>2: Using Omega-2 to prevent aging is overkill. In the world of UF,
>there are a myriad of ways to prevent aging. Some of them are even
>legal.

If memory serves, that's how R-Type is still alive in 2404 and here's a quote from Redneck: Wilderness which I belive mentions at least two more methods to prevent aging.

        Kris' eyes teared up as his father continued, "It's been one
helluva ride, hasn't it? Two wars, more jobs than you could shake a
stick at... I've had my time, son, and it's been fun. Oh, I could go
in and have the surgery, take the retrovirus and live another forty
years, or get a cyborg body and live however long I liked... but why?
Son, it's time for me to rest. I'm gonna go naturally, at home,
probably in my sleep... the way I was intended to.

Pangaro, And besides "Who wants to live forever?"
Member of the Narn Bat Squad