Terran are less than human!

Once again, you seek to diminish the entirety of Humanity's glory. Why? We are a blessed race, no human is worse or above the other, but this does not reach out to those that are the xeno, the heretic, and the mutant. Do not fall into the either of the three lest you be swept from the path and forgotten like so many. Take mind of what you say next, least you incure the wrath of the Emperor's most holy Inqusistion.

Ave Humanatis.

 

it's not about the criminal part, its about the mutant and cyborg part. Which makes them less human, although possibly in an awesome way. Less human isn't concidered that bad by some you know. And since mutations are responsible for the creation of new species, and cyborgs have a part of their body removed(quite a lot in case of the adjudant).

You seem to have misunderstood me, the original population was cyborg, mutant and criminal, not combi. more mutants mean less average dna, more cyborg mean less taboo on keeping humanity, and the criminals were all pretty much hackers.

next time, i'll put a comma there

 

One doesn't necessarily need XXX to combine genetic code. In a lab this could be done, too. There are also other ways. There are infested marines, too, so there you go with a new thing!

 

But then that isn't fun.

 

Fun, huh? I'm not so sure. Forgive me, but I can't resist to point out the existence of nerds who would gladly play in a lab with your genes, just for fun.

... but you are kinda right ...

 

I am disappoint by how nobody is getting the warhammer 40k references by Gforce.

But on a serious note, Koprulu sector is made up of mutants, freaks, cyborgs, the unpure and probably some political prisoners mixed in sent off by the pre-UED. Their technology comes from ships which they exiled (technically) were in which Earth had and developed well even as the colonizing barely began.
Koprulu sector is nothing compared to the UED, Dominion got owned by a EXPEDITIONARY fleet, which utilized local tech. Pure earth tech is something of a cheknov's gun really, probably insanely developed, not seen yet could come up in the future. Not sure what this genetic talk about making Koprulu superior, the genetic splicing only began recently as there was no alien contact before mar sara. (The confederacy beforehand attracting them to the sara systems to be accurate)

 

Koprulu has far more psionics(potential ghosts or seekers) then Earth due to their mutant ancestry. And seeing as how psionics increase overall fitness quite a bit(still have to train a lot for ghost levels)you could argue they got the better deal out of genetics

 

I don't see how they are any better or worse than the rest of humanity. There are good people like Raynor and there are evil people like Mengsk and everything in between. They are humans, no more no less.

 

Terrans may be human, but they are STUPID. I click on a group of Marines and tell them to go here, and they go around some other way, so have to start clicking like mad to get them to stop and listen to me and I'm yelling at the screen "NO, DUMBASS GO HHHHHHHEEEEEEEERRRRRRREEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And shoot THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's like guiding a 2 year old around the map!

 

^ trying to control marines by yelling at them.

 

Are you wearing your commandding hat? I always make sure i'm wearing my command hat when playing a rts or any strategy game. It's a replica of a german officers hat.

 

I'm loving all the 40K references! I think we need some exterminatus on these Zerg and Protoss.. Although whether Terrans match up to the Astartes is another question..

More to the point, I'm rather confused. I thought Terrans were human in every sense of the word! I would be very interested in seeing the return of the UEA however. Seeing Earth show its hand once again..

 

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Why should they be so much different? Except to vespene gas exposion but the humans haven't been there for that long.

Evolution is not about beings all of a sudden growing a leg to adapt etc.


Its about those who are borne best suited for the environment survive and reproduce the most.
I.E: We have a radioactive environment filled of organisms but two organism are borne slightly more tolerant to the radioactive. They then mate and as they carry their genes over the children enjoy less mortality rate and bigger chance of reproducing and so forth, this however takes an enormous amount of time.

If evolution was as aforementioned then every specie would be able to eat everything (So they can fit in every place) In the short term we have animals finding a niche like giraffs having plenty of food at the top.

We have species still being the same since the dinosaurs.
I don't think the terrans of the korpulu sector would be that different as they all reproduce effectively and have enough food.

Also there has been too little time for any large gene difference.
They should be taller and stronger tough but that applies to the humans on earth as well, this is just based on the fact that that is how we humans have progressed: We have become longer.


But I must state: We can not assume anything over how vespene gas effects humans (If someone can get any lore sources on this would be great)

Ps.

Bacteria or other such things can of course adapt much much more quickly due to them being able to reproduce at a fantastic rate.

 

Except that the Terran ancestors are partially made up of mutants, which makes them genetically a bit different from the average human, not nearly enough to be a different species. Freak genetics creating odd human genomes are not normal >.> Unless of course all the mutants were sterile, in which case the terrans do not have any odd mutations in their ancestry(except the ones from Terrigen gas and the long voyage towards the Koprulu sector)

 

How large are humanity tainted by mutanism ?

 

Its hard to be human when you have to wear a suit or live on the ship 24/7 and there is bunch of zergs and protoss around.

 

I think it'd be more based on:
Hostile Environments (colonies) + Mutation + Small group of similar immigrants (apparently from a similar population, Southern US or something from the looks of it) + Time = Minor variations from the main population back with the UED.
So maybe not less, and still Human, but they'd be a little different.