The kings had been perfect for some time. Sixteen generations of careful crossbreeding had eliminated the buffoonery, the greed, the inappropriate jokes, the baldness, and of course the women. The perfect king (noble, good looking, able to wave for hours without tiring) had been formed two centuries ago, and cloned ever since.
But now the problem was the cloning process. The flawless unchanging DNA left each new king prone to disease. New bacterial strains, new fungal infections. With unaltering genetics, no clone could develop resistance. The royal line of perfect kings was starting to fail.
inkbiotic 
Hmmm. A new direction for you? Each clone degenerates and is attacked by natures diseases…well, throw another well-laid plan out the window…
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Just ruminating on the possibilities 😉
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Need a flu shot 😉 Oh yeah, that’ll only weaken the entire population…dang!
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Which is why inbreeding in royal families is such a terrible idea.
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But still really common! The British royal family seems to be widening it’s gene pool a bit, which is great for many reasons. It’s not good to have a closed circle with all that power and money. Seems to be the way the world is run though.
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Oligharchy is so much more common than people think 😦
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True 😦
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There’s no such thing as perfection! You have to keep adapting 🙂
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Very true 🙂
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