At 02:50 PM 1/12/97 -0800, Henry J. Cobb wrote:

The Akaneniichuan is canon from the series.

Somebody actually kidnapped Akane and used her as a spring-template.

The major difference in "Scarlet Spring" is that I have it created seven
years early and use it instead of the springs that certain persons
"historically" fell into.

So what if, to balance their male-female ratio, the PRC marched fifty
million men into it?

I thought the male-female ratio imbalance happened when:

1) A family has a daughter.  They wanted a son, but it's usually illegal to 
   try again.
2) They pretend they have no kids.  Census takers can't count the daughter.
3) The parents have a son.  Census takers can count him.  They think the 
   family has more boys than girls.
4) The parents enroll the daughter in school.  To the census takers, a five 
   year old girl has appeared out of nowhere.
5) If enough families do this, there's a big imbalance among babies, none 
   among schoolchildren, and so a smaller imbalance in the total population.
6) Some foreigner misreads the census and blames the imbalance on female 
   infanticide instead.

But I'm probably wrong.

I can just see them swimming across the sea of Japan, with mallets held
in their teeth.

Can the Self Defense Forces hold back a tide of uncute tomboys?  ("Bad
news sir, they've started throwing their cooking and our front line
troops are lacking in chemical warfare gear." -HJC)

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb