Purebloods

A pureblood is an exile from the crumbling space colonies above in orbit, where the plight of the virus was escaped entirely; these are rare indeed, as the colonies scarcely ever make contact with the world below for fear of the virus. Nobody is entirely sure what has transpired in the colonies since the days of the pandemic. Many believe that they are slowly dying off as their resources have slowly diminished. All that is known is that the purebloods are effectively immortal. They are the descendants and remains of the elite who fled to the space colonies prior to the pandemic: they are the ones who benefited from the early success of the immortality projects. Their longevity and seclusion has created an unhampered arrogance in their demeanor. They are vain and fickle, caring little about the world below and its denizens beyond what directly effects them. Their genes have rendered them naturally more gifted than baseline humans. They are more graceful, taller, more intelligent, and possess more handsome features than those left on the surface. Their physical characteristics are typified by long, gracile limbs and physiques and pale, uncanny skin resembling alabaster from a lifetime in artificial light. They are more fragile than Tainted in that they were born and raised in the low gravity environment of the space stations, and thus have weaker muscles and more brittle bones. They are what is left of the ruling class from the old regime. Over the centuries since the fall, pureblood society has adopted a strict eugenics program to ensure that they are as resistant to genetic anomalies as possible. Therefore, purebloods have a naturally high resistance to the effects of mutations. Consequently, they are far less likely to take genetic mutations beyond those which are purely cosmetic or invisible. You will not find a pureblood with tentacle arms, a gaping maw of teeth, or a bloated mass for a body, as these types of mutations have long been held in contempt by purebloods as symbolic of their race's downfall. Purebloods' enhanced intellect grants them with exceptional natural psychic abilities. They are naturally able to read minds and have various telekinetic abilities. Purebloods have a far more resilient genetic code than a commoner on Earth. Some purebloods take cybernetic augs to further give themselves an advantage over their peers, but they are far less common than on Earth. Due to their near mythical status as the genetic vanguard of humanity, they are regarded as godlike beings on the planet below.

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