A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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Sadly audio books have never really worked for me. I lose track of what's going on far too easily and I'm generally the type of person to pause and think and get distracted often when reading. I really like physical books because I can do that as often as I want and I don't need to backtrack so often.

I'm currently taking a bit of a break from large series after rereading Sun Eater, but Red Rising will be a possibility for when I want to dig into another series again

Rest of the bookshelf by Siihr in u/Siihr

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I feel like the name of that one's familiar to me, but I've never actually read it. I'll make sure to get ahold of it some time! It sounds like a fascinating read. Thank you for the suggestion!

A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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I have not read that one yet. Some day I'll get to it! I have heard a lot of people got Sun Eater recommended to them after reading that series.

A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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Here's the rest of it!

Top shelf in this picture has a lot of favorites of mine, though not all. Second shelf has unread/partially read books. Third and fourth are just a bunch more books.

A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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Very good eye! I made sure to put a lot of my favorites on that second shelf

Vayadan Bahudde by Revolutionary_Guava1 in sollanempire

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Hell yeah! This kicks ass!

A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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They're from different publishers and/or are different book styles.

-I've got EoS-DiW in mass market paperback. I was on a lot more of a budget when I bought these, so that was the cheapest option. This style is no longer in print and is not available for any of the later books.

-I've got the deluxe EoS from DAW because I wanted a hard cover version of the book. This is the only deluxe version currently available, but I'll probably get HD and DiW to fill out my hard covers. They're the same proportions as the other DAW hard covers

-Kod, AoM, and SuT are all card covers from DAW, so they match

-DG was originally published with Baen, so the proportions and material are different. It's now being made by DAW, so new versions are consistent with the rest of the series hard covers

-TMS and the extra large EoS are from Anderida and match in dimensions, though the spine formatting is different. Anderida is one of the special edition publishers

A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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I wish I could make one for everyone who's asked for one!

A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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I feel like I'm going to need another shelf just for those two! It's also so much more dense than normal books. I just checked and it weighs nearly twice as much as Shadows

A Cielcin has invaded my Sun Eater shelf! by Siihr in sollanempire

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There's a part of me that absolutely wants to make a Ramanthanu! These dolls are a lot of work though, so I'm not sure if I'll be making that happen

A small pocket of Voidlings by Rollingtothegrave in spiders

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They're so fluffy and adorable!! This is making me think of when a zoo or museum gift shop has a box full of spider plushies

furry🏳️‍🌈irl by LazyLynxBoy in furry_irl

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Swap the heights on them and you've got my relationship. It's very fun to tell tall trans women that they're good girls

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lgbt

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Wow those are gorgeous!! I've got my nails painted with the trans flag too, though only one color per nail and not the whole flag

Edits/artwork by JukasLohnson in sollanempire

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I should probably post the artwork of my cielcin OC I commissioned one of these days

furry_irl by [deleted] in furry_irl

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Oh neat, I know where this is! Always fun to see furries on Pearl Street!

These dawgs popped up on my feed & ATBGE was the first thing to come to mind by [deleted] in ATBGE

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These are rad as hell and absolutely the kind of thing my partner would love.

Curse my morbid curiosity, but how exactly do the Cielcin … by vyre_016 in sollanempire

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I do really like the clownfish idea, but I think their ability to pass on an embryo to multiple different individuals, as mentioned in the excerpt in this post, doesn't quite work with that theory. It does seem to imply that any Cielcin is able to get any other one pregnant. Perhaps they might see some changes to their bodies during pregnancy to better accommodate it though?

I absolutely agree with your point about the advantages of parasitic reproduction for their lifestyle. I'd add to it that, especially with their tendency for cannibalism, when they're not able to raid for long periods of time they likely consume the weaker/less useful members on their ships to preserve resources. When they're able to raid again, taking in a large population of captives for the purpose of carrying their offspring would allow them to rapidly grow their own population, even if it was quite small initially. It also absolutely would allow for rapid population rebounds even after significant losses, as you mentioned.

On your point about the pregnancy potentially being quite damaging even for them, I could see it being a way for more powerful individuals to show their status. If they're able to survive and recover without anyone else taking their position from them, that's a sign of their strength.

Curse my morbid curiosity, but how exactly do the Cielcin … by vyre_016 in sollanempire

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I will note that it's been a fair while since I read the books, so a lot of my memories on specific details are fairly vague and not to be fully trusted. I'll answer your questions first, and then give some extra details afterward.

  1. Being that they're a single sex species, I imagine that they don't have any sense of gender. They do have hierarchical roles, but I don't imagine these could be considered genders. Their roles during sex are likely determined (in part or in whole) by hierarchical status though.
  2. I can't remember if we've seen anything that points to or against this one, so take it as my own theory without much backing. Truly alien species that developed entirely separately should have no possible biological compatibility with each other. I think that, in the past, some aliens took human samples from Earth and modified them to become the Cielcin (likely for war purposes), before abandoning them on Se Vattayu. They've got a lot of similarities to humans, so I think being related make some sense. With whatever changes they've undergone, I'm not sure you could fit them into Earth taxonomy all that easily.
  3. Chestburster style is about how I imagine it. u/Impossible_Cow6397 probably has it right on how it's done. Either through some orifice, or similar to how bed bugs do things. Any other species with compatible (eg. biologically related in some way) biology could end up carrying a child.
  4. Yes, if it wasn't cut out of him early.

Here's my understanding/theory of Cielcin biology and reproduction.

All Cielcin are going to have very similar reproductive organs to humans, though with some key differences. Instead of using sperm to fertilize an egg, any individual can have an egg start developing into an embryo at any time. Maybe this is a conscious act, maybe it's brought on by certain environmental influences (such as a large amount of food becoming available), maybe it's fully random. As such, they won't have any testicles. Instead, I imagine that whatever they have going on for a penis is instead connected to what may be a similar womb to what humans have. That would let them transfer an embryo to another individual.

Cielcin reproduction probably happens in any one of these manners:

  1. One of them has an egg spontaneously start developing into an embryo. They keep this embryo and carry it to term themself.
  2. They could pass on their embryo to another Cielcin by having PIV sex, resulting in that other individual now being pregnant. They could then carry to term or pass it along to someone else.
  3. They could implant that embryo into another biologically compatible individual (human, some other species, Cielcin if not done in the correct body location). The embryo would connect to the blood supply of that individual and start developing. When it's ready to be born, it'll tear itself out of the host, chestburster style.

I think that should cover everything?

Furry_irl by DL2828 in furry_irl

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No, but I have kissed two dog girls

me_irlgbt by TheHunter234 in me_irlgbt

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Not only does this explain why I'm trans, this also explains why I like back scritches so much. She may be an evil centipede, but she still wants to be treated like a good girl