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7/13/2025, 5:48:45 PM
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The Ni-hir are eusocial, which is central to how their society is structured. The standard Ni-hir societal unit is the hive-city, each of which is ruled by a queen. Most hive-cities have a single queen, while the largest have a primary queen and a handful of secondary ones. In any case the queens are the only sexually mature females in the hive, with the majority of the population being their children (there's also a small amount of consorts, usually males from allied hive-cities married off to the queen to strengthen political ties). Because the majority of the inhabitants of the hive are siblings and are never able to reproduce on their own, the survival of the queen and the hive is synonymous with the survival of their bloodline. That leads to them having a strongly collectivist attitude that places the survival and well-being of the hive-city above that of any individual. It also means the average Ni-hir is basically asexual, as the idea of sex as anything other than a method of procreation is largely alien to them and most of them never have sex (only the queen's consorts get to mate with her, and the only females they're likely to ever meet, unless you count the workers which are technically haploid females, are their mother and maybe a handful of sisters since the overwhelming majority of administrative-cast Ni-hir are male).
Some other species have more unusual methods of reproduction, such as hermaphrodism or laying "seeds" that extract nutrients from soil through specialized roots. But those are more of "background aliens" that I haven't established a lot of details about.
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The Ni-hir are eusocial, which is central to how their society is structured. The standard Ni-hir societal unit is the hive-city, each of which is ruled by a queen. Most hive-cities have a single queen, while the largest have a primary queen and a handful of secondary ones. In any case the queens are the only sexually mature females in the hive, with the majority of the population being their children (there's also a small amount of consorts, usually males from allied hive-cities married off to the queen to strengthen political ties). Because the majority of the inhabitants of the hive are siblings and are never able to reproduce on their own, the survival of the queen and the hive is synonymous with the survival of their bloodline. That leads to them having a strongly collectivist attitude that places the survival and well-being of the hive-city above that of any individual. It also means the average Ni-hir is basically asexual, as the idea of sex as anything other than a method of procreation is largely alien to them and most of them never have sex (only the queen's consorts get to mate with her, and the only females they're likely to ever meet, unless you count the workers which are technically haploid females, are their mother and maybe a handful of sisters since the overwhelming majority of administrative-cast Ni-hir are male).
Some other species have more unusual methods of reproduction, such as hermaphrodism or laying "seeds" that extract nutrients from soil through specialized roots. But those are more of "background aliens" that I haven't established a lot of details about.
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