Common Folk

Average male characters in colonies inside Lira System.

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There was no significant genetic change in humans since we arrived in the system, more than a thousand Legal years ago. Nor will be, given the Consensus of Alexandria. The differences in anatomy are product of environment.

Litmus

is the most external planet in this list. It has 1/4 of Earth size and shows the same face to Lira all the time, with no alternation between days and nights. Gravity is about the same of Earth.

Fenrir

is an island orbiting a gas giant in a very strange trajectory, the planet Wotan never comes between it and Lira. Days here last 5 Earthling years. The satellite was about 50% the size of Earth and about 1.50 times Earth gravity. The extra gravity means that most adults need implants to reinforce articulations (specially knees and neck) some point in their lives.

Gerunda

is a planet twice larger than Earth, with days that last 55 hours. Gravity up there is 3 times Earth gravity. To endure this conditions about every person gets cybernetic reinforcements in the knees as soon as they reach adulthood. Light exoskeletons for additional strength are common place, considered basic accessories, and a necessity for long walks and intense physical activities.

THE COMMON FOLK

“Those who are nothing else”

  All nations that must face the night have mages, vampires and mecha-lords, since those are necessary elements to survive. The govern, the vampire strongholds and the mecha-lord families all have mages working for them, because you could hardly keep a military force working without it. Or a community of any king without a military guard. In those things all nations look like, broadly speaking. The demands of functionality select what work from what kills you too fast. Outside those elements, nations differ a lot more one from the next. There are regimes as close to Modern Democracies as circumstances allowed, Diarchies inspired in Sparta, there are Absolute Monarchs and plutocracies. Whatever the case may be, those who have no other option will do their best to get along and obey the laws well enough to get by. Commoners are by far most the people in any nation. They make and consume most the goods, and they hide from the shadows every night best way they can. Having no realistic chance to fight against even the weaker of those monsters and survive to see sunrise. Daily life is comfortable enough for most. The material conditions have been improving in most parts for the last 500 years. Except for local wars and moments of bad luck.

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     Commoners are not the lowest people in terms of status, however. Unless you choose to use the juridic meaning for the word "people". Juridically, people are those who have rights and obligations, and in this sense commoners are indeed the lowest bottom of society in all nations on Gerunda, Litmus or Fenrir.       However, if you consider a weaker definition, able to include other intelligent beings, AIs have the capacity to think. Are self-aware. And they have no legal rights. High AIs are not under the command of any govern or human authority, they have power over governs in many ways. Still, they have no rights, and exist to serve humanity as a whole.        Vampires have many rights, granted by accord with the human governs. Including the right of hunt and kill humans to feed from them, within some limits. However, the AIs do not recognize vampires as humans, and do not consider them "people". Hardly accepting work with them.        And there are others who are way less powerful than either AIs or vampires, and also can be said to be bellow commoners 

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