Here is some history and biology on Vegetasei. This is instrumental in
providing a background to the characters that I am slowly developing
in my Alternate Universe DBZ fanfic. If there are any questions
and/or criticisms please write to me at my e-mail address:
Tofu3k@cs.com.
As usual I extend the normal disclaimer, that I do not own and will
never own the copyrights to DBZ, so with that written on to the
history.;)
On Vegetasei mate-pairing was mostly a forced event, and
normally just among the elite, which was done more for alliances than
actual emotion, it was only a small percentage of mate-couples who
truly formed a mate-bond. A mate-bond took place only during the
throws of deep true passion, at which time each mate would inflict a
small bite wound on the side of each others neck, and suck a small
amount of blood. This action created a telepathic link where the
minds of the two would then become one, each knowing the others
core being. Since the wounds would leave a telling mark, the Saiyans
who were mate-bonded where readily visible among the general
populace, particularly the men, who wore rather revealing styled
clothing, which were standard battle issue. Women who were fighting
warriors, wore a similar style to the men, but women who choose not
to fight professionally, as all Saiyans love a good fight, wore a stylish
collared tunic, that afforded some color and decoration, although
simple in design. It was easier for these women to hide such a mark,
which was considered by common belief to be a mark of weakness.
Men who bore such a mark were often ridiculed unless of course they
were so strong that they could only be ridiculed by a few who were
perhaps stronger. Thus only third-class warriors were the males who
most commonly bore such a mark, as they were of a lowly stature
anyhow, it did not have as much impact on their social structure in
Vegetasei society.
A side effect of the mate-bond, was the natural production of
children. Saiyans, although coming from rather barbaric roots,
through their many battles with beings from other planets acquired
many new technologies. One of the earliest, was the ability to create a
child through genetic combination of the parents gametes (egg/sperm)
and bring the resulting embryo to full term in an incubator inside large
nurseries especially designed for this purpose. Saiyans took advantage
of this technology at first to produce more babies that could become
more powerful in order to strengthen the Saiyan Empire. The
reasoning behind this was based on the fact the Saiyans could not
naturally produce a child unless the male and female Saiyan were
mate-bonded, and this depended mostly on the female.
A female Saiyan only went into full mate-heat when a full
moon was in its waning period directly after its waxing when the
oozaru form would take over . On Vegetasei a full moon only
occurred once in every eight years and lasted for eight nights, six
waxing and two waning. During the waning time males would
compete with other males to mate with the receptive females. When a
male was triumphant in mating, a mate-bond would be established to
mark the female as his own to fend off other males, during the next
full moon season. From this pairing the female's ovary would,
through hormonal release triggered by the act of mating, allow only
that males sperm to fertilize her egg. This hormonal release acted in
much the same way as our immune systems react when a foreign
object, such as a bacteria, is found inside our bodies, only with the
hormone instead of destroying the invader as it would do normally
during intercourse at any other time than this special mating time,
would allow the sperm to join with the egg. From that point on only
that particular males sperm could inseminate (fertilize) that specific
females eggs. (Kind of like memory B-cells in our immune system)
Therefore, although Saiyans, had sexual drives, as evidenced by King
Vegeta, the actual reproduction of children was predominately
controlled through a highly evolved genetic system.
Originally during ancient Saiyan times, this mating system
ensured the survival of a strong Saiyan race. Power had always been a
driving force in the Saiyan culture, however, since children were
produced only every eight years, the Saiyan population grew very
slowly over time. A normal Saiyan female could have upwards to
about ten children in her life time as Saiyans were known to live as
long as two hundred years or longer naturally. It was hard to tell the
natural life of a Saiyan as they often had a tendency to die in battle. In
the early days of Vegetasei Saiyans lived in clans that would fight
amongst themselves, much in the same manner as the ancient Scots of
Earth's history. However once the Tuffels came to Vegetasei and
colonized the planet, the Saiyans adapted to a different style of
governing, this was due to the new threat they faced from the
technologically advanced Tuffels. The Saiyans banded together,
keeping their clannish form by allowing for a dominant clan to lead all
the other. The lead clan was determined solely on the virtues of their
strength. Ultimately a king was made within the lead clan, and this
king was of course the strongest male of all the Saiyans. It was due to
this new form of government that the Saiyans were able to eventually
overpower their neighbors the Tuffles.
Unlike their neighbors, the Tuffels had a reproduction system
of a human, and it is important to note the Tuffels were the same race
of human, as the people of Earth. The Saiyans were the original
inhabitants of the planet that the technologically advanced Tuffels had
decided to colonize, as evidenced by the Saiyans original primitive
culture and small numbers. The Saiyans had always resented the
Turfels for their invasion, and that is why once the Saiyans grew in
strength and population over the centuries, they eventually were able
to overpower the Tuffels. It was from the Tuffels that the Saiyans got
their first taste of the technology that was now prevalent in producing
more Saiyans. Now adapting to a more advanced cultural aptitude the
Saiyans, knowing that there was strength in numbers forced Tuffel
geneticists to manufacture a system that would allow any female
Saiyan's egg to accept any male Saiyan's sperm, thus producing large
nurseries were new stronger Saiyans were nurtured. As this method
took root in the Saiyan culture it grew to become the main
reproductive method of the Saiyan race, owing to the fact that once the
babies were old enough to survive on their own, most of them were
placed into space pods and sent to distant planets to destroy the
inhabitants, all in the name of the Planet Trade Order which the
Saiyans became a dominating force in once they met up with the
Arkozians. Even with the advanced technology of the genetic
nurseries the Saiyan population never got any larger than 20,000, this
was in part due to the Saiyan's life style of constant battle.
As the genetic nurseries grew to become the principal form of
reproduction of planet Vegetasei, owing to the fact that children could
be born every year, the mate-bond began to be thought of as more a
weakness than a blessing. Power was the main motivating force on
Vegetasei and emotions such as love were considered weak and
useless. Therefore, during the festival of the full moon, the females
would don colorful metal collars during the waning period after they
reverted from their oozaru form back to the humanoid from. This was
to keep from having a mate-bond occur. The only Saiyans that would
go outside of the norm were the third-class male and females warriors,
the stigma of weakness did not effect them as much as the it did the
higher classes were social image as well as power level were equally
important. However on occasion it did occur that a couple would
become mate-bonded, as in the case of Kauli's parents, Cabbia and
Korn. Although Saiyans did not outwardly show such emotions as
affection, that did not mean they did not exist, and sometimes those
emotions became very strong particularly when accentuated by the
hormonal drive of the waning full moon. Of course the result of such
bonding was the arrival of an offspring, naturally brought into the
world. It was Vegetasei law that any child produced through the event
of a mate-bond, during a full moon, had to be brought to term fully
within its mother. This was due to the fact that most fetuses died
shortly after being taken from their mother and placed in a nursery
incubator as was the technological way of doing things in a typical
chemically enhanced mating that was commonplace among the elite.
It was thought that the bond produced a necessary nurturing link for
the child to grow with inside its mother. Sometimes out of shame the
parents would abort their child in this manner, due to the social
pressure that elites faced in Vegetasei society. However for the most
part those elites that did dare to have a mate-bond would carry the
child produced to full term. The children produced in this manner
were often times quite powerful, particularly the males. Unlike the
children raised in the large genetic nurseries, the children of the mate-
bonded were not immediately sent to a training facility once their
power level was accessed, instead they would be brought up by their
parents, until they reached the age of 12, and were sent to the
appropriate training facilities as the law dictated. Since parenting was
made rather obsolete by the genetic nurseries and training facilities.
An adult Saiyan with a child was a novelty unless of course one was at
one of the afore mentioned places, and certainly was never seen at the
palace of Vegetasei unless that child was the product of a mate-bond
or the heir-apparent of the House of Vegeta.
Though most children were sent off Vegetasei to conquer far
away planets, there were still a number of children that were raised
and trained on the planet Vegetasei. This was again to ensure the
survival of the powerful Saiyan race. Baby Saiyans that exhibited a
power level potential, that was deduced through calculations of
parentage and actual body physiology and genetics, above 3000 were
kept on Vegetasei. These were the forces that made the formal
procurement of a planet that would then be traded in the Planet Trade
Order. The children sent off planet were placed in specially designed
space pods that were equipped with an energy beam that projected an
exact replica of the waxing full moon of Vegetasei. Once the child
saw the projection, they would immediately take on the oozaru from
and reek havoc on the planet. Upon completing their mission, the
children would come back to Vegetasei in their space pod, and begin a
life of training for further missions. Although just small toddlers of
three or four years of age, they were still very adept at the Saiyan trait
of being naturally unruly. Saiyans only were kept in line through fear
and training, fear of other Saiyans with larger power levels, and
training to help cut into a Saiyans innate need to fight. For those
children that did not return, every ten years a team of Saiyans were
sent out to each planet to discover the reason behind the failed
mission. More often then not it was due to some miscalculation about
the beings that inhabited the planets power levels or technological
skills. Of about every 1000 children that were sent out each year, about
300 came back to Vegetasei . This was considered an excellent
performance by Saiyan standards, they considered that it a matter of
cleaning house for those that were lost.
The members of the Royal House of Vegeta, for the most part,
stayed on Vegetasei, as well, unless there was some special delegation
to attend, or in the name of training, they adventured to partake of the
actual destruction of a planet or race. The only other Saiyans that
stayed mostly on Vegetasei were the elite females. The standards for
females were different from the males. Females were generally weaker
than their male counterpart, so females that exhibited any above
average power levels were immediately designated as elite for their
breeding potential. Females exhibiting average and below power
levels were treated as the males, some were kept to breed with the
warrior-class, while others were sent to far planets in space pods.
Third-class female warriors successful in conquering the planet they
were sent to were allowed to mate with third-class or warrior-class
males, and for that reason more mate-bonds were found among the
third-class ranks of Saiyans. The elite females could choose between a
life of a warrior, or one of court which was a more social arena. Those
that were the warriors trained among the warrior-class males and were
dispatched on missions in the same manner as the male Saiyans.
Their eggs were harvested, however, to insure that no genetic strength
would ever go unfound on Vegetasei. These women were harsh and
bore very few feminine qualities other than being female. They
quarter-mated with various males rather than being mate-paired to
only one. Quarter-mating meant that as soon as they were fed up
with the male they were shacking up with at any given time they
would move on to some other males quarters. Often they would
eventually settle in their own quarters, but this arrangement was based
on rank determined by their battle record, or their genetic parentage,
or both.
Court elite females were the bartering tools among the
stronger elite ranks and especially the Royal House of Vegeta. It is
among the elite that one finds the most variety in Saiyan genetics.
Where third-class warriors, and often warrior-class, often resembled
one another, the elite were more diverse. Since the reproductive
technique of choice among Saiyans was genetic combination in an
incubator, mate-bonding fell by the way-side. Along with the stigma
of weakness attached to mate-bonding, the Saiyan culture adapted new
rituals to sustain their sexual sensibilities. More attractive were power
alliances made between strong elite Family-Houses, which were
originally the known as just clans. These ties produced the powerful
leaders of Vegetasei's armies and government. Even though females
were given in mate-pairing to only one male to cement ties, they were
still, due to cultural stigmas, not into mate-bonding with their selected
partners. This was because the price of ones genetic parentage was
more highly prized than true love. To prevent mate-bonding during
the eight-year moon cycle, elite women were accustomed to wearing a
metal collar around their lower necks and upper shoulders, resembling
what we Earthlings would recognize as Egyptian decorative collars.
The collars were of course very elaborate, and also helped portray ones
status in the Saiyan society. Unlike the elite warrior females, the court
elite females did not have their eggs completely harvested. This was
due to a Saiyans tendency to mistrust almost everyone except himself.
Instead these females would be injected with a especially designed
chemical that allowed the normal reproductive functions, but inhibited
the hormonal response that would normally destroy any sperm that
entered the uterus without the mate-bond. After conception took
place, the woman would carry the fetus for the first three months, at
which time the fetus would be safely removed from its mothers womb,
and place into a nursery incubator to reach full term, which is only
eight months.
When an alliance was made by either the Family-House
delegates or the king, that females eggs were assigned to that male,
only until the time the alliance proved useless or unnecessary and then
the female was the kings, to with as he pleased. The law of Vegetasei
was designed by its Saiyan originators, to allow for the strengthening
of the Saiyan race. As the king was the strongest male on Vegetasei, it
only made sense that he should put forth the most genetic material.
That way should any of the four mates the king was allowed not
produce the strongest male on the planet, then one would typically be
found among the king's concubine's children. Therefore all the male
children of the king were potentially the next king depending on their
power level, unless a clearly more powerful male offspring was
produced, and thus became the heir-apparent. As in the case of Prince
Vegeta, whose power level so astonished the nursery scientists,
whispers of a new legendary Super Saiyan immediately began to
spread. Of course, quite a number times in the earlier part of Saiyan
history and somewhat less in more recent history, did no male child of
the king of Vegetasei prove to be the most powerful male. It for this
reason that there was not a thinning out of the genetic lineage. When
this happened a changing of the guard would take place in the Royal
Palace and the Family-House that took over also took the name of
Vegeta. However, only the king and the heir-apparent took the name
Vegeta formally.
The only Saiyan females exempt from the king's harem were
those that were of the House of Vegeta by birth. These females were
the most highly prized for alliance purposes. Although Saiyan females
could potentially have a child naturally every eight years of their life,
as with all things in nature, this was never the case. Therefore,
although the elite-class was considered the most prized powerfully in
society, they were not as proliferate as the genetic nurseries.
Furthermore, women of elite stature were few and far between, and
though it was genetically probable that two parents of elite stature
would produce a child that was an elite, this did not always occur.
That is how the legendary Super Saiyan gene was passed to third-class
and warrior-class families, and how eventually a lowly third-class
Saiyan infant sent to Earth would become the first Super Saiyan to
appear after centuries of Vegetasei generations.
Note: I will do another history/background that goes into more depth
on the role of elite court female Saiyans and also more about normal
life on Vegetasei leading up to its destruction by Frieza. Hope you
enjoy. -Tofu3k
providing a background to the characters that I am slowly developing
in my Alternate Universe DBZ fanfic. If there are any questions
and/or criticisms please write to me at my e-mail address:
Tofu3k@cs.com.
As usual I extend the normal disclaimer, that I do not own and will
never own the copyrights to DBZ, so with that written on to the
history.;)
On Vegetasei mate-pairing was mostly a forced event, and
normally just among the elite, which was done more for alliances than
actual emotion, it was only a small percentage of mate-couples who
truly formed a mate-bond. A mate-bond took place only during the
throws of deep true passion, at which time each mate would inflict a
small bite wound on the side of each others neck, and suck a small
amount of blood. This action created a telepathic link where the
minds of the two would then become one, each knowing the others
core being. Since the wounds would leave a telling mark, the Saiyans
who were mate-bonded where readily visible among the general
populace, particularly the men, who wore rather revealing styled
clothing, which were standard battle issue. Women who were fighting
warriors, wore a similar style to the men, but women who choose not
to fight professionally, as all Saiyans love a good fight, wore a stylish
collared tunic, that afforded some color and decoration, although
simple in design. It was easier for these women to hide such a mark,
which was considered by common belief to be a mark of weakness.
Men who bore such a mark were often ridiculed unless of course they
were so strong that they could only be ridiculed by a few who were
perhaps stronger. Thus only third-class warriors were the males who
most commonly bore such a mark, as they were of a lowly stature
anyhow, it did not have as much impact on their social structure in
Vegetasei society.
A side effect of the mate-bond, was the natural production of
children. Saiyans, although coming from rather barbaric roots,
through their many battles with beings from other planets acquired
many new technologies. One of the earliest, was the ability to create a
child through genetic combination of the parents gametes (egg/sperm)
and bring the resulting embryo to full term in an incubator inside large
nurseries especially designed for this purpose. Saiyans took advantage
of this technology at first to produce more babies that could become
more powerful in order to strengthen the Saiyan Empire. The
reasoning behind this was based on the fact the Saiyans could not
naturally produce a child unless the male and female Saiyan were
mate-bonded, and this depended mostly on the female.
A female Saiyan only went into full mate-heat when a full
moon was in its waning period directly after its waxing when the
oozaru form would take over . On Vegetasei a full moon only
occurred once in every eight years and lasted for eight nights, six
waxing and two waning. During the waning time males would
compete with other males to mate with the receptive females. When a
male was triumphant in mating, a mate-bond would be established to
mark the female as his own to fend off other males, during the next
full moon season. From this pairing the female's ovary would,
through hormonal release triggered by the act of mating, allow only
that males sperm to fertilize her egg. This hormonal release acted in
much the same way as our immune systems react when a foreign
object, such as a bacteria, is found inside our bodies, only with the
hormone instead of destroying the invader as it would do normally
during intercourse at any other time than this special mating time,
would allow the sperm to join with the egg. From that point on only
that particular males sperm could inseminate (fertilize) that specific
females eggs. (Kind of like memory B-cells in our immune system)
Therefore, although Saiyans, had sexual drives, as evidenced by King
Vegeta, the actual reproduction of children was predominately
controlled through a highly evolved genetic system.
Originally during ancient Saiyan times, this mating system
ensured the survival of a strong Saiyan race. Power had always been a
driving force in the Saiyan culture, however, since children were
produced only every eight years, the Saiyan population grew very
slowly over time. A normal Saiyan female could have upwards to
about ten children in her life time as Saiyans were known to live as
long as two hundred years or longer naturally. It was hard to tell the
natural life of a Saiyan as they often had a tendency to die in battle. In
the early days of Vegetasei Saiyans lived in clans that would fight
amongst themselves, much in the same manner as the ancient Scots of
Earth's history. However once the Tuffels came to Vegetasei and
colonized the planet, the Saiyans adapted to a different style of
governing, this was due to the new threat they faced from the
technologically advanced Tuffels. The Saiyans banded together,
keeping their clannish form by allowing for a dominant clan to lead all
the other. The lead clan was determined solely on the virtues of their
strength. Ultimately a king was made within the lead clan, and this
king was of course the strongest male of all the Saiyans. It was due to
this new form of government that the Saiyans were able to eventually
overpower their neighbors the Tuffles.
Unlike their neighbors, the Tuffels had a reproduction system
of a human, and it is important to note the Tuffels were the same race
of human, as the people of Earth. The Saiyans were the original
inhabitants of the planet that the technologically advanced Tuffels had
decided to colonize, as evidenced by the Saiyans original primitive
culture and small numbers. The Saiyans had always resented the
Turfels for their invasion, and that is why once the Saiyans grew in
strength and population over the centuries, they eventually were able
to overpower the Tuffels. It was from the Tuffels that the Saiyans got
their first taste of the technology that was now prevalent in producing
more Saiyans. Now adapting to a more advanced cultural aptitude the
Saiyans, knowing that there was strength in numbers forced Tuffel
geneticists to manufacture a system that would allow any female
Saiyan's egg to accept any male Saiyan's sperm, thus producing large
nurseries were new stronger Saiyans were nurtured. As this method
took root in the Saiyan culture it grew to become the main
reproductive method of the Saiyan race, owing to the fact that once the
babies were old enough to survive on their own, most of them were
placed into space pods and sent to distant planets to destroy the
inhabitants, all in the name of the Planet Trade Order which the
Saiyans became a dominating force in once they met up with the
Arkozians. Even with the advanced technology of the genetic
nurseries the Saiyan population never got any larger than 20,000, this
was in part due to the Saiyan's life style of constant battle.
As the genetic nurseries grew to become the principal form of
reproduction of planet Vegetasei, owing to the fact that children could
be born every year, the mate-bond began to be thought of as more a
weakness than a blessing. Power was the main motivating force on
Vegetasei and emotions such as love were considered weak and
useless. Therefore, during the festival of the full moon, the females
would don colorful metal collars during the waning period after they
reverted from their oozaru form back to the humanoid from. This was
to keep from having a mate-bond occur. The only Saiyans that would
go outside of the norm were the third-class male and females warriors,
the stigma of weakness did not effect them as much as the it did the
higher classes were social image as well as power level were equally
important. However on occasion it did occur that a couple would
become mate-bonded, as in the case of Kauli's parents, Cabbia and
Korn. Although Saiyans did not outwardly show such emotions as
affection, that did not mean they did not exist, and sometimes those
emotions became very strong particularly when accentuated by the
hormonal drive of the waning full moon. Of course the result of such
bonding was the arrival of an offspring, naturally brought into the
world. It was Vegetasei law that any child produced through the event
of a mate-bond, during a full moon, had to be brought to term fully
within its mother. This was due to the fact that most fetuses died
shortly after being taken from their mother and placed in a nursery
incubator as was the technological way of doing things in a typical
chemically enhanced mating that was commonplace among the elite.
It was thought that the bond produced a necessary nurturing link for
the child to grow with inside its mother. Sometimes out of shame the
parents would abort their child in this manner, due to the social
pressure that elites faced in Vegetasei society. However for the most
part those elites that did dare to have a mate-bond would carry the
child produced to full term. The children produced in this manner
were often times quite powerful, particularly the males. Unlike the
children raised in the large genetic nurseries, the children of the mate-
bonded were not immediately sent to a training facility once their
power level was accessed, instead they would be brought up by their
parents, until they reached the age of 12, and were sent to the
appropriate training facilities as the law dictated. Since parenting was
made rather obsolete by the genetic nurseries and training facilities.
An adult Saiyan with a child was a novelty unless of course one was at
one of the afore mentioned places, and certainly was never seen at the
palace of Vegetasei unless that child was the product of a mate-bond
or the heir-apparent of the House of Vegeta.
Though most children were sent off Vegetasei to conquer far
away planets, there were still a number of children that were raised
and trained on the planet Vegetasei. This was again to ensure the
survival of the powerful Saiyan race. Baby Saiyans that exhibited a
power level potential, that was deduced through calculations of
parentage and actual body physiology and genetics, above 3000 were
kept on Vegetasei. These were the forces that made the formal
procurement of a planet that would then be traded in the Planet Trade
Order. The children sent off planet were placed in specially designed
space pods that were equipped with an energy beam that projected an
exact replica of the waxing full moon of Vegetasei. Once the child
saw the projection, they would immediately take on the oozaru from
and reek havoc on the planet. Upon completing their mission, the
children would come back to Vegetasei in their space pod, and begin a
life of training for further missions. Although just small toddlers of
three or four years of age, they were still very adept at the Saiyan trait
of being naturally unruly. Saiyans only were kept in line through fear
and training, fear of other Saiyans with larger power levels, and
training to help cut into a Saiyans innate need to fight. For those
children that did not return, every ten years a team of Saiyans were
sent out to each planet to discover the reason behind the failed
mission. More often then not it was due to some miscalculation about
the beings that inhabited the planets power levels or technological
skills. Of about every 1000 children that were sent out each year, about
300 came back to Vegetasei . This was considered an excellent
performance by Saiyan standards, they considered that it a matter of
cleaning house for those that were lost.
The members of the Royal House of Vegeta, for the most part,
stayed on Vegetasei, as well, unless there was some special delegation
to attend, or in the name of training, they adventured to partake of the
actual destruction of a planet or race. The only other Saiyans that
stayed mostly on Vegetasei were the elite females. The standards for
females were different from the males. Females were generally weaker
than their male counterpart, so females that exhibited any above
average power levels were immediately designated as elite for their
breeding potential. Females exhibiting average and below power
levels were treated as the males, some were kept to breed with the
warrior-class, while others were sent to far planets in space pods.
Third-class female warriors successful in conquering the planet they
were sent to were allowed to mate with third-class or warrior-class
males, and for that reason more mate-bonds were found among the
third-class ranks of Saiyans. The elite females could choose between a
life of a warrior, or one of court which was a more social arena. Those
that were the warriors trained among the warrior-class males and were
dispatched on missions in the same manner as the male Saiyans.
Their eggs were harvested, however, to insure that no genetic strength
would ever go unfound on Vegetasei. These women were harsh and
bore very few feminine qualities other than being female. They
quarter-mated with various males rather than being mate-paired to
only one. Quarter-mating meant that as soon as they were fed up
with the male they were shacking up with at any given time they
would move on to some other males quarters. Often they would
eventually settle in their own quarters, but this arrangement was based
on rank determined by their battle record, or their genetic parentage,
or both.
Court elite females were the bartering tools among the
stronger elite ranks and especially the Royal House of Vegeta. It is
among the elite that one finds the most variety in Saiyan genetics.
Where third-class warriors, and often warrior-class, often resembled
one another, the elite were more diverse. Since the reproductive
technique of choice among Saiyans was genetic combination in an
incubator, mate-bonding fell by the way-side. Along with the stigma
of weakness attached to mate-bonding, the Saiyan culture adapted new
rituals to sustain their sexual sensibilities. More attractive were power
alliances made between strong elite Family-Houses, which were
originally the known as just clans. These ties produced the powerful
leaders of Vegetasei's armies and government. Even though females
were given in mate-pairing to only one male to cement ties, they were
still, due to cultural stigmas, not into mate-bonding with their selected
partners. This was because the price of ones genetic parentage was
more highly prized than true love. To prevent mate-bonding during
the eight-year moon cycle, elite women were accustomed to wearing a
metal collar around their lower necks and upper shoulders, resembling
what we Earthlings would recognize as Egyptian decorative collars.
The collars were of course very elaborate, and also helped portray ones
status in the Saiyan society. Unlike the elite warrior females, the court
elite females did not have their eggs completely harvested. This was
due to a Saiyans tendency to mistrust almost everyone except himself.
Instead these females would be injected with a especially designed
chemical that allowed the normal reproductive functions, but inhibited
the hormonal response that would normally destroy any sperm that
entered the uterus without the mate-bond. After conception took
place, the woman would carry the fetus for the first three months, at
which time the fetus would be safely removed from its mothers womb,
and place into a nursery incubator to reach full term, which is only
eight months.
When an alliance was made by either the Family-House
delegates or the king, that females eggs were assigned to that male,
only until the time the alliance proved useless or unnecessary and then
the female was the kings, to with as he pleased. The law of Vegetasei
was designed by its Saiyan originators, to allow for the strengthening
of the Saiyan race. As the king was the strongest male on Vegetasei, it
only made sense that he should put forth the most genetic material.
That way should any of the four mates the king was allowed not
produce the strongest male on the planet, then one would typically be
found among the king's concubine's children. Therefore all the male
children of the king were potentially the next king depending on their
power level, unless a clearly more powerful male offspring was
produced, and thus became the heir-apparent. As in the case of Prince
Vegeta, whose power level so astonished the nursery scientists,
whispers of a new legendary Super Saiyan immediately began to
spread. Of course, quite a number times in the earlier part of Saiyan
history and somewhat less in more recent history, did no male child of
the king of Vegetasei prove to be the most powerful male. It for this
reason that there was not a thinning out of the genetic lineage. When
this happened a changing of the guard would take place in the Royal
Palace and the Family-House that took over also took the name of
Vegeta. However, only the king and the heir-apparent took the name
Vegeta formally.
The only Saiyan females exempt from the king's harem were
those that were of the House of Vegeta by birth. These females were
the most highly prized for alliance purposes. Although Saiyan females
could potentially have a child naturally every eight years of their life,
as with all things in nature, this was never the case. Therefore,
although the elite-class was considered the most prized powerfully in
society, they were not as proliferate as the genetic nurseries.
Furthermore, women of elite stature were few and far between, and
though it was genetically probable that two parents of elite stature
would produce a child that was an elite, this did not always occur.
That is how the legendary Super Saiyan gene was passed to third-class
and warrior-class families, and how eventually a lowly third-class
Saiyan infant sent to Earth would become the first Super Saiyan to
appear after centuries of Vegetasei generations.
Note: I will do another history/background that goes into more depth
on the role of elite court female Saiyans and also more about normal
life on Vegetasei leading up to its destruction by Frieza. Hope you
enjoy. -Tofu3k