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Reggie · 04-23-2006, 09:39 AM

Citrus and Vine:
There isn't any evidence of the Seal being biologically gender specific. There is evidence that women could have the Seal.

Really? Do tell: Where is it?

The important consideration for the Seal was that the Seal went to a body with royal Antarian cells. Michael was royal, but he wasn't a lineal Royal. Tess was also royal, and she also wasn't a lineal royal.
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Max and Isabel's Antarian mother survived the deaths of the Royal Four. She was female. She had the Seal. She gave the Seal to Max, while he was a fetus, before he landed on Earth. Max had the Seal, when he emerged from his pod. He had the Seal, when he was tested by the emissary.

Well, you'd think that Tess was as "royal" as Max's mother; or rather, that neither were "lineal royal". If both Max's parents were "lineal royal", then they'd be related to each other.

Hey! that explains a lot!

Max and Isabel were lineal Royals. Their father had been the true leader, until his death. Then the Seal went to Zan of Antar. The Seal went to the brain of a lineal Royal Antarian.

People who were royal, but who weren't lineal Royals, could have the Seal temporarily, until a lineal Royal could be given the Seal. Michael didn't want to give up the Seal. Max took it from him. Max could take the Seal from Michael, because Max was a lineal Royal Antarian.

The people of Antar and the other planets knew about the Seal and its meaning. The emissary placed his hand behind Max's head to test him. A true leader carried the Seal in the brain. Michael wouldn't have passed the emissary's test, because Michael didn't have the Seal in his brain. The emissary couldn't be fooled by someone who had the Seal, but didn't have the Seal in the brain.

Gobbldygook. Max was marked with the "royal seal", so that his human body would be recognisable as the one carrying the "essence" of King Zan; as opposed to an impostor. Max's dupe "Zan" might or not have had it; I don't know.

The whole business of the migrating seal only appeared in S3, when we know they'd discarded any thoughts of continuity or logic. IMHO, it's drek.

Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess weren't conceived or carried in a woman's body.

They were engineered. They grew in pods, outside of any alien or human body. They weren't born in the way that humans are born. The Antarians didn't need women to host a baby inside their bodies.

This relates to the seal how?

The Royal Four were murdered by Kivar. Kivar, who was male, didn’t get the Seal.

But he did get the throne, didn't he? And expected to keep it as well. So the Royal Seal doesn't seem all that important.

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