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| - They bring this genetic material to the Mother Grub, who combines it all in an incestuous slurry and lays hundreds of eggs at once - genetic material from stronger bonds of either nature see more representation in the resulting brood, while weaker relationships result in more recessive genetic traits. We should all take a moment to lament how pedestrian the human reproductive system is, and further lament that the phrase "incestuous slurry" is not a feature of common parlance in human civilization. Failure to contribute to each filial pail when prompted results in death. Trolls unable to find a mate have nothing to contribute to troll society and are therefore removed from the gene pool. This is referred to as "culling," although failure to contribute to the filial pails is not the only reason a troll can be culled. Consequently, the Imperial Drones may be related to the Culling Drones mentioned here, potentially even being one and the same. The Drones may also be related to His Honorable Tyranny (seen here), or the Carpenter Droids who assist young trolls in constructing their Hives. As trolls are consistently implied to be an alien equivalent to social insects such as ants or bees, complete with their early life metamorphosis, this suggests a specific origin of the Imperial Drones. Trolls would be the fertilized offspring of a Mother Grub while Imperial Drones are the unfertilized offspring - related only to the mother grub. This would mirror how insect queens give birth to drones without being fertilized and workers with being fertilized. However, this is never confirmed in comic, so as aliens, they could be completely different.
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