Ivar Frederiksen wonders whether splitting Sector Alpha Crucis off from the Terran Empire, and possibly even bringing it into the Domain of Ythri, would make it worth Ythri's while to wage war:
"...especially if we got Merseian help too..." (8, p. 141)
Tatiana Thane wonders whether Ivar's Ythrian companion:
"'...suggests Ythri might be sticking claws into our pot, right?'" (15, p. 190)
Early in The Game Of Empire, Diana Crowfeather overhears a Terran marine refer to "Merseian bastards."
My only point here is that, by this stage in the Technic History, Poul Anderson has earned the right to make such references. Regular readers have become familiar with a complex set of interstellar politics. Ythrians and Merseians are like French and Germans in past European history.
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Kaor, Paul!
And Ythri was sticking its claws into that pot, in support of the Empire!
Ad astra! Sean
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