Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27217546-20170223204249/@comment-24652012-20170324015542



As for the dorsal fins of the males they are heavily based on a fish me and my family once caught when fishing at the beach, at the time I was a child so I wanted to pick a fish up, and I did, and held onto it good, but then from its back it detracted sharp quills that stabbed into my hand and forced me to drop it. Indeed literally everything about their anatomy and physiology is based on at least some form of real world marine life.

The dorsal fin allows the males even greater speed and maneuverability then the females who lack the dorsal fin, and they only lack it so it can be easier to tell they are female, along with having different coloration. As well it allows the males to mound them. Due to this land dwelling beings such as humans can easily ride on the backs of the females. This is why the females are more present when in operations involving such allies.

So say a human or a Kig-yar or some other thing with that build goes MIA in wet naval operations. The first search and rescue they would send would be a female, and what ever number they believe is fit, and occasionally a few males simply to protect the females due to having a greater ability to dodge enemy fire.

In this scenario only 1 unescorted female is believed needed for search and rescue. She then finds the, in this scenario human, laying wounded on the sea floor, his oxygen tank has a breach and all air leaks out, and as the human lays drowning he has only enough strength to climb onto her back and hold on. She then swims to the surface to get him some air before swimming him back to medical help.