Ladytown was a success, and that seemed great for the people living there,
but that caused problems for the Aljabaran Republic, because that was not
what they wanted to happen. It was meant to be a total failure. What these
leaders did was fail to consider the consequences of their own actions. At
the time, it seemed prudent to require that a population of men move out
with the women, but that ultimately put their whole evil plan at risk. In
2119, the fifth administration passed a new law that forbade anyone from
leaving Aljabara. According to publicly available documentation, Ladytown
was fine out there, but if it was going to survive, it would have to do it
on its own. They were not allowed to benefit from Aljabara’s hard work, and
advancements. Behind closed doors, the truth was that they didn’t want to
lose their entire constituency to this new settlement. If they weren’t
careful, they would lose power altogether, and letting Ladytown exist would
have been the biggest mistake they ever made. By halting immigration, they
would have to persist through later generations. Well, some twisted men did
some bad math, and discovered that the immigration laws were only going to
help protect the Republic’s power in the short term. Later administrations
ran the risk of being overtaken by what they called the unchecked
propagation of the species by a whorish race with no regard for resource
limitations. Basically, they said that, given enough time, Ladytown would
grow far beyond their control, because women couldn’t be trusted to not just
have babies left and right. Of course, people were having children at a
reasonable pace for their current population size, and living conditions,
but that didn’t matter to the government. The women had to be stopped, and
the only way to do that was to kill. That wasn’t usually their style, but
they were paranoid and desperate.
They didn’t wipe out all of Ladytown, though. They only decided to kill
certain people. The problem was that the Republicans still couldn’t simply
go to war with these people, because it would reflect poorly on them, and
make them out to be the bad guys. So how does one go about targeting an
entire sex, and only that sex? The answer the doctors came up with was
haemophilia. This was going to be no easy task. Haemophilia was an inherited
trait, and no one had been diagnosed with it since the year 2020. They still
had a sample of the boy’s blood in the archives, but they couldn’t simply
inject people with that, and wait for them to contract the disease
themselves. They had to synthesize the disease itself, and attach it to a
virus, so that it could spread. It had to spread quickly, and die out on its
own before it could reach Aljabara, however, or the whole human race on
Durus would be doomed. They spent years working on this problem, until they
finally came up with a viable solution in 2128. It was devastating. Like a viral blanket, they
dispatched a very loyal woman to claim to be a refugee, seeking asylum in
Ladytown. She was not able to get sick from the virus herself, but she
managed to infect half the town, and by the time anyone knew what was
happening, the other half caught it as well. It was the first truly violent thing that the Republic ever did, but unfortunately, there wasn’t anything they could do about it. Everyone pretty much knew that the government was responsible, but they couldn’t prove it, and no one was brave enough to try. Nearly every single male died
of this extremely aggressive viral form of haemophilia in a matter of days.
They didn’t have the resources or expertise to stop them all from bleeding
out. They were only able to save one. A mage remnant placed her teenage son
into temporal stasis, until medical treatment could be developed to combat
the disease. And that young man went on to save Ladytown.
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