Humma and Reproduction

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jedion357
November 15, 2010 - 6:00am
(see digitial remastered Zebs page 22)
Zebs characteristics for humma states: hermaphroditic, vivaporous reproduction

It later explains: "Young humma are female. After they have borne a single child (all humma bear one child in their lifetime) they change into males. When humma approach 170 years of age they undergo another change into a neuter stage and remain neuter until death."

The problem is, "How does the population grow?"

If every humma only produces 1 humma then how did they get beyond the first Humma to populate a whole star system?

Every humma that dies as a female would be a massive tragedy for the race as they would be a race in decline that would eventually die out "Last of the Mohicans" in SF.

Unless someone can explain how a race where each member only produces 1 new member can grow beyond its starting number then I think we need to change this to be each female humma produces 1 litter (1d10 of off spring)
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!
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jedion357
December 7, 2010 - 7:01pm
Ascent wrote:
Laughing

Alright, alright. I think we're offending Larry, now.

I mean the way he understands it, a pleasurebot is just as perverse. Tongue out Humans and robots!??? Oh my. It's sacrilege in his w00ty eyes.

Okay, time to get back on topic:

Humma Reproduction
Uh...what were we saying?


Actually I moved the on topic thread long before this one went off topic. most humma discussion are going on in the project but this topic is here:

http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/4369
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Ascent
December 7, 2010 - 7:11pm
Oh, so we can ruin this one as much as we want until it gets locked for inappropriate banter? Tongue out
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