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==Biotypical Rights Movement (BRM)==
''The manipulation and modification, by corporate power, of the human body gave rise to a new underclass. In the view, widely espoused by corporate spin-doctors, but also by transhumanist activists, the entire Homo Sapiens species was defined as defective, limited, and in constant need of upgrades, updates and improvement. Those who opposed this move, those who rejected the technology or the great majority for whom modification was never an option, the tech-poor, the tech-impaired, saw their species-typical bodies and minds become handicapped, powerless and inferior, were labeled retrogrades, disabled and voiceless. We were a problem to be solved, or a detritus to be left behind in the wake of evolutionary progress. As part of the Liberty movement, we managed to stem the tide of technological development that threatened to tear humanity apart. But our struggle isn't over, for we must ensure that our rights as species-typical individuals remain unthreatened by any group or ideology that would plunge us back into the Hell from which we only recently emerged.''

''-Councilor Anita Gall, addressing the 3d Biotypical Rights Congress in Dublin, Ireland, 10 ACE''

A great number of humans living in the Corporate states were modified with cybernetic or genetic augmentation. Most of them were enhanced for utilitarian reasons, to be better at whatever task the corporation needed them for, a select few belonged to the true transhumanist elite, choosing their modifications to suit their fancy or personal needs. But the vast majority of humans on Earth, in Corporate or U-States, were unmodified: "baselines", "norms", or "biotypicals". The Biotypical Rights Movement grew out of the feeling of frustration and disenfranchisement that the tech-poor, bioconservative masses experienced as the corporations turned from them in search of more lucrative markets. During the Fall, various cells and sections of the BRM contributed a significant amount of manpower and resources to Liberty's victory, and following the end of hostilities, the movement became a powerful bloc in Liberty, to the chagrin of other, more techno-liberal groups. The Biotypical Movement's conservative agenda has led to them being misnamed a Luddite or retrograde faction, but according to BRM ideologue and war hero Anita Gall, that couldn't be farther from the truth; according to the official line, the BRM simply strives for equal rights for tech-poor and tech-impaired humans, making sure that modifications do not become mandatory for participation in Liberty society or that modded transhumans do not lose their link to humanity, splitting Homo Sapiens into 2 species. Of course, in practice some of the biotypicalist settlements discriminate against augmented humans, and more extremist anti-transhumanist groups like the infamous "Take Back Humanity Army" ensure that suspicion falls even on mainstream movements like the BRM. Nevertheless, the BRM remains an important, influential and powerful part of Liberty.

The symbol of the Biotypical Rights Movement is a Vitruvian Man silhouette. During the fall, this symbol was the most common graffiti tag, second only to the broken-chain motif of Liberty.