is typically used by vampires to create more vampires. Interestingly this is the flavor text for Gene Implanter:

Carriers of this gene can implant a copy of their xenogerm into another person through a somewhat gross-looking injector organ. Their own genetic material will then regrow very slowly.

So that's cool I guess. The only way to create more catgirls is by giving them the injector organ. This successfully changes their gender too since it confers the female only gene, but it doesn't alter their body type, some of which are male only. This wasn't a big deal, but I added a mod that allows you to surgically alter that just in case.