Tuesday 15 November 2022

Looking Forward

"'If we ever fall, [Freehold]'ll carry on something of what was ours.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Outpost of Empire" IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of the Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, February 2010), pp. 1-72 AT p. 69.

"'Aeneas ought to outlive Empire.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Day Of Their Return IN Captain Flandry..., pp. 74-238 AT 21, p. 236.

"'I'd like to have Nyanza well populated. When the Long Night comes for Terra, somebody will have to carry on. It might as well be you.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Game of Glory" IN Captain Flandry..., pp. 303-339 AT p. 339.

"'You frontier people are the healthy ones. You'll be around - most of you - long after the Empire is a fireside legend. I envy you that.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Hunters of the Sky Cave" IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, March 2012), pp. 149-301 AT VIII, p. 206.

"'...this was for the future, not the poor wayworn Empire but a world he too could believe in, the world of their own blood."
-Poul Anderson, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows IN Sir Dominic Flandry..., pp. 339-606 AT XVI, p. 543.

"'So Dennitza stays in the Empire... Between us, my friend, I dare hope myself that I care about will still be there when the Empire is gone.'" 
-ibid., XX, p. 604.

"'The sophont races will survive. In due course, they'll build fascinating new civilizations. Cultures of mixed species look especially promising. Consider Avalon already.'"
-Poul Anderson, A Stone In Heaven IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 1-188 AT VI , p. 75.

The "frontier people" referred to in the fourth quotation are the Vixenites. The world referred to in the fifth quotation is Dennitza. Thus, the planets that are expected to survive are:

Freehold
Aeneas
Nyanza
Vixen
Dennitza
Avalon

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