>Apparently Deneb is safe from Zhodani invasion because the Zhodani no
>longer consider them a threat. Now, maybe I've got my history wrong,
>but I thought there had been five Frontier Wars and the Zhodani started
>all five of them. Who's threatening whom?
Did the Zhodani start all five of them? Looks like a clear case to me of
us only getting one side of the story. This could well be a situation
much like WWII in the Pacific where the Japanese were forced to act or
become helpless (n.b. the U.S., U.K., and Dutch oil embargo was causing
exhaustion of Japan's oil reserve and the Japanese either needed to act or
do what they were told since once the reserve was gone Japan could not
have waged war). Perhaps there were numerous aggesive raids (not reported
by the TNS inside the Imperium) on Zhodani territory that forced the
Zhodani to finally act to supress them. These were then trumped up to a
start a War. With the Imperial population's views on Psi it wouldn't be
hard to take even minor acts by individual Zhodani or blunders by
Imperial officers (explained as Zhodani intervention) and turn them into a
war.
Tom Harris