On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:00:22 -0700, 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.

Point taken, from strictly scientific rationalizing, but I'm going by the
illustrations we've had for them - there have been pictures of Zhodani in
Classic Traveller material, and there was a Vilani pictured on the front of
DGP's _Vilani & Vargr_.

Note: the typical sidewalk _I_ would see them walking down is in New York
City. If you're in (for example) Bismarck, ND, seeing a Zhodani or Vilani
phenotype might be somewhat less ordinary.  IOW, YMMV.

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