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Xenotype Pack - Spacers

Dr. Plantabyte's Xenotype Packs are a collection of mods that contain new xenotypes for Rim World based on various fields of science (req. Biotech DLC):

* Xenotype Pack - Spacers
* Xenotype Pack - Exoplanet Adaptation
* Xenotype Pack - Sins of Gene City

This mod is contains xenotypes of humans engineered for life in orbital and interplanetary space stations.



The first Astros were volunteers for servicing and maintaining critical inter-planetary infrastructure, requiring them to live and work in deep space for far longer than ordinary human biology can sustain. Thus they accepted a carefully researched set of artificial genes to allow them to live as normal a life as possible in the vast void.

Astros are resistant to toxins and radiation, and they need less nutrition than most humans, but they move slowly under normal gravity and need more sleep. They are completely hairless, and their photosynthetic skin can be any shade of green, orange, red, or gray.


The M-Gens (short for many-generation spacers) have lived in orbital space stations for over a hundred generations. In that time, they've evolved distinct traits by natural selection in such an artificial environment.

M-Gens very rarely get sick and quickly build immunity to disease. They tend to have calm dispositions and keen minds compatible with living one's entire life in a small crowded space. However, M-Gens suffer from a form of albinism that makes them sensitive to natural sunlight and their bones are less robust than the average human.


Originating from blackmarket gene-labs, the Syren were meant to be the ultimate social influencers, able to infiltrate high-society and be the face of criminal enterprises. However, the gene-set quickly became popular among celebrities and socialites who wanted to make their children as beautiful and popular as possible. A crack-down by law enforcement shutdown the producers of these gene-sets, but their legacy propagates with every generation.

Syren can slowly change their appearance over time, automatically becoming the epitome of beauty in whatever culture they live in, and they are unnaturally sensitive to the emotions of others. However, they were never meant to exist beyond the sterile world of cities and space stations, thus they are fragile and prone to disease.


Not too long ago, a large passenger star ship full of spacers and stationeers made an emergency landing on this planet. Having failed to find a way off the planet, these former citizens of the stars have had to accept life on the ground (civil faction).


An interstellar space celebrity and their three handlers are stuck on some distant rim world after their private starship suffered a navigational error while on tour. They have money, lots of it, but not much else. A passing trader spotted their arrival and will come by in the morning to trade.