Help!! A question or two...

[tattooeddevil]

Uhm... Help? Am currently writing for the darkangel_bb and I am having no luck finding any good answer to a few questions I have. So maybe you can help??

1) How do the X5's age? Do they age slower than humans because of their physical enhancement? Or do they age like humans?
2) How do X5's get created? We know X5's are forced to breed (that's how Alec and Max

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[poisontaster]

The breeding program was only instituted after Max & Co destroyed Manticore's genetic laboratory. Prior to that point, Manticore was using cloning.

ETA: Specifically, cloning embryos that were then carried to term by normal human surrogates. So, they do have a mother in that sense, but the mother and the clone don't share any genetic material.

[tattooeddevil]

Thanks so much!! :)

Okay, so timeline-wise, Alec & Ben were cloned and birthed by a normal human woman (who was taken captive at some point? Did she volunteer? Any idea if she had to continuously carry children?). They didn't start the breeding program until after Max destroyed the GenLab *mental note: look into that timeline vs Alec* Any idea on who raises the babies until they were kids and old enough to train? The birth mothers?

[poisontaster]

I forget what episode it is, but I seem to remember that Max meets her surrogate at some point and it seemed like they were volunteers...but that's coming from my unreliable memory and it's been a couple years since I've done a thorough rewatch. If they were volunteers, I doubt they were continuously carrying children...but you could probably bend that if you really needed/wanted to for your story. I have no recollection who raises the children, though they might have mentioned it when the surrogates came up, IDK.

In the S2 opener, IIRC, is where Renfro announces that, because Max destroyed the GenLab, they had to institute the breeding program. I don't recall how much time passed between the end of S1 and the open of S2, but it had been a while. This would, however, have been after Alex got out of PsyOps for The Berrisford Agenda.

[tattooeddevil]

Hmmm, I need to get details about that, but if they were volunteers and they liked how everything went down (haven't found any proof of anyone actually fitting this bill) they might have been carrying constantly, but it's more probable it were all one time deals.

I don't remember the end of S01 very well, but S01 starts when Max is about 19 or 20 (in 2018 or 2019) and S02 starts when she's about 22 (in 2021). So it can't have been that much time in between. With Pollo Loco halfway in S01, Alec would have been at PsyOps for the Berrisford Agenda before that.

Just settings things in order on my head :P

Thanks so much!!

[poisontaster]

Again, I'm coming from an unreliable memory, but it seemed to me that the surrogates didn't KNOW what was going on or for what purpose they were carrying children. I'm not 100% sure on that, but that's what my memory is telling me. Which would make the argument that a surrogate would only be used once and never again, for increased security/secrecy.

[tattooeddevil]

I like that. I seem to remember something from the Eyes Only Dossier that would support that notion. Doesn't mean it would be unknown to all surrogates (maybe the first ones did know until it went wrong some time? *bunny*), but certainly at later times. I imagine security would be tight. I Like!

[tattooeddevil]

I forgot about the volunteering mothers, getting a lob of money to carry a child... Got that one, thanks! :)