Re: Homanii - Dysonspace Original Race

One question: Why did they lose their hair?

Dreamer wrote:

>This is a basic write-up of one of the races that I intend to use
>in the background for Dysonspace, that I am writing up. What I
>wanted to check was, how similar is this to other, existing SJ
>races, as far as anyone knows?
>
>You will probably guess that I am going to see if I can make them
>credibly Progenitors, who are the reason for all the humanoid
>races around in SJ.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>Homanii - Dysonspace Original Race
>
>These were hairy, pelted, humanoids, and were the construction
>experts among the three main original races who created
>Dysonspace. Rather than being human (homo sapiens) they resembled
>orangutans ('forest person'; pongo pygmaeus). As a race they were
>interested in all sorts of construction, and how things were
>made, including living things. They lived in cities made from
>bio-engineered trees, which produced a wide range of fruit, all
>year round, edible bark, or were places where the insects that
>they ate flourished.
>
>There were many homanii sub races, adapted to living in different
>environments, including on and under the ground, rather than
>mostly in trees. All of these sub races were hairy and pelted.
>They ranged in size from goblins to giants. The homanii also
>blended other races with their own, in particular the sauranii,
>producing the elves, the illithanii producing the mind flayers,
>and the barakanii producing the gnomes and dwarves.
>
>It is thought that the loss of (most of) their hair produced a
>form of racial hysteria in the homanii and their sub races, and
>some died out, some became vicious, and some became solitary. One
>of the most successful at bouncing back from this racial shock
>was the humans, though these regressed to a state of savagery
>which lasted many millenia. Many of the races have a racial
>memory or a legend of a time, a golden era, when all lived
>together in harmony.
>
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