Here is where we learn that:
Persis d'Io was a dancer on Luna;
Flandry was illegitimate;
his mother had a career in opera;
his father was a minor nobleman and a scholar;
he sent Flandry to good schools and the Naval Academy;
Flandry set a record for demerits;
he had adventures on some training cruises;
(stories to be told: he tells them to Persis but not to us);
he thinks that mankind is worth fighting for;
Persis learns that he is not, as he pretends, sexually inexperienced;
(more stories to be told).
Flandry's father was not, as we might have expected, Navy but it was taken for granted that Flandry himself would go to the Academy so he did. This is the only place where we read these important details, I think.
Some similarities to Falkayn but also differences. Two saviours of civilization in different periods.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I wish we knew more about Flandry's parents. It's good that they were so conscientious about raising their son. But perhaps they were just a wee bit "distant" from Dominic? And I thought Flandry's father was also a civilian space captain.
The young Dominic Flandry, like so many of us in youth, could be callow and thoughtless. The bitterness Admiral Fenross had for him goes back to Flandry's careless thoughtlessness when they were both cadets together.
Ad astra! Sean
Well, Flandry becomes more considerate later, but he always did have a ruthless streak.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree! My view is that hard experience and his own decency helped Flandry to hone and refine that streak of ruthlessness, so that only those who had it coming to them would feel that ruthlessness.
Ad astra! Sean
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