Jack of Harts

China’s four-child policy made the Hyades into one of the most densely populated regions of space when The War came upon us all. It gave them a population and industrial base that was terrifyingly capable, and made it a target that had to be neutralized if we were to have any chance of winning. The interesting part is that it was the very population derived from that four-child policy that made it possible for us to govern the worlds we captured. Most of them were lower castes, sent out of China so the home nation could be ethnically pure. They were conditioned from birth to do what the Han businessmen who ruled the cluster told them to do. We just had to adjust our tactics to their needs.