From "Tiger By The Tail" To "The Saturn Game" II

I forgot to mention that, after Argos but before Flandry, the Terran Empire tried to annex Falkayn's colony planet, Avalon, which was successfully defended by, among many others, Tabitha Falkayn, a direct descendant of David, and that, during Flandry's lifetime, an Avalonian Ythrian of Stormgate Choth helped to defend the Empire against the Merseians, the continuing villains who had been introduced in that second Flandry story, "Honorable Enemies." We have discussed these details and more before but the point that I am always trying to make is the amazing degree of interconnectedness between the different narrative strands of the Technic History and the way to make this point is to summarize the relevant narratives yet again. Aycharaych, the Chereionite telepath working with the Merseians and introduced in "Honorable Enemies," is the title character of the culminating Captain Flandry instalment, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, which is the fourth last volume in the original publication order of the Technic History. Our attention as readers passes back and forth along the fictional chronology, tracing every detail and connection.

Two Ythrian-employed human explorers of the planet Gray, the future Avalon, in "The Problem of Pain" are from Aeneas, the planet where Erinnian of Stormgate later helps to thwart Aycharaych.

Tabitha Falkayn, brought up by Ythrians on Avalon, is Hrill of Highsky Choth but marries Christopher Holm, who is Arinnian of Stormgate. Tabitha's experience partly parallels that of Flandry's daughter, Diana Crowfeather, who grows up spending time among Tigeries on Imhotep at a time when the last scheme of Aycharaych, now deceased or disappeared, reaches fruition.