[SligCabaret]

I'm curious about something. As we all(probably) know, all the sligs in the work force are born from the same mother- Queen Skillya -and are generally born nice enough until the Gluck society beats them into lazy killers. Here's my question. As far as I know, there's no canonical artwork of the queen herself. We don't know what she really looks like, but we can guess.

Some things just don't make sense to me. Seeing as how sligs don't behave like hive-minded creatures, we can't assume that Skillya was born into this life. There may be a queen caste, but the fact of the matter is that in order to breed an effective workforce the sligs cannot be directly inbred, so she has to be breeding with another male. Also, since there are no wild sligs running about, her mate is most likely either singular, or not alive and a genetically cloned sperm supply. We can probably assume the latter, because male sligs seem to have a pretty short lifespan, either by age or gunfire. She can't have lived this life herself though, because she probably would have died before she was able to reproduce.

So, we have a single female from a species extinct in the wild, reproducing at a wildly fast rate most likely through constant in-vitro fertilization. She is of a species born with a kind and loving heart, and each and every one of her children is being hoisted slithery tail first into the Magog cartel to get mean or die trying.

Why the hell does everyone draw her looking mean? Imagine if you had that life. Either she is one hell of a twisted slig, or she is absolutely miserable and held against her will. If anyone knows any more about her, please do tell. I'm always annoyed when something interesting is under explained and then abandoned as a concept. Either way I prefer to draw her as a chained and tied amputee.