Enira

“Originally, we were mostly human, but that was the better part of a thousand years ago. I don’t know that we have a name for us at this point, and don’t particularly care myself. We were part of a colony that was… lost when we decided we didn’t want to follow the instructions of our corporate overlords, and diverted to a different planet than we’d been intended to go to, one beyond the rim at the time.   “Making a very long story short, it didn’t go very well for my ancestors, as the planet had lots of poisons and plagues that easily mutated. Most of the men were wiped out within two generations by the plagues, and the leadership turned to cloning tanks at first, plus experimental genetic manipulation to help us survive the planet. Took a few genetic influences from elves in one generation, thus the ears, and some from the snake-like creatures of the planet to make us more resilient against poisons and plagues. By the time anyone found us, we were far enough removed from humanity that we had our own odd genome, which had stabilized I might add. We still use artificial wombs and technology for procreation since the planet still is very deadly to males, plus it’s almost cultural at this point.”