From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, June 26, 2014 1:30:43 AM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
   >   
   > What I was hoping for was a long term stable, I won't say "inbred" because   
   they wouldn't be, population with long term loyalties and conflicts, possibly   
   even raiding and warring between the various walled settlements.   
      
   If the population density is low, then what reasons would they have for   
   conflict?  Raiding for agricultural slaves?  Raiding for wives?   
      
   > But they've got access to all the technology anyone else in the Empire would   
   have access to.  And they use it.  They've got science and medicine and   
   communications. But they also go really low tech, too, for some things.   
   >   
   Without minimal industry, they'd need to purchase it from offworld.  They   
   would probably need some city as a nexus of trade to obtain and maintain a   
   full array of technology.   
      
   Agricultural processing or communal grain storage only needs a large town in a   
   civilization that is self-contained agricultural with minimal industry.   
      
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