[@deegee] I've got to wonder: If the Malatrin males, the Warrior-Caste, were so power-hungry...how is it that they didn't conquer the females previously? What drove them to so drastically upturn their society, and how powerful were their invaders --compared to the their females-- that they would so easily be swayed into betraying the entirety of their race? If anything, it sounds more like *a few* power-hungry individuals made deals for themselves, which could possibly explain why only a few were left to procreate with the females, perhaps even being used as Governors of the newly enslaved species.