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[QUOTE="Bab5space, post: 6299040, member: 667452"] Thanks. The reason the sherpas are like that is because their blood is thinner (has less oxygen) and can work with less. Now I suppose maybe after breeding a few new generations on an Earth world the descendents of the humanoids might adapt naturally. Or it may even be an engineered given possibility, since if they have the technology for jump drives and constant acceleration, it is reasonable that they also have ways to manipulate genetics to adapt if need be.The catch is that such adapted ones would be more susceptible to health problems on the the homeworld. I am not saying the symptoms will be this bad... but maybe? [URL]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity[/URL] The eyes become more shortsighted, vertigo feelings, lung inflammation at the bodies inability to filter out the oxygen where it needs to go, even seizures. As for their homeworld, a waterworld will not fit the story needs, nor how I want the world to look. How it looks: Dirt is light red, and grows darker when muddy (yes mud look like our blood). The sky is blue, beaches have pink sand, and trees commonly have reddish bark and are huge. With the frequent rains, I could have homes be elevated off the ground to cope with flooding.Or if I want things to be far more controlled, no rain at all. Just let a mist come up from the ground periodically to water the plants, and where massive fires break out eventually they would trigger water springs of water that would gush out from below the the surface to extinguish them. Ironically mass fires and earthquakes would be the main source of flooding due to disturbing the spring network below the planet's crust. [/QUOTE]
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