Beta

Beta

aka the Betas, aka Beta Humans

Gene Clone product of the Bionetic Age of Pre Union Terra (United Earth). The Betas were a genetic tailored humanoid clone designed by New Life Inc. as a biological reproducable robot alternative. It was argued that distant colonies might not have the technological know how or the energy and spare parts required to maintain a robot work force. Biological reproductive life forms that could live on the same food as pigs (scraps and left overs etc), repaired by applying a bandage and raised as beasts of burden and as a possible food source.

Betas were a cross between pig, human and horse DNA. The outer looks were kept as non human as possible to lower the threshold of resistance if they were used as a food source.

150,000 Betas were made and most of them shipped along with Colonists.

No live Betas have been seen or reported since 2240. It is believed the last ones died around that time. Human Colonists did not bother raising them and the plan to use them as a food source has not caught on.