Three little words

Three little words: "Women were taken" made all the difference in the world when I added them to Rome's Revolution.

In yesterday's post, I discussed the evolution of the Chara mission. It went from being an Ark full of criminals to the main hope of the Darwin Project for re-conquering the Earth for America. Instead of bad people, it was chock full of the best soldiers we had to offer. This set up the entire plot line behind the historical novel interleaved in The Ark Lords.

Once I knew about the change, I thought about such a mission and how it would alter the dynamics and distribution of personnel. The leaders of the Darwin Project had to balance the military needs against likely scenarios. One possible scenario was that the Earth was devoid of all humans. So they had to send a goodly number of women along, about 100, to ensure that there were enough mating pairs to repopulate the Earth, just in case.

Another scenario was that the Earth was fully repopulated and the soldiers were going to have to conquer untold thousands or millions of people. They had to put more men (not women) on the ship, about 400. The feeling was that if humans survived, there would be fertile women who could be captured and used as breeders. I realize that this is completely sexist and not politically correct but these decisions were made by the mission planners. Such a fate befell Helen Henry as depicted in The Ark Lords.

To make this strategy clear, I added the three little words 'Women were taken' to one part of Rome's Revolution. It was during one of OMCOM's long expositions on the past (our future) to explain to Rei why the Essessoni are so despised by the Vuduri. Just adding that sentence made it all click in. Who would have thought that three simple words could make such a big difference?