intraplanetary

Updated: June 1, 2025

When the locals had been properly convinced with as little bloodshed as necessary, but always beyond any dispute an Imperial Proconsul, in this case Obray, Count Erskyll, would be installed. He would by no means govern the planet. The Imperial Constitution was definite on that point; every planetary government should be sovereign as to intraplanetary affairs.

H. Beam Piper - A Slave is a Slave