On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a race which fanatically sticks with
> "tried and true" and also tends toward a low population growth rate (at
> least as I read canon . . . all those millenia-old, low-pop colony worlds).

Read this part, and it crossed my mind...

If you're pure blood Vilani, you're going to have your kids for 80-ish
years of your life....

And your parents/grandparents/in-laws/etc for a goodly while, as well.

So, do they approach family the way they do everything else?

I would reply, "Yes."

I see the bureaux as simply Vilani families writ large. :)

Richard Aiken

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