> . My guess is that in many clans there is
> > a surplus of stickpickers for the work they are
> trusted to do and
> > bloodline and clan loyalties mean there is no
> incentive to use more
> > skilled people even if the work can be done more
> efficently.
>
> This seems unlikely to me, after the decimation of
> the male population through various
> lunar repressions.
But the norm for Orlanthi life does not involve any
Lunar repression at all.
Sure, after long enough under the Lunar boot, a few
radicals *may* decide to do things another way. But
not many, and not soon.
Jane Williams
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