> 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.

- Tim