Like van Rijn and Falkayn, Targovi trades.
Like Flandry, he spies.
Unlike any of them, he is nonhuman.
But he is loyal to Terra.
Maybe Targovi represents a new synthesis in the Technic History: a nonhuman being who learns, combines and applies the lessons of Technic civilization? In The Day Of Their Return, Erannath of Stormgate Choth on Avalon in the Domain of Ythri spied for both Empire and Domain. Axor functions as a Jerusalem Catholic priest. He would be able to say Mass and administer sacraments to a congregation of human beings or of other nonhuman converts. We might have read an entire novel with no human characters but members of other species, including Dennitzan ychani, performing the tasks that, for a little while longer, maintain Technic civilization - then one of its successor civilizations.
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Kaor, Paul!
Some of that synthesis could be seen as "long ago" as THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND, where mention was made of how the Terran Navy included non humans among its officers.
Ad astra! Sean
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