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Old 06-19-2018, 04:58 PM   #591
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Default Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson View Post
Kynes put the Fremen up to bribing the Spacing Guild with spice to keep hidden the patches of green and other signs of Arrakis' ecology recovering as well as the movements of the sandworms and the Fremen themselves.

In Traveller, The Imperial Navy exists to prevent anyone other than the emperor and the Moot from having power over space travel and inter-world trade.
Which does not prevent local fluctuations of such kind from taking place. In any given polity the actual performance will look sloppy compared to it's stated reason for being.
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