Today's page doesn't have a snappy title, I'm afraid.
In the GearHead universe about five percent of Earth's population has some form of
visible mutation. Catlike features, such as those displayed by Meivus, are fairly
common. It's likely that this genetic trait was created for cosmetic reasons during
the Age of Superpowers, though historians disagree on whether the modification was
used by the ruling Idealist class or applied to one of the specially bred service classes.
Other forms of mutation, such as draconic ichtheosis, can be debilitating or even life
threatening. Physical mutation is much rarer outside of Earth. This is becuase most space
colonies have practiced some form of controlled breeding, the residents of space aren't
exposed to the same contaminants as people on Earth, and maybe also because people with
visible mutations would have been denied passage on refugee ships in the early days of the
exodus.
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