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Nothing is inherently wrong with conscripting females. In itself. Combining female conscription, however, with a populace suffering from two successive wars, with the moral fatigue of a tyrant Emperor, with a high warrior attrition rate, and with a collective guilt for the destruction of an Empire, results in racial suicide.—Female Conscription: The End of Empires, by Whelping Anarchy.
Aged Oak, Prefect of Cove, twelfth Patriarch of the Oak Family, and Commanding General of the Eastern Armed Forces, urinated into a bucket. Hot steam rose from his strong stream in the cold morning air.
“Not bad for an old man,” he murmured, content. Shaking off the last drops, Aged Oak put himself back into his loincloth with one hand, his sword in the other.
Approaching, the Colonel Scratching Wolf
