FYI, though, it's the queen that gets sacrificed for her subjects. Throughout history, it's not like an invading army kills all the subjects to get to the queen -- Strategically, it's always better to just kill the queen, then take over.
Something just dawned on me. You know how we went from two digit years to four digit years because of the Y2K bug? In like 9K years we'll have to go to 5 digit years to combat the problem again