Egg birth

In Dalmer society, children are valued, not childhood. But this was not always the case.
The argument “think of the children” makes no sense to the Dalmer. But this was not always the case.
=== Egg birth ===
“After me, there shall be no other” Dalmer wish of celibacy, rendered moot ever since egg hatching youth became popular.
Egg birth is the act of birthing a dalmer from an ex utero fertilized ova, whose shell exterior acts as a stasis for the unborn dalmer, allowing it to be born when convenient.
=== The beginning of alternatives to natural reproduction ===
The events of the Children of Dalmeran caused the Dalmer to become incredibly paranoid of children everywhere and elect radical policies regarding reproduction. 
These policies encouraged the population to stop reproducing and create alternative modes of reproduction, the repercussions of which still exist today and are still responsible for civil unrest all over the Empire.
The main dichotomy after the crisis was over is that there are two main factions on the matter of children in the Empire. There are those who believe all natural born Dalmer are born evil as a result of the invasion, and that all births must be egg born. And those who believe that the strange possession is gone and natural birth should be tolerated and encouraged.
Egg birthing was not an immediately available technology. Before egg birthing became the mainstream reproductive method, there were other competing reproductive technologies.
==== The Queens and Kings method: ====
The Dalmer would extract all of a female's ova, and impregnate all of them at once with a male's sperm. Once impregnated the foetuses would grow in chemical vats of vitamin enriched phospholipids. After being “born” the youth are let loose in various environments, thus culling the weak and the survivors being considered the “queens and kings of the crop”.
==== The Alodus method: ====
Individuals are produced in hatcheries by application of techniques to the hatchery line to produce the castes. Individuals of all castes are not born to a mother, but instead created in laboratories through a process of artificial insemination. 
They are then grown to 'birth' in bottles, the bottles being treated in a manner similar to a production line. Fetuses are predetermined to be born into specific caste and 'lower' castes are interfered with during development in order to restrict their mental and physical development. The Hatcheries rely on machines to condition bottled embryos to heat, sudden motion, and disease, allowing the embryos to fulfill their predestined jobs in specific climates. 
This method was considered way too extreme for the Dalmer. The notion of creating unequal Dalmer citizens was particularly opposed, and the method was quickly abandoned in favor for the Mohenthar procedure
=== The Mohenthar procedure: ===
The Mohenthar procedure is an extra uterine fecundation procedure, and is the basis for egg born Dalmer. 
Sexual cells are mixed with each other to fecundate. The fecundated embryo cells divided into four, eight or sixteen. Some die during this. They are then frozen, to restart the division. Then they are given a near lethal dose of alcohol solution. The division eventually stops to avoid too many embryo deaths. The advantage being that with this method between four and 96 identical twins are born at a time. The record is 16 012 from a single ovule.
This procedure avoids having the babe go through childhood. After being born the babe becomes a full grown adult in a matter of days.
==== The birth of the Eggborn ====
Years after the Mohenthar procedure was created, the surface of the fecundated embryo is hardened so as to become an egg, that once thrown will give birth to a child who will grow to adult size in days. Useful for growing armies quickly, the newborns are already accounted for in the central administration the second the egg is hatched, and will become full citizens when they proceed to an administrative center when convenient.
==== Critiques to the Mohenthar procedure ====
The Mohenthar procedure is harshly critiqued for many reasons. 
===== Alodus method argument =====
Some political parties, such as the DCD (Dwerrocentrics of Dalmeran) see Mohenthar as a thinly veiled return to the Caste method of reproduction, but seeing as the citizens born of this method are rigorously identical genetically to a baseline Dalmer, this argument is generally debunked.
===== Military argument =====
A more pragmatic argument is that since the Eggborn are hatched as adults, they cannot go through daycare and are as such subpar soldiers by Imperial standards. Indeed manipulation of their genome to imprint fighting techniques has an astounding 80% fail rate and is entirely prohibited. 
===== Educative argument =====
The corollary result of the Mohenthar procedure is that despite Eggborn Dalmer being quick learners, they must catch up the education dispensed in the first 12 years of their life other dalmer receive, in much less time, and this can cause prejudice against them. 
This argument actually caused the Mohenthar procedure to modify some of its installations to allow the Eggborn to be born without the rapid growth hormone. These are known as Sloweggs, but being indistinguishable from other Dalmer, they adapt perfectly to society.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, some Dalmer groups were all for the development of egg birthing becoming the norm for Dalmer society.
==== Pro Mohenthar sentiments ====
===== The HEADS Movement =====
The HEADS (Homogeneous Advocacy for an Ectogenesistic Dalmer Society) movement believes that the Dalmer should become gender neutral through nanobots, progressively rendering the population growth entirely dependent on egg hatched youth.
This method was hotly contested by the DCD as they advocated the individual right for the Dalmer to choose to give life or not.
===== The Promiscuity argument =====
The Political unrest between the HEADS movement and the DCD eventually arrived on the argument on procreative sex as the DCD argued that the passage to an entirely eggborn society would cause sex to become meaningless and forgotten.
This argument caused a rupture in the HEADS movement where two subgroups appeared.
===== The Neutering Party =====
The more extreme elements of the former HEADS created the NP (Neutering party) and proposed the neutering of all Dalmer sexual organs via crude surgery, and then the genetic manipulation of future generations so that their reproductive organs would produce sexual cells, but not have sexual interactions. 
===== MECSEC =====
The other party created from the destruction of the HEADS movement was the mechanized sexual liberation front, who proposed an alternative solution to the sex problem by funding the creation of sex bots on the common dalmer market. 
==== Sex robot controversy resolution and revolution ====
Eventually it was agreed that sex robots would be created for those who did not wish to abandon promiscuity. The DCD allied with this school of thought, (but not the exclusivity of the Mohenthar procedure), this alliance of the DCD/MECSEC allowed legislation to pass and sex robots became very popular across the Empire as a means for sexual liberation. 
The sex robots themselves were simple automatons that uploaded consciousnesses could use.
However later the sex bots later got fed up with their predicament, demanding to be treated as Dalmer at a time when uploaded consciousnesses were uncommon in the Empire. They joined the general resentment that all uploaded consciousnesses felt at the time across the Empire, which was widespread prejudice against them. 
A counter movement of uploaded consciousnesses was launched and the robots lit themselves on fire as a form of revolt, revealing their metal skeletons as a sign of defiance. 
The revolutionaries were all destroyed by the Dalmer at large, and kept under lock and key in special closed circuit prisons for UC’s.
Demand for sex robot’s eventually returned despite the NP trying to use the incident to push their agenda of widespread surgical and genetic sterilization of the Dalmer race. 
The sex bots were recreated with a more liberal point of view in their programming rather than using uploaded consciousnesses, their answers based on statistics based conversion machines.
=== The reproductive rationing trials controversy ===
Eventually the combined existence of natural born Dalmer and Eggborn in the empire forced drastic solutions. In order to avoid the proliferation of the Mohenthar technology and subsequent overpopulation, reproductive rights were rationed throughout the empire. This rationing, in order to ensure equality, concerned  Eggborn as well as natural born Dalmer.
This caused massive outcry across the empire, with anti eggborn movements taking action by protesting in front of Mohenthar Incubators.
Things came to a head when the Incubators in Astol and Biagarathan were destroyed.
The Elected Kingdoms of Thornulihar and Nidaboldir then addressed a formal complaint to the HKC (High Kings Court) and the Legislator concerning the intense civil and social unrest and asking the Judicial system as a whole to find a solution that could be more akin to the societal shifts the Empire was going through. The answer was not the one they expected.
The HKC, in reaction to the nerve the Elected Kingdoms showed by asking them to reconsider their decision, decided to go through with the NP’s solution and enacted the DISCIPLINE (Dalmer Intrinsic Sanction for Contempt of Interkingdom Policies, Legislation, and Immediate Nonjudicial Enactment) a decision to eliminate reproductive sexual desires in the Dalmer psyche via chemical sterilization. However, as the decision states, it was taken without judicial authority, this becomes important later.
==== Heaven’s Archipelago ====
The War on heaven refers to the intense legal battle against the HKC’s decision to enforce the eggborn as sole reproductive method, and enforcing the chemical sterilization of all Dalmer citizens in Thornulihar and Nidaboldir.
Revolution and guerrilla strikes took place all over the Empire against the court's decision to eliminate reproductive sexual desires in the Dalmer psyche, in favor of the egg born process. The revolution was quelled in a quick and brutal fashion, ending in the victory of the court.
The courts then chartered a secret island in the heaven archipelago, far in the west domain sea, where they installed Mohenthar Incubators and raised the young Dalmer, sending quotas of Eggborn to each Elected Kingdom. 
However in the Elected Kingdoms this new decision was nearly unanimously denounced by the populations as demand far surpassed the supply, and many babes didn’t survive transport to the elected kingdoms, and those who did showed clear signs of abuse and incorrect use of the Incubators.  The rebellions continue in full swing, as the DISCIPLINE also called for the legal abdication of the then very popular Elected Queen Militant Dalorderlum “Warchin Largemane” Marbleheart of the UKM Nidaboldir and the Thalodor Isles, and the ancestral Thornulihar AI Elected King Tausend Jarlheart. (see Operation ART and the Thousand Year Wait for what happened to them)
===== The Legislator returns =====
Powerless against the HKC’s decision and dealing with more and more strict enactments being made against Dalmer rights to protest the decision, things looked very grim for the Empire at large. 
And only years later, did whispers of the return of the Legislator begin to be heard.
Knowing that he would be ousted if the Legislator enacted a referendum trial, the Deputy Legislator prepared his report and submitted a Sword and Shield test trial (an exceptional measure where all civil liberties pertaining to the manifestation of acts of rebellion against judicial authorities are rendered moot) to the Bastions of law of Thornulihar and Nidaboldir.
As the rumor progressed, civil unrest returned and the test trial led to hundreds of arrests and house imprisonment measures as well as over a dozen penalties leading to death.
The Legislator finally arrived, activated the Slate Wiper, and swiftly eliminated all procedures made by his deputy since the DISCIPLINE came into effect, as they were enacted without judicial means.
The deputy was summarily removed from power by the Legislator, and all personnel in the heaven archipelago were warped to prison for interrogation and future trial.
Meanwhile, Dalmer poachers would venture to the island to capture some Dalmer babes illegally and sell them to elected kingdoms in Dalmeran, the tales they told of the island installations were harrowing, and later used as testimonies against the DISCIPLINE.
The now abandoned and feral babies organized crude tribes, some holding ceremonies where an effigy of a hunter would be built to appease the poachers, and carried around the island.
===== Heaven would be the cruelest of places... =====
After the trials, some workers were sent to the Heaven Archipelago to maintain the incubators and progressively be deconstructed and returned to Dalmeran.
This would not come to pass as the island installations were later captured by a giant stork like race of Avians. 
This crisis was extremely dire as the population was still struggling to achieve a 0.3% fertility rate and was heavily dependent on the Heaven Archipelago for Dalmer youth.
The other race had destroyed any means of warping to the island and ensured they were not followed back to the island as they sent severed baby heads for every Dalmer who tried.
The Avian race held the reproductive pens hostage and ransomed the babies back to the elected kingdoms for enormous fees in gold, jewels and precious stones. 
As the location of the island was lost, the Deputy Legislator and surviving heaven archipelago workers on the island were recalled from their respective penal legions for questioning. 
When their reconditioning for service proved to be too far gone to extract any meaningful information through torture or hypnosis, the new deputy legislator turned to finding the poachers who had testified and hadn’t been reconditioned for labor camps. 
Once the island location was obtained, operation ART was authorized by the military authority.
Soon new intelligence arrived and it became apparent that the reproductive pens on the island broke down, as the avians resorted to kidnapping fertile Dalmer to breed on the island. 
This information was both a boon and a curse for operation ART, as it gave more information on where the island was, by studying where the Avians were attacking, but it also led to less financing as the mission objective was no longer about saving the Dalmers reproductive system (which was picking up speed in Dalmeran), but saving the prisoners of Heavens Archipelago. 
===== Operation ART =====
See operation ART for full details
Operation ART was a military excursion programmed by the HKC in order to retake the Heaven Archipelago from the control of an other race. To do so they sent the fallen legend Elected Queen Militant Dalorderlum “Warchin Largemane” Marbleheart.
She would succeed in her task, single handedly freeing the incubators and pacifying a rebel faction on the island, then taking control of the island legally for the empire. Turning the island into the first kingdom of the Dalmer tropical empire.
=== Aftermath ===
The belly burster: a story the Amaranstone tell each other to scare each other, linking to the fact that Dalmeran babies are born from their mothers, and not hatched from eggs like the Amaranstone Dalmer.
The Children of Dalmeran and War on heaven had the effect that in time all methods of reproduction became accepted, and the alien/demonic super babies were relentlessly tracked down by specialized medical personnel. This was accomplished by massive government investments in health care research in general.
The other effect was that the Dalmer became more philosophical in nature than before, especially in terms of philosophy, when they saw the depths to which they sank in times of crisis.
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