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Building a massive Trantor-like vertical city over the entire surface area would presumably exhaust / deplete the non-renewable resources that is the driver for
by KineticLensman 6y ago
Building a massive Trantor-like vertical city over the entire surface area would presumably exhaust / deplete the non-renewable resources that is the driver for this concept. What do the trillion people do then?
- danjac 6y agoTo quote Asimov: "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".