What can you do with offshoots of humanity in a space setting?

what can you do with offshoots of humanity in a space setting?

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1. Make them 6 inches tall
2. ???
3. Dress them up like toys

Anything

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The first obvious thing that comes to mind is using various offshoots to explore specific routes that humanity could go down, and how those routes would react to normal humans.

The cyborg transhumanists trying to take over Earth and turn everyone into drones.

The alien-bio-human mix beings trying to explain to their dimwitted progenitors what joining the space hivemind can do for them.

That sort of stuff.

All Tommorows

Sex slaves, breeding stock, regular slaves, lab rats for scientific experimentation, etc. etc. etc.

No, you.

No. You!

*Sighs* I guess yeah its me -desu

As it hasn't been mentioned yet, the whole lost worlds plot line. Come to world find humans who've regressed, don't know about anything beyond their planet for XYZ reason.

Maybe a 'no we came first! you're OUR descendants' 'no we're the original line of humanity' agrument/war between factions.

yes, we get it, the answer can be applied to almost any question in Veeky Forums.

how about actually contributing?

Wipe them out. All of them.

Reading this now, thanks senpai.

That picture always turns me on to no end, I fucking love nun porn/corruption

Those are nuns? I thought they were from Dune.

>what can you do with offshoots of humanity in a space setting?
Opening shots of Horus Rising

There's the old classic, which is adaptation to the gravity they settled in. Obviously serious changes would require an extended period of time or a society capable of bioengineering, but living your entire life in a high or low gravity world is going to have an impact on bone growth, muscle growth, and the like.

You can do other adaptations to the environment as well, but they'll probably fall into the "extended period or bioengineering" category.

Every single planet would produce an off-shot of humanity with time. Only those planet with exactly the same gravity, the same atmosphere, the same radiation from our Sun would ever have baseline Homo Sapiens. Gravity alone is going to encourage divergent evolution. That alone without entering into the realm of genetic engineering and other transhuman techniques.

Fuck them.
Also, does anyone know what this is meant to illustrate, if anything?

I always loved that pic

My nigga. You have good taste in kink.

Moar?

Literally any damn thing you want.

Like the Snarks from the Orion's Arm setting. People that have regressed themselves to a sub-sapient state and modified their bodies to that of a human-ish crocodile. With a habit of eating sapient beings whenever possible.

You can bang them

Spacefaring civilisation is likely to have genetic engineering well-developed, even modify them after birth (retroviral and stuff), and have enough resources for it to be more or less commonplace, even cosmetic.
Now imagine what would furries, otherkin, fantasy and WoD larpers, edgelords, weirdos, weebs and insecure-about-my-body people would become with enough time.

Artwork is from on OLD Magic:TG card.
Damn., never noticed the second nun had her skirt pulled away like that @@

Vacuum-adapted species that thrives in a biosphere based upon the rings of gas giants. Maybe they reproduce like aphids. Maybe they reach the size of whales.

A carnivorous species that's currently waging a civil war between migratory herders and factory farms. Boner points if they have huge saber teeth and fight like pro wrestlers.

An herbivorous species that survives mostly through reproductive overdrive and partly through stinky machismo. They're too stupid to figure out metallurgy but they're unwittingly part of a biosphere that grows multi-stage nuclear rockets to spread itself at complete fucking random.

I always liked not!nĂºmenĂ³reans in space.

What is that? Dune?
Are the nuns (?) worshiping him? do the cyborg and the smiling nun fug?

While Orion's Arm is often critized for pretending being hard sci-fi or the fact most of the stories themselves are not good, I always liked the encyclopedia for things like that.
I like the premise of a space civilization that started from humanity but diverged so much because of all the human-derived or created species in it.

Does anyone have the story some user wrote about ops picture? It was well written and [spoiler hawt [/spoiler]

>LIKE SUBWAY COMMUTERS

>Artwork is from on OLD Magic:TG card.
Pretty sure you're wrong.

I think it's just a one-off from an artist. I found his site once.

It's a great mine for concepts and ideas.

burn them, since they are all mutants

I don't have it, but I really do want it as well.

That's some Phyrexia shit right there.

Transhuman Space
GURPS Bio Tech
Schismatrix Plus

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