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To: jttmab who wrote (166402)	7/18/2005 9:58:38 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I guess so long as China continues to manufacture cheap goods for us we are ok. "Its dependence upon the outer worlds for food and, indeed, for all necessities of life, made Trantor increasingly vulnerable to conquest by siege. In the last millennium of the Empire, the monotonously numerous revolts made Emperor after Emperor conscious of this, and Imperial policy became little more than the protection of Trantor's delicate jugular vein..." (Encyclopedia Galactica) The Encyclopedia states further on Trantor: "As the center of the Imperial Government for unbroken hundreds of generations and located, as it was, toward the central regions of the Galaxy among the most densely populated and industrially advanced worlds of the system, it could scarcely help being the densest and richest clot of humanity the Race had ever seen." In The Currents of Space, earlier history is recapitulated, the five worlds of the Trantorian Republic growing to the Trantorian Confederation and then Trantorian Empire, before conquest of the entire galaxy made it the Galactic Empire.