Soia-Liron/Loroi biochemical systems are a little bit more robust than Earth/Human ones, which makes their metabolism slightly more efficeint, and slightly more resistant to many hostile elements, including disease, toxins, temperature extremes, pressure and acceleration. They're not supermen, however; the differences are in the 10-20% range.E=M.C^2 wrote:I understand that while humans and lorois share an astonishing resemblance in term of overall shape, they are quite physiologically different as we have seen previously. One consequence is the apparent absence of secondary effect following an hyperspace jump for a loroi, while a human may experience quite a frightening, but non-lethal, effect. Is there any other aspects of the loroi physiology that may give them an advantage, or disadvantage, compared to human. Here, I am thinking about resistance to ionizing radiation, organic or inorganic compounds, temperature, pressure, acceleration (seems this has already been covered).
Resistance to radiation would be a very useful adaptation for a spacefaring species, but given how radiation does damage (by altering the chemical makeup of the matter in your body), the only way I can think of to protect an organism would be to give it a dense outer covering that would act as a radiation shield. I think this kind of biological radiation shielding would probably be bulky and metabolically expensive, such that it would probably negate many of the other Loroi advantages.
I think most Loroi would have an easier time with most Earth foods than the other way around.E=M.C^2 wrote:Could a loroi survive on earth with no access whatever to loroi food or drink ?