We don't know for sure how similar the Odddworld feudal reproductive system is to ants and bees but with insects all the workers are female. To make a queen, a normal baby is fed Royal Jelly (for bees at least, I don't know what its called for ants) which makes them grow big. If they are not fed the jelly their reproductive organs never develop. Thus if Sam died unexpectedly they could just feed the equivalent of Royal Jelly to a baby Mud and create a new queen.
On the other hand male bees (drones) are unique and only serve to impregnate the queen, who then pops out a pile of kids from the one encounter. The interesting thing is that queen and drone ants have wings and actually mate flying in the air. I actually asked Alf once if Sam and Maggie have wings to flit around with but he didn't really give an answer
BTW I'm confused; what do people mean by 'trunk'?
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Spending as long as I do here, it's easy to forget that Oddworld has actual fans.
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