Minor Human Races
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Avery:
There is no canonical limit to the number of MHR's.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Alien Module 6 - Solomani gives "forty-six known and identified human subspecies within explored human space" (p3). Has this limit been removed? (I for one am all for it going).
There is no canonical limit to the number of MHR's.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Alien Module 6 - Solomani gives "forty-six known and identified human subspecies within explored human space" (p3). Has this limit been removed? (I for one am all for it going).
The quote doesn't limit the possibility of new subspecies being accepted as such by the estabilishment. This may occur by first contact during exploration (not likely in the Imperium) or by novel scientific analysis of the population gene pool. You should remmember that the Vilani are lousy evolutionary biologist so they might overlooked some obvius minor races as they expanded back in the First Imperium.
BTW, considering the gene flow after the estabilishment of the Imperium, it is possible that some minor races became extinct. Peharps, a recently discovered minor race may be a previously thought to be extinct. There are certainly a few nice possibilities here.
Best wishes,
Ron
BTW, considering the gene flow after the estabilishment of the Imperium, it is possible that some minor races became extinct. Peharps, a recently discovered minor race may be a previously thought to be extinct. There are certainly a few nice possibilities here.
Best wishes,
Ron
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ron:
The quote doesn't limit the possibility of new subspecies being accepted as such by the estabilishment.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh yes, definitely. And there are some very good adventure hooks in that. You can also have cultures/races that regard themselves as seperate but are not accepted by the Imperium as seperate. Equally as interesting.
But thats not quite the same. If there is a canonical limit on "know and accepted", I would still like to see at least one of them ringfenced for referee development.
The quote doesn't limit the possibility of new subspecies being accepted as such by the estabilishment.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh yes, definitely. And there are some very good adventure hooks in that. You can also have cultures/races that regard themselves as seperate but are not accepted by the Imperium as seperate. Equally as interesting.
But thats not quite the same. If there is a canonical limit on "know and accepted", I would still like to see at least one of them ringfenced for referee development.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kafka47:
I think the cannon limit refers to those transplanted by the Ancients. What about those monstrosities created during the ROM?
Or the various attempts created by the 3I by the dreaded Ministry of Colonization in the late Cleon period?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Not included. _Solomani_, p. 3 states:
"When the Ancients' civilization collapsed (...), some of the humans they had
with them survived, with each adapting itself to the world it was stranded on,
and becoming a new and distinct subspecies of _Homo sapiens_. There are
currently forty-six known and identified human subspecies within explored
human space."
Take that together with the chart "Linage of the human races" on page 2. It
clearly shows all 'Other human subspecies' diverging at the time of the
Ancients' Intervention.
To clinch it, _Regency Sourcebook_, p. 79 has the following Library Data entry:
"Minor Human Race: A human society planted by the Ancients during the period
before -300,000 and which developed separately from other human-inhabited
worlds until it was eventually contacted by a star-faring society. Thus the
Sword Worlders and inhabitants of the Islands subsectors are not a minor human
race because they were not planted by the Ancients, although they did evolve
their own societies while separated from the mainstream of human society.
Likewise geneered races like the Jonkereen are not minor human races."
Hans
I think the cannon limit refers to those transplanted by the Ancients. What about those monstrosities created during the ROM?
Or the various attempts created by the 3I by the dreaded Ministry of Colonization in the late Cleon period?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Not included. _Solomani_, p. 3 states:
"When the Ancients' civilization collapsed (...), some of the humans they had
with them survived, with each adapting itself to the world it was stranded on,
and becoming a new and distinct subspecies of _Homo sapiens_. There are
currently forty-six known and identified human subspecies within explored
human space."
Take that together with the chart "Linage of the human races" on page 2. It
clearly shows all 'Other human subspecies' diverging at the time of the
Ancients' Intervention.
To clinch it, _Regency Sourcebook_, p. 79 has the following Library Data entry:
"Minor Human Race: A human society planted by the Ancients during the period
before -300,000 and which developed separately from other human-inhabited
worlds until it was eventually contacted by a star-faring society. Thus the
Sword Worlders and inhabitants of the Islands subsectors are not a minor human
race because they were not planted by the Ancients, although they did evolve
their own societies while separated from the mainstream of human society.
Likewise geneered races like the Jonkereen are not minor human races."
Hans
