Characteristics and Skills
Max and the other X-5 children were given extensive combat training while at Manticore, including martial arts, acrobatics, infiltration, marksmanship with many weapons, and computer technology. Max, while an exceptionally powerful and astute fighter, has a standing personal philosophy which she states several times throughout the series: "I don't do guns."
Max is unique among the all homo Sapiens in that she possesses no "Junk DNA"; every one of her nucleic acid sequences was coded by Sandeman, the original maker of the transgenics, for a purpose. Her unique DNA is somehow related to thwarting the Familiar breeding cult's plans to become the dominant species; she is, in all likelihood, the proverbial Eve of the human race, with unmangled DNA sequences, prior to its adultery by original sin. Max also possesses DNA inspired by Colonel Donald Lydecker's dead wife, but is not a clone of her.
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