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Old 08-05-2011, 01:53 PM   #17
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Default Re: Reinventing Barsoom: 2 — Parahumans and legacy genetic engineering

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What kind of parahumans will exist is going to depend on what kind of society Mars had when they were created. Theocratic, aristocratic, consumer capitalist, technocratic, caste-based? That will determine the raw material.
I think this is a essential question. Was there a planetary society while the parahumans were created or were there multiple societies and cultures? Over what kind of time frame were the various parahumans created? Were any types created near the end or in response to the coming collapse?

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Unless the genetic lineages were mutually sterile, mongrelization will have erased the differences and reverted them to wild type.
Or consciously conserved by restricted breeding; though maybe only a few lasted til modern times.

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* An amphibious race created to maintain the canals, and now living in and along them, sailing up and down them, and probably carrying on most of whatever trade the planet has.

* An entertainer or courtesan race talented at manipulating others, possibly with levels of Smooth Operator or Charisma.

* A guardian race, now living tribal lives based on mutual loyalty and clannishness, possibly as sanguinivores.

* The original race, driven out into remote wild areas and now adapted to live as nomads under the harshest conditions.
Why would the original race survive in the harshest conditions?

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