First off, hello everyone. I used to be on the list serv that Roymeo had back in the middle 90's. SF has been a favorite topic of discussion with my brother on weekends for decades. We played back in the 80's when I got the original blue boxed set. I found the zine and this site when I was searching for SF stuff yet again last fall. I have been lurking here now for a couple of months reading the forums to catch up / get a feel for the people. I like what I read feel. I'm now done with game talk, open discussion, and rules questions and can't wait any longer to join the discussions with some questions.<br /><br />So, what is everyone's take on gender for a dralasite?<br /><br />I feel that they cycle through times of male, female, and neuter. The average life span of a dralasite is approximately 250 galactic standard years (228.31 Earth years). During this time a dralasite goes through three gender phases. All dralasites are born male, reach reproductive age at about 30gsy (27.4Ey), transition to female at about 90gsy (82.19Ey), and finally transition to neuter at approximately 150gsy (136.99Ey). The remainder of a dralasites life is lived as neuter. However, there are extremely rare documented cases where groups of dralasites that have been isolated from males and females for very very long periods of time have returned to male and female genders. Dralasites refer to this as “beautiful rebirth” as dralasites who return to gender often live sixty to one hundred twenty GSY (57.79-109.59Ey) longer than average. Fifty GSY (45.66Ey) of neuter isolation is the shortest ever documented case of a group of dralasites returning to gender.<br /><br />-iggy
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