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Genetic types; Clear it up
Topic Started: Jul 26 2010, 12:42 AM (789 Views)
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Coordinators:

Coordinators are genetically enhanced human beings which possess a number of enhanced traits, including faster learning and stronger and faster bodies that are virtually immune to diseases. They are physically and mentally superior to baseline normal humans. Coordinators are feared and hated by normal humans. In the case of the Augments, much of that fear stemmed from their part in the Eugenics Wars; in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, hatred and envy of Coordinators stem from their superior abilities.

The First Coordinator in Cosmic Era 15, the highly respected man named George Glenn announced the shocking news that he was the first Coordinator, as he was born following a genetic manipulation procedure that ultimately resulted in a human "engineered" to be better. He disclosed the entire process to create a Coordinator to the public.

The genetic modifications that create a Coordinator had to be performed in the earliest stages of embryonic development. The Coordinator embryo was then reinserted back into its mother for gestation. These genetic enhancements are then passed on to the Coordinator's children without the need for more enhancements. When Natural parents have their children turned into Coordinators, the children are described as first-generation Coordinators, whose own children will then be second-generation Coordinators, and so forth.

Third Generation coordinators have been sterile for years. Fearing that their species was at an end the search for the slim hope of the S-strand developing within the coordinators as well was on. Reproduction was almost non-existent for coordinators at this point. Wit the lack of compatible genes to one another it was obvious that they would soon fall. Luckily, within the same year that special, almost impossible strand was found within coordinators as well. Though different in carious ways this new strand proved to be all they hoped for. With Coordinators no longer needing modifications, and the ability for the third-generation to reproduce naturally led to the rise of the new Earth Sphere. The coordinators named the first wave of these new beings Angels. Soon a second seemingly improved version of these Angels emerged, codenamed Sleepers.


Naturals:

Those who were born without any genetic enhancements, be they inherited from the parents or introduced during prenatal development, became known as "Naturals."


Extended Humans

Biological CPU

First Stage Extended humans had some biotechnological modification and were mentally conditioned to eliminate their sense of fear and increase aggression in combat; the subjects were mostly regular pilots who were given regular doses of the performance-enhancing drug Gamma Glipheptin. This drug had a negative effect on the pilots' mental stability and caused them to behave in undesirable ways during battle. It also had very brief duration, and as the effect wore off it left the pilots incapacitated with severe withdrawal symptoms, as their nervous systems began to collapse without regular doses. Their loyalty to the Alliance was guaranteed by their addiction to Gamma Glipheptin. The first-stage test subjects were Clotho Buer, Orga Sabnak and Shani Andras. All three were killed in battle during the closing stages of the Bloody Valentine War. Due to their required intake of drugs and harsh withdrawal symptoms, fans dubbed the trio "the Druggies", which tends to be used as an affectionate nickname rather than an insult.

First Stage Extended humans possessed strong enough combat abilities to press even very strong Coordinators such as Kira Yamato or Athrun Zala. However, Second Stage Extended humans proved to be somewhat weaker than their predecessors. Evidence of this is the fact that they could not hold their own against characters in SEED mode while the original extended pilots did.

Extendeds

Second Stage Extended humans were physically and psychologically altered with brainwashing, heavy mental conditioning, performance-enhancing drugs and extremely harsh combat training. They were more stable than first-stage extendeds, but required regular re-conditioning, especially when their trigger words were used to force actions from them. They also required regular brain "maintenance" to keep them in a high-performance state, and to erase any "undesirable" memories they might have. Sting Oakley, Stella Loussier, and Auel Neider were second-stage Extended humans. All three died in combat. Auel perished at the hands of Shinn Asuka's ZGMF-X56S Impulse in a naval battle near Crete. Stella died after her GFAS-X1 Destroy was attacked by Kira Yamato's ZGMF-X10A Freedom in battle over Berlin. Sting was killed by Shinn's ZGMF-X42S Destiny in the battle for Heaven's Base.

Extended humans could be considered analogous to the Universal Century concept of Artificial or Cyber-Newtypes, who were normal pilots enhanced to have Newtype abilities.


S-Strand Humans

S-strands are a new branch of genetic research discovered by Dr. Strum roughly twenty years before the start of the story. These beings, though few in number, could be considered the ultimate natural and seen as the next step in evolution possessing abilities on par with coordinators.
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