He is the reason...
"Hey, it's me again, Glykon the God King, just checking in. Are you sure you don't want to join our religion? We gotta whole lot of rites involving fertility going on and snake worshiping is fun, just ask the Hittites." Glykon, the supernatural sex snake from old Earth spoke to me in my dreams again. My dream was suddenly filled with images of fertility rites, dozens of members of the church of Glykon striping off their holy togas. I realized many of the people in the images were the priests and priestesses currently on board my ship.
I woke in my Stateroom, covered in sweat. At least this time in was just sweat, I had been able to check on Glykon storage container in the hold without my clothes coming off or anything involving fertility happening. All the members of the crew were likely getting the same dream message I did. I shook my head in annoyance. Based on my last few months experience the crew would be quitting in terror the nano-second we reached the high port of the next world. Again.
We had three days till we were out of Jump. God-king or no, I couldn't wait for that giant snake and its storage container to be out of my hold and the hell off my ship. I don't know if it had some sort of Psionic Capabilities or if it gave off a toxin or could hypnotize people. It clearly had some sort of mojo that messed with people's minds. Most of its priestesses were visibly pregnant so worshipping it was not enough to make the dreams stop.
The profits were some of the best I ever made but at what cost? For the last four months, in every star port we had stopped at, countless women had become pregnant with twins. In every case, the woman was pregnant with one male and one female fetus. It didn't matter if the woman was Human, Vargr, K'kree, or Aslan.