Mega Galaxy

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There are primarily 13 Xenotypes:

Baseliners Hybrids Dirtmole Genie Highmate Hussar Prevent Neanderthal Pigskin Sanguophage Starjack Waster Yttakin

While there are more "races", these 13 are the main ones.

Baseliners, or humans, are just that: humans, directly and simply human.

Hybrids are offspring of two different humanoid species.

Dirtmoles are extremely skilled at digging or mining tasks, but they are sensitive to light and have poor long-distance eyesight.

With gray skin adapted to artificial light, they thrive in tight, dark spaces where combat and movement take place at close range. They are extremely skilled at digging and mining. However, outdoors, they suffer from light sensitivity, slowness, and poor long-distance vision. After the failure of the first subterranean colonies due to the stress of confinement, colonization agencies began genetically modifying colonists to live without open spaces or sunlight. This xenotype is colloquially known as earth moles. Today, earth moles have expanded beyond their original subterranean homes and dominate many confined spaces in the anthroposphere. They can be found in deep mines, cramped, low-tech spacecraft, and swarming by the billions in the dark lower layers of countless urban worlds.

Designed to be engineers, Genies are quiet and highly skilled in craftsmanship and intellect, but they are fragile and otherwise socially inept.

Designed to be engineers, geniuses possess delicate bones and a natural aptitude for machines, allowing them to manipulate devices with astonishing precision. They are emotionally detached and can follow orders where others would panic. However, they are fragile, and their amplified nerve impulses make them easily weakened with relatively little pain. With much of their brain dedicated to analyzing machines, they lack the neural hardware to process emotions, sometimes appearing socially inept. Their absolute calmness further complicates their relationships with what they perceive as impulsive and temperamental humans. Geniuses were created thousands of years ago by a now-defunct space navy to fill engineering positions on large starships. Today, geniuses still work as engineers in major cities and fleets, but many also serve as lawyers, pilots, and musicians.

Designed to be perfect companions, Highmates can form a psychic bond with the first person they have a romantic relationship with, for strong enhancers. Happy, but incapable of violence.

Designed as companions and concubines with a unique ability to create a psychic bond with their partner, Highmates are empathetic, beautiful, cheerful, and socially adept. They are also inept at manual tasks, physically weak, and incapable of violence. In some wealthy worlds, highmate xenogermen are commercially available, and some people become highmates as a profession. However, many societies consider them abhorrent, either because they distract people from forming natural families or because they are human beings created to serve the pleasures of others. In such worlds, they are either reserved as playthings for the powerful or outlawed altogether. This particular line of highmate conforms to the fashions of classic Novaroma, but many other variations exist.

Designed as soldiers, Hussars excel in combat and little else. They rely on energy juice, but are immune to its negative side effects.

Hussars are genetically modified soldiers. They fight with aggression and precision, heal quickly, thrive in extreme temperatures, and freely ingest military drugs. They have a genetic dependence on Go-juice, which also makes them less likely to rebel against their commanders. While the hussars' intense emotions make them dangerous in combat, they are incapable of relating to ordinary humans. They are famous for their blood-red eyes and piercing gaze, an expressionless demeanor that unsettles many. Their lack of expression and aggressive nature have led to numerous violent misunderstandings. In most of the societies where they live, hussars are kept separate from the rest of the population. Hussars are tools of a single purpose, and they generally don't mind.

Impids are fast runners who can breathe fire, are depressive, and have difficulties with farming and hand-to-hand combat.

Adapted to desert life, the Impid cultures inhabit numerous outlying worlds and arid deathworlds. They are extremely fast, easily tolerate high temperatures, and can breathe fire. While they excel in the sand, they struggle in other environments. They are terrible at farming. They fight well at range, but their physical weakness becomes apparent in melee combat. Outsiders call them dust runners because of their speed across open terrain and their resistance to heat. Some tribes call them demons because of their horns and because they burn their enemies. Impid tribes' combat tactics typically focus on rapid-approach fire attacks, utilizing both handheld firearms and their ability to breathe fire.

Ancient humans were slow to move and learn, but incredibly resilient.

Neanderthals were robust, strongly built hominids. Their most remarkable characteristic was their resilience: they were highly resistant to injury, and their strong immune system protected them from infections. However, having not evolved in a complex civilization, they were less skilled than average humans at intellectual and social tasks, and their impulsiveness could make them dangerously aggressive. Homo neanderthalensis was originally an archaic hominin population that emerged more than 200,000 years ago during the Pleistocene. After being replaced and merging with humans 30,000 years ago, they disappeared for tens of thousands of years until scientists resurrected them from ancient DNA. Currently, Neanderthals survive in sub-societies on some inhabited planets. On these outer worlds, Neanderthal tribes maintain a life similar to that of their terrestrial ancestors.

Much like the Yttakines, Neanderthals often have "animalistic" names, regardless of whether they are male or female.

In other words, a Neanderthal man could be called "Blue Wolf" and a Neanderthal woman "Black Fish"

Humans similar to ungulates who can efficiently eat raw food and are resistant to disease, but have clumsy hands and are nearsighted.

Pigskins are human-pig hybrids capable of walking on two legs, using tools, and speaking, but they also retain many porcine characteristics. They are resilient and can eat almost anything without getting sick, but their hoof-like hands are a disadvantage when it comes to manipulating tools and objects with precision. They have poor long-distance vision, so Pigskin gangs tend to focus on short-range weapons. They also have a marked predilection for explosives. The Pigskins were created for their organs. Uncomfortable with the idea of ​​harvesting organs from ordinary humans, a now-defunct government fused human DNA with that of pigs so the animals would produce hearts and lungs that were easier to transplant. They succeeded, but the resulting creatures became more human-like than anyone had anticipated.

Vampires. They don't age, are practically immortal, and possess multiple special abilities. In return, they have a thirst for blood and a catatonic state of lethargy, and they suffer in the light.

Bloodeaters are a type of xenohuman enhanced with archetypal technology. Powered by archetypes, their abilities far surpass normal genetic enhancements. They are mentally adept and possess a supernatural beauty. In combat, they can unleash deadly spines and heal their wounded comrades. They do not age or die naturally and are never affected by disease or poison. A Bloodeater can create a new one by reimplanting its own xenogerm into a person.

Blood-eating insects must regularly consume heme derived from human blood and must periodically enter periods of complete rest for extended periods. They are easily destroyed by fire and slowed down by ultraviolet light. The first bloodsucker appeared thousands of years ago when the explorer lord Varan-Dur attempted to control a hyper-intelligent archetypal technology and was instead transformed by it. All bloodsuckers are descended from him. Since then, bloodsuckers have often been persecuted because of their destabilizing power and their thirst for blood. Because they can blend in with ordinary humans, many live in hiding.

Their numbers are unknown. Some consider them legends or insignificant oddities. Others believe that the bloodsuckers secretly rule entire human civilizations. Stories tell of eternal lords who govern billions from slate-black space stations, or who conduct blood sacrifices at conferences deep within the most remote urban worlds.

Designed as workers suited to space environments, starjacks are more resistant to the effects of space, but weak in close combat.

Designed for life among the stars, starjacks are built to withstand the unforgiving conditions of deep space. Their reflective, pressure-adaptive skin provides insulation against extreme temperatures and allows them to survive brief exposures to absolute vacuum. These adaptations make them invaluable for repairs during spacewalks and emergency decompression scenarios. Most starjacks spend their lives beyond planetary gravity, resulting in less muscle mass and reduced physical strength compared to normal humans. However, their resilience in zero-gravity environments makes them essential for maintaining orbital platforms and working aboard long-haul spacecraft. As one of humanity's oldest xenotypes, starjacks played a crucial role in the colonization of space. They are common on space stations and interstellar vessels, where genetic modification is often a more cost-effective solution than upgrading spacecraft to support unaltered human physiology.

Biological weapons that can thrive in toxic environments, survive diseases, and awaken freely, but that need some kind of psyche.

Wasters are aggressive, immune to toxic pollution, almost immune to disease, and can ingest as much psyche and stimulant drugs as they wish without suffering adverse effects. Their toxin-adapted metabolism means they must consume some form of psyche, usually flakes or yayo. Originally designed to prevent resettlement on devastated post-apocalyptic worlds, Wasters are living area-denial weapons. Waster pirates armed with toxic weapons are the bane of many frontier settlements, both on the fringes of worlds and deep within urban hyperstructures.

Humans with hairy skin, well adapted to the cold, and with an animalistic war cry. They prefer to be naked.

The Yttakin are descended from colonists bred to thrive on ultra-cold planets. Their large size and thick fur make them resilient in icy environments. The Yttakin share a psychic connection with wildlife and can summon animals to aid them in battle. They are not fast, energetic, or precise, but they can persevere when others would have given up long before. Since migrating from their icy homeworld of Yttak, Yttakin settlements have been found on many planets. Their fur, their roars, and their aversion to urban life sometimes lead unsuspecting outsiders to believe they are simple animals. The cunning Yttakin gladly exploit these misconceptions, whether at the negotiating table or on the battlefield.

A curious thing about the Yttakines is that their names often begin with "K", "Y" or "R", and they often use the suffix "Ks" for men and "Yr" for women.