[Space/Aliens] Reproductive Features: alien, exotic and weird ideas

Vaevictis Asmadi · 04-06-2010, 03:14 PM

More from Uplift:

Traeki also breed rings to produce suitable components for stacks.

Several species in Uplift change back and forth between sexes over their lifetimes, due to various stimuli or by choice.

Another race (I don't recall the name) requires a symbiotic host to gestate their eggs. There is only one species that can gestate this race's eggs. Normally the host survives gestation and "birth."

Some more alien reproduction, from the Uplift book:

"Tandu are hermaphroditic. They exchange genes by eating the spore-pods of dead Tandu; once fertilized, they lay a dozen or so eggs at a time."

"Other Methods" from GURPS UPlift:
"Parents lay eggs in host creature, which is eaten away by the developing young. (Or perhaps the parents suffer this fate!)"
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Mating may be fatal to one or all parents.
Young compete among themselves murderously, yet are sapient and grow up remembering how they killed (and ate?) their siblings. [Thri-Kreen and Tohr-Kreen in D&D are this way]
Yound are produced when an adult is torn painfully into many pieces, each of which grows up into a different adult with most of the parent's abilities but few or no memories; the adult is gone."

You can also look up Neogi reproduction, from D&D: http://www.dotd.com/mm/MM00225.htm
It seems pretty reasonable for an extraterrestrial species in a scifi setting, perhaps with a little tweaking.

04-06-2010, 03:14 PM	#6
Vaevictis Asmadi Join Date: May 2007 Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota, U.S.A.	Re: [Space/Aliens] Reproductive Features: alien, exotic and weird ideas More from Uplift: Traeki also breed rings to produce suitable components for stacks. Several species in Uplift change back and forth between sexes over their lifetimes, due to various stimuli or by choice. Another race (I don't recall the name) requires a symbiotic host to gestate their eggs. There is only one species that can gestate this race's eggs. Normally the host survives gestation and "birth." Some more alien reproduction, from the Uplift book: "Tandu are hermaphroditic. They exchange genes by eating the spore-pods of dead Tandu; once fertilized, they lay a dozen or so eggs at a time." "Other Methods" from GURPS UPlift: "Parents lay eggs in host creature, which is eaten away by the developing young. (Or perhaps the parents suffer this fate!)" ... Mating may be fatal to one or all parents. Young compete among themselves murderously, yet are sapient and grow up remembering how they killed (and ate?) their siblings. [Thri-Kreen and Tohr-Kreen in D&D are this way] Yound are produced when an adult is torn painfully into many pieces, each of which grows up into a different adult with most of the parent's abilities but few or no memories; the adult is gone." You can also look up Neogi reproduction, from D&D: http://www.dotd.com/mm/MM00225.htm It seems pretty reasonable for an extraterrestrial species in a scifi setting, perhaps with a little tweaking. __________________ I have Confused and Clueless. Sometimes I miss sarcasm and humor, or critically fail my Savoir-Faire roll. None of it is intentional. Published GURPS Settings (as of 4/2013 -- I hope to update it someday...) Last edited by Vaevictis Asmadi; 04-06-2010 at 07:06 PM.