Re: Sa'Vasku Ship Lifecycle

On 17-May-00 at 08:34, Laserlight (laserlight@quixnet.net) wrote:
> >Sa'Vasku ships come in 4 basic varieties:
> >a) Sterile Mules
> >b) "Males"
> >c) "Females"
> >d) (Hypthesised, never seen) "Breeders"
> >
> 
> 
> "When I grow up, I want to be a superdreadnaught.  I'll find
> some cute, sexy battlecruiser, we'll settle down somewhere and
> have lots of frigates."
> 
> The concept of "mating dreadnoughts" is a bit boggling.
> Perhaps, given the owners' origin, they arrange things
> analogously to fish, ie the female lays corvette-sized eggs,
> then male provides fighter-sized bits of its replicative coding.
> 

Or they could do the mating sequence from The Reality Dysfunction,
with the males chasing the female and the fastest one catching her.
Of course, the bio-ships in those books was a bit smaller with a
human crew of 5 or 6.  Once caught genetic material swapped, I
believe the eggs were "laid" only moments before they hatched.

Roger