The electorate authorized the Admiralty to take any necessary action;
the Admiralty constructed facilities in uninhabited regions;
they had abundant nuclear energy, natural resources and automatic technology;
self-reproducing machines use the abundant minerals available in an underpopulated rural environment;
thus, no publically visible existing industry is involved in war production;
it is hard for Terrans to spy on Avalon where the population is either non-humanoid Ythrians or human beings who "'...no longer think, talk, even walk quite like any Imperial humans...'" (Rise Of The Terran Empire, p. 513);
the Second Marchwarden of the Lauran System had traveled through the Empire, had done advanced study at an Imperial academy and is excellent on security.
It is unfortunate that such advanced technology has to be used for such purposes. There must be some parts of the galaxy where this is not the case?
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Commenting on your last paragraph. ONLY if you can find races who have not Fallen.
And competition and conflict of the sort seen in THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND will most likely occur among races SIMILAR enough to desire the same kind of real estate. You don't see oxygen breathing Terrans, Merseians, or Ythrians desiring high gravity, hydrogen atmosphere planets of the kind occupied by Ymirites.
Sean
To take events more recent than this post:
Ukraine certainly caught some people by surprise with their defensive military capabilities.
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