Humans

Humans call their planet Midgard. They’re technologically less advanced than Alternian in many ways but still have spaceships. They’re more advanced in medecine and robotics nonetheless, that’s why they were able to replace Vriska’s left arm with a very good likeness to the one she lost (despite the fact that the skin is slightly darker because DNA is not always predictable at this point).

Humans are very inquisitive, that’s why they didn’t kill the alien when she crashed on Midgard but kept and treated her instead. Later, they interrogated her about Alternia, her race, their habits, etc. Was Alternia a threat or not?

Despite this, some humans are very friendly. Put this together with curiosity and adventurous mind and you’ll know how Serket get a new crew and a new ship.

Human society is organized in castes. Each caste has her own crest and preferred  functions. For exemple, members of the Heart caste are generally engineers, roboticians or eventually programmers (Time caste is better in the last one though) whereas members of the Life caste have certainly the best doctors and nurses.

Here are the various castes and some of their associated fields:

- Time : programmation, recording, historic records, …
- Breath : sweep by air, piloting, …
- Doom : tactics, mathematic, probabilty calculations, …
- Blood : diplomacy, rhetoric, translation, …
- Heart (Core caste long ago but changed name because of many protests) : engineering, robotic, building, …
- Space : building, crafting, growth , …
- Mind : law, spying, investigation, …
- Light : psychology, politic, education, …
- Void : philosophy, religion, theoretical, …
- Rage : war (and that is all)
- Hope : leadership, coaching, …
- Life : medicine, surgery, supplying, …

Humans may choose which caste they want to attend at the age of 14 or are assigned to one of their parents caste if they have not decided yet.
Then, most of the youngs move out from their previous home to the University of the chosen caste. They attend to a lot of difficult and serious classes there for the next five years. They are then assigned to one field in particular within the advice of their professors according to their specifics talents (and not always their expectations).