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On Thu, 7/30/15, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, July 30, 2015, 7:53 PM

 > On 7/30/2015 8:04
 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
 >
 The aslan in question, the sector duke, was very elderly
 when he
 > dies of old age. I just
 can't see how he could die w/o an heir. I
 > suppose it's theoretically possible
 but I still just can't see it
 >
 actually happening.

 It
 doesn't seem improbable that he was simply infertile,
 and that
 succession law disqualifies
 descendants that might result from
 technological intervention of sufficient
 magnitude -- or that the
 person in question
 did not wish to undergo such procedures.

 Even in humans there are many conditions that
 result in infertility,
 and some would
 require pretty major measures to fix even if our
 medical technology were perfect.  We know
 almost nothing about Aslan
 reproductive
 biology, so there is a completely open field there for
 possibilities.

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With TL15or14 avail it seems virtually impossible to me that such characteristics aren't corrected well before birth or even eliminated from the gene pool altogether but I suppose it's still possible even if just barely...

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