Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26838057-20150731133113/@comment-26822605-20150803203354

Interesting. I had the idea that the spacers were people who lived and died on the ships they piloted running goods between planets, never settling planetside. The shields that allow space travel I thought as being based on spores (which in real life I nigh indestructible). Over the years these fungally shielded ships had an effect on their family-crews (fungus is far closer evolutionarily speaking to humans than plants) and so they gained various low-level abilities but became increasingly distant from average planet-dwellers and the planetars on the outer planets who were somewhat hickish and dreadfully reliant of the trade ships (because they were so far out) eventually claimed there were no longer pure-human and took over their trade routes as they no longer had rights and were effectively serfs.