Fiction:Humanity

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Humanity (also known as the Human Republic or Republic of Humanity) is a relatively prominant power in the, and is on the verge of intergalactic travel. Every human culture is descended in some way from Earth, however, early in their history, some aliens began to spread them throughout the Milky Way and beyond. When humanity officially reached the stars by themselves in the late 21st century, they discovered many races that were nearly human. These Near-humans were the humans that were brought offworld and evolved on new worlds. Because the human family is spread throughout the galaxy, they have had a long history of galactic events.

Origins
Humans originated on Earth between 400 thousand and 120 thousand years ago. It is unknown whether they were created or evolved, although the latter has more ground. Homo sapiens was not the only species of hominid, there were more, the Hobbits of Indonesia, the more broad Neanderthals, the fast paced Homo erectus and some few remaining cousins. Unlike their cousins, Homo sapiens expanded around the globe, and in the last 20,000 years, became the demise of every of other homidid, nearly. During this time there was an Ice Age, and humans survived because of their creative abilities and early trade. Shortly after Homo sapiens were standing on their own as the last sapient species. But as the ice treated and returned, early civilizations long forgotten arose within the short-term fertile river plains and valleys, only to be pushed back again, some are said to have even attained advcanced technologies and architure but this remains speculative, not much is known before a couple of thousand years BCE.

The first long lasting dominant culture were the Kei'Un, rising about 20,000 years before the 27th century. They reached a stage of advancement comparable to Early Eygypt at around 2,700 BCE. Unfortunately, an ancient Xhodocto monolith found itself on Earth, where it was activated accidently. The Xhodocto had awoken. They spared humanity, however, taking many to Inferno Realm where they would become demons. Some resisted, but the Xhodocto soon left altogether. The Kei'Un would rise again, until they disappeared without a trace 16,000 years ago.

Rise and Fall of Civilization
As civilization continued to rise and fall, alien races discovered humans. Primitive, they were taken as either slaves or protected on other worlds. On those other worlds, humans would evolve into the various near-human races, some the same species, others subspecies later on. For reasons unknown the Krassio declared Earth as the center of the universe, and prohibited further alien interviention.

Finally, the ice retracted to the poles once more, and humanity began its slow, steady climb to the stars. First came Mu, Lemuria, Shambhala, Hyperborea, Rama, Uiger, Tiahuanaco and Avalon, these nations were actually quite advanced themselves. However, Rama fell to an ancient nucleat holocaust and Artlantis was consumed by the ocean gods and Uiger retreated under the Gobi desert. Not long after however, civilization returned with the Sumarians, Indus Valley and ancient Egyptians, along with Greece, Rome and the rise of the One God, of whoms culture greatly influenced a now extinct race of a different galaxy. In the green islands of Britian, Camelot restored peace to the lands for a while. However, another dark age would grip the Old World, followed by many plagues. Yet soon science and innovation returned, and humans mastered forces of nature, water, natural gas, oil and coal, electricity and atomic power. But humans were still divided and fought many wars. After the second great war, nations competed for technology, and this paved the way to space. Information technology was also becoming a dominant source of communication.

But these times were still harsh, nations were divided, there was limited resources and despite environemental protection, the natural world was coming under threat. One such example were the bees, who were mysteriously dying out, later to be discovered that the bees could percieve another universe without humans so were commiting quantum suicide to reach it. The bees were on the brink of extinction and humans were forced to consume more non-pollinated products like seaweed and genetically modify wasps to pollinate, until humans discovered why they were slipping out of reality. But it was not the only problem, several obstacles confronted humans in that era, causing them to change, and become more ecofriendly. It was obvious that one world was not enough so humans began to expand to the stars.

Space Stage
Eventually Homo sapiens journeyed to the stars, at first in great relativistic ships. Humans were a small STL civilization with colonists on missions they would never return to Earth. But eventually they discovered the near-humans once more, developed the warp drive and has explored all local space and what it had to offer. IT was not totally peaceful, despite making new alliances there were at least a dozen wars fought over the centuries. Humans were also responsible for creating the in a project for important reasons to the Jovar would eventually learn. But in recent times, during the, humans were forced to become a republic. Humanity combined once more seeks to search and find more human offshoots. Humans before the time of the Republic were mostly Tier 5 to 3, although now they are going beyond the limits of the galaxy and have mastered matter-energy conversion, they are Tier 2.

Ultimatly, humans are tied with various events due to their long history, and even have connecetions with the First Ones, Krassio and Xhodocto.

= Races of Humanity = There are many Human offshoots (collectively known as "near-Humans") that have evolved offworld. Most are still Homo sapiens sapiens, though some have evolved into other subspecies or were genetically modified.

Archaeohumanity
Archaeohumans do not descend from Homo sapiens sapiens. It is currently believed that most of them were either pushed to extinction or crossbred with early H. sapiens sapiens.

Ashtar
The Ashtar, are descended from the Denisova hominin, when Homo sapiens were still diverging in Africa. They were the first species from Earth to reach the stars, hundreds of thousands of years ago. The Milky Way was a very different galaxy politically.
 * Tier, technology and culture: 1.1 (Ascended)
 * Location: Higher plane of existence.
 * Human Republic?: No
 * Creator:Wormulon

As the Denisovans became a highly evolved, spiritual race, eventually calling themselves, the Ashtar Galactic Command. They built great technologies, such as networks of wormholes and dimensional technology which remained for millions of years as artifacts. The Ashtar made frequent visits to check up on the last few Hominid races of Earth, Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. To their surprise, the Genus Hominid was dying. Environmental changes and the rise of a new invasive Homo sapiens were causing this, but the Ashtar knew to leave the evolutionary course running. Eventually however, the Ashtar transplanted Neanderthals offworld, slightly before they left the Earthly plane of material perception to become beings of radiant light.

Not all of the Ashtar ascended, and joined the "First Ones", a powerful group of elder races (Tier 1/0) who watch over galactic affairs. Others evolved their crancial capacity for pure logical, cold thinking, and removed many biological systems. These became the Grey races. The Greys returned to Earth to use Humans as slaves, or even hosts (although not all the Greys did this). The Ashtar returned and repelled the invaders. Homo sapiens began to build civilisation, unlike the other Hominids but the Ashtar, and as early people watched the great battles of the skies, the watchers of Earth became known as the Annunaki. This was great interest because the Ashtar saw Homo sapiens as perhaps filing in their role on the lower plane of existence.

The Ashtar continued to watch over Earth, send their message in cryptic ways right into the 21st century (in attempts to teach harmoney) and were called various names, like the Lyrans, Space Brothers/Sisters, Nordics, Culture, Alterans, Lords of Time, Pleiadians and Andromedans.

One of the Ashtar's greatest foes are the Alpha Draconians, who possibly, like the Greys are another griup that split from the Ashtar before ascension. They are manipulative and are the opposite of the Ashtar with very negative, but powerful energies (Elemental). The Ashtar and the rest of the First Ones had finally left the galaxy when the Delpha Coalition of Planets were instructed to create a galactic cooperative and the Human Republic was united. But now all of Humanity has been left unprotected from the Alpha Draconians...

Greys
The Greys are another species to have evolved from the Denisovans along with Ashtar and the Alpha Draconians. The Greys tweaked their bodies however, and very little of their evolution is actually natural. They have a huge brain capacity with as much as 3100cc, however, many of their bodily functions have been simplified to accomodate this. Their skin acts like clothing, they have no digestive or reproductive system. Instead they eat by absorbing slurry. The Greys can either be benevolent or malevolent, many are cold, logical thinkers.
 * Tier, technology and culture: Tier 1.3
 * Location: Unknown.
 * Human Republic?: No.
 * Creator:Wormulon

The Greys are highly advanced, with molecular nanotechnology, antigravity and crystalline technologies, at least one group of Greys joined the First Ones, and helped the Ashtar transplant Humans around the galaxy to protect them from Grey-created Symbionts, malevolent Greys and Alpha Draconians, as well as the Xhodocto. However, the Greys are slowly dying from genetic degredation. Up until the later 21st century the Greys were abducting Humans and animals from Earth to conduct genetic experiments. Some of these became Rianth races (see below), this was to save their own species. The Greys still persist, and still abduct lonely space travellers.

There are several races of Grey. They are less aggressive than most other Greys, and still have certain vestigal features such as the pronounced nose. They can stand up to nine foot tall. Tall Greys are similar in size to the Orion type, and are often seen as advisors over other Greys. These are the most commonly seen Greys, they can come in several colourations, most often other than grey orange, but light blue and green have also been seen.
 * Orion-type Greys
 * Tall Greys
 * Zeta Reticulan and Bellatrax Greys

Greys still remain a mysterious and rarely seen species into the modern era. The Alpha Draconians may control them, perhaps in offer of saving their species.

Thals
See .
 * Tier, technology and culture: Tier 4.
 * Location: Milky Way Halo.
 * Human Republic?: Yes.
 * Creator:Wormulon

The Neanderthals, or Thals for short, are another species of Human (although some suggest they are a subspecies of Homo sapiens) that is much older than sapiens. They flourished twice, once up until 28,000 years ago in Ice Age Europe, Earth, and again, on another world, transplanted by an interveining alien observer, possibly one of the the Milky Way's several First Ones.

General near-Humans ("GER-Humans")
Many near-Humans descended from Homo sapiens sapiens have undergone few adaptations or modifications, and are still recognisably members of the same species. Many are descendants of Humans transplanted offworld, often by the First Ones or as slaves by the First Ones' Symbiont creations, and were either genetically modified or naturally evolved into new subspecies. Others are the results of Humans' own exploration, often ending up in distant parts of the Milky Way or even in other galaxies via wormholes.

Orion Spur GER-Humans
There are dozens of Near-Human races clustered around the Orion Spur, each with their own technological level, goals, society and culture. It took centuries before unification due to this indifference.

Terrans
The most well known and populous species are the original Humans or Terrans, still Homo sapiens sapiens in all but the most augmented individuals. Even without augmentations, Humans are quite intelligent, and their imagination and curiosity is greater than that of many species. Humans have great stamina, able to sweat and can run for huge distances (hunters can chase animals until they die of exhaustion), although the average human is not very fast, save for a few who can run up 30 miles per hour. Humans are not the strongest of species (but there are exceptions, such as the strongest athletes and warriors, genetically modified posthumans and some of their descendants), but they are as resiliant as many other species, able to survive organ transplants and can adapt to a wide variety of enviroments. Humans have great genetic variation in skin, eye, hair colour, shape and culture. All humans have psychic and psionic abilities, but only a few have truly mastered them. By the 21st century the average of height of humans was 1.5 to 1.8 meters (which of course varies) although height increased due to standards of living and by the 28th century had reached its practical maximum of 2.5 meters tall. The typical lifespan varies, but is on average 70 to 80 years or more. Some have lived for far longer, even centuries, especially with the advent of artificial life-extension from the late 21st century onwards. Human society is in a constant state of flux. Humans are generally peaceful, but can easily become warmongering or greedy. In the Human Republic, their old cultures are maintained.

Forameni


The Homo sapiens muris, or Forameni, are a race of small and weak near-Humans who evolved on the planet of Foramen, in the Heldelos System. Foramen is a low-gravity planet, and thus the Forameni are small; in fact they only just reach half the size of an Earth Human, and weigh much less. They are quite intelligent, however, normally above Earth Human average, and are quite snobby about the fact as well. They can go for several days without food, and will eat meat when they do eat, and can eat both raw and living meat.

They have developed small cities all over Foramen thanks to their intelligence and their speed. They are also quite adaptable, unlike the Roburans. Since being discovered by Humanity thanks to their own satellites being detected, they have been trained as spies and infiltrators. They are led by Sir Gassiv IV, a cowardly leader who will quite happily send his men in to die so long as it saves his own skin.

Roburans


The Homo sapiens iaculis, or Roburans, are a race of naturaly well-built near-Humans who evolved on the planet of Robur, in the Dorak System. Robur is a high-gravity planet, and thus the Roburans are tall, in fact they are slightly more than twice the size of an Earth Human. The Roburans are five times as strong as the average Human, and weigh much more. The Roburans are, however, less intelligent than the average Earth Human, noticeable because of their primitive thinking and crude behaviour. They must eat much food to sustain themselves due to their size. They will usually eat meat of any sort, also being able to eat it raw and (like the Forameni) even alive, while they will occasionally eat fruit if they cannot find anything else.

Because of their low intelligence, they have not been able to develope space-faring technology, and were only discovered by Humanity by accident. Since being discovered by Humanity, the Roburans have been given weaponry such as machine guns, which suits their preference for destruction. They are led by Masta Bogdryg, the largest known Roburan in existence and also the smartest, just reaching average Human intelligence.

Vorgormon
The Vorgormon split from the original Federation in the 26th century when currency was completely abandoned, believing in the extreme end of capitalist greed, they left for a long voyage to distant regions of the galaxy. They became fatter and fatter, until their bodies adapted to survive obesity. Now a subspecies of Humans, a small Vorgormon can be three times the size of a normal Human, while the largest Vorgormon needs floating platforms to live on. The Vorgormon joined the Cult of the Deathmarch, to contribute their vile greed and economic wealth. The few Vorgormon who can walk are like giant versions of Sumo wrestlers and thus are extremely strong, their fat and muscle easily able to protect their vital organs from smaller handheld weapons.

Mantovillian Humanity


Mantovillian Humanity originated in planet Mantoville, and evolved over the course of 5 Million years from their earliest sapient ancestors to their modern state. They have gone through various political turmoils, but since Mantoville is twice as large as Earth, resource depletion occured very slowly, leaving plenty of time for this branch of Humanity to reach the Space Stage - something which occured in 2079.

There were 3 Nations who were in the space race by 2100, The Empire of Halloway (EoH), Astral Acronis, and the Hategan Empire, though Hateg was anihilated by Acronis in 2477 after a long war against both factions. Straight afterwards, both Acronis and the EoH went through a long war that is theoretically still unfinished as of 2784 AD, as there is still conflict in Bordering colonies.

Hallowanian Humanity can be told from Normal Humans by their eyes, who have 2 colors fading into each other instead of a single color, and their longer fingers, being 1.4x larger than Human fingers, though they are as slim as Human fingers. The EoH has no relations with the Human Republic, having rejected 2 offers to join the Human Republic.

The Tritt
See 

The Tritts origins again relate to their transplantation from Earth, however, the Tritts embraced in genetically modifying themselves. Five meters tall and with three eyes, the Tritt appear barely Human. Now living in the Auron galaxy (a dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way), the Tritts have little interest in the Human Republic and have become quite evil.

Environmentally-adapted near-Humans ("Tweaks")
These tweaked races were genetically Homo sapiens, but heavily modified to live on harsh worlds, either by Archeohumans in the past or themselves more recently.

Hosts
The Hosts were the enslaved Humans controlled by the Symbionts, and in turn, the Greys and Draco. Genetically modiefed to be super strong and resistant, the Hosts job was to conquer the Humans transplanted to other planets. By the 21st century, the Hosts had united against the Symbionts, but there were still a faction of controlled Hosts by the 27th century until they were destroyed by the Grox. The Hosts are now a member of the Human Republic.

Fectonian


Genetic evidence suggests that the native species of Fecton (their own name for themselves has been lost to history) in the, a satellite of the Milky Way, are descended from near-Humans in the Scutum Arm who either accidentally travelled to Girdo or were taken there by another species. They were also adapted to the algae-filled swamplands that covered Fecton's tropical regions, becoming semi-aquatic and with symbiotic algae in their epidermis, before building a new interstellar civilisation.

The recorded history of Fecton only extends to their earliest spaceflights and the colonisation of nearby planets in their solar system, and archaeological expeditions across Fecton have determined nothing about any native civilisation before these flights. Furthermore, palaeontological studies have determined that Fecton has little or no fossil record, suggesting that the planet was recently terraformed. These add to the mystery of the Fectonians' history, with two major questions being whether their swampland adaptations were developed naturally or artificially, and whether they appeared before or after they colonised Fecton. The most closely-related near-Humans of the Scutum Arm bear little resemblance to the Fectonians, besides having a humanoid appearance. Since Fecton, along with the rest of Girdo, was apparently destroyed during the "Annihilation", it is possible that the answers to these questions will never discovered.

Fecton and its empire were conquered by the during the Girdo Galactic War, and the natives remained a minor species throughout its history, although after the  the Emperor of the  was a Fectonian,. Since both civilisations were merged into, it is believed that there are no Fectonians still alive.

Highly cosmetically-altered near-Humans ("Rianths")
Some Humans were experimented upon, sometimes hybridised with other species from Earth and even alien DNA (more like hybrids than subspecies). Otherwise, some are cybernetically enhanced with either technological implants, nanotechnology or bionanobots; these posthuman races often have superior intelligence and form their own societies.

Jovar
See Jovar

Draconian hybrids
The Draconians have been creating hybrids and seeding their DNA into humans since the 20th century, distributing the genes across powerful bloodlines.

Mantids
The Mantis are a telepathic species, possibly created by the Tall Greys. They are generally quite gentle, and live off plant sap and even light itself. They fly to meditate. Source: Alien Races, Tripod.com.

Other mammalian rianths
Hachiman - Hachiman is a cybernetically-enhanced rabbit-like Rianth, born on Earth and raised in the Far East by a warrior clan, known as the Shin-Ha (New Leaf). He was the son of the clan leader, Ken. After the clan's destruction at the hands of "Araki", Hachiman now trains under the teachings of Thea'Nhirara.

= Notes =

Notable people
These are humans with involvement in stories.

Quotes
"Before the races of Humanity were finally under one banner, we believed the humans to be chaotic teenage species. They all had a variety of different goals, some were conquerors and the friendlier. They were divided and had wars against their own species, were greedy and had no care for their environment, irradiating their own mother world, an unusual trail in the stage of space, thus we had limited contact, despite their history in the galaxy.  Now after they are aligned we are allies.  They seem to be quite unique, they have a powerful imagination, fantasy and curiosity is a big part of their culture, and so they can advance and recover quite quickly.  Humans also fight to the death and throw themselves in the fire easily when in desperation, something we have to train our warriors."

- DCP

"You...your race sealed the fate of the universe!! We won't save you from total extinction, you deserve to have your mortal bodies cast off the face of the galaxy...."

- Vi'Navitum

"For most of human history, humanity has only cared for themselves, letting greed infest their ways, shaping the world only how it pleased them. We are surprised their world did not smite them in revenge for hurting her, they must have a very caring world mind, they are one of the worst cases we know of. But only recently have they begun to wake up, and under our guidience, will lead them in the right path."

- Cephalodian Life Guardians

"Duh, huh, they kicked us from our mother world with stones. We want it back from those imperialists! Ugg Ugg"

- Neanderthals

"...They reminds us a little of ourselves."

- The Junction Mind

"I could not agree more with the Vi'Navitum."

- ???

"Oomans are pink or brown an soft, not tuff an blue like da Loronz. Dey so tiny as well, so deyz always argoin bout whos da strongest, cos deres no way of tellin cept fer muscles an ooniforms an fingz. An cos dey dont kno whose da strongest, dey always arguin bout whose in charge, so someone like Genghis Khan yeh, e'll go I IS DA BEST I BETTA DAN YOO NOW MA BLUDS WILL SMASH YOO den som ova dood will be like SHUT DA HELL UP BEFOR I SHANK YOO and stuff. Oh and dey all different, like dey dont fink da same stuff, so Hitla will come he'll go ALL DEM PEEPS AR DUMBOS (I dont rememba da namez) I GONNA MURDA DEM WIV TANKS den da ovas will like fire dem nukes an stuff. Wat a lot of mukkin about if yer asks me. An yanno wat da worst fing is? Dey dont let dere gangz shank peeps! Dey dont even allow killin or stealin! Right dats it, I havin dem fer breakfast."

- Da propa Big Boss Zr'Ahgloth

"They are foolish and aggressive, not friendly enough to be worth the time."

- Meta

"They are like a bad combination of us and the Meta, trying to mix two opposite natures, aggression and pacifism."

- Yama

"TOUCH THE HUMANS AND YOU ARE ALL BLOODY DEAD."

- Xhodocto

"A very young race and too brash for their own good. Irrational, violent and all too happy to betray for greed. Their only redeeming quality is the creative works before their industrial revolution, those artists should be venerated.

If they ever declare war on us, they will discover they are better off as slaves."

- Draconis

"Humans? They're one of the most xenophobic race in the universe... they jumped into the Universe without fully maturing. They also are extremely stressful on the multiverse's environment. I'd keep my eyes on them..."

- Emperor Vvenboaz