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“I am Hari Seldon!”

...within his narrow compass of body he held the lordly name of Magnifico Giganticus

“Kalgan’s warlord broadcast a threat to blow the planet to ionic dust before giving it up.”
“Where’s the warlord now?”
“He isn’t,” said Randu, with a shrug

Haha!

His brow furrowed “So what’s the game, boss?”
“The game is war.”

Riose is that General you do not wanna mess with...

Barr shrugged. “Attack now or never; with a single ship, or all the force in the Empire; by military force or economic pressure...Do whatever you wish in your fullest exercise of freewill. You will still lose.”

Loving this so far, the stage is being set.

“My good sir, these are hard times,” said Riose, with meaning, “and you have children and friends. You have a country for which you have mouthed phrases of love and folly in the past. Come, if I should decide to use force, my aim would not be so poor as to strike you.”