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`` Your Majesty may not know , however , of some of the peculiar uses he has been making of those authorities . Does Your Majesty know that he has recruited the Security Guard up to at least ten times the strength needed to meet any conceivable peace-maintenance problem on this planet , and that he has been piling up huge quantities of heavy combat equipment -- guns up to 200-millimeter , heavy contragravity , even gun-cutters and bomb-and-rocket boats ? And does Your Majesty know that most of this armament is massed within fifteen minutes ' flight-time of this Palace ? Or that Prince Travann has at his disposal from two and a half to three times , in men and firepower , the combined strength of the Planetary Militia and the Imperial Army on this planet ? '' `` I know . It has my approval . He 's trying to salvage some of the young nonworkers through exposing them to military discipline .