With the people of the homeworld and moon being fully anept into the IU, their people were on average taller than their colonist counterparts, At 5'7.3" and 180 pounds worldwide for men, and 5'2" and 145 pounds for females... However, due to better nutrition the IU has extremely high variation on height, or an Standard Deviation of 2.98. For reference, the tallest of nations barely have a 2.9 on Earth...
The colonies have an average size of 5'5.5" for men, and 5'0" flat for females. The weight ranges from as low as 110 pounds for the lowest men and 95 pounds for women, to 160 pounds for men and 135 pounds for women. It ranges thanks to the many environmental factors that colonists of the other planets and celestial bodies expierenced.
Lower Gravity is a major contribution to extreme bone density loss and the ease of gaining weight. Thanks to your body not resisting the atmosphere and gravity, it is far easier to gain weight in space than originally believed.
However, IU Personnel found ways around this, such as Space Elevators... building 9 of these across the world, able to be used at a moments notice. The IU as of now also began researching Nanomachines capable of healing Soldiers and Civilians from extreme injuries that would be fatal normally.
Not only this, but because technology was rapidly advancing... The IU allowed Congressmen and women to bring in a bill that removes Megacorporations from their land. They understand the destructive nature that these megacorporations caused, and were quick to dissolve any trouble caused from them.
After the installment of technological advances, the IU then began it's first iterations of Warship construction on the Gourman Orbital Docklands and at the Space Elevators. This Kickstart the IU Mobilization in 2063... As Automation became Warfare's next stage, so has Space Combat...
YOU ARE READING
Project: Goalpost | Interplanetary Geopolitics
Science Fiction2073... The current year of Geopolitics in the Yetal System. The homeworld and moon were colonizing the remainder of the Solar System. However, they uncovered the single threat that posed the new World spanning UN style alliance taking to the System...