"Why does a moth fly toward a light?  The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge... and stronger.  But I said this was a two-part question.  Smith's financial holdings are almost as important as his special position as nominal king - emperor of Mars.  Possibly more important, for a High Court decision could knock out his squatter's rights on Mars but I doubt if anything could shake his ownership of the Lyle Drive and a major chunk of Lunar Enterprises; the eight wills are a matter of public record - and in the three most important cases he inherits with or without a will.  What happens if he dies?  I don't know.  A thousand alleged cousins would pop up, of course, but the Science Foundation has fought off a lot of such money-hungry vermin in the past twenty years.  It seems possible that, if Smith dies without making a will, his enormous fortune will revert to the state."