I think your comment would be valid for all the minor human races too as I believe that the Ancients probably 'picked them up' all at the same time.

And,. as far as the Vilani are concerned, there's been so much intermingling since contact (re-contact?) that there could be trouble.

Out on the 'Rim, there have been a number of major scandals where prominent SolParty officials have been rumored to have 'tainted blood'.

Of course, when most of what I've read was written the current level of DNA testing was not avail.

By the time of the TU it would be trivial to chk everyone.

I can easily imagine a situation where very few cultural solomani actually have 100% pure solomani DNA.

p.s. I wonder if the presences of Neanderthal DNA could also be a disqualification? ;-P

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On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 12:01:54 PM MST, Vareck Bostrom <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Human: Can produce fertile offspring with H. Sapiens from Terra.
Examples: Vilani, Zhodani, Solomani, Sword Worlders, etc.

Comment: Generally, if you put a Human into the same sort of clothes you
wear, you'd not necessarily spot them as "not from here" just by
looking at them walking down the street. for example, a Zhodani might
just be a somewhat tall Joe (as opposed to your average Joe); a Vilani
might not be given a second look as a Caribbean Islander, a Sword
Worlder might just be your average Nordic type, etc.

As a side note, though they would be homo sapiens, the split between Zhodani, Solomani and Vilani occured something like 400000 years ago, I think that's a pretty long period of time for them to be still mistaken for contemporary Solomani.

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