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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Project Aphrodite
« Last post by ColBosch on Today at 12:14:47 »To live on Mars, we'd have to genetically modify people to live in the low-Gee, lower air-pressure.
Per a couple of sources, perhaps most notably JHS: Terra, the Western/Terran Alliance/Hegemony *did* do a lot of baseline genetic therapy and anti-viral work. The humans of BattleTech are referred to as Homo sapiens stellaris (IIRC); they are sturdier, healthier, longer-lived, and comfortable in a greater range of planetary conditions. Even before the Star League, the average lifespan on Terra was over 100 years.