An Idea of Protoss Reproduction

[DeltaCadimus]

Wouldn't put much stock in the Dark Templar trilogy, since Metzen and co said the issue of Protoss reproduction still hasn't been decided after the books were published.

Agreed. And I don't think they'll have answers for it, not even after LotV is released.

[Gradius]

Nope. One of the Dark Templar novels mentions that Protoss reproduce sexually, and that there's even a specific word for wife in Khalani. It even says that Protoss can have multiple offspring. Besides, if Razsagal and Selendis are anything to go by, there are visible physical differences between male and female Protoss.

Where does it say these things out of curiosity.

[phazonjunkie]

Quite frankly, all signs point to Protoss laying eggs.

That would indicate the presence of a cloaca, ovipositor, or other such organ. but thus far we've seen no evidence of this.



But if it were true, then it probably would lend some credence to this statement from a few months back:

"The protoss LOVE the cock. It's true, check the wiki.
-SaharaDrac

[solidsamurai]

We could add, "maybe this is why the Templar consider the outcasts as something different." Makes sense to me.

Actually, they consider them different because they can't feel and share their emotions like they can with other khalai. Humans are about as apart from khalai as DTs because they aren't a part of the khala either. It's just that with the DTs there's a whole shameful history.

Y'know if my entire life's social structure was based on knowing when and how someone else feels happy and what will make said person sad or happy and that them being happy would make me happy (etc.); I'd be pretty scared of those that wanted to get away from that since they'd be socially apart from the entire damn system.

It makes sense y'know.

[Zeraszana]

Actually, they consider them different because they can't feel and share their emotions like they can with other khalai. Humans are about as apart from khalai as DTs because they aren't a part of the khala either. It's just that with the DTs there's a whole shameful history.

Y'know if my entire life's social structure was based on knowing when and how someone else feels happy and what will make said person sad or happy and that them being happy would make me happy (etc.); I'd be pretty scared of those that wanted to get away from that since they'd be socially apart from the entire damn system.

It makes sense y'know.

true, but the real reason they are afraid of them is cuz they were spoonfed bs about them wanting to DESTROY the khala and then after that cuz they are out of it..

[DemolitionSquid]

That would indicate the presence of a cloaca, ovipositor, or other such organ. but thus far we've seen no evidence of this.

Correction: we've seen no evidence of anything. So what can we infer from what we do know about the Protoss?

- No mouth, no need for mammary glands.
- Very little body fat
- Absorb energy and moisture through skin to use photosynthesis to create food like a plant.
- Know there are two genders, equivalent to male and female and that by definition females give birth
- Enhanced psyonic ability

Certainly the lack of mammary glands and body fat to fuel the cell growth of the fetus negates the likelihood of live birth at least. Protoss do not reproduce asexually by budding. Its unlikely then that they use spores either, as many earth plants do. They may reproduce with the aid of psionics, forming an archon and then splitting again into 3 parts, but that's unlikely as their conversion of matter into energy and back again would emit too much of their own energy as radiation, exemplified by the atom bomb, and the canon lore that Archons do not generally survive long without absorbing new Protoss as fuel as per Ulrezaj. As stated, we have no evidence of a cloaca, ovipositor, or vagina, but we know that the Protoss are photosynthetic and thus may reproduce like plants via a form of seed, or as the case may be, egg.

[Hellgrinder]

Or, maybe the egg hatches inside the female, and the young are still born live, like in certain species of snake and shark here on Earth.

[DemolitionSquid]

Or, maybe the egg hatches inside the female, and the young are still born live, like in certain species of snake and shark here on Earth.

Do you really think the Protoss physique lends itself to carrying a fetus?



Yeah, them's birthing hips, but there's still no room in the core.

[Zeraszana]

Do you really think the Protoss physique lends itself to carrying a fetus?



Yeah, them's birthing hips, but there's still no room in the core.

actually...didn't blizzard actually widen the waist part? if i remember correctly the sc1 protoss literary had a spine and a bit of flesh around it for waist, but now it looks almost human like (if you don't count the high hips)? so maybe they are thinking of the idea, although i don't approve of them carrying any kind of physical fetus or internal egg hatching