McCormac's flagship is:
"...hilled with boat nacelles and gun turrets, thrusting out cannon and sensors like crystal forests. Satellite craft glinted around her." (p. 505)
Thus, this large spaceship resembles a planet with hills, forests and satellites.
Flandry urges McCormac to go into exile:
"'There's room yet, a whole galaxy beyond these few stars we think we control, out on the far end of one spiral arm.'" (p. 512)
When you reach the end of the last installment collected in any of the seven volumes of Baen Books' The Technic Civilization Saga, continue to read. The six-page CHRONOLOGY OF TECHNIC CIVILIZATION compiled by Sandra Miesel is an inspiring, insightful summary of Poul Anderson's main future history series.
In Ensign Flandry, Commander Abrams addresses Ensign Flandry as "Son." In The Rebel Worlds, Commander Flandry addresses Ensign Havelock as "Son." This future history is vast enough to incorporate two fictional biographies, Falkayn's and Flandry's.
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Kaor, Paul!
And so much more was covered by Flandry in this conversation he had with a man he would, personally speaking, far rather see dead! Such as Flandry forcefully bringing home to McCormac exactly how badly he was harming the Empire. And that if Hugh dared to attempt coming back with a barbarian fleet, HE would be the TRUE enemy of the Empire, not the late, unlamented Snelund.
One telling detail I remember was how Flandry refused to salute to McCormac on entering the latter's quarters in the rebel flagship, as would ordinarily be right and proper for an officer of his former rank. It was against regulations because McCormac had forfeited his commission.
Ad astra! Sean
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