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In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic continuity there are humans who have regressed to a feral state called Overlanders. I was intrigued by the notion of humans who survived the Xorda attack living above ground, and then cobbling together a civilization in the aftermath using pieces of old advanced tech as well as their own comparatively primitive means of survival. Overlanders have had to undergo severe and very speedy mutation to avoid dying off in the gene bombs so their physiology is not pretty to look at and even hampers the Overlanders to a certain degree, but they are much stronger and more viable than many mobians or humans that currently exist.
In the Archie comics Robotnik and Snively are both Overlanders but lack the Overlander trait of four fingers instead of five. In my continuity I adjusted things a bit. Not all Overlanders are needlessly cruel any more than any tribesman might be and Robotnik and Snively probably have some ancestry to Overlanders by are not Overlanders themselves (in my Freebound series true Overlanders are more often than not horrifically mutated).
This Overlander here wears a gas mask he recovered probably from a fallen human soldier. Overlanders have developed specifically to handle the conditions of the world during the gene bomb attacks so now that the poisons are leaving the atmosphere their finding it more and more difficult to breathe.

I imagine Overlanders a lot like Neanderthals, and like Neanderthals they may be approaching extinction with the rise of a subspecies of their own kind.

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In the Sonic the Hedgehog comic continuity there are humans who have regressed to a feral state called Overlanders. I was intrigued by the notion of humans who survived the Xorda attack living above ground, and then cobbling together a civilization in the aftermath using pieces of old advanced tech as well as their own comparatively primitive means of survival. Overlanders have had to undergo severe and very speedy mutation to avoid dying off in the gene bombs so their physiology is not pretty to look at and even hampers the Overlanders to a certain degree, but they are much stronger and more viable than many mobians or humans that currently exist.
In the Archie comics Robotnik and Snively are both Overlanders but lack the Overlander trait of four fingers instead of five. In my continuity I adjusted things a bit. Not all Overlanders are needlessly cruel any more than any tribesman might be and Robotnik and Snively probably have some ancestry to Overlanders by are not Overlanders themselves (in my Freebound series true Overlanders are more often than not horrifically mutated).
This Overlander here wears a gas mask he recovered probably from a fallen human soldier. Overlanders have developed specifically to handle the conditions of the world during the gene bomb attacks so now that the poisons are leaving the atmosphere their finding it more and more difficult to breathe.

I imagine Overlanders a lot like Neanderthals, and like Neanderthals they may be approaching extinction with the rise of a subspecies of their own kind.