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Type in the number, hit Xy, type in 0. They were not trying to figure out which stars could host a human habitable planet. They were trying to figure out which stars could host a planet that was not so hideously uninhabitable that no possible form of life could live there.
In other words, many of these planets could host alien life forms but would quickly kill an unprotected human being. The equations were derived by me using an analysis of the Habcat databaseand thus could be wildly inaccurate. If you can find better figures, use them, but these are better than no figures at all.
If my slide rule isn't lying to me, this works out to an average distance between adjacent stars of 9. How wide is it? How many stars will it probably have?
A sphere light years in diameter has a light year radius. Anderson cites a figure of about four million stars, which means one of us is a bit off the mark probably me.
We are one more-or-less intelligent species in a universe that produces sophonts as casually as it produces snowflakes. We are not a hair better than our great, greenskinned, gatortailed Merseian rivals, not even considering that they have no hair; we are simply different in looks and language, similar in imperial appetites.
The galaxy—what tiny part of it we can ever control—cares not one quantum whether their youthful greed and boldness overcome our wearied satiety and caution.
Which is a thought born of an aging civilization, by the way. Our existing domain is already too big for us. We don't comprehend it. Never mind the estimated four million suns inside our borders Terran Empire has diameter of light-years, light-year radius.
Think just of the approximately one hundred thousand whose planets we do visit, occupy, order about, accept tribute from. Can you visualize the number?
A hundred thousand; no more; you could count that high in about seven hours. But can you conjure up before you, in your mind, a wall with a hundred thousand bricks in it: No human brain can go as high as ten. Then consider a planet, a world, as big and diverse and old and mysterious as ever Terra was.
Can you see the entire planet at once? Can you hope to understand the entire planet? Next consider a hundred thousand of them.
No wonder Dietrich Steinhauer here is altogether ignorant about Freehold. I myself had never heard of the place before I was asked to take this job. And I am a specialist in worlds and the beings that inhabit them.
I should be able to treat them lightly. Did I not, a few years ago, watch the total destruction of one? And yet it was a single living world that perished, a mere single world. No wonder Imperial Terra let the facts about Freehold lie unheeded in the data banks.
Freehold was nothing but an obscure frontier dominion, a unit in the statistics. As long as no complaint was registered worthy of the sector governor's attention, why inquire further?
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