Protoss Mating

Kerrah
12-13-2007, 10:34 PM
Stolen from the Starcraft 2 fora: (http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?fn=sc2-general&t=57928&p=1&#post57928)

If you could get us an answer, here's a question that's plagued every member of the community at one time or another...how do the Protoss mate? We know that they are gender based due to Raszagal and the new addition of Selendis...but we also know that they don't possess human-like sexual organs.

You can clearly see this by looking at the concept art of Zeratul:
http://starcraft2.com/images/artwork/ss16-hires.jpg

As you can see, he has no genitalia under that loin cloth...and no I wasn't the first to notice before you all start giggling at me, it was brought to my attention by Mizhak. Regardless, this also got me to think about it...and the Protoss women have absolutely no need for breasts either.

The breast is utilized for feeding an infant, despite our popular belief, and since the Protoss feast off light energy from the sun, moon, and stars...there's absolutely no need for the female Protoss to have breasts besides our inherent desire to see big breasted women. That aside, Selendis wears a chest piece that doesn't give you the slightest indication as to if she does or doesn't...but I assume she doesn't due to this reason alone.

In combination to this, she most likely doesn't have human-like female genitalia since Zeratul obviously lacks that specific appendage. So, if you could get us an answer from the Dev Team and include it into the next batch of Q&A I'd be fairly pleased.

If, however, the Dev Team is currently at a loss...might I suggest a form of mating that's both extremely Alien and actually exists upon this planet?

There's a species of fish who lives in the darkest, deepest depths of the Ocean. This fish is the Deep Sea Angler fish and goes about mating in the most unique and alien method I have ever come to see in my many years of being a Discovery Channel and Animal Planet obsesser.

The male of the species actually latches onto the female and merges with her physically, becoming an appendage in order for the two to reproduce indefinitely. I admit that a permanent merger between the male and female Protoss would be rather...impractical...a temporary merger between the two individuals makes perfect sense.

The Protoss are a species who live for a extremely long amount of time, so it's safe to assume that they don't breed often and the mating process takes a decent amount of time. With this in mind, the mating of two individuals could be considered a ritual within the Protoss, a way of expressing devotion and union between two individuals in both body and spirit to create a physical manifestation of their union.

Those who desire to partake in this ritual would spend a long time slowly merging with one another, both physically and mentally...their bodies forming a meshwork of flesh as they join together. Whilst combined in this manner that's when the sexual organs become exposed...internally. The ritual would, most likely, take days, weeks, even possibly an entire year before the process was complete and the two individuals finally separated with a new, in depth, understanding of one another...having joined minds and bodies for such an extended amount of time. They would now be mentally linked on a level almost akin to the Archons in an aspect...

The product of this union would be a single egg, a child born of the two's union and a physical representation of it.

As sick and twisted as I may be considered for proposing this concept, and possibly even just wondering about it at all, I believe that this process would fit the Protoss perfectly. The mating of the Protoss would be a prolonged ritual of union, a sacred joining of two individuals in a way that no other species could begin to fathom...this mimics their very way of thinking in many aspects.

Now,

For the rest of you...flame away! I'm already aware I'm twisted...but I'm quite interested in the lore and the biology behind the races...how they work, what makes them tick, social order, so on and so forth...and that includes mating. I was greatly pleased to finally find out how they feed upon reading "Firstborn", and in my eyes this is the last piece to the puzzle, so to speak.

What do you think?

- Stolen from "Kerrah"

 

Huh, well this interesting, i'll give whoever wrote this that.

 

maybe they're more like plants. they feed of sunlight, after all. release some pollen during matiing season, and let the winds do the rest.

 

Maybe their bodies never die.. their spirit leaves their bodies to join the khala/void when the time comes, and a ''young'' spirit takes the empty body to start a fresh existence.
This would explain the fact that there seem to be no protoss children for some reason.

Remember, the Protoss are considered the ''purity of form'' so maybe It does make sense that their ''form'' aka bodies are immortal (unless of course, you shoot his a$$ with a gauss rifle)

And It would also explain why Fenix could be ''revived''. Technically, according to this theory, Fenix could yet again appear on a different body, or robotic body, ala immortal/stalker/whatever.

 

It doesn't sound too strange to me. I always imagined Protoss reproduction to be something like an Archon meld - only instead the energy dissapates to leave the three protoss - "mother," "father," and infant. If adopted, the theory would fit nicely into the lore behind Archons (remember that the first archons were created by accident - perhaps a mating ritual gone wrong?)

 

This has been discussed to unbelievable lengths at SCLegacy and through years of very, very, very impressive detective work by the community, what is likely to be the truth (since it came from official sources) was found.

However, in my opinion, it's better if you don't know of this possibility if you don't already. Once I found out I immediately wish I hadn't. I'd be willing to bet that it's another one of those things that Chris Metzen would just loooove to redo akin to the UED and the *spoilers*infestation and resurrection of Stukov*end spoilers* assuming that it's true.

Thankfully, it's hidden well enough that changing it and destroying all evidence of its unholy taint is actually possible.

 

well, seeing as they are male and female protoss they have to have some form of human like mating. that concept art you posted mentioning that zaratule has no male genitalia is not a valid one... its concept art so why would someone draw genitalia on there even if they did have some? OR, his genitalia can retract inside of his body kinda like some reptiles like aligators/lizards/snakes/etc. and when its time to mate it just extends and protrudes from out of him.

the mere pressence of a female protoss leads me to beleive that some type of sexual mating occurs that may even be similar to how snakes or dolphins mate. i dont think they combine and mold into one being then magically makes a egg. if that was the case then there would be no need for a female protoss at all. i belive that they mate normaly with full fledged sexual organs and that the female protoss gives birth to children. maybe thru eggs goest thru a very long and careful incubation so it can hatch.

 

These sort of threads usually surface when there hasn't been any real news for a while. That's why it was discussed to death on SClegacy.com: the result of a legion of geeks dissecting their favourite game for years; inexorably, having exhausted all pertinent dialogues, they turn to frivolous interests...

Frankly, the less I know about the Protoss, the more I like them. Expounding on more esoteric topics rubs off the magic varnish that so dazzles me, just like the novelisations of Myst ruined much of that universe's enigma (its mystery happened to have been its charm).

 

Not this again.

Please.

 

Mighty Fenix has expressed his dismay at this topic. In turn, I will pray to Almighty Blizzard to send us a battle report, or if that is asking for too much, an interview, or something -- anything to deter this thread!

Incidentally, shouldn't this thread be in the SC2 storyline forum? Can someone go hide it there?

 

yeah, these kinds of threads will go on every time a battle report DOESN'T come out.

so, on that note, how do terran marines stay clean? i mean, in the opening video they were pretty much welded into their suits. don't they need to shower every once in a while? how do they treat wounds? i'd think they would die of infections from any tiny cut, given all the sweat and crap that builds up.

speaking of crap, how do marines do it? and pissing? man, sanitation problems all around.

 

What I wonder is what is inside a dragoon.

 

is this a real thread?

 

Continuing the thread...

In the Twilight Archon story, we learn the Kassia crystal, made by the xel'naga, could control the protoss reproductive rate.

 

If so, why dont the protoss try and recapture the crystal and increase their numbers.

 

or maybe you know...the answer to protoss reproduction will never be known

 

don't they float in some weird life-support fluid tank thing? the immortals got a goldfish...

 

They did! However, that was upon the Fall of Aiur, and that was only 4-5 years ago.

I think protoss take longer to grow up.

According to this interview:

"The Protoss are sort of a troubled species. They're being systematically exterminated, and were being exterminated long before the Zerg arrived. They were starting to die out from their sheer age, but now that the Zerg came and their home world is gone, these guys are really having a lot of trouble."

Don't know where that "systematically exterminated" bit came from, though.

Link: http://www.destructoid.com/destructoid-interview-starcraft-ii-s-dustin-browder-137841.phtml

 

Perhaps they just dont like children?

I second Fenix's wish. We discussed this to the end of the worldd 1,5 years ago, dont know if the thread still exists or if it was deleted while we were moving.

 

this thread does seem to be moving in an other suggestion though


cant find the old thread, but i made some kinky suggestions