Bio engineering

Due to Koa'Tor medical technology, humans have developed bio engineering to work out human defects, many disabilities are "fixed" prior to birth now, though it is up to the parents and some choose to allow natural course of life to develop.

Human (specifically S.F.) culture has very limited bigotry and reservations about disabilities, race, religion, gender and sexual preference. So "fixing" disabilities before birth is more a luxury than a accepted practise.

Nearly 140 years ago, there was a scientist who thought he could improve humans, he begun project "Adam" which was to make more evolved humans, 99.9% subjects died after birth, the S.F. finally banned the project, rumour has it though, that several infants survived, but this information has become classified and more or less forgotten.

One rumour that was never officially proven, was that the Epsilon Alliances spiritual (military) leader was one of these infants, no one knows the truth as he was killed by Commander Deniz during the battle of Epsi10.