Wind keens in Ys and on Aeneas.
Aeneas has to be the most complicated colonial society in Poul Anderson's Technic History:
University (scientists, scholars, support staff);
Landfolk (squires, yeomen, tenants);
Townfolk (ancient corporate bodies, including guilds, but also manufacturers, merchants and managers in the industrial Web);
communities descended from ethnically distinct immigrants (tinerans, Riverfolk, Orcans, Highlanders etc).
Significant individuals:
Chunderban Desai from Ramanujan, appointed by the Terran Empire as High Commissioner of the Virgilian System;
Ivar Frederiksen, heir to the Firstmanship of Ilion, nephew of Kathryn McCormac;
Erannath, an Avalonian Ythrian, spying on Aeneas for both Domain and Empire;
Aycharaych, a Chereionite, fomenting on behalf of Merseia.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, Aeneas has to be the most socially complex of the Technic worlds we know.
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
But I am puzzled by how succession to hereditary offices/titles were regulated. I would have thought a collateral branch of the McCormacs, innocent of any role in Hugh's rebellion, would succeed to the Firstmanship, not the Frederiksens. Unless the rule was priority of descent, not agnate succession in the male line.
Ad astra! Sean
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