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The crowd in the cargo hold were drawn from most parts of Earth, Luna, and some of the asteroid settlements. Marcel's family were all from French Polynesia before half of it disappeared under the rising waves. What was saved was a semi-floating seastead. He has the copper skin typical to Polynesians. Sungura Kikwete is a Tanzanian born in Zimbabwe, with rich umber complexion. Nothing like Virginia Rein who, like many American astronauts before her, is about as WASPy as they come: a natural blonde, tall, pale, and strong-chinned. Her Italo-Puerto Rican wife, Luciana, has sandy features and hair like driftwood.
Complex heritages are the norm with the mass migration over the last century. Evgeniy Cardoso is a pardo Brazilian from the plains of Rio Grande do Sul, his Russian grandparents' heritage only really visible in his first name and his Orthodox upbringing. Kosmo's ethnicity is impossible to determine at a glance, his birth voice lost, half his skin missing. Professor Antonella Li is Chinese-Canadian, her family having moved there generations before she was born. Rheita Petavius has the tell-tale facial symmetry and unnatural beauty of a fully custom gene birth: her amber skin has an uncanny glow and her onyx-streaked hair spreads out in buoyant curls.
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