Talk:Ven'kra Tel/@comment-195.148.239.174-20140923094638/@comment-62.78.190.20-20141031230129

We don't really know shit about how Grin society is actually structured and run, other than what can be inferred from the ranks, titles and descriptions of some of the bosses. One notes though that none of the named females seem to possess stated formal ranks despite holding positions of authority and/or responsibility which suggests they might have a hierarchy separate from and parallel to the males.

Anyways, being vat-grown the lot probably base their perceptions of kinship on "creche groups" and possibly (and more abstractly, perhaps analogously to clans) "lineages" in the sense of separate genetic templates. Eg. the heavy units are visibly larger than the common infantry, and probably represent "supersoldier" variant strains gengineered for size and strenght so as to better handle the burden of their hefty weaponry.

God only knows what's the significance if any of the second names some of the known individuals have, or indeed how the Grins go about naming themselves in the first place. Maybe they just have some kind of central database of names from which an RNG picks something for every new bugger out of the tanks?