In a universe without death or scarcity, politics took strange forms. Any one of the founders who disagreed with the way Planet Lambert was managed would be perfectly free to copy the whole Autoverse into their own territory, and to do as they wished with their own private version. In inverse proportion to the ease of such a move, any faction would have a rare chance here to demonstrate their ‘influence’ and increase their ‘prestige’ by persuading the meeting to retain the ban on contact with the Lambertians – without provoking their opponents into cloning the Autoverse and pushing ahead
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