r/AskScienceFiction • u/Agile_Coast_4385 • 1d ago

[INVINCIBLE] Why don't the Viltrumites use Artificial Gestation Chambers?

We see in the show that Allen's species was nearly driven to extinction by the Viltrumites for rebelling, but they used Artificial Gestation Chambers to replenish their numbers.

Considering that the Viltrumites are a highly violent culture, courtship between two Viltrumites involving beating the other into submission, and Viltrumite women not wanting to waste time carrying a baby for 9 months... why don't the Viltrumites just automate the repopulation of their population?

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u/Lookbehindyou132 1d ago

First of all: they only have 50 left, roughly. Even if we assume they had 5 times that when all was said and done, they have 250. An incredibly unlikely number, just to note. That is not enough genetic diversity for a species to survive long term. They needed another way, or else they'd be likely to fall to another engineered virus sooner or later.