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Originally Posted by Icelander
It's perfectly valid to consider them a different species. Homo imperialis? ;)
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I'd say that's invalid, actually - interbreeding is certainly possible. FB is more or less "safetech" with biological human modification, barring a few odd colonies. My understanding was imperials were what GURPS would call "genefixed," have conservative stat boosts (if any), and no other significant genomic alterations.
Imperials are inhuman in some sort of fuzzy-wuzzy sense. The entire society is incorruptible at all levels, for example. One incorruptible human is a hero, a society of incorruptible humans is alien.
(There are variant human species in FB, but the Mink aren't one.)