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

 Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 5:56 PM

  My guess would be that most of the
 ihatei fleets are likely to come from the fringe between core and
 frontier, where it is clear that opportunities for land are low and
 yet the distances to new worlds are not too great.  By the time the
 Aslan zone is even just two thousand parsecs across, very few in the
 center seem likely to raise a fleet on the prospect of having to
 travel ten years to the frontier before doing anything.

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Hmmmm, I hadn't considered the travel time.

So what happens to all the 'excess' males born in the 'center' (too far from the frontier)?

I've always understood that the main reason for the creation of iHatei fleets was to provide a place to 'dump' the excess males?

So, if/when the distance becomes too great, what becomes of all those excess males?

Wait, maybe they are packed into fleets of 'cold sleeper' vessels w/ 'cargos' of males in low berths?
And when the finally get close enough to the frontier, the survivors form a typical iHatie fleet?

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