Homo antiquus

(Homo antiquus and the associated languages and cultures exist in the conworld devised by MacKenzie Rohlfing and is the intellectual property thereof)

Homo antiquus is the general taxonomic term applied to a group of commonly-derived human races who originated somewhere outside the Local Group of the Milky Way galaxy and possibly even outside of the Virgo Supercluster. They are genetically compatible with Homo sapiens and virtually indistinguishable from their terrestrial cousins, apart from certain secondary characteristics such as eye coloration and physical/mental capabilities.

Origins

All the Homo antiquus races derive from a common ancestry. At a point in their common development, a cataclysmic event known as The Darkening took place, causing the division into the extant four sub-races: the Calleronians, the Cironeans, the Rhosans, as well as a purely conjectural race called the Dark Opwajwa whose existence has yet to be definitively proven. Of these four, the most populous and dominant race is that of the Cironeans.

Opwajwa is the name given in the Cironean language to the original Homo antiquus race and literally means "Ancient Ones." In their own language, Redhrácic, they were ádenom, literally men.