Шанси на успіх має лише та брехня, що не соромиться себе. - Isaac Asimov

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job
that he isn't worth discussing.

Some day, with all that the Cities could do, the available calories per person would simply fall below basic subsistence level.

Of course, someday we will beat the Tyranni. It is fairly inevitable. They can't rule forever. No one can. They'll grow soft and lazy. They will intermarry and lose much of their separate traditions. They will become corrupt. But it may
take centuries, because history doesn't hurry. And when those centuries have passed, we will still all be agricultural worlds with no industrial or scientific heritage to speak of, while our neighbors on all sides, those not under Tyrannian control, will be strong and urbanized. The Kingdoms will be semicolonial areas forever. They will never catch up, and we will be merely observers in the great drama of human advance.