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Usage examples of "familias".
Centuries ago, they combined their individual family militias into the Regular Space Service, which has the dual mission of policing the spaceways and defending the Familias from external attack.
We're all Familias citizens, and this is supposed to be a Familias port.
If you want your own Station Security—and I will check their Familias citizenship—to prowl around looking for God knows what, that's one thing.
I'm not going to let them take this ship and use it to infiltrate Familias space.
Besides, I don't believe there's anything behind this but the Benignity wanting a ship to use invisibly in Familias space.
So now we've had a Benignity diplomatic ship giving orders to a Familias Station .
Before the news leaked out to the rest of the Familias, before Pedar's relatives or colleagues demanded an inconvenient inquiry of their own.
The implications of this, and of a free-birth policy, are clear: the Familias Regnant will inevitably seek to expand its territories at the expense of its neighbors.
The Familias, by contrast, has been expanding slowly but steadily for the past two hundred years, and more rapidly in the past fifty.
But I see no benefit to the Familias in discussing this in front of you, Ambassador, with all due respect.
Supposedly this system, with its own internal powerpack, could place them accurately anywhere in Familias Space.
Heris Serrano's ship was here and she'd been assigned another, halfway across Familias Space.
Simon seemed convinced that the Familias Regnant's policy of religious toleration would lead straight to anarchy and immorality.
The last I heard, you were clear across Familias Space, having just won that horse trials thing.
We were both aware that the underlying structure of the Familias Regnant had not kept pace with the spatial and population growth.