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wiseheartI'll be writing it in Torchwoodgate, Year Two. But no worries, not the usual, pr0ny and rapey-i version but the "aliens made them do it" version.
Remember the 2nd Season SGA-episode "Condemned"? Where a planet live reasonably in peace from the Wraith, because they simply handed over their criminals to the monsters to eat? Until they started to accuse innocent people of crimes, too, just to fulfil their quota?
Well, I got the following idea: what if it weren't the criminals? What if the Wraith, long time ago, did genetic experiments on the Olesians, just like they did in canon on Teyla's people, and created a third gender, in order to increase the numbers of their herds? This third gender would be the Omegas, where the females are incredible fertile, bearing litters every time and held secluded like broadmares, while the males are hermaphrodites, capable of siring and bearing offspring in equal measure.
An unfortunate side effect of the experiments would be that approx 1/3 of the population would be born infertile (speak about backfiring, big deal). It would be these infertile Betas who are handed over to the Wraith, while Alphas are the families whose genetic heritage hasn't been tampered with, basically the original Olesian genom, on which basis they have all the power and influence on the planet. Of course, Omegas would be handed over as food as soon as they're beyond breeding age as well.
I think it would be more interesting than just handing over the criminals. Or, at least, more sci-fi, since the original concept was actually good.
Remember the 2nd Season SGA-episode "Condemned"? Where a planet live reasonably in peace from the Wraith, because they simply handed over their criminals to the monsters to eat? Until they started to accuse innocent people of crimes, too, just to fulfil their quota?
Well, I got the following idea: what if it weren't the criminals? What if the Wraith, long time ago, did genetic experiments on the Olesians, just like they did in canon on Teyla's people, and created a third gender, in order to increase the numbers of their herds? This third gender would be the Omegas, where the females are incredible fertile, bearing litters every time and held secluded like broadmares, while the males are hermaphrodites, capable of siring and bearing offspring in equal measure.
An unfortunate side effect of the experiments would be that approx 1/3 of the population would be born infertile (speak about backfiring, big deal). It would be these infertile Betas who are handed over to the Wraith, while Alphas are the families whose genetic heritage hasn't been tampered with, basically the original Olesian genom, on which basis they have all the power and influence on the planet. Of course, Omegas would be handed over as food as soon as they're beyond breeding age as well.
I think it would be more interesting than just handing over the criminals. Or, at least, more sci-fi, since the original concept was actually good.
