Solarians are economically self-sufficient and do not trade with the extra-solar colonies.
"A small but brisk trade went on between the stars of any given sector,..." (p. 38)
(Small, within each sector.)
"...carried by merchant ships or by such Nomads as weren't heading out into the depthless yonder." (ibid.)
(So some Nomads still do that.)
Despite the opening sentence of this post, some goods from Sol and other civilized systems reach the frontier where the need for spaceports, warehouses, depots, services, repairs, shops, factories, entertainment and administration means that there are cities although only one per planet or system: on Nerthus, Stellamont, the only physically realized extra-solar city in the Psychotechnic History.
Trevelyan Micah meets and (almost) "infiltrates" the Nomads of the Peregrine there.
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Kaor, Paul!
Exactly, with FTL it does make sense to expect some trade and commerce by Earth with other worlds.
Ad astra! Sean
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