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HH lives with this principle every day
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Manga Shoggoth

Subj: Only if she's not competent, as opposed to not willing. "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 07:49:23 am EDT
Reply Subj: Ah. The Peter Principle at work...
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 06:49:22 am EDT


> It looks like Pel is going to be stuck with the job despite not wanting it (and her belief that she can't do it).

That was the idea behind setting this up, yes.

> Mind you, it looks like the race is dead now - If I recall correctly it requires about 2000 creatures to make a population viable (genetic diversity and all that...).

We haven't yet covered what's to happen to the other Thonngarain captives and escapees.

As I recall, we established that there were about 50,000 surviving Thonnagarians on Caph. If we didn't establish it it was there in my head. If only 5% survive they're still above your breeding numbers, without having to resort to advanced genetic techniques which are probably available to a space-faring society.

Of course, the Caphans may have a different view about the ideal numbers of a Thonnagarian race.