If Foundation's Galactic Empire was more like the Roman Empire

[james_davis_nicoll]

It would account for between a sixth and a quarter of the human population of the Milky Way and something like one in thirty of stars of the Milky Way, if I have not bolloxed up this quick back of the envelope calculation.

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Anyone have a better map?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

So Space Rome is at 180 degrees, Space China at 0, Space India and Space Persia in between in the spiral arms and the Space Nomads come from the core, where habitable planets are rare and so force humans to live in their space ships.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Waves of barbarians fleeing the Core Explosion?