One of my alien designs

ericthered · 02-14-2014, 04:45 PM

When I first read about one mother and many daughters, I was quite skeptical. Then I noticed that the male increases the mother's lifespan by six to seven times, and things made a LOT more sense.

A few questions (which I hope you'll take as compliments, I don't normally find aliens with different biologies that are well thought out):

How many 'daughters' is considered a large family? how many is considered a small family?
Does wealth stratification tend to happen to a family as a whole, or to a particular individual?

And now for my mind generating what perversions of this system are possible. I know the answers to these are going to vary by society among the aliens.

This order presumably breaks down on occasion. What does that look like? I assume it looks like a large number of sisters going ronin.
Has infanticide ever occurred? A mother who kills a batch of tadpoles when it becomes apparent that none are male, and tries until she has one? I assume such things happen, even if they are abhorrent.
How is the crime of stealing a tadpole and becoming (if only temporarily) a mother looked upon? does this crime take moments, hours, or days? How are the resulting children looked upon?

02-14-2014, 04:45 PM	#11
ericthered Hero of Democracy Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: far from the ocean	Re: One of my alien designs When I first read about one mother and many daughters, I was quite skeptical. Then I noticed that the male increases the mother's lifespan by six to seven times, and things made a LOT more sense. A few questions (which I hope you'll take as compliments, I don't normally find aliens with different biologies that are well thought out): How many 'daughters' is considered a large family? how many is considered a small family? Does wealth stratification tend to happen to a family as a whole, or to a particular individual? And now for my mind generating what perversions of this system are possible. I know the answers to these are going to vary by society among the aliens. This order presumably breaks down on occasion. What does that look like? I assume it looks like a large number of sisters going ronin. Has infanticide ever occurred? A mother who kills a batch of tadpoles when it becomes apparent that none are male, and tries until she has one? I assume such things happen, even if they are abhorrent. How is the crime of stealing a tadpole and becoming (if only temporarily) a mother looked upon? does this crime take moments, hours, or days? How are the resulting children looked upon? __________________ Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one!