Xeno-Adaptability

Xeno-Adaptability (B46) a variant of Cultural Adaptability which is "all cultures of planet" instead of "all cultures of race".
B23 specifies "very similar" race as perk while B46 only says "race" (no "similar") which is more restrictive. The value of this distinction is seen under Healing: B59 defaults to allow "similar" while it's -20% for "own race only" where "multiple sapient races" exist.
*Similar here is defined by shape (humanoid) and bloodedness (warm)
**if "very similar" is more restrictive than this, but still broader than "own only" it probably falls somewhere in between -5% and -15%
"Sapient" is not given as an example of "similar" yet that seems to be a requirement implied at base Healing, Xenohealing expands to "quite dissimilar" and is +20% for "all mammals".
*Presumably something between +1% and +19% exists for subsets of extra mammals, like "sapients and felines only".
**remains unclear how to calculate "not my own race" like "can only heal felines"
***this is useful to understand defining Xeno-Adaptability that applies to all cultures of a world except your own race, like if amongst mammals you can understand non-sapient feline or canine societies, but not human ones.
It would probably benefit from specification, like "Xeno-Adaptablity (Earth)" just as "Cultural Adaptability (Humans)" would make sense.
*These parentheses are just likely implied by knowing the planet/species of a character
Specification is valuable to use in world-jumping though:
*Dai could take XA (Yrth) for his home planet, or perhaps XA (Earth) if he traveled there too.
Similarly for multi-race characters:
*Janos could take CA (humans) for his original race, or perhaps CA (vampires) for his new template
Both of them impart variations of Cultural Familiarity and neither cover all bases so there will always be reasons to buy CF in addition to them.
*presumably you could take a "Racial Cultural Adaptability" for a species other than your own for twice the price which applies to that race's culture ANYWHERE instead of a single world/planet as XA gives.
**Like if Dai wants CA (Elf cultures everywhere) or Iotha wants CA (Human cultures everywhere)
*presumably you could take multiple "Planet Xeno-Adaptability" for multiple' worlds' cultures
CF could be approached with Alternative Abilities to base pricing on a finite count, or Modular Abilities to base pricing more directly on the value of "race" or "planet" as accessibility.
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