On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Steve Rapaport wrote: > > Given that each Dragaeran lives 3000 years, of which perhaps 1500 are > possibly child-bearing, you would have to have a pretty steep die-off to > prevent a population EXPLOSION. More important than length of fertility is the onset. It takes hundreds of years for a Dragaeran to become a grandparent, only about twenty-five for an Easterner.