They have children. Clans. Dynasties under stone.

Pelvic examination of the living subject, 8 January 1983, organ system fourteen. The cavity contained no gonads, no remnants, no vestigial tissue, no hormonal axis of gamete production, no seminal vesicles, no vas deferens, no epididymis, no prostate-equivalent, no external genitalia. Karyotype XY. Downstream sexual differentiation had simply not been installed. The first thirteen systems had been recognisable or anomalous. The fourteenth was an empty room.

The organism does not reproduce. Individuals are issued. Quota gestation is telemetry of manufacture: numbers, not families. The folklore of dwarf clans is a surface projection of kinship onto a production schedule. There is no dynasty under the mountain. There is a quota.