[That gets a slightly bitter laugh from her. Not even in Saratha Cordain's most paranoid conspiracy theories had she suggested that the children out of Cardalek Genetech might be treated as something other than human.]

Sure. I'm human. Slightly enhanced human, you might say. I was born out of a genelab.

What's Mars? Is that your neighbouring system? You could colonise that with slow ships, if you've got terraforming technology. [And slow ships. Maybe it's literally just talk.]