Simon Roy asked me to invent a guy (alien organism) for his newest book, Refugium, which comes with a guy emporium (alien life guidebook). There's a kind of radially symmetrical bug called pinwheels on the planet that will split into wedges as a defensive mechanism, so I Junji Ito'ed them into a eusocial spiral that workers snap off of once "ripe."
Refugium is out on Kickstarter right now and if you like alien ecology, failed utopias, and frontier stories I can highly recommend it. I've greatly enjoyed the previous books from the same universe.
Refugium is out on Kickstarter right now and if you like alien ecology, failed utopias, and frontier stories I can highly recommend it. I've greatly enjoyed the previous books from the same universe.
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Interesting biology! If the queen is constantly dividing to create new workers, why does she lay eggs?
To create new queens! The worker wedges can't make new colonies, and the queens eventually die.
What jayrockin said
The queen creates workers who gather food, defend the nest, etc. while the eggs hatch into queens that go out to found new colonies
The queen creates workers who gather food, defend the nest, etc. while the eggs hatch into queens that go out to found new colonies
Truly fascinating!
Can't wait to learn more abou this project
Can't wait to learn more abou this project
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