Deepspacer, "Vacuum Adapted" Human

In the late Interplanetary age, with the withdrawal of the original Space Adapted Humans, further developments in genetics led to further projects aimed at adapting humans to space. The end result was a gradual convergence of the various solutions, resulting in the deepspacers or Vacuum Adapted Humans. The name is a misnomer, because the classic unaugmented VAH can only survive in a hard vacuum for brief periods of time. Nevertheless they are more suited to survive in instances of ship or hab explosive decompression, low oxygen, and so on, until help arrives or the problem can be fixed.

As with the original microgravity adapts, the new clade of spacers soon migrated outwards, finding ready employment among the megacorps keen to develop the outer solar system, the Kuiper belt and the Oort clouds. Like many deep space migrating clades of the time they were only mildly effected by the nanodisaster - in fact the result of the nanodisaster was to drive them deeper into interstellar space.

In the 1000s some VAHs joined the Federation, but most preferred to stay aloof or colonise interstellar space on their own. They often supplemented their biological adaptations with tailor made bionano and hylonano augments. Over the centuries the spacers have developed into an independent branch of humanity, living together with baseline and near-baseline humans in some habitats but always a bit apart due to their easy access to space. Many spacer-only habitats exist.

VAH Spacers have a skin covered with enamel scales, feet with opposable thumbs, eyes covered with resilient lenses and a flexible kisheer that when in space covers the nose and mouth and produces oxygen.

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