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Originally Posted by malloyd
Not for any obvious reason. But if you want them to, just give Martians a -4 racial ST, which allows them to lift about the same objects on Mars humans could lift on Earth, without changing their mass from human normal. Problem solved.
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I wouldn't go all the way to -4. Lifting capacity is cheaper in low gravity, so you would expect evolution to "buy" more of it, splitting its gains between some metabolic savings and some increased capability. Where exactly the equilibrium lies is imponderable, but on general principles it ought to be somewhere in between equal strength in force exertible and equal strength in mass liftable.