QHW, Day 7: Humanoid Races

Baseline Humans, True Men

• Citizens of the few arcologies that were not damaged or destroyed.
• Cults of pure blood are rampant, with all other strains of humanity seen as only good to be enslaved or purged.

Cyborgs, Shellers, Aug-Men

• Second-class citizens of the arcologies, super-soldiers and specialized slave-workers. Dependant on the few skilled surgeons and remaining auto-docs, thus kept in line.
• Out in the Rad Wastes, they either die of implant rejection, or thrive as invincible warlords.

Robodroids, Mech-Men

• They never were human and thus don't cling to a humanoid shape. Intelligent vehicles, buildings, etc.
  
• Immune to hunger, thirst, asphyxiation, fatigue, poisons and diseases, but suffer from nanites, malware and EMP.

Chimerae, Splicers, Beast Men

• Humans cross-mutated with animals via careful gene-engineering, gaining useful perks with minimal downsides.
• Range from a human with a few animal characteristics to a humanoid animal.
• Unlike mutants, they breed true, including with their parent species. Many splicer tribes roam the Rad Wastes.
• Radiation exposure often times turns them feral and mindlessly hostile before resulting in mutations.
  

Synths, Fake Men

• Shapeshifters. A brain-box suspended in metamorphic synth-flesh.
• Can also spend their biomass for various effects, like fabricating bone items, breathing toxic gas, shooting enamel-bullets, or creating independent, non-intelligent life forms.

Replicants, Vat Babies

• Their DNA was hand-crafted to make them peak human, and it shows. Their brains were pruned to make them obedient and happy to serve, but it didn't work. They have no belly buttons.
• Created in batches of hundreds of clones. Some pre-Turn sites will have tribes of people that all share the same face.
• Extremely vulnerable to radiation due to their delicate DNA.
  

Holograms, eGhosts, Hollow Men

• They all have a phylactery, a tiny piece of tech containing their mindstate, a holo projector and a power source.
• Can freely switch between soft- and hardlight, but hardlight drains their power reserves fast.
• Most were once powerful people who sought immortality. Now they are the tyrant kings and queens of the Rad Wastes.

Blighters, Zeds, Chem-Men

• Gene-plagues and chemical superweapons depopulated whole countries during the Turn. A tiny fraction of a percent of the victims survived, albeit changed.
• Extremely resistant to diseases, toxins, chemicals and radiation. Basically unageing. Their bodily fluids swiftly kill most lifeforms.
• Shunned by all, they live in isolated villages or abandoned pre-Turn sites deep in the Rad Wastes.