Keplerian Culture

Keplerians and their culture

They have wide differences in culture but 1 thing they have in common is that they live part of their time underground.

Kepler Bb

Here they are a mostly stone age society that progresses rapidly. Why do they progress rapidly? Well they have their friends on a planet nearby to thank for that.

Kepler B#

This neatly transitions into the next section. The nearby planet is Kepler B#. This is home to a futuristic society with things like teleportation and maglev roads.

Pregnancy

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Pregnancy is dealt with in society very well. Abstinence happens to be enough to prevent unwanted pregnancy in this humanoid species and lots of females love the surprise they get when gender is revealed at 5 years. They may think that loving the color purple means it is a female when the child actually turns out to be a male.

Pregnant females are left to relax in their home. That is unless they are adolescents. Adolescents either need to go through induced miscarriage(which 95% of them do) or be isolated in the wilderness for years, possibly even their whole lifetime(5% of pregnant adolescents take this risk). The length of time isolated depends on the AoC or age of conception and behavioural history. So a pregnant 15 year old might be isolated for 20 years after birth if otherwise it behaved well or for life if it had a significant history of bad behavior. A pregnant 25 year old on the other hand(yes adolescence lasts until 25 years and adulthood starts at 26 years for this species) might only be isolated for a few months after giving birth if it behaved well and 2 years if it had a significant history of bad behavior. Any younger than 15 and pregnancy is not possible without reproductive assistance.

So potentially a new city or tribe could form from a group of pregnant adolescents isolated from everyone else.

People will do everything to comfort an adult pregnant female and make sure they have enough food. Bones(iron and calcium rich) and organ meats(iron rich) are given to prevent anemia and loss of bone.

Diet and agriculture

As you can probably guess already, my species is omnivorous. They eat everything, poisonous or not. They can eat poisonous plants and animals due to incredible resistance to poison. Of course a pregnant female should not eat anything poisonous due to risk of defects and miscarriage and preterm labor or even postterm labor past a month from due date.

If you don't take into consideration plants, most of their food is still hunted. Some Keplerians do go through the process of domestication of animals for things like milk, eggs, and meat as well as fur to spin into yarn. But this is a minority of the population because no one knows if for example via breeding the best milk producers with the tamest males, they will get aggressive, low milk producing offspring or not and so it isn't worth the risk for most people to have livestock at this point. So most hunt for their meat and eggs instead. Agriculture though is booming. Most people have at least a small garden and some like Lisa and Robin have a greenhouse and several types of fruit trees.

Children

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Children are treated specially in this society. They are given venom vaccines before the age of 5 years because venomous animals will commonly live in the homes of families and this helps prevent death from a venomous bite. For example a two headed, two tailed snake might use 1 rattle to warn that if the child gets any closer it will bite and 2 rattles for territorial disputes. Likewise that same snake might give 2 venomous bites or just 1 depending on how big of a threat the child is to the snake.

They also are given bone powder if below 5 years old and anemic and raw bone if older than 5 years and anemic because usually anemia is caused by an iron deficiency and bone is iron rich. 5 years is the gray zone here. Some have had their esophagus get tough enough to handle raw bone, some still need bone powder to get the nutrients that are in bone. Organ meats can be given but usually the taste for organ meats comes closer to adolescence than birth, even if the mother regularly ate organ meats while pregnant. So usually a child will say no to liver but yes to bone. 5 years is the age at which the biological sex is gradually revealed(so if male, the child might get noticeable erections as a first sign and if female, seeing folds form is a sign. A girl might get temporary breast buds at this point. They typically last anywhere from a few weeks to a year. A child might even lactate a little but this won't last.

Baby rooms will have things for the baby to climb on, possibly even an entire rock climbing wall. Climbing is particularly important for a partly underground society.

No vaccines against illness unless genetic testing and blood tests reveal a naturally weak immune system. Why? Because most children, even as babies will recover from illness with supportive care just fine.

 

It is for protection of society. It is 1 thing to have an adolescent adopt a baby and induce lactation months before that. That is viewed as perfectly fine. But an adolescent becoming pregnant is viewed bad to the same degree murder is. Adolescents in this society are known to be reckless when it comes to sex, even if they otherwise aren't reckless at all. So it protects against STD related defects and STD transmission. And well, even without STDs, teen pregnancy is risky due to the fact that the girl is still in puberty and is thus not physically mature, even if she is sexually mature at 15. This would mean that the baby could die from birth or the mom could die from birth and these would both be more likely due to lack of physical maturity. Also, I never plan ahead of time whether my writing is going to be published or not, I just write.