Yeah, it's kind of a long story, but "mutation" is the short of it.

[He leans forward a little at the image of the Chelions, though. There's a bit of a novelty to seeing an entire race that's like him but that's normal and not a bizarre twist of fate.

He's pretty sure he could run circles around them, though.]

I'm used to sharing lab space with the highly territorial, so keeping to my own space shouldn't be a problem.