[AlexanderHowl]

The insecticides triggered latent super genes, so dosing a human without the right genes with the insectides will just poison them. The latent super genes were not discovered until the 90s, and the connection to the insecticides took a few years longer. The genes are nearly ubiquitous among Australian Aborigines, fifty percent of their population awakened in the 1950s, which greatly changed their status and wealthy in Australia, since they ended up being a third of the supers in Australia (1.5% of Australia is super). Otherwise, the genes are fairly evenly distributed.

Supers do not suffer from disabilities at a rate different than the general public, though those that do suffer from disabilities before awakening almost universally develop compensatory abilities in addition to their normal allotment of innate abilities. For example, a super with Blindness would likely develop Discriminatory Hearing, Discriminatory Smell, Discriminatory Taste, and Sensitive Touch and may develop new senses like Detect or Scanning Sense. In general though, supers are better than mundanes, stronger, faster, smarter, healthier, and more attractive (supers average ST 12, DX 12, IQ 12, HT 12, and Appearance (Attractive)).