The crew finished making dinner and sat down, a spot at the table as usual left open for Rogue. The queen meanwhile left the kitchens, apparently having learned what she could for now.
Talk around the table mostly consisted of what everyone's jobs were to be between now and when they arrived in Atlantis. Also the fact that their queen would be going into hibernation so soon.
"She won't be gone." Todd pointed out "Just sleeping, and its for the best for both her and what awaits her on Atlantis."
"She's really going to be the first queen to try the serum?" asked one.
"Unfortunately she's the youngest in the alliance, which puts the choice out of our hands." Todd answered.
"Why not allow the queens to continue to feed on humans?" asked another.
"A variety of reasons. Mainly those on Atlantis would prefer not to have any more human casualties." the commander answered. "The fact that we fed Genii to her upon her arrival is enough. For another, any offspring produced would still likely need to take the serum at maturity which would mean we'd be dependent on the drug. The point of the gene therapy is to eliminate all need for reliance on humans and the drug itself."
He pushed his dish away and continued to speak.
"Our culture revolves primarily around feeding, culling, and fighting. But with the serum, we'll be able to explore, learn and make gains to our culture beyond anything we and our ancestors ever thought of. We'll have the time and resources to devote to anything and everything."
The others looked at one another around the table, apparently not having really considered the fact that once the alliance was on top and the need to fight for culling territory was no longer a problem, they'd need to find something else to do.
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The crew finished making dinner and sat down, a spot at the table as usual left open for Rogue. The queen meanwhile left the kitchens, apparently having learned what she could for now.
Talk around the table mostly consisted of what everyone's jobs were to be between now and when they arrived in Atlantis. Also the fact that their queen would be going into hibernation so soon.
"She won't be gone." Todd pointed out "Just sleeping, and its for the best for both her and what awaits her on Atlantis."
"She's really going to be the first queen to try the serum?" asked one.
"Unfortunately she's the youngest in the alliance, which puts the choice out of our hands." Todd answered.
"Why not allow the queens to continue to feed on humans?" asked another.
"A variety of reasons. Mainly those on Atlantis would prefer not to have any more human casualties." the commander answered. "The fact that we fed Genii to her upon her arrival is enough. For another, any offspring produced would still likely need to take the serum at maturity which would mean we'd be dependent on the drug. The point of the gene therapy is to eliminate all need for reliance on humans and the drug itself."
He pushed his dish away and continued to speak.
"Our culture revolves primarily around feeding, culling, and fighting. But with the serum, we'll be able to explore, learn and make gains to our culture beyond anything we and our ancestors ever thought of. We'll have the time and resources to devote to anything and everything."
The others looked at one another around the table, apparently not having really considered the fact that once the alliance was on top and the need to fight for culling territory was no longer a problem, they'd need to find something else to do.