Abhumans

An Abhuman is a descendant of baseline Human settlers whose ancestors mutated and physically adapted to various extreme environmental conditions after being isolated for thousands of standard years on colony worlds across the galaxy. Some Abhumans may also be genetically engineered mutants created for a specific purpose. The term may be short for “aberrant Human”, “abnormal Human,” or, less pejoratively, derived from the High Gothic term ab humanis, “from Humans.” In more enlightened times under the direct rule of the Emperor of Mankind during the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium, even markedly divergent Abhumans such as the Beastmen could serve in the Imperial Army.