96 (Footnote) The citizens of the planets forming the core of government for the "Old Empire" area filthy, degraded, slave society of mindless, taxpaying workers, who practice cannibalism. Violent automotive racetracks and bloody, Roman circus type entertainments are their only amusements. Regardless of any reasonable justification we may have had for using atomic weapons to vanquish the planets of the "Old Empire, The Domain is careful not to ruin the resources of those planets by using weapons of crude, radioactive force. The current US. civilization is beginning to mimic some of the trappings of that civilization, especially in the design of airplanes, automobiles, ships, trains, and telephones. Likewise, buildings in the cities of Earth are thought to be "modern" or "futuristic" if their design resembles the architecture of the "Old Empire. The government of the "Old Empire, before being supplanted by The Domain, was comprised of beings who possessed a very craven intelligence, very much like the Axis powers
