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Bugges are social insects,
originally created by the Prime Jujinka to tend the Garden of Immortal
Beauties. Bugges are only fertile with other Bugges. There are a number
of different colors of Bugge, and they tend to equate color with
"hive" or "heraldry" rather than personal identity.
Furres and Wyrmmes sometimes think Bugges all look alike!
When living in an underground warren, only one Bugge, the queen, is
fertile. Her subjects are both male and female. Bugges aren't interested
in sex; the act of procreation is fatal for the male. They experience
brotherly/ sisterly love, and are fiercely loving when it comes to their
children. Only one male fertilizes the queen, and she then lays hundreds
of thousands of eggs. These are light dry spheres that keep for a long
time. When they need to be hatched, they are soaked in a kind of special
broth made by female Bugges. In a few days, they grow and hatch into
larvae- caterpillar-like kids the mental equivalent of a human
7-year-old.
Under Imperial Drakorian rule, Bugge larvae are given to Furres to be
slaves. True to the insect stereotype, most of them grow up very
industrious. They tend to be kept away from weapons and are generally
unaggressive.
Bugges raised under Kasurian rule, on the other hand, may be fed a
special secretion from the wrist-glands of female Bugges, which their
bodies concentrate, that makes the young ones grow larger, stronger, and
more aggressive. These "soldiers" are very loyal to their
elders, and sometimes a bit naive, as they retain a childlike
perspective on the world.
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