Human

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Humanity since Krim

 * Krim poisoned Earth a thousand years ago, flooding the environment with toxins
 * For one thousand years, humans have been living off-Earth
 * living on habitable planets, space stations, and moons, like Homeworld in Balise System (see Places)

Human physiology

 * human age span - up to two hundred years, or more (R-2)


 * some limited genetic engineering, upgrades, etc.


 * ethic diffusion— mostly tan-colored skin after a millennium of genetic mixing in closely guarded labs, etc.



Planet Earth

 * Earth is in the Milky Way, aka The Spiral Galaxy / The Spiral. See Spiral Galaxy
 * Earth is very slowly recovering from poisoning and nuclear fallout, enacted by the Krim

"“Earth was being recovered by endlessly patient and nostalgic people in heavy-duty environment suits, setting up huge terraforming structures that would eventually filter the poisons from the air, to be followed by genetically modified algaies that would do the same for the soil. In another thousand years, it was said, Earth could be repopulated with the genetic material of the original species that had been smuggled offworld. Another few hundred years after that, it might even be habitable again by humans. But of the krim homeworld, there would be no recovery, ever.' (KV-27)"

Government/ Politics

 * Major decisions are made by Fleet triumvirate, admirals whose three headquarters are on Homeworld, Heuron, and New France
 * The highest ranking admiral in the triumvirate is dubbed Supreme Commander
 * But even the big three, including the so-called supreme commander, fears the mysterious Guidance Council
 * Spacer Congress — Lives in space, members of Fleet.  Accounts for 10% of human population but wields most of the decision making power
 * Worlder Congress — Resides on planets. Accounts for 90% of human population but treated like second-class citizens by Fleet and underpowered in congressional decision making
 * Conflicts abound as with political revolutionaries in Heuron Dawn group (see book 1, Renegade)

Human-Sphere

 * "human-sphere was shorthand for those alien species whose space directly adjoined human space. In the past hundred and sixty years of wartime expansion, human space had increased quite a bit, and human-sphere aliens now included chah’nas, tavalai, kuhsi, alo, sard and kaal. Barabo were right on the fringe and only now being added to that list, and krim had once been on the list, before humans had removed them from all lists, for good. Hacksaws, of course, didn’t quite count as a ‘species’, and were not extinct despite everyone’s best efforts, and also lacked a contiguous region of space." (DL-11)