The Gasans(ethnicity)

Gasans are an ethnic group present in the gas planets of the Sulsang

Florence, Octavia, Chloe, Radley, Marianne, Jordan, Frederick and John are all Gasans

Physical Characteristics
Gasans are known before all for their milky white skin, which they acquired from a century of living in the enclosed roofed cities of the gas planets. Gasans have a greater muscular mass and stronger bones than terrans, to compensate for the fact that the gravity is stronger in the inhabitated regions of the gas planets. Due to their pale skin, Gasans have more vivid facial expression and have a hard time hiding their emotions. Due to the fact that Gasans have more corporal mass, even the newborns, gasan women have wider hips than terran women. All Gasans have myopia and are also more likely to develop depression.

History and Origins
The Gasans trace their ancestry to the Rock People, a mass movement of refugees lead by Jack Thirdleg, that settled Jupiter and Saturn in the begining of the twenty-first century. However, at that time, they were not considered gasans, and wouldn't be considered gasans up until a few centuries later. The refugees came mostly from europe, northern africa, and the middle east. Although the bulk of the settlers of the Rock People were refugees whose countries were touched or threathened by the Red War, the mass fear caused by the war caused people from all around the world to join in with the settlers, altough their numbers were not great. During much of the twenty first century, the people kept the languages and custom that they had inherited from their terran ancestor. After that, a lot of small, common rooted languages merged to form new languages spoken by a larger part of the population, for exampe: Rumish and Germanic. While at the same time, new customs were born.

For the earlier parts of their existencem these people were called the Rock People, known as such for the fact that they were known for mining asteroids and sell the material to Terrans during the final years of the Red War. After the Rock People unified into a single kingdom and the Federation was formed, they dropped the name, considering it pejorative, and called themselves stellars.

Gasans as an ethnic group was born in the twenty-fifth century, some time after the Federation colonization of Mars. At the time, the romance languages, (save French) died out in the Federation to form Rumish, and 60% of the population spoke French. At that time, people with skine tones that were five or six on the Fitzpatrick scale cease to exist on the gas planets, while Martians with a skin tone of five on that scale continued to exist until two centuries later.

The Gasans completely lost their skin tones near the mid twenty-sixth century, and everyone in the gas planets spoke French as first language by the beginning of the twenty-seventh century. Rumish and English continued to be spoken as lesser second languages.

Cross breeding
It is said to be relatively difficult for a gasan to conceive a child with a non gasan, especially a terran. One of the difficulties of such is present in terran women who conceive a child with a gasan man; due to the fact that gasans have a greater body mass than terrans, it could pose a difficulty during childbirth.

Racism and discrimination
Because of their pale skin, the gasans are distinct from the four other human groups on a morphological level. The gasans are easy to spot; violence and discrimination against them has often times been perpetrated by the other four groups.

Martians particularly dislike the Gasans because of the decades of friction and political unrest between the two peoples which eventually led to the War against the Red Light. This dislike is partly due to the Martians' rampant nationalism and nativism, and the Gasan's omnipresence in the Martian economy. The history between the two groups is also an important factor.

Terrans have mixed views about the Gasans, but are more often than not negative. Terrans have always had a particularly not so great image of Gasans since their attack on Argerive in the Martian revolutionary war. In more modern times, the Terrans' only contact with them had been during the Warm and Red Light's failed Invasion of Earth. During that invaasion and in the months that followed, a great many Gasans had deliberately allowed themselves to be captured or simply ran off to live a life on Earth, simply to escape the famine and economical collapse present in the Warm occupied planets. These refugees, called snowflakes, were ill received in most countries and treated like invaders and illegal immigrants. Very few countries accepted their status as refugees. Most either handed them over to the Liberators, the Colds or simply the Warms. Those who were handed back over to the Warms were often trialed and executed as defectors. some terran countries even executed their snowflakes. Even those who managed to settle down and live peacefully on Earth often faced stigma and discrimination by the local populations.

Lunars particularly loathe the Gasans. Their people were almost wiped out by a Gasan led attack on their then sole city, Argerive. The Lunars have always, since then fostered a deep hatred for Gasans. During the Lunaregnum occupation of Earth, lunars openly encouraged violence and discrimination against Gasans, and helped foster a climate of hate towards them on Earth.

Even amongst themselves, the Gasans have internal conflicts. Many of the Gasans particularly dislike the Saturnians. This dislike was perpetrated and reinforced by the Jovian Monarchy to discredit the old Saturnian Monarchy and reinforce its own power, as well as to deflect blame away from the central government. One of the reasons why Iyderan invested a lot of money into Saturnian roofed farms was not only because the industry was more developed on that planet, as the official reason stated, but Iyderan also wanted the Saturnians to be relatively well fed in comparison to the other planets so that the eventual population unrest could be directed at Saturn and not the central government on Jupiter, again reinforcing his regime.