He nodded his understanding, though the battle tension refused to loosen from between his shoulder blades.
"I could propose a number of theories between your varients and our New Types, but suffice it to say that core radiation and genome tampering haven't pushed us that far yet. Or regressed us that far."
He thought back to Quatra, and Hiro.
"New Types do have one thing in common and that is a markedly higher mental capacity and the ability to handle massive amounts of data through mentally interfacing with specially designed computer systems."