Consider how many males in the British Royal family have died without issue.

GregC

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On Mon, 7/27/15, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars
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 Date: Monday, July 27, 2015, 11:52 PM

. An Aslan female can
 potentially birth 12 kittens per year, and an Aslan male is
 likely to maintain two-four breeding age females while
 capable of reproduction. That is a lot of mouths to feed,
 who it seems are not as omnivorous as Humanity.

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That's why I found it so interesting, when, in SJG's timeline, the Imperial Aslan who was a Sector Duke out in the SolRim died w/o 'issue'. Or at least any legit heirs. That seemed to me to be almost impossibly improbable. However, it did allow for the question of succession to be explored thru SJG's TNS dispatches.

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