>My big question is.. does the IPO and allies not have any Intelligence
>Assets (or Spies as you prefer) snooping around?

Not inside Earthdome, no. Deep cover infiltration of the central government is a very difficult thing to achieve in a telepath police state.

>And how in the world did they manage to hide the fleet and manpower
>buildup they would have needed to take the planet?

Space is very, very large and mostly empty. It's not difficult to hide quite large things in it.

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