Chapter 11 The Sensitivity Center was charged with the task of monitoring whole populations; checking their thoughts and actions and emotions through the use of sophisticated cybernetic equipment. The main purpose of this monitoring procedure was to make sure that the level of hostility in the population didn't reach the level where they would be willing to break the inter-galactic law against making war. It was a quiet morning in the center when the first lights began to flash. A series of beeps came from Territory Seven on the world map. Immediately every person in the center left his or her work and gathered around the massive wall map. They watched carefully; it could be a false alarm, where the cybernetic equipment was triggered by some natural phenomenon. But then the beeping and

