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After watching the Hero vs Violet series (and of course crying over it), I now have a burning question:
Where do Brood Lords get all those broodlings? I thought Brood Lords were males. Are they like seahorses in that they just carry the eggs? If so, what do they mate with? Queens? But it doesn't look like Brood Lords can land. ...So wouldn't they get tired from flapping their wings all the time? Are they levitating, then, and if so, how did they get that power and why do they have wings if this is so?
And where do they keep the broodlings, anyway? Also, why do they have such long tails? What evolutionary purpose does that serve? Perhaps that's where they keep the broodling eggs...do the broodlings even come from eggs? How do the broodlings get back to the Brood Lords after attacking? I haven't seen any wings on them. Do they climb up the previously mentioned tails?
Any Zerg lore fans want to weigh in on this? XD
Currently Listening To: NewS - "Week" (The Nanikeidemonai song!)
P.S. I want to see the TL boys dance to that song while doing an ad for the Team Liquid hoodies. You know you want to see it!
 
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Ur assuming zerg even have gender. If you look closely the broodlings clearly just detach them from the brood lord itself. So I think they're fabricated inside the broodlord itself.
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So Broodlings are like Broodlord excrement?
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wow...
broodlings bud off of the broodlord. they're neither male nor female. zerg don't have gender. they mutate from larvae. and broodlings dont return to the broodlord, they die.
to answer your question about "evolutionary purpose." tails and other characteristics don't need to have an evolutionary characteristic to exist. if it gets passed along, it gets passed along. even if that something didn't make it more likely for them to survive/reproduce. of course, it's more likely for something to get passed along if it raises the chance of survival/reproduction, but it doesn't mean it HAS to contribute to it.
im not even a "zerg lore fan." just put some thought into your questions dude.
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Damn, when I clicked on the link and saw the title, I thought it was going to be a good joke. "The thing about broodlords is..."
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Better than a balance whine, I guess. Personally, I think that the broodlings bud out of the broodlord, which probably keeps a reserve of nutrients and such to fuel to continued production of broodlings. Since the broodlord is absolutely massive, fire can be sustained for an extended period of time before the broodlord has to return to creep to "reload" its bio-reserves.
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On December 01 2012 06:41 Cokefreak wrote:
So Broodlings are like Broodlord excrement?
If you pooped out smaller versions of yourself, then yes.
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I think in this case, it can be explained by budding in hydra. It reproduces a smaller version of it self and releases it.
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On December 01 2012 07:39 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
Better than a balance whine, I guess.
Of course; balance whines are ridiculous. These "The Thing About X Unit" blogs are just my weird ramblings about units and how they work.
...But nobody did answer if Brood Lords ever got tired...o-o Come to think of it that also applies to Mutalisks...
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Of course they don't get tired...It's a work of fiction, dude!
Anything's possible when you remove the confines of reality!
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On December 01 2012 10:41 Qwyn wrote:
Of course they don't get tired...It's a work of fiction, dude!
Anything's possible when you remove the confines of reality!
Or just have a race built from the ground up to wipe out every living thing that isn't itself. The zerg are killing machines, in every sense of the words.
They aren't supposed to get tired, or sad, or sick, or old or peaceful. They ARE supposed to swarm over any and all opposition in a chitinous swarm of suicidal, genocidal fury, no matter the cost.
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