In Raised By Wolves season 1, episode 8, "Mass", Mother (Amanda Collin) is surprised to learn that she is pregnant. At first, it seems that she was probably impregnated by the digital version of her creator, Campion Sturges (Cosmo Jarvis). However, by the time the "baby" is born in episode 10, "The Beginning", it is still very unclear who actually got her pregnant. Mother first learns the news after she is attacked and severely damaged by the assault on the settlement. She escapes and visits an android doctor that survived the crash of the Mithraic ark ship. At first, she is there only to repair herself and scavenge for fuel blood, the white, milky substance that androids need to function. As she siphons it from the doctor, she requests that he perform diagnostics on her because of a discomfort she feels in her abdomen.

The doctor concludes that what is growing inside of her is not a tumor, but a half–carbon-based growth. In other words, it is part android, part organic. Because of its dual nature, it not only requires fuel blood, but organic blood as well. At the end of the episode, Mother interfaces with the Mithraic simulator again and speaks with the entity, who she believes to be Campion Sturges. She asks him what he put inside of her, implying that she believes he impregnated her when they simulated sexual intercourse. He tells her that raising her baby is her real mission on Kepler-22b and that the other children were just practice. He also tells her that their baby is the future of humanity. At first, Mother rejects the idea that it is her baby—not Campion—that is humanity's future, but she finally comes to accept it.

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Her pregnancy is not the only revelation Mother has in episode 8. She also learns that the Mithraic built her and the other necromancers using a technology they didn't fully understand. They did so by using something called "dark photons" and designs they found encoded in their holy scriptures. This means that Mother was not actually designed by the Mithraic, but instead, she was designed by an someone or something unknown by season 1's ending. It seems that there is a connection between these things: Mother's true designers; the entity that comes to Mother in the simulator; and the Mithraic technology and scriptures that led them all to Kepler-22b in the first place. If there is a connection, then the big question is: what's the purpose of it all?

Who Really Got Mother Pregnant

Raised by Wolves Mother and Father burying devolved human

From episode 8 until the Raised by Wolves season 1 finale, Mother believes that her creator is responsible for creating the "child" inside of her. By the end of episode 10, however, she finally abandons this idea. She becomes fully aware that the creature she gives birth to is not the future of humanity. Instead, it is actually a threat to the continuation of the species. As a result, she and Father (Abubakar Salim) resolve to destroy it on a suicide mission to the planet's core. They fail, and the flying, half-android serpent she birthed is unleashed on an unsuspecting world, growing extremely fast.

Naturally, the Mithraic attribute the mysteries surrounding Mother's pregnancy to their god, Sol. This is first shown in episode 9, when Paul (Felix Jamieson) and the other children on the planet learn that Mother is pregnant. Paul confides in Campion that he believes it was Sol who put the baby inside Mother. In episode 10, the other children also discuss their belief that the baby is Sol's. However, they may not continue to believe this once they find out the baby is actually a bloodthirsty serpent.

The only thing that's certain about who got Mother pregnant is that they manipulated her programming as well as her developing emotions to create the serpent creature. The purpose behind all this continues to remain a mystery by the end of the Raised by Wolves season 1 finale. It's possible that Mother's designers are the ones who got her pregnant, and it's also possible that they wanted to lure humanity to Kepler-22b. If these possibilities are true, they probably didn't lure humankind out of benevolence, but instead out of a need of food for the beast. Otherwise, why would they create the dangerous serpent? Another possibility is that the baby's other parents are not Mother's designers. Instead, they each might be one of two sides of an as of yet unknown conflict, which also might have something to do with the history of and native population of the planet.

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How Mother Actually Got Pregnant

Despite the fact that mother engaged in simulated sexual intercourse with the entity in the simulator, she most likely did not get pregnant from this act. Instead, she was probably reprogrammed to start the creature's growth inside of her while she was distracted by the entity. Ridley Scott and showrunner Aaron Guzikowski confirmed this in a recent New York Times interview, saying that Mother is like a 3D printer that can create objects out of matter using digital designs. In episode 10, Mother also finally explains how she believes she got pregnant. She tells Father that the instructions on how to build the baby were downloaded into her while she was inside the simulation.

Mother's wide range of abilities as a necromancer and the mysteries of her programming seemingly never end. As such, her ability to carry a child should not be a complete surprise. However, it's not certain that her unknown designers had always planned for her or another necromancer to be impregnated in this way. To do so, they would need to have known that the real Campion Sturges would reprogram a necromancer to raise human children on Kepler-22b. This seems unlikely, since the Mithraic ark ship appears to have had no necromancers on it.

Therefore, this digital impregnation can probably happen to any android. This is supported by the fact that in episodes 9 and 10, Mother has dreams of an android giving birth much like she finally does. She even finds the remnants of an android in a room that coincides with the images she sees in her dreams. Regardless of who is responsible for Mother's pregnancy or how it happened, at least one thing is certain about Mother's half-android serpent baby in Raised by Wolves—it changes everything and creates immense anticipation for Raised by Wolves season 2.

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