This is the trouble with using people as a commodity in the desperate preservation of an inhuman status quo; sooner or later, you're going to run out of people.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'