Eleventh_Guard posted:Dark Nest III: The Swarm War. Tenel Ka Djo slowed her pregnancy down by a few months so that it would look like Jacen Solo couldn't possibly be the father of her child, thus protecting the child from possible attacks from Hapan nobles.
BobaMatt posted:It's not the same as inducing pregnancy. What she's doing is accelerating the pregnancy. The baby develops fully, but faster. She's condensing the gestation period, so that she can cram nine months worth of fetal development into five.
PerfectCell posted:BobaMatt posted:It's not the same as inducing pregnancy. What she's doing is accelerating the pregnancy. The baby develops fully, but faster. She's condensing the gestation period, so that she can cram nine months worth of fetal development into five. Oh, I know that, that's why I listed inducing in my first post. Inducing is only done for health reasons, usually having to do with the mother. Acceleration just doesn't seem right to me, because as you said it's taking nine months worth of pregnancy and cramming it into five. There should and can be complications from something like that, and it's not something that sits all that well with me.
rumsmuggler posted:PerfectCell posted:BobaMatt posted:It's not the same as inducing pregnancy. What she's doing is accelerating the pregnancy. The baby develops fully, but faster. She's condensing the gestation period, so that she can cram nine months worth of fetal development into five. Oh, I know that, that's why I listed inducing in my first post. Inducing is only done for health reasons, usually having to do with the mother. Acceleration just doesn't seem right to me, because as you said it's taking nine months worth of pregnancy and cramming it into five. There should and can be complications from something like that, and it's not something that sits all that well with me. I'm sure that if one can accelerate a preganancy, they can anticipate and correct any possible complications.
PerfectCell posted:I don't agree with that simply because anytime the natural flow of life is tampered with there always tend to be bad consequences. The line of thinking you displayed stems from my other problem with the proposed accelerated pregnancy, the Jedi's, or at least Etain's, belief that they can tamper with something like this. Regardless of whether any complications can be controlled or not, there are certain things that shouldn't be messed with, and a natural pregnancy is one of them.
Ris_jSarek posted:PerfectCell posted:I don't agree with that simply because anytime the natural flow of life is tampered with there always tend to be bad consequences. The line of thinking you displayed stems from my other problem with the proposed accelerated pregnancy, the Jedi's, or at least Etain's, belief that they can tamper with something like this. Regardless of whether any complications can be controlled or not, there are certain things that shouldn't be messed with, and a natural pregnancy is one of them. Healing trances in general also tamper with the natural flow of life, but their bad consequences seem to be minimal or absent.
browwiw posted:In context to Etain's particular pregnancy, wouldn't the fetus already develop a quarter faster than normal (considering it is half-clone)?