Human

**Achieved Interstellar Travel:** | 2148 AD

**Human**s are a humanoid species native to the planet Earth.

They were known to have discovered interstellar travel in the year 2148 following the discovery of ancient ruins of Mars.

## Biology

Humans are bipedal mammalian primates.

Humans have a fairly robust physiology. Their internal makeup and reproductive processes are typical of most bipedal mammals, and their size and proportions give the appearance of being strong, fast and agile. In comparison to other races, humans are roughly physically on par with Kovaalan (as a human in or around peak physical condition can overwhelm a similarly fit Kovaalan, making them near equals in a hand-to-hand combat situation), and less agile than Amon’krie (whom they closely resemble). Humans would appear on average to be stronger than Abbidon but not as fast, due to the extremely elevated metabolisms of the latter.

Humans can live to about 150 years, and recent medical advances have eradicated almost all known diseases that afflict them. Humans reach physical maturity at approximately eighteen years of age, at which point they have usually finished their academic education and either directly enter the workforce or begin training for a profession.

It has been noted that humans are unusual in the galactic community because they have far greater genetic diversity compared to other species with more peaks and valleys. This makes human genetic material useful in biological experiments, as a control group.

Despite the substantial genetic diversity of humans, certain physical traits have been becoming more rare ever since the 19th and 20th centuries, when the mixing of different Earth ethnicities, due to social progression and acceptance, became more commonplace. To this end, with the merging of genetics, certain traits have declined in frequency. Recessive physical traits like blonde and red hair, as well as blue and green eyes, are even less common in the 27th century.

## Culture

Humans are generally seen to be very intelligent, abnormally ambitious, highly adaptable, individualistic and thus, unpredictable. They have a powerful desire to advance and improve themselves, and do so with such assertion that normally staid races have been taken aback by their restlessness and relentless curiosity.

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 Terran Federation, 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 27th 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.

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 Amon’krie, behaving like Amon'krie, and fetishizing other hallmarks of the race have been derisively labeled "bluepies", an insult widely known across human space except on the frontiers.

## Territory

*Main article: Terran Federation Colonies*
## History

*Main article: Terran Federation#History*