A delicate story to write. The Peach would not do this without a lot of careful planning and manipulation.
His battalion doesn’t seem to be able to get much else organized, at least on their own. Humans will concentrate more on making sex really work than in any other activity except war. And that’s probably compensation for when they can’t get sex — or as the way it was to originally get sex.
Humans have an over-specialized breeding strategy. While every primate on the planet will cooperate, humans are more like lions — kill ‘em all. It’s why the lionesses feed the lions: to have a guard against what’s been called the Deadly Enemy — other lions. We only cooperate if we can wipe out the other guy.
We’ve taken it to an even greater extreme of specialization. You’ve all heard the line, “If I can’t have her, nobody can.” Human breeding strategy, in its original form, says if the female can’t be kept and bred with, kill her so no one else can breed with her, and if that means killing one’s own young, so be it. Don’t believe me? Start counting the dead females and young in percentages in even our peace-time societies. It’s very high, and until we understand the strategy, seems weird and pointless. In any other study of animal populations, the numbers would back up the theory, but we always think the mirror doesn’t apply to us (we’re so special).
We are what we evolve to.
