"You are welcome. I trust you'll not abuse that power."<br/><br/>She paused before answering, she actually wouldn't use it against him, not that she actually believed that she could get the upper hand that way.  But she didn't want to necessarily leave that option out.  Weighing her next words she decided that in this instance, she would have to give a little to gain a lot.<br/><br/>"You can be assured that I would not abuse the power that you have placed in my hands.  I am not a villain by nature, so you may rest assured."  She inclined her head to emphasis her words.<br/><br/>"As you know, Baseline humans are...compared to most other races in the Galaxy unremarkable. We can not control weather, or communicate with animals...the exceedingly rare humans born with psychic abilities can not develop those abilities beyond the crudest levels without extensive genetic and technological manipulation that doesn't always yeild results.  As we began encountering more and more...for lack of a better word...superhuman species, we decided we needed a way to balance the scales. While genetically modifying a psychic is exceedingly difficult due to us not yet fully understanding which aspects of the brain are responsible for psychic phenomena and to what extent, our geneticists soon discovered that augmenting our most basic and primal human characteristics was comparatively easy. As it turns out our species has a genome that's much more receptive to Genetic modification than most. As an Augment, my strength, speed, resilience, stamina, sensory acuity, regenerative ability, and intellect are many times that of a baseline Human. I am also expected to have a lifespan that could potentially be measured in centuries, barring a death in combat. I say potentially, because to date no Augment has lived for longer than forty years before being killed in combat. We are always sent into the most deadly possible scenarios. We survive many of them, but sooner or later one gets us."  She listened intently to his words, learning more about the human race along with his own augmentations.  It was all rather interesting, if not a bit terrifying.  And she couldn't decide if her ancestors where right in declaring them impure.  But impure or not, the obvious improvements to the human race, as well as in general made her hands itch to explore.<br/><br/>She had to chastise herself for letting her base nature take a hold.  Reminding herself that while on her home planet she may be seen as weak and licentious, but here she had the chance to be more than that; more than any woman on her planet could ever become.<br/><br/>"So you became this way through your father?  Would that than mean that any children of yours would have the same augmentations inside of them?  I'm sorry if my question seems intrusive, but on my planet woman are not allowed to know anything about Gene-Augmented beings, and I've always had so many questions about it."