On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Scott Schultz wrote: > Any time the borders expand, new land will come under the jurisdiction of > the Empire. Someone has to be responsible for it. Not to mention that the > beauracracy probably requires a certain amount of income that arrives > independently of any House machinations. Note that if the Empire were land-rich there ought to have been some mention of this in the opening chapters of _FHYA_ and perhaps in _Orca_.