(click for podcast) Reflecting on the popularity of "Empires" in Science Fiction stories. CoDominium (Niven and PournelleBarrayar (Lois McMaster Bujold)Manticore (David Weber) Do it yourself - build your own space empire with a Free "4X" (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) game: FreeOrion - www.FreeOrion.org Music - from the Cylinder Preservation Project: The US Marine Band - Emperor's Manoeuvre