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Re:Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth ... by peanut_is_yum on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:06PM (#22537872)
> This has been done in various hard science fiction novels. One series, the name escapes me at the moment, actually has one group of engineered human warriors that are quite different mentally from normal humans but they can survive in vacuum and have some insect-like traits physically. They can just drift through vacuum and quietly attach to the hull of an enemy ship.

Pretty sure this was in some book in the Old Man's War series

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Re:Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth ... by ryanmercer on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:11PM (#22537925)
Looks like you are right, 'homo astrum'. https://oldmanswar.fandom.com/wiki/Homo_Astrum

I read entirely too much hard science fiction to remember what comes from where, it's why as much as I'd love to I'll never write a space opera. I'd constantly be afraid I was unintentionally plagiarizing multiple authors.

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