The multi-part Prologue features several already familiar story elements and introduces several more.
Familiar
Mirkheim
Baburites
Sandra Tamarin
David Falkayn
Nicholas van Rijn
van Rijn's company, Solar Spice & Liquors
his penthouse on the Winged Cross in Chicago Integrate
Coya Conyon (now Falkayn)
Edward Garver (off-stage)
a Merseian
New
the surface of Babur
Benoni Strang
the surface of Hermes
Peter Asmundsen
Coya's marriage to Falkayn and membership of the trader team
Hanny Lennart
the Home Companies
the Seven in Space
the United Technicians, replacing the Federated Brotherhood of Spacefarers
Eric Tamarin-Asmundsen
another oppressed intelligent species, the Valyans
Stellar Metals
Sheldon Wyler
the human colony on the Baburite moon, Ayisha
Leonardo Rigassi, third discoverer of Mirkheim
Everything that will be developed in the novel is already present.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Or there could have been more unions besides the Federated Brotherhood of Spacemen or the United Technicians. And they need not always see eye to eye.
Ad astra! Sean
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