Humans (Futuro II)

**Humans** (alternatively known as **Mankind**), native to the planet Earth, are the newest sentient species to enter the galactic stage and are the most rapidly expanding and developing. Unlike every other advanced species, Humans evolved independently from Prothean technology and invented their own technology to achieve their status as a space-faring species; they harnessed anti-matter technology to power their spaceships, gave birth to slipspace drives allowing them to efficiently traverse the stars, and have fully integrated AI into their society.

Humans were thrust upon the Galactic Stage after a "second contact" with the Turian fleet in search of the Pantoran outcasts. The Humans, who had integrated the Pantorans into their society, came to their aid and pushed the fleet back. Their unorthodox methods and different technology

## Culture

Through the eyes of the galaxy, humans are generally seen to be a very intelligent, abnormally ambitious, highly adaptable and individualistic species. They have a powerful desire to advance and improve themselves within as short amount of time as possible, due to their comparatively shorter lifespans. This has led the Council races to think of humans as unpredictable, and have been weary of their relentless curiosity.

The Alliance's economy, while much smaller than those of the individual Council races, is very powerful relative to their size, and their military prowess is among the greatest in the galaxy, being the ones that defeated the Turian Hierarchy in the Contact War.

Religion is still a major part of human culture, despite the increasing secularization of the last two centuries. Christianity remains the largest practiced religion of humanity, and the Catholic Church still retains a great deal of influence over his faithful, to the point that there has been an assassination attempt on a Pope not long after first contact due to his decidedly pro-alien stance.

The Earth's economy, while much smaller than any of the Council races, is very powerful relative to their size, and their military prowess is amongst the greatest in the galaxy, despite the fact that only 3% of humans volunteer for the Alliance military, a far smaller proportion than other races. Their ability to engage the turians in the First Contact War demonstrated graphically the potential of human military strength and is therefore a subject of concern for many races, who fear the consequences of another human-turian conflict.

The discovery of the Martian ruins fundamentally united the inhabitants of Earth, resulting in the swift and sudden culmination of the pan-global cultural identity that had been slowly but steadily developing since the 21st century. Upon the foundation of the Systems Alliance, humans began to see themselves as a single, collective group: human as opposed to alien.

Religion was, and to an extent, still is a major part of human culture, despite the fact that society is largely secular by the 22nd century. The discovery of the archives led to a series of commotions among those belonging to fundamentalist faiths, which ultimately resulted in the disintegration or revision of these religious beliefs. In 2171, Pope Clement XVI was assassinated and replaced by Leo XIV, whose beliefs about militarizing humanity and eschatology was aligned more to the ideology of Cerberus. The existence of the Papacy, as well as Cerberus' meddling in Church affairs, suggests that Catholicism maintains a position of prominence religiously and politically in the 22nd century.

Humans have been emulating and assimilating aspects of culture from each other since the dawn of civilization, and the trend continues well into the present day with the growing prevalence of nonhuman civilizations to examine. People who have taken an obsession with dressing like asari, behaving like asari, and fetishizing other hallmarks of the race have been derisively labeled "bluepies", an insult widely known across human space except on the frontiers.