#the problem arises when you would rather be using ideally octopus eggs instead

[dogtoling]

OK. I am back with the questions about Phoenix MC egg gobler

Wouldn't needing the fetus serum (I hate typing that) be like. Needing stemcells?

Also. How like. Moraly ambiguous is it bc wouldn't a lot of vertilized eggs be. Intentionally not taken care off in like. A species that probably? lays too many to take care off anyway?

Also please don't mind me if this was a weird question, it just randomly popped into my dumb brain

thanks, i hate that this name is sticking.

first of all... Probably yes? i'm not going to get into making sense of what's actually happening because it doesn't make sense, it's literally sci-fi, and also because i barely know anything about cellular biology (which may change if i get into university...) but probably. there's some really weird stuff going on in there. "Life" isn't really something we can measure but that's what's being extracted.

As for the second question it's true we have NO IDEA what the deal is with the Splatoon world and the amount of eggs that people have. Typically when you have intelligent and social animals, there is a much lower amount of offspring because that allows for parental care (whereas having 12,000 feral babies doesn't when youre literally one person). For example, cephalopods in Splatoon seem to have a very manageable number of kids similar to humans, instead of the dozens or hundreds or even thousands of eggs that they have in the ocean.

But we also know that some fish can have like, clutches of 100 kids (DESPITE BEING SAPIENT) and salmonids seem to be the same way considering the raw amount of eggs that are gathered in salmon runs. Like, the egg quota of 156 that you just hauled out in one shift? That's 156 CHILDREN. I have no idea if there'd be a lot of species that intentially left most of their kids to die, that seems really vile... it's technically VERY POSSIBLE but I think it's more likely that societies are just built in a different way to accommodate the sheer number of fish babies. I don't think species that lay a metric fuckton of eggs take care of their kids alone, it's probably a community effort?

so tl;dr based on how cold Splatoon world parents are about their offspring, it might actually be really easy to track down fertilized eggs. considering no one seems to care about the VERY OBVIOUS IMPLICATIONS of golden eggs, the reality honestly MIGHT be that no one gives a shit, lol. There's got to be a black market for fertilized eggs, a lot of species might even eat those, they might not even NEED to be in a black market. So basically using fertilized eggs to make mysterious serums is extremely morally dubious, but getting those fertilized eggs might be surprisingly easy or even just... best/worst case scenario, just walk to the grocery store