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== Literature ==

{{quote| '''Foaly''': Everything is molecular, and if you pack gigabytes of data into a little cable, some of that cable is going to wear off. I put the MPEG through my filters. Uranium residue points to northern Russia.}}

* Trantor, the capitol of the Galactic Empire in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s [[Foundation]] series, is a planet-spanning city like Coruscant in the example below (in fact, it's been suggested that Trantor was the inspiration for Coruscant). The engineering problems might be somewhat averted by the fact that unlike Coruscant, most of Trantor is underground. However, in later books in the series, people seem to have no trouble at all stripping away entire sections of the city, with apparently no concern for what it might do to the structural stability of surrounding parts of the city. Well, they do call that period "The sacking of Trantor"...

* Thoroughly averted in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]]; all the engineering is realistic, and even the 5-space theory expounded in ''Komarr'' sounds plausible.

 

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