[Psionics] [Space] Psi Trek - Worldbuilding

[Prince Charon]

OK, here is my first attempt at a 'young supermen' template. It's rather more pointful than I originally intended.

Enhanced Human v1.78 Template

Attributes

ST +5 [50]; DX +1 [20]; IQ +1 [20]; HT +2 [20]

Secondary Characteristics

Per +2 [5]; FP +4 [6]

Subtotal: 121


Advantages

Absolute Direction [5]
Absolute Timing [2]
Ambidexterity [5]
Appearance: Attractive [4]
Eidetic Memory [5]
Lightning Calculator [2]
Night Vision 2 [2]
Smooth Operator 2 [30]
Voice [10]
and 30 points in any of Artificer [10/lvl], Born War-Leader [5/lvl], Circuit Sense [5/lvl], Empath [5/lvl], Jack of All Trades [10/lvl], Intuitive Statesman [10/lvl], Mathematical Ability [10/lvl], Natural Scientist [10/lvl], Superior Equilibrioception [5/lvl], or higher levels of Appearance, Eidetic Memory, Lightning Calculator, or Smooth Operator.

Subtotal: 90


Disadvantages

-50 points of mental and social disadvantages including one or more of Bad Temper, Bully, and Callous, and either Overconfidance or Megalomania.

Subtotal: -50


Features

Taboo Traits (Genetic Defects; Unattractive or worse Appearance). [0]


Racial Skill Bonuses

Psychology [2]
Speed Reading [2]

Subtotal: 4

Total: 165

Notes

The wide range of possible advantages and disadvantages is due to the fact that the young supermen are prototypes, and the genetic engineers haven't perfectly isolated the genes for every advantage or disadvantage. They can be very sure of some talents and advantages, and increase the probability of several others, but can't prevent the children from having various psychological problems. Note that 'socially positive' mental disadvantages like Honesty, Pacifism, and Code of Honor are certainly possible, but they aren't so common, and it's the aggressive and nasty ones that made the mess, and made the news.

Social disads would naturally depend on the culture and era, and probably include some form of Social Stigma (or Secret) in a lot of places even before the Genetics Wars. In a few areas, social advantages like Status and Social Regard are plausible.

'Enhanced Human v1.78' is a possible in-setting designation. The intention is that they were really not supposed to be produced beyond enough to study and make further improvements, but the combination of impatient politicians and businesscritters, human rights advocates, and the laws of the pro-bio-tech polity where they were produced lead to this pattern of genetic modifications becoming available for 'designer babies' in fairly large numbers, and not just to people from the nation that the company was based in (though a lot of the parents kept secret that they were getting a designer baby implanted). A little over twenty years later, many of them talked their way into power (or lead coups) in nations all over the world... which was a serious problem, given how common Megalomania is in this genome.


Thoughts?