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the black market is a deeply unethical industry and we must withdraw support as soon as possible

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i mean
you can literally buy unborn children there
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you could buy "pots" to put on your chao's head. they were selling your chao illegal drugs the whole time. who knows what they did to the apples
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like imagine how messed it would be if a dog wearing a fake beard and glasses tried to sell you a bunch of dog fetuses
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purchasing a manual on how to squt 5gum
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it's in a kindergarten
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i heard that you can buy drugs if you enter a cheat code
when i asked sega about it they responded with "we've been FOUND OUT"
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the truth is out there
together we stand as one to stop this senseless corruption
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Where do the eggs even come from?!
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The unfortunate name aside, is the buying and selling of Chao Eggs fundamentally different from the buying and selling of freshly weened kittens and puppies? Most birds and mammals nurture their young for a period after hatching/birth, but Chao clearly aren't avian or mammalian, and the nurturing of young is actually fairly uncommon in the animal kingdom.

Assuming Chao aren't in a class all their own, evidence suggests they are most likely either amphibian or reptilian, and like many reptiles, Chao:
1. Don't nurture their young.
2. Don't actively guard their eggs(Hell, they don't even bother to hide them).
3. Are vulnerable, but independant when they hatch.

So the question is, when are amphibians and reptiles bred as pets usually first put up for adoption/sell by breeders/pet shops? I don't recall ever meating anyone with a pet lizard, turtle, frog, or toad, but it's my understanding that hatchling turtles and tadpoles aren't unheard of as children's pets, so I assume the answer is "very young" if not "before they hatch".

That said, I'll admit the idea of Blaze or Big selling mundane kittens that have been weened, deemed healthy by a certified vet, and are current on their vaccinations would be an odd sight, though that might be due to their personalities more so than the fact they are cat anthros. *Imagines Cream selling mundane rabbit kits.* DAWWWWWW! *Falls into diabetic coma from cuteness overload.*
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Ivogoji wrote:Where do the eggs even come from?!
They steal it from other gardens right under the chao parents no-..empty space between their mouth and eyes.
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The Chao who runs the Black Market can talk and is obviously sentient.

When you put your Chao in a Tiny Chao Garden, it can talk and appears to be sentient.

This is... not like selling pets.
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I've always wondered what they put in those Hero and Dark fruits.
As far as the whole egg thing goes, I've seen Chao breed. They just jump up and down happily for a few seconds, then leave the egg alone. They don't even bat an eye if you throw their unhatched baby! It's probably easy to steal from the unaware parents... Wait. If they are stolen,what does the Black Market do to the eggs to make them the color of the breed? All the Chao that I've bred have the same color eggs as the first two Chao you get! So much mystery! :thinking:
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Well, Black Market Chao are homozygous for every documented loci in the Chao Genome, so maybe getting a non-normal egg requires the Chao be purebred to an extent few players would be willing to strive for(and Sonic Team didn't bother coding to handle the rare player who would go that far). Then again, since there was only normal Chao surrounding the Emerald Altar in the distant past, maybe all non-normal Chao are the result of genetic engineering and the scientists never figured out how to make Egg color inheritable. After all, SA2 implies Chaos Drives and Artificial Chaos were products of the research conducted on Space Colony ARK, and given the ability of Chaos Drives to impact Chao evolution and the notion that Chaos is some kind of Chaos/Master Emeral mutated Chao, it's likely the research that lead to the development of Chaos Drives and Artificial Chaos involved Chao.

Or maybe it's just Food Dye.

Though, you know, there was a Silver Chao egg just lying around in the Mystic Ruins. There being a Gold Egg in a window display in Station Square or a black egg sitting in the Egg Carrier's brig could be chocked up to Eggs from the Black Market, but the Silver Egg in Mystic Ruins would seem to suggest wild and/or feral populations of Silver Chao and would imply Chao abandoning their eggs immediately with no attempt to protect their unborn children isn't limited to domesticated Chao.

Then again, considering that Chao Eggs can be thrown at cliff faces without harming the hatchling, perhaps there wasn't enough evolutionary pressure to favor a more attentive parenting style in the species. Try that with a chicken egg, and at best, you'd end up with a prematurely hatched chick that probably has a few broken bones and at worse, a mess of broekn eggshell, yoke, egg white and dying chicken fetus. Granted, Chao are also effectively immortal, so it's not like there's any great impetus for them to have children in the first place, and indeed, most Chao will only mate once per reincarnation cycle unless dosed with what is effectively a fertility drug and aphrodisiac combined and seemed to be hardwired against overpopulation.

Another question: is the TCG Shop part of the Black Market? If so, why is their product offerings so different, and if not, does the fact that Jewel Eggs cost the same as Shiny Eggs when Jewel Eggs seem to be rarer and indicator that the TCG Shop might be more on the level? Either way, how much GMO went into the TCG fruits to give them so much variation in how the impact Chao stats when most black market fruits are essentially identical to Garden fruits? And speaking of Black Market fruit, is the Chao Fruit laced with steroids or is it just that damn nutritious naturally?
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Maybe long ago, they found a way to breed things like, two swim chaos to make a green chao.
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but they probably force 'em into cages

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Wonder how they got the eggs to not hatch during thia time?
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Annadog40 wrote:Wonder how they got the eggs to not hatch during thia time?
They lock them up in a cooler.
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Considering how long specific eggs are available in the black market, i.e. not very long, perhaps they do nothing to prevent the eggs from hatching and remove any eggs that are about to hatch. Question is, what do they do with the newborn from eggs that are hatched before they are sold, and given how quickly the market is restocked, do they have a breeding farm were they feed Chao Heart Fruit on a regular basis?
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You know what they say.

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NiGHTSIsLife wrote:I've always wondered what they put in those Hero and Dark fruits.
As far as the whole egg thing goes, I've seen Chao breed. They just jump up and down happily for a few seconds, then leave the egg alone. They don't even bat an eye if you throw their unhatched baby! It's probably easy to steal from the unaware parents... Wait. If they are stolen,what does the Black Market do to the eggs to make them the color of the breed? All the Chao that I've bred have the same color eggs as the first two Chao you get! So much mystery! :thinking:
I'm more interested in what the hell they put in Heart Fruit. Is there a special Chao Viagra they put in Heart Fruit?
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Maybe viagra is extracted from heart fruits.


Also do chaos have their sex organs in their mouths? Cause that how they make babies? :thinking:
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