Comment by pixl97

>What is it with "queens" in SF

Insects. Queen bees, queen ants, queen termites. Feels nice an icky to humans.

Now, SF mostly gets this wrong as isn't that much of a leader, more of a 'starter' and many species have multiple queens and when one gets killed another is promoted from larva. This and the vast majority of behaviors are self organizing, and not ones from a leadership position.