David Falkayn stands in the audience chamber of Castle Afon, saves Merseia and later founds Avalon;
Tabitha Falkayn, Daniel and Christopher Holm and many others defend Avalon against the Terran Empire while the Merseian Roidhunate grows in a remote region of space;
Max Abrams stands in the audience chamber of Castle Afon and defends the Empire against the Roidhunate.
Of course, we can also mention Dominic Flandry. However, Flandry's mentor, Abrams, happens to fit more directly into this particular historical sequence.
In fact, the two (or three) main sections of the Technic History fit together much more closely than might have been expected. The series should be reread periodically.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I have been, slowly, rereading the Dominic Flandry stories. I've reached Chapter 15 of THE GAME OF EMPIRE.
Ad astra! Sean
The Technic history is an illustration of the "Law of Unintended Consequences".
The Grand Survey contacts the Ythrians -- and manages to repair the blunders of the very first contact.
So Ythri modernizes successfully. If the first contact had gone completely badly, who knows what would have happened? There are so many worlds and intelligent species, they might have been left severely alone until the League era, or longer.
Likewise, Falkhyn and Adzel and Chee Lan rescue the mission to Meresia, with incalculable results.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And in this messy real world we HAVE to act, no matter what the consequences might be in the future. We can't predict the future, about all we can do is try to somehow cope with our immediate problems.
Ad astra! Sean
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