Duskaran Phenotype

Eight centuries of interbreeding among the Stellar Horizon's mixed African and Asian crew has produced a phenotypically unified population. Duskarans display blended traits reflecting both ancestral heritages—varied brown skin tones, diverse hair textures, and facial features that defy Earth's old continental categories. Individual variation exists within this baseline, but the distinction between "African" and "Asian" features has dissolved into a distinctly Duskaran appearance.

Cave dwellers and twilight belters share these same traits. Despite cultural divergence between surface and subterranean communities, the populations remain too interconnected through trade, marriage, and the Duskaran Accord for separate phenotypes to emerge. The minor environmental adaptations—enhanced low-light vision in cave populations, slightly altered circadian rhythms, marginal increases in lung capacity—layer onto this shared baseline rather than creating distinct subspecies. After only 800 years with continued gene flow, Duskarans remain one people, physically united even when geographically separated.