Hālian wrote:I find it utterly bizarre that it doesn't retain the umiak body plan, but *shrug*.
"Some Umiak, who still live on low-gravity worlds or aboard the gravity-controlled environments of starships and space habitats, are still very similar in form to the state in which they originally evolved, but many more have been extensively genetically modified to suit the environments and tasks to which they have been assigned. Those employed in work on heavier-gravity planets and particularly those in the infantry have been specially bred for these tasks, are much heavier and stronger, and are more likely to have been cybernetically modified, sometimes quite extensively, to the point of being almost unrecognizable as the same species."