-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 7/27/15, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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. ====================================================================================================