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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
There was a special exception to this. If you had that 19 in PSI you could practice a special discipline called "Telergy" which allowed you to raise your stats. When you had done the full 10 levels of Telergy was when you transformed into a TransHuman. You couldn't raise any attribute above 19 except for Intelligence which you could raise as high as 29.
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Becoming a Transhuman, rather than a human with very good stats was important, because a number of derived stats (hit points, stamina, and carrying capacity) used formulas that involved stats, possibly body weight, and a racial multiplier, and Transhumans had much better racials than Humans. Those multipliers had some really bothersome effects, because bigger species tended to also get better multipliers as well, compounding their higher hit points and carrying capacity. For some reason this happened to some extent with stamina as well, with the result that Ursoids (huge bear-like creatures, supposedly evolved from (non-Terran) bears) could run longer than Humans and Canines. So could Pithecines (evolved apes). Because that makes sense.