Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Fiction: Incuboter

Do you have a horse that just won’t breed? Do you want elephants but you don’t have one right now? Do you want your own baby but you cannot bear children? The Icuboter may be just what you need? This large creature is composed of many creatures and it possesses the ability to incubate up to several small creatures or a couple large creatures. It comes in a variety of sizes and colors to suit your needs.

The Incuboter is mobile and is able to move, walk around and power itself as necessary, just like a living creature. It obtains power by consuming grasses and grains, similar to many ruminants, and it digests them in a similar fashion. This animal is primarily dog shaped, though the reproductive system is closer to that of swine, and its digestive system closer to that of ruminants, goats in particular. The animal is equipped with wings for ease of move and transport. It is fully programmable and will not fly with the proper setting. It can be set for a “self defense” process, which is helpful if you have a problem with predators, where it can fly to safety, usually to a predetermined point. It moves about with four legs, similar to that of a dogs or wolves legs. There are augmentations with some options of lightweight metal and some with silk based technology.  The metal fletched tail aids in flight. Wings are made of standard large size feathers, with the cores reinforced. Although the metal based version is pictured, metal augmentation is optional and lighter, completely anatomical versions are available. The head horn is for self defense and aids in hormone stimulation.

The endocrine system of the Incuboter is highly customizable with many programs and upgrades based off of the needs of the incubation system. To run the egg production program, the egg mode is equipped with ovaries. Follicle stimulating hormone encourages estrogen release. The ovaries are gonads that produce estrogen, progesterone and ova. When the egg (ova) is developed in the ovaries, the oocyte is expelled when it is mature. Oviducts and fallopian tubes are uterine tubes that are not attached to the ovary, but they transverses the area from the ovary to the uterus. In the infundibulum, there are fimbriae which collect the ova once it leaves the ovary and they move sperm from the vagina to the uterus, making fertilization possible (usually in the uterine tubes). The uterine tubes then attach to the uterine horns. The uterus is where the embryo is supported and is composed of cornus, corpus and cervix. This robot is bicornuate and possesses two uterine horns. The robot’s vagina is able to receive semen or fertilized eggs through artificial insemination and it is meant to deliver offspring. The vagina is protected from debris by vulva and labia. It possesses vestibular glands to lubricate the vagina.

Normally, hormones control the estrous cycle, however, in this robot, the estrous cycle is controlled via programming. This means, you can ensure the animal will be able to support life at a defined time. Since most of the time this is used, it is through artificial insemination or implantation, the eggs that are implanted are programmed in to be received and developed. Proestrus is when estrogen is released and prepares the Incubotor’s reproductive system. Estrus is nearly bypassed in the Incuboter, as usually not long after proestrus is initiated, the animal is ready to be fertilized or receive fertilized eggs. All that needs to happen in the animal is that the body’s estrogen levels and other hormonal levels reach the level necessary to support offspring. It does not need to release an egg. To this end, incuboters automatically come modified so that their own eggs are not released into the uterine tubes. Metestrus takes place last, ensuring that the egg is properly supported and offspring is able to develop. Luteinizing hormone helps support the pregnancy. Diestrus takes place as part of the natural process. The robot is set to anestrus unless pregnancy is required.

This robot is viviparous. Most of them bear litters, but it depends on what is implanted. The offspring is supported in the placenta, or afterbirth, which removes waste while providing oxygen and nutrition to the developing offspring.  The  umbilical cord connects the fetus and placenta and the umbilicus is on the abdominal wall and is located where the umbilical cord joins to the offspring. Cranial presentation is preferred, but for some species, such as swine, cranial or caudal presentations are acceptable. The Incubot provides an up to date list of presentation and presentation control (through the program). Oxytocin helps to stimulate and support parturition as well as produce milk.

Once the offspring is born, it provides colostrum and milk for the fetus. It may be supplemented by additional colostrum if necessary. This production creature is also effective as a milk producer. Proper maintenance of a pregnancy schedule will provide milk with good fat content, taste and quality. It is equipped with six pairs of mammary glands, similar to a sow. It has 12 functional teats. The mammae have alveoli that secrete milk which drains through lactiferous ducts that form lactiferous sinus. the milk empties into the papillary duct into the streak canal. Prolactin hormone helps promote milk production and parental care on part of the robot.

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