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BadRaccoon 5 years ago#11
It's alien stuffs we're not meant to understand - just understand that unEarthly biology is, well, unEarthly.

And it should be "sex" not "gender" anyway. Gender is for linguistics, sex is for biology.

It's perfectly possible for extraterrestrials to have a sex system not seen on Earth.
IamI3rian 5 years ago#12
BadRaccoon posted...
It's alien stuffs we're not meant to understand - just understand that unEarthly biology is, well, unEarthly.

And it should be "sex" not "gender" anyway. Gender is for linguistics, sex is for biology.

It's perfectly possible for extraterrestrials to have a sex system not seen on Earth.


+1 for saying linguistics and not tumblr trash.
You must A) gather your party before venturing forth
________B) construct additional pylons
BadRaccoon 5 years ago#13
IamI3rian posted...
BadRaccoon posted...
It's alien stuffs we're not meant to understand - just understand that unEarthly biology is, well, unEarthly.

And it should be "sex" not "gender" anyway. Gender is for linguistics, sex is for biology.

It's perfectly possible for extraterrestrials to have a sex system not seen on Earth.


+1 for saying linguistics and not tumblr trash.



I don't know "tumblr".

I do know English, though.
IamI3rian 5 years ago#14
BadRaccoon posted...
IamI3rian posted...
BadRaccoon posted...
It's alien stuffs we're not meant to understand - just understand that unEarthly biology is, well, unEarthly.

And it should be "sex" not "gender" anyway. Gender is for linguistics, sex is for biology.

It's perfectly possible for extraterrestrials to have a sex system not seen on Earth.


+1 for saying linguistics and not tumblr trash.



I don't know "tumblr".

I do know English, though.


You're better off mate.
You must A) gather your party before venturing forth
________B) construct additional pylons
Yunthor_HnC 5 years ago#15
I feel it's important to note that most of the 'gender' listings in NMS seem to be more about the reproduction process of the species in question than the actual physical gender / sex.

Rational: As in 'of a ratio', not a mentality. It means there's more than 2 parents in the mating process, thus not falling into the traditional 'male / female' aspect genders.

Vectorized: Biologically speaking, a 'vector' is a virus that transmits genetic data from one cell to another. That would suggest that 'vectorized' creatures would likely share some form of symboitic relationship with another. In other words, the scanner is picking up 2 life forms in one body.

Asymmetrical: It means that all creatures share the same gender and can perform either aspect of the mating ritual.

Asymptotic: Asymptotic would suggest that the creatures don't directly interact during the mating ritual. Something like the female lays the eggs and the male fertilizes them after the female leaves.

Did I miss any posted here?
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Sirian_Hawk 5 years ago#16
Yunthor_HnC posted...
Did I miss any posted here?

Orthagonal. I see that one a lot.
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IamI3rian 5 years ago#17
I'm guessing orthogonal is closer to random, i.e. changing for no discernible reason.
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Yunthor_HnC 5 years ago#18
Orthogonal: This basically means that the creatures in question have systems so dissimilar to what is occurring in nature around them that they can only interact in a very limited fashion (if at all). This might suggest that the creatures have been genetically modified by one of the other races in the game at some point in the creature's history.
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Xylymphydyte 5 years ago#19
Yunthor_HnC posted...
I feel it's important to note that most of the 'gender' listings in NMS seem to be more about the reproduction process of the species in question than the actual physical gender / sex.

Rational: As in 'of a ratio', not a mentality. It means there's more than 2 parents in the mating process, thus not falling into the traditional 'male / female' aspect genders.

Vectorized: Biologically speaking, a 'vector' is a virus that transmits genetic data from one cell to another. That would suggest that 'vectorized' creatures would likely share some form of symboitic relationship with another. In other words, the scanner is picking up 2 life forms in one body.

Asymmetrical: It means that all creatures share the same gender and can perform either aspect of the mating ritual.

Asymptotic: Asymptotic would suggest that the creatures don't directly interact during the mating ritual. Something like the female lays the eggs and the male fertilizes them after the female leaves.

Did I miss any posted here?


That's actually a great explanation more than likely.

I don't think we have examples on earth of Rational, but Asymmetrical may sort of exist among a lot of hermaphroditic creatures like many mollusks, particularly snails and slugs, and maybe some frogs and fish. Asymptotic I suppose could be an example of broadcast spawners, things like most fish that lay eggs before the male fertilizes them and maybe things like scorpions, which DO directly interact in mating but don't use sex organs, the male places a spermatophore and sort of drags the female onto it, or many octopuses which have sex organs on a single arm they remove and give to the female.

I wonder how you would classify lantern fish, whose males grasp onto the females and become absorbed into her before eventually just becoming a set of genitals that fertilize on command for her. That may actually fit Vectorized?
Yunthor_HnC 5 years ago#20
Xylymphydyte posted...
I wonder how you would classify lantern fish, whose males grasp onto the females and become absorbed into her before eventually just becoming a set of genitals that fertilize on command for her. That may actually fit Vectorized?


It might. The symbiotic comment was just a theory / idea I had. The Lantern Fish example might actually fit better.
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