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>Are there 'support garments' for overly large Neumono ears?
The only things in wide use are either ear armor, or a simple strap to lock them together. The latter helps in that it keeps it closer to a single spot that has to be grabbed, and it is harder for the ears to get in front of the head. For instance, facing the enemy, leaping backwards. Unstrapped ears may be left to drift forward and each be open for a grab, strapped ears will only push lightly into the back, still well away from a charging opponent.
>To Asteroidverse folks: What's the attitude towards clones, in general? And for each species, if there's significant differences.
Cloning is legally done with permission. They are given as many rights to anyone else in their position, but their 'position' may be handed to them. For instance, there are cloned soldiers, and they are not typically given much of a chance to say otherwise. But other than that, that clone soldier has just as many rights and priveleges as any other soldier who willingly enlisted. Typically it is only humans and belenos that are cloned, not because they are the most simple, but simply because they've been the ones subject to the most research.
Criminal organizations have done cloning, no doubt with less than ethical treatment, but it is harder to speak of general treatment on that note.
>If someone is cloned without their knowledge, and finds out, do they typically act as if they had a child they didn't know about, a long-lost sibling, or do they generally not care that much?
From what I have heard, it is just weird. It is not that they 'don't care', but they don't suddenly feel an instant bonding with someone they never met that is just like them. There have been narcissistic people who will meet their clones and proceed to highly flatter each other, along with people blaming everything from practical jokes to felonys on 'their evildoing clone.' This is the exception, and cloning is not so widespread, and most clones are done on only one person for one purpose. In other words, recreational cloning is generally not allowed.
>Kinda makes me wonder why neumono military forces haven't adopted the practice of removing their troop's ears and capping the wounds so they don't grow back. It'd make sense to remove an appendage that could be grabbed or caught in something, especially if it'd improve hearing.
It wouldn't improve hearing. That is the downside of shortening the ears, it impairs hearing. It would worth it if the person had particularly long ears already, or if they were regularly in melee combat. Most fights are with firearms, in which hearing is more important than grappling defense.
Ear armor is still complex, but most have shuttersystems so that armor plates can be extended or brought back. There is not a one-size-fits-all for that, but engineers have gotten it to one size fits several, and ear pieces can be swapped and exchanged to different helmets of similar models.
>Has to be some evolutionary reason for the big ears. Maybe they use them to battle for mates and such.
Some find them attractive, but trying to battle with them would look and be stupid. They are used to detect wildlife that can kill neumono, and to offer a food source in times of starvation. Normally creatures would store their fat in more balanced areas such as the belly, but the difference with neumono is that it is not just survival of the fittest individual, it is survival of a hive. A neumono can cut off their ears to feed a hivemate. Cutting off a slab of thigh or stomach is not as readily done. In fact, the ear's connective tissue is weak just a bit below the base. If it's pulled on hard enough, it will likely rip cleanly off at that fracture line sooner than the base of the ear. That is still iffy, and most just use a knife.
>Maybe ears are a race thing?
It's lost its meaning after the races got together far more from alien contact. More aquatic friendly and temperate climate neumono tend to have the flat ears, while cold climate and underground ones tend to have rounded ears.
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