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Are there female ID-SOLs?
- Thread starter Jadg Wolf
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ID-SOLs are all male, and can only bear male children. Half-ID-SOLs will also only have all male children. They've got a super Y chromosome thing going on. That's why Nepleslia's population has vastly more men than women.
Legix
Well-Known Member
TFW I see the question I asked was asked 10 years ago. Clearly we need to reboot the ID-SOL program but with some higher-notch genetics. Get all those dog-girls out to join the dog-man army. Refurbish Nepleslia with their own super-soldiers and enrich that Super Y (and I guess Super X thanks to females, IDK, I'm tired) pool for maximum soldier-count. Nothing like horny dog dudes and dudettes to turn the Funky City into a funky city. Get it? Because it'd smell bad?
Navian
Inactive Member
There's at least one condition not related to the sex chromosomes that can result in someone being genetically XY but being apparently female in every other way, although I'd think being completely immune to testosterone would make them a terrible 'ID-SOL', and would probably give them a totally unremarkable life, except for a brief popular news article with no followup: 'hey this ID-SOL had a female child! (oh wait, she's infertile and genetically male and has no special abilities... nevermind.)'
The 'it's incredibly rare, so it won't be approved' thing probably still applies even if this is possible, and even though female Nepleslians aren't too rare to begin with anymore. On Earth, only 2 to 5 people in every 100,000 who are genetically male have complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, and those numbers might be even smaller (down to 0) due to previous genefixing, especially any attempts to keep it out of the ID-SOL population.
The 'it's incredibly rare, so it won't be approved' thing probably still applies even if this is possible, and even though female Nepleslians aren't too rare to begin with anymore. On Earth, only 2 to 5 people in every 100,000 who are genetically male have complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, and those numbers might be even smaller (down to 0) due to previous genefixing, especially any attempts to keep it out of the ID-SOL population.
Since Nepleslians were inspired my GI Joe action figures, it makes sense that they're a bunch of gun-obsessed men with only a few token females around. A gender imbalance part of the charm of historic Nepleslia and provides a contrast to Yamatai's opposite gender imbalance (where there's so many Nekovalkryja around that there's more women than men).
In early SARP, Nepleslia was part of Yamatai so it wasn't a big deal that we only allowed male Nepleslian characters to be created (at least, without special dispensation). Once Nepleslia was on their own (YE 28) female characters were allowed because they wanted better factional support for female players. And going through its big reform in YE 30, that's when people got concerned about "fixing" the "problem" of the imbalance.
In early SARP, Nepleslia was part of Yamatai so it wasn't a big deal that we only allowed male Nepleslian characters to be created (at least, without special dispensation). Once Nepleslia was on their own (YE 28) female characters were allowed because they wanted better factional support for female players. And going through its big reform in YE 30, that's when people got concerned about "fixing" the "problem" of the imbalance.
