Humaniti

Humans, on average, stand approximately 1.8 meters in height and weigh about 100 kilograms. The genetic homeworld of Humaniti is believed to be Terra (Solomani Rim 1827). Humans have a conventional carbon-water based biochemistry. Humans employ a conventional respiration cycle consisting of Oxygen-Nitrogen inhalant and Carbon dioxide-Nitrogen exhalant.

Climate and environment preferences

• Hyper-acclimitization: Known to quickly adapt to many different climates and environments.
• Requires shelter and clothing.
• Prefer to shelter in defensible dens protected from the elements.

This species holds the following environmental preferences:

• Terrestrial planet
• Temperate climate
• Forest or grassland ecotope
• Standard gravity
• Standard atmosphere

Humans are primarily a diurnal species and are active by daylight and rest during the night.

Diet and trophics

• Omnivore/gatherer
• Homeotherm
• Apex predator
• Sometimes called a "hunter-gatherer" due to many human's penchant for pursuing animal sustenance.
• Known for advanced agriculture and livestock husbandry practices.
• Regarded as an apex predator, through the use of technology, on their homeworlds.

Life Cycle and reproduction

• Two sexes (male & female)
• Mild sexual dimorphism
• (sexual reproduction)
• Conjugal intercourse
• Varied mating systems (primarily serial monogamy) (1m:1f average)
• Viviparous birth
• (Iteroparous): Uses K-selection and have few offspring that require considerable amounts of time to raise to maturity.

The average human lifespan is now well over one hundred years in span and many live longer than that. In addition the technology of anagathics (life extension) is rapidly growing in usage although it is still prohibitively expensive to the masses. Humans are an iteroparous species and typically bear one child per pregnancy, which requires well over a decade to be educated and come to reproductive maturity. Larger litters of offspring are possible, but much less common.

Genetic code

Members of Humaniti use the following Imperial Interstellar Scout Service code:

SDEIES-SP

• Strength
• Dexterity
• Endurance
• Intelligence
• Education
• Social Standing
• Sanity
• Psionics

The Solomani are widely believed to be genetic baseline for the species.

The Vilani have an increased digestive fortitude, increased strength, radiation adaptation (darker complexions), shorter height and a much greater lifespan.

The Zhodani have a Psionic aptitude, a dental mutation (fewer teeth), greater height, and radiation adaptation (darker complexions).

Imperial Man (primarily political, not genetic term) is a blending of Solomani and Vilani human subspecies, with a mixture of other Minor Human Races. This gives an increased genetic variation.

Archaeological Sophontology

Humans are a prolific species and have extensively colonized Charted Space. They are a sort of "jack of all trades" of species; many species have more capable physiological abilities (natural armor, weapons, etc.), but few have the breadth of flexibility that the human form has.

This species has had a long history and is widely known for its vast multicultural range and extensive colonization across Charted Space. One of most unusual aspects of Humaniti is the fact that humans are present on many different worlds and stand at various levels of development on those worlds. Many other sophont species have far more uniform cultures and share throughout their societies the achievements of the their science and technology. Humans, in contrast, often deny resources to other members of their species.

Humaniti: Three Major Human Races

The three most widespread human races are:

The Solomani of Terra
The Vilani of Vland
The Zhodani of Zhdant

Cultural sophontology

Humaniti is a very balkanized, disparate, and chimeric species, although not so much as the Vargr, and are greatly prone to quarreling and internal dissent, often until a moment of crisis arrives that may or may not unite them. Human psychology is incredibly chaotic and the fact that this one species has already branched into three Major Races and numerous Minor Races, and not re-united says a great deal about how humans think and comport themselves.

Due to their high tolerance of nonconformity and variance, humans have been known to form incredibly different cultures and societies from one another. About the only thing a sophont can count on, in encounters with humans, is that there will be very few commonalities between one human culture and the next.

Humans strongly lean towards tribalism, having no less than three major races, and come into dispute so often that a central, unifying sense of galacto-centrism or pan-sophontism is unlikely to develop in the specie's greater culture.

Belief system and philosophy

Humans are known to be an incredibly diverse species and are tolerant of a great deal of nonconformity and variance within their cultures, societies, and philosophies.

Humans embrace a vast variety of philosophies and theories of life. As a generality, humans are distrustful and wary of outsiders.They argue constantly and it takes great effort for them to come to consensus.

Humans have no one central belief system and embrace a great variety of cosmologies, religions, and sense of spirituality including:

• Theism
• Monotheism
• Polytheism
• Atheism
• And just about everything else along a vast belief spectrum.

Morality and ethics

This species holds the following values regarding a sense of right and wrong, as an idealized generality:

• Murder is wrong. Life is sacred.
• Stealing is wrong. One should be fair in their actions.
• Truth telling is expected.
• Promises, contracts, and agreements should be kept.
• Most human languages reflect this with complex ideas of justice and well developed systems of law and legal code.

Cultural hierarchies

Humans have experimented with possibly every combination of social arrangement and organization known to sophont-kind. Humans have organized themselves in a vast variety of hierarchies including ones based upon the following characteristics:

• Dietary preferences
• Genders and/or sexuality
• Linguistic differences
• Lifestyle preferences
• Physiological differences (skin color, hair color, eye shape, etc.)
• Perceived power or wealth levels
• Places of origin
• Religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs

Some races are baffled by what seem to be very subjective and minor differences, but these same differences remain very important to many humans.

Motivation

Some of the most common motivations for members of Humaniti include:

• Population pressure
• Reproductive continuity
• Social competition
• Happiness, accomplishment, and prosperity

Most humans seem to have strong expectations of an anthropocentric universe, with mainline human expectations of human cultural norms.

Traditions

Humaniti. as a generality, shares few common traditions although they do exist:

• Birthdays
• Funerals
• Shared meals, often with expectations of certain foods at certain times
• Marriage

Morphology

• Humanoid (Hominid)
• Bilateral symmetry (2-ial)
• Tetrapod (4-ped)
• Two limbs used for manipulation "arms"
• Former brachiator (still capable climber)
• Two limbs used for locomotion (biped) "legs"

Body consists of three segments:

1. Head with sensors and multiple-use orifice (...consumption, communication, and respiration)
2. Torso with manipulatory limbs
3. Abdomen with locomotor limbs

Subspecies

Daryen
Jonkeereen
Solomani
Sword Worlder
Vilani
Zhodani