The old AD advanced rulebook have notes about lifespan and method of procreation, but dose not list things like average age of sexual development (puberty), age of adulthood (where one is considered an independent person, rational enough to make one's own life-chooses), length (and stages) of gestation or equivalent (e.g. How long dose it takes for a Vrusk to hatch from it's egg?), and so on. This post is about figuring these things out, and figuring out additional, easily overlooked info about it (e.g. Dose the changes of gender in a Dralasite change them behaviorally, or even their appearance?).<br />
<br />A thing to note about the Humans in SF, is that they are <u>not</u> like us. They live longer (180 of our years*, on average), grow taller (6'3" on average) and are canonically unrelated to us. It can be argued that if they do develop like us, then they would reach puberty at around 14 GST (13-13 Earth years*), but it should be noted that our age of sexual development is not constant. That is, a hundred years ago, that age was about 15-16 years, on average (it is believed that this is do to dietary changes).<br />
<br />There are a number of things to consider and debate with this topic, but no less important.<br />
<br /><font size="1">*If you go by the book, a Galactic Standard Year is shorter that an Earth year (by <font size="1">about a month</font>!). Our year is equal to x1.1 of their standard year, and their year is equal to x0.9 of our year. So a SF character who is 20 years GST, would be 18 years old on Earth.</font>
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