Wait a minute, there is no Mirelurk queen, who laid the eggs : Fallout Series Discussion

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:09 pm

I just realized that there are only Mirelurk Kings existing in the any lairs of Mirelurk bases.

since King is male and thus cannot lay the eggs, then who laid the mirelurk eggs??

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:10 pm

I just realized that there are only Mirelurk Kings existing in the any lairs of Mirelurk bases. since King is male and thus cannot lay the eggs, then who laid the mirelurk eggs??

Maybe the kings are able to lay eggs due to the continued mutation of the mirelurks DNA. That is just a guess though.

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:11 am

I just realized that there are only Mirelurk Kings existing in the any lairs of Mirelurk bases.

since King is male and thus cannot lay the eggs, then who laid the mirelurk eggs??

Maybe the regular Mirelurks are the 'Queens'... Kinda like Lions, the females do all the work and the males only do stuff when they're really pissed.

Or perhaps it is just a video game...

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:45 pm

Or perhaps it is just a video game...

Ya think?

:foodndrink:

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:32 am

It wouldn't be the first species in which the male gives birth.. For example Seahorses.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:35 pm

I don't even think the Mirelurk Kings are even related to the regular Mirelurks. Just look at them; Mirelurks are a mish-mash of crustaceans and horseshoe crabs, while the kings look to be either amphibians or reptiles. Either way, they have nothing in common and most definitely don't breed. What we're seeing is a possible relationship of a symbiotic or parasitic nature between two species.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:59 pm

Could be hermaphrodites =)

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:40 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sixual_dimorphism could completely explain the physical differences between the male (mirelurk kings) and female (normal mirelurks) of the species.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:26 pm

Maybe the regular Mirelurks are the 'Queens'... Or perhaps it is just a video game...

exactly :cheat:

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:02 pm

Maybe the regular Mirelurks are the 'Queens'... Kinda like Lions, the females do all the work and the males only do stuff when they're really pissed.

Or perhaps it is just a video game...

:thumbsup: Where has this mod been hiding!?

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:09 am

I don't even think the Mirelurk Kings are even related to the regular Mirelurks. Just look at them; Mirelurks are a mish-mash of crustaceans and horseshoe crabs, while the kings look to be either amphibians or reptiles. Either way, they have nothing in common and most definitely don't breed. What we're seeing is a possible relationship of a symbiotic or parasitic nature between two species.

Or, the developers decided what the regular Mirelurks were going to look like, and then were trying to come up with a design for the Mirelurk King, and somebody said "hey, I always thought the Creature from the Black Lagoon looked cool!"

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:40 pm

Maybe the kings are able to lay eggs due to the continued mutation of the mirelurks DNA. That is just a guess though.

Or, to quote Bishop, "It must be something we haven't seen yet."

» Fri May 27, 2011 3:08 pm

Or perhaps it is just a video game...

No, that can't be it. The Fallout Universe forum does not acknowledge that it exists in games.

I second the idea that the normal mirelurks are the females and the kings are the males. That makes sense.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:13 am

Who says Mirelurk Queens don't exist? Just because they aren't seen doesn't mean there's no females. Afterall, no female Deathclaws are seen, at least not ones that appeared different physically, yet they have eggs.

I wanna know how Mirelurk kings would give birth to the crab-mirelurks. Going off the concept art, Mirelurk seems more like a term used to classify humanoid sea animals together >_> A shame the Catfish Mirelurk didn't make it.

» Fri May 27, 2011 5:47 pm

Afterall, no female Deathclaws are seen

They are in previous Fallout games.

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:56 pm

They are in previous Fallout games.

Indeed, you can have a long in dept discussion with the deathclaw mother in FO2, and are tasked with wasting one in FO1.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:14 pm

What I mean is in Fallout 3 they aren't seen specifically, yet eggs are

I know Fallout 1 had a Matron.

» Fri May 27, 2011 4:28 pm

What I mean is in Fallout 3 they aren't seen specifically, yet eggs are

I know Fallout 1 had a Matron.

And fallout 2 had baby death claws, and fallout 3 shows eggs of mirelurks, and fully grown mirelurks and deathclaws, but no babies...Possible deathclaw static eggs can be found in the Broken Steel DLC, or at least, that's what I think I found in the Old Olney basemant area..

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:59 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sixual_dimorphism could completely explain the physical differences between the male (mirelurk kings) and female (normal mirelurks) of the species.

Good answer; that makes sense.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:00 pm

Not really, given that the regular mirelurks are mutant crabs, while the kings are mutant snapping turtles. They're just symbiotic species.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:19 am

And fallout 2 had baby death claws, and fallout 3 shows eggs of mirelurks, and fully grown mirelurks and deathclaws, but no babies...Possible deathclaw static eggs can be found in the Broken Steel DLC, or at least, that's what I think I found in the Old Olney basemant area..

I have also found the greenish eggs sitting in a pile of equally greenish mossy-goo right before what appears a mining entance into another building. I was also excitedly anticipating a Deathclaw matron as soon i saw the 'eggs', but only found two other deathclaws before entering the main area of the mission i was assigned. I really miss the Deathclaw pack leaders from fallout 2 also.

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:29 pm

we all know that the male forms of species are completely different from females. they also number less and are more likely to be leaders, so we can adress mirelurks to this, the male specie is deffierent in whole because of the natural fact. they also number less.
male bees are made from eggs that the queen spawns alone, while female bees are the spawn of both the queen and the male bee, so normal mirelurks are female bees, mirelurk hunters are the male and theMirelurk king has the role of the bee queen.

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:31 pm

In truth, you really can't say how they reproduce from what's given. I mean, the question is out ther efor Mole Rats then: All you run into is females (Check their texture. clearly femme).

And Ausir said it right, it seems like "Mirelurk" defines a collection of species in one group. Sort of like the Covenant of Halo, just without guns and buildings.

And I believe the enemies just labelled "Mirelurk" are Hatchlings and the Hunters are full growns. Looking at their model labels, that seems to be the case....

» Fri May 27, 2011 3:04 pm

With real world crabs, it's hard to tell males from females. In the case of the Mirelurks, who's to say that the "standard" Mirelurk isn't the female, and the Hunters are the males? Or vice versa? I'm thinking one of them has to be the male or female, and the Hunters do have several extra pairs of claws. This probably denotes (but we still don't know which) male or female..

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:21 pm

Some quick info about mirelurks:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mirelurk