Fiction:Homo Sapiens

Homo Sapiens Place of origin: Sol System

Diet: Omnivore

Archetype: Trader

Religion: None

Motto: Buy low and Sell High, my friend

Origins
Homo sapiens emerged from Earth not quite 6 billion years from today's Sporedate. When it became self-aware, it developed the need to expand its horizons.

The genus came from early primates, and diverged with the Fox P2 gene giving humans the edge in communication. As they discovered fire, and the atlatl, Humanity began its self-sustaining journey to be the dominant species on the planet. Soon near the billion mark, they then proceeded to make farms to concentrated food scources and encouarge more members to be born.

After beating out the Neanderthals, Humans finally became the true master race of the planet. Not even the Ice Ages could stop them in the quest to rule the world. (Here ends fact, the next part is ficton)

Path to Space
After the creation of civilizations, humans developed a by all means psychotic, suicidal, nearly-religious urge to continue using the chemicals that were polluting and killing the planet's delicate ecosystem. With last supplies of the stuff fast running out, massive wars were waged over the scraps of what was left to take.

When finally all were encompassed by one empire, there was a mass extinction rivaling that which wiped out the dinosaurs, but with no asteroid. Humans had completed a perfect DIY ecosytem destruction. With little to nothing left on the planet to keep the some 25 billion individuals alive, Humanity scraped the last of its fuel together, and made a last ditch effort to survive.

As the last rocket was prepared, a final, desperate assault on science and all that it stood for was launched by extremist zealots. Many attempts were made to recount how widespread the carange was, but none as simple as one now famous child put it

''The world got runover by a reindeer! What a waste of eggnog...''

As the attack happened, a comet was seeded with what was the first cell that had a nearly direct link to Homo Sapiens. That comet then landed in a faraway system, seeding humanity all over again.