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[Maria Caliban]

I assume that the Reapers made the Collectors a viable species. While they have an 'insect' like biology, you never see any queens. Do you think they have sexual reproduction?

Modifié par Maria Caliban, 20 février 2010 - 09:22 .

[luk3us]

They probably just grow them like they do with Krogans in tanks.

[sergio71785]

The answer waits within a Farnax magazine

[adam_grif]

Well Maria, when a man and a woman love each other very much,

[zeypher]

mordin mentions how. They clone themselves

[Speakeasy13]

They are probably asexual as their major organs are all replaced by cybernetics. They probably reproduce by cybernetic means.



PS: You avatar looks amazingly like Shirley Manson of Garbage.

[Veen130]

So what if they don't have a Queen. Keepers are insect like and they don't have a queen, yet when ever one is killed in some way, they are replace.

[MatronAdena]

Mordin the wise tells you exactly how its done.



Cloning...



They don't have digestive systems, no reproductive systems, nothing.... they come out of the pods, they work till they die.

[Ajspeed]

idk and well ill never know because we destroyed them all

[Symbolz]

Well. When a mommy Collector and a daddy Collector love each other very much, they will hold hands, hug, kiss, and abuduct entire human colonies. But sometimes that's just not enough....



Seriously tho, Mordin does explain it more or less.

[OH-UP-THIS!]

Who really gives a damn, Scarlet.

They are floating near the Accretion disc, as only they deserve.

[Maria Caliban]

zeypher wrote...

mordin mentions how. They clone themselves

Does he? Thank you very much.

I suppose the keepers must do the same then.

ohupthis wrote...

Who really gives a damn, Scarlet.

Um... me? Hence the whole starting a thread, Rosebud.

Modifié par Maria Caliban, 20 février 2010 - 09:58 .

[Mistress9Nine]

ohupthis wrote...

Who really gives a damn, Scarlet.

Uh oh. Name-calling Maria is the last mistake you'll ever make, my friend.

On topic: Maybe they don't reproduce at all? I assume they would have made sure that over 50k years they'd have large enough numbers to stop a pesky Spectre from foiling their plans, but if they couldn't reproduce but were given immortality (but not invalnurablity) by the reapers technology, that'd explain the hiding, secretiveness and so on.

[Nightwriter]

I always thought too much use of cloning for too long will eventually degrade the DNA or whatever, making the species start to wither.



But this could be because I'm watching too much Stargate episodes with the asgard in them.

[didymos1120]

ohupthis wrote...

Who really gives a damn, Scarlet.
They are floating near the Accretion disc, as only they deserve.

You really ought to have worked a "Frankly my dear..." into there somewhere.

[Nightwriter]

Hell yes, he should do a voice. He should be TIM's way funnier younger brother or something.

Sounds like the Collectors were on their way to becoming what the Reapers are now. Synthetically upgraded creatures in constant need of replacements for deteroriating organic material.

Modifié par Nightwriter, 20 février 2010 - 10:45 .

[Fatal34Frame]

Maria Caliban wrote...

I assume that the Reapers made the Collectors a viable species. While they have an 'insect' like biology, you never see any queens. Do you think they have sexual reproduction?

It is said they dont have higher brain functions (replaced by tech), no digestive system (replaced by tech), with that information in mind I opt with what others said before, that they just clone themselves via tubes.

[OH-UP-THIS!]

Mistress9Nine wrote...

ohupthis wrote...

Who really gives a damn, Scarlet.

Uh oh. Name-calling Maria is the last mistake you'll ever make, my friend.

On topic: Maybe they don't reproduce at all? I assume they would have made sure that over 50k years they'd have large enough numbers to stop a pesky Spectre from foiling their plans, but if they couldn't reproduce but were given immortality (but not invalnurablity) by the reapers technology, that'd explain the hiding, secretiveness and so on.

Oooooooo!!
why? i'm suddenly turned into a spacefrog?
I didn't give a grunts' behind who started the thread, I was simply stating my version of what happens, in my sector of space, when my species is milkshaked into extinction!!!

[didymos1120]

scyphozoa wrote...

Nightwriter you're right, as Mordin says, over generations of cloning the Collectors lose neural functionality and the Reapers upgrade them with tech as their organic parts deteriorate.

edit - no such thing as too much stargate, Richard Dean Anderson should do a voice in ME3.

Actually, it wasn't genetic deterioration at all.  Mordin puts it down to indoctrination wrecking enslaved Protheans brains (as it tends to do to everyone), and he says that after a few clone generations they just started adding implants and suchlike to compensate, in addition to massive genetic rewriting to integrate them with the tech better, improve general usefulness, or whatever other criteria the Reapers had for their new "Collector" design.  One assumes that the unknown species out of which the Keepers came met the same fate, and were just altered according to different design criteria.

[didymos1120]

Nightwriter wrote...

I always thought too much use of cloning for too long will eventually degrade the DNA or whatever, making the species start to wither.

DNA doesn't really work like that. It's not like older magnetic recording media.  Sure, copy errors will occur during replication, but that's normal and is confined to single-base substitutions in most instances. The genome as a whole doesn't degrade in quality unless your dealing with some extremely adverse conditions.  In the cases involving your standard copy errors, you just get rid of the messed up clones, assuming they were even viable in the first place or your quality control failed to catch them early on.  You know: culling, just like with standard selective breeding.  If anything, if you've got effective and reasonably efficient cloning tech, it should be easier to insert and maintain the traits you're after.  Recombination is the bane of breeders everywhere.

Modifié par didymos1120, 20 février 2010 - 11:05 .

[Nightwriter]

didymos1120 wrote...

Nightwriter wrote...

I always thought too much use of cloning for too long will eventually degrade the DNA or whatever, making the species start to wither.

DNA doesn't really work like that. It's not like older magnetic recording media.  Sure, copy errors will occur during replication, but that happens anyway.  In that case, you just get rid of the messed up clones, assuming they were even viable in the first place or your quality control failed to catch them early on.  You know: culling, just like with standard selective breeding.  If anything, if you've got effective and reasonably efficient cloning tech, it should be easier to insert and maintain the traits you're after.  Recombination is the bane of breeders everywhere.

Forget I said anything.

[Kusy]

Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.