Hello young males and females, today, we are going to learn about an amazing process uncovered from 1000 years ago!
The video showed two Irkens, a male and a female, both dressed in red uniform. They bowed to each other, then waved at the screen before looking only too interested in the narration.
The mighty Irken race didn't always clone for reproduction, noooo, us Mighty Irkens used to make our smeets just like most life forms do! We mated. Data tells us that this long lost practice can easily be reengaged! Isn't that fantastic!?
The Irkens nodded excitedly.
Now, we have not done this in so long because, as we all know, too many emotions can lead to distractions in battle, which means weakness...This is why the Irken reproductive systems have been surpressed for so long! But now, males and females, it is our duty to the future of Irk to go back to our roots and find our mates!
The two Irkens hurried towards each other.
Very good! These two have got it! But let's not get a head of ourselves! We still have to modify your paks to stop surpressing your reproductive systems! Before we do that, lets look at the anatomy of a female vs a male.
Two mechanical arms came down and stripped the Irkens of their clothes. They stood together naked, inspecting each other's bodies. They looked up and down, then shrugged their shoulders, looked at the screen with their arms up and shoom their heads essentially saying "I dont know"
Yes, on the outside Males and Females essentially look the same...this is why our coloration and antennai present differently.
male antennai are typically this shape, or something very similar. Their color is usually a darker, or deeper green. Brightness of color is indicitive of good health, and therefore more attractive. Thick antennai vs thin present the same.
There was an arrow pointing to the male's head, his scythe shaped antennai perking up.
The female antenna have a variety of shapes, but all will be curled. Female antennai are longer than the males...short antennai are usually due to poor breeding. Females color is usually softer than the male's, again, brightness in color being an indicator of good genes and good health.
The Irkens compared skin tones by holding their arms together, and showing each other their antennai.
Now, on the inside, is where we see the big differences! Lets focus on the female first!
scanners came out and scanned the Irkens, the hologram of the scans enlarging for the viewer. Different parts of the body highlighted as the narration addressed them.
Now, All Irkens have the singular digestive and waste organ, the squeedelyspooch. But lets focus on the organs that are different. Our reproductive organs in the females are here...here is the canal, an opening to allow the transfer of genetic material from the male during the act of mating.
The canal is a muscular, self cleaning, self lubricating, muscular structure. It can enlarge to ten times its width and leangth during birth...but we'll get to that later.
The canal leads to the anthix...a muscular structure that acts as the barrier to the females smooch...The smooch is a sack like organ that will grow the offspring of the male. Attatched to the smooch are the ova ducts, of which, there are four, these are attached to the females egg glands, of which there are also four. These are in charge of creating female hormones and developing eggs.
During the mating process, the ova ducts must be stimulated so that the egg glands will release their eggs, typically between 6-8 eggs will be released at a time. The female must be properly stimulated so that the eggs mature enough to be fertilized, if not, they may not be viable, and will pass through the female's system as waste.
The hologram showed eggs growing within the egg glands from small specks to roughly the size of quail eggs, then travelling down the ducts and into the smooch. Then being passed through the canal.
If matured enough for fertilizing, the eggs will pass into the Smooch, when fertilized, the eggs will begin emiting a hormone which will signal the Smooch to transform its lining into a protective double-walled Sack. We'll get to just how the eggs are fertilized here in a bit.
Here, more eggs travelled into the smooch, where they started giving off hormones, depicted as them vibrating. A sack forming from the Smooch's lining.
Part of the lining will stay attatched to the smooch, and form into a whole new organ! This is called the sloot. The sloot's function is to filter and add nutrients to the fluid that will fill the protective sack, which will become thick, and hard to protect the female and her smeets. both chambers will fill with fluid as the sloot filters it from the females blood. This fluid is called gestational plasma and helps protect the forming eggs as well as give nutrients to the smeets within them. The double wall is to also protect the female from her smeets... should they hatch early, they may try to claw their way out! It also offers the smeets more protection, so if the female should be injured in battle, the smeets will be harder to harm. As the sack fills over time, the females Smooch will grow, allowing the eggs and smeets to grow as well. This growth will be visable outside the body as well! The female's abdomen becoming more and more swollen with time.
here it showed the sack being filled and growing, the eggs growing from Quail sized to Emu sized, showing the smeets development as well. The female Irken appeared beside the hologram of her organs, her stomach becoming larger and round.
Something else happens in this time as well...
The female Irken began developing human like breasts. She looked down at them and put her hands to her cheeks in shock.
Once pregnancy hormones are at their peak, the female will begin to produce nutrients for her smeets. These nutrients will be stored in ducts located in the females mammory glands. This fluid is called melk. The smeets will be fed at the females breasts where they will suckle to recieve the melk.They will be ravenous when they are born! So the female mist make and store lots of melk!
The females breasts began growing to an enormous size, then leaking melk, she then brought a smeet to her breast to feed.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves here! The egg sack must be laid first! When the smooch reaches its maximum size, which will vary depending on how much hormones are being released by eggs...more eggs means a bigger size.
When the smooch has streatched to capacity, it will start contracting, which can be painful for the Female...As it contracts, it will pop the first wall of the fluid filled protective sack...The fluid will thin the mucus plug that forms at the female's anthix. The plug is placed by the male during mating, and will be dissolved by the gestational fluid.
Once the mucus plug is dissolved, the fluid will escape the female...This is when the male will begin helping with the birth process...we will explain that process soon...but the male will give the female a mich needed hormone that will induce dialation of the canal and open the anthix to allow the egg sack to pass through safely, the contracting smooch pushing it out.
The protective sack will leak gestational fluid as it is released from the sloot, allowing fluid to collect behind the sack and in the smooch...this makes the sack a little easier to fit through the canal, as well as lubricating its exit...Once the egg sack is birthed, the sloot will soon follow. The female will feed on the sloot, which helps her melk gain nutrition.
Here the female is shown giving birth next to her hologram, which showed the internal process.
Once the sack is birthed, The female will keep it warm with her body heat in her nest. The male must provide for her as she is in a compromised state. She will not leave her nest for anything other than relieving herself of waste. The male will also help clean the female as insticts urge him to do.
Here it showed the Female huddled around her egg sack, the male protecting her from odd creatures and bringing her food. He curled up with her to sleep huddled around the egg sack, and they gave each other tongue baths.
Typically, females are egg laden, or pregnant for six months, but can go for as long as ten depending on the amount of eggs. The eggs typically take one to two months to hatch.
Once they hatch, they will do so within the confines of the protective sack...This begins the sneets first training in battle, as us Irkens are natural born soldiers. The smeets will fight for the right to be born. Its survival of the fittest after all! Armed with only their little claws, and their one sharp little egg tooth, the smeets will fight and devour the loosers. Once full, the smeets will stop fighting, and work their way out of the protective sack, which will wear down their egg teeth enough to be able to nurse without harming the female.
From 6-8 Eggs, there will typically be 2-4 surviving smeets. They will be small, defensless, and need the constant care and protection of their parents. Its hard work females! but it is your duty for the future of the Irken Race!