P.D. Quick question: The bugs are a female-only race that harvest seed of aliens, or they have their own males, lying with their oversized endownments deep down the hives? I ask this because I don't get which gender are the workers, and following the game's general trend, I supposed that they were flat-chested females. I'd be quite happy to be wrong.
I wrote a short infodump few posts back. But basically:
- Tiny workers are sexless and genderless. They can't be impregnanted and they can ""impregnate"" only by transferring seed they've collected from others to their royals.
- Royals are have no concept for male or female, as everyone has the same parts. They are capable of laying full-term eggs or impregnating others with their eggs.
- Royal growing breasts is highly optional, and only becomes a possibility after certain age AND if they are a generous breeder. Large hips also come with breeding and egg-laying but are less optional.
- If royal chooses, they can never breed (or do it rarely) and retain a much slender, ambigious appearance.
- They can choose to use either "he" or "she" to communicate with gendered alien races better, but it doesn't nessecary determine what they feel like inside and isn't determined by what they look like.
TLDR - The sizechart shows only one possible look for older royals; one that breeds alot. It's not the only possible route for them however, there are many more. They are not fully females or males.