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Post by shepherdcommander on Mar 9, 2017 9:32:41 GMT
Milky Way: Asari – monogender Humans – binary gendered, known differences Salarian – females: seem to be a redder color compared to the blue-green of males, although there are also blue-green females and redder males, possibly wider hips, more feminine face and voice Turian – males: seem to be taller per lore, only males have feathers on their heads, more masculine face and voice, otherwise no or little difference Quarian – seem to be pretty much human, “dimorphically speaking” (not a real word… or phrase.. but.. eh..?) Krogan – minor differences in the head plate, and much different voice. If kesh is indicative of all females, they may be more “jowly” than males, ‘flappier’ lips. Vorcha, prothean, batarian, drell, yahg, volus, hanar, elcor – not sure if we saw any females, or, if we did, if we could tell the difference or not makes an impact on this list
Andromeda: Kett – haven’t seen more than one gender and no way to really know if they are male or female, we go by the typically male voice and face and assume male but whether they are like the asari and monogendered is unknown… my current theory is that the fiends may play a role in kett reproduction but that may be overly hopeful. (Anyone think that could be true, the kett and fiends are the same species one’s male one female?) Angaran – females look like males, with more feminine face and voice, and all dimensions generally scaled down to appear skinnier while being almost as tall, but a bit shorter. Some people had thought the females had ‘fish bunny ears’ like a twilek and no flaps but the newest vid shows it’s just the normal flaps the males have.
I see the angaran route is likely easiest, take the male angaran model, scale everything skinnier, model the face more feminine, done, as opposed to a truly dimorphic species like (IRL) an angler fish which could basically be two separate species (the males are muuuuch smaller and latch onto the females permanently to reproduce, they look like typical fish, the females are huge in comparison [small by human scale] have large teeth that protrude from their mouths and have a ‘lure’ which is a bioluminescent tentacle coming from its forehead).
The obvious reason we don’t see a sexually dimorphic species is, if they went to the trouble to make two reaaaally different models they could easily make them separate species and get ‘twice the bang for the buck’… but I think that a truly dimorphic species, where all the males are worms and all the females are squids, might be ‘twice the bang for the buck’ in the ‘end game’ because it’s so alien and, imo, really cool. Or where all the males are birds and all the females are quadrupeds or something. One ‘side’ could even be humanoid, as in my hopeful kett example.
Tl;dr: would you like to see a sexually dimorphic species? At the ‘expense’ of having two other species instead?
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Post by kaind on Mar 9, 2017 9:59:32 GMT
I don't want to see any radical sexual dimorphism.
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Post by Morrigan on Mar 9, 2017 10:32:38 GMT
Did anyone say sexual dimorphism?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 10:41:47 GMT
Sexual dimorphism, you say?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 10:44:21 GMT
I think that a truly dimorphic species, where all the males are worms and all the females are squids, might be ‘twice the bang for the buck’ in the ‘end game’ because it’s so alien and, imo, really cool. They could incorporate so many cool things in sci-fi, if the writers actually knew or cared about any of the real life scientific oddities, puzzles, mysteries, etc. I don't think it's simply a question of cutting costs.
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Post by bizantura on Mar 9, 2017 10:46:16 GMT
Fast forward ten years.....
Except for "family unit" support all the various minority possibilities are known but not promoted visual or otherwise, it is relegated to the personal bedchambers.
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Post by Wulfram on Mar 9, 2017 11:23:49 GMT
There were the Rachni in the original trilogy
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Post by MediocreOgre on Mar 9, 2017 14:43:55 GMT
Besides Salarians, the species in ME have indicated a predilection to human sexual dimorphism. If the female is present, it is softer, rounder, more "pretty" (faces of all the females have stereotypical female facial features). This makes sense to us as mammals, but if a species lays eggs (and especially a large quantity of eggs-- looking at you Krogan) then the egg layer (female analogous) should be much larger than the fertilizer (the male analogous). Female Krogan seem basically the same dimension as male Krogan, which makes little to no sense given that they are supposed to be egg laying factories.
If the species is not mammalian they should definitely not have breasts (which the Angara seem to lack, fortunately, so they seem to not be mammalian). But it really makes no sense for every "female" of the species in ME to be "prettier" as even on Earth not many people would argue that a female peacock is prettier than a male peacock, so why would all species we have seen from planets across two galaxies follow the Earth Mammalian sexual dimorphisms?
So yes. I want some dimorphism, but only if they are unique and make sense for the physiology of the species and not just like humans. If they continue this "males are larger, females are prettier" b.s. it's just boring.
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Post by Andrew Lucas on Mar 9, 2017 15:43:13 GMT
There's only two genders.
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Post by MediocreOgre on Mar 9, 2017 15:54:41 GMT
There's only two genders. While on Earth there seems to be no case where three individuals must contribute genetic material to reproduce (sexes), there are numerous species, such as bees, where there are more than two genetic genders (fertile female, infertile female, male). Then it gets more complicated with more complicated species where there can be more than two gender roles. Then in a cognizant species like humans there have historically (and to this day) been more than two genders. Sex is not gender. And even on Earth there is evidence there can be more than two sexes, as evidence suggests that a parasite that lives in some lobsters having more than two sexes as they reproduce through numerous methods of reproduction.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 16:27:37 GMT
There's only two genders. While on Earth there seems to be no case where three individuals must contribute genetic material to reproduce (sexes), there are numerous species, such as bees, where there are more than two genetic genders (fertile female, infertile female, male). Then it gets more complicated with more complicated species where there can be more than two gender roles. Then in a cognizant species like humans there have historically (and to this day) been more than two genders. Sex is not gender. And even on Earth there is evidence there can be more than two sexes, as evidence suggests that a parasite that lives in some lobsters having more than two sexes as they reproduce through numerous methods of reproduction. Fungi can have thousands of genders, for instance, or mating types as they are called. There's also some fish species that change their gender in a certain point of life. They are first all females and turn to males in the end of their life. Give us fungi people, Bioware!
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Post by theorigcylonhybrid on Mar 9, 2017 17:35:14 GMT
Theres lot of things you can do with gender/sexuality that I haven't seen in sci fi but could happen:
More than 2 genders i.e. 3 genders/4 genders/ 5 genders etc
An individual who natually can alter their gender to another one and back again for procreation purposes
Two (or more) different alien species that symbiotically need each other for procreation because they grew up on the same planet. But not like the asari who can procreate with everyone.
Species that self fertilise (monogender) ( only requiring a single individual) and have other means of introducing genetic diversity.
Species where multiple genders must impart their genetic material to a single reciprocal (which can be an object or a single individual) before new individuals are born.
Mass effect have already done a queen who creates an entire hive.
Procreation requiring that the parents in a ritual are killed and dissolved and their genetic material is passed on to the younger generation for procreation.
Genders in which they can only procreate at a certain point in their lives before they become sterile.
Let alone sexual dimorphism between the different genders.
The possibilities are endless.
But no, we have 1 male, 1 female that look almost identical. lets bang ok....for all aliens.
How unimaginative and boring.
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Post by Andrew Lucas on Mar 9, 2017 18:33:34 GMT
There's only two genders. While on Earth there seems to be no case where three individuals must contribute genetic material to reproduce (sexes), there are numerous species, such as bees, where there are more than two genetic genders (fertile female, infertile female, male). Then it gets more complicated with more complicated species where there can be more than two gender roles. Then in a cognizant species like humans there have historically (and to this day) been more than two genders. Sex is not gender. And even on Earth there is evidence there can be more than two sexes, as evidence suggests that a parasite that lives in some lobsters having more than two sexes as they reproduce through numerous methods of reproduction. Humans aren't parasites in the literal sense. There's still only two genders or sexes, whatever you want to call it.
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