A generation or two ago, the Republic had transported criminals to outlying planets to serve a term of hard labor, then remain as colonists.

You heard the character some of the outlying planets gave this place when we spoke to them on the way in.

We won't have time to do anything for the people on those outlying planets.

If the Service caught a chill, a hundred outlying planets lay under the threat of double pneumonia.

The consorts also oversee the return of the uterine replicators with the growing fetuses to their parents on the outlying planets.

I need the oversoul to organize all the espers on the outlying planets.

They claimed trade to the outlying planets was a losing proposition-reallosing, trillions of therms' worth.

And we've discovered that we can actually make a small profit, trading with other outlying planets.

Lusticon - A Machine located in the Cluster and on a few outlying planets, that changes some females into love slaves.

If the outlying planets, or even a large number, take up societies based on biologics, what does the Empire have to offer?