Atheia And Kraken

I have found a tenuous narrative thread linking the Terran Empire of Dominic Flandry's period to the restoration of civilization during the post-Imperial Long Night. In the last Flandry novel, The Game Of Empire, Maria Crowfeather was born on the colony planet Atheia and Olaf Magnusson was from Kraken, described as "...cold and heavy..." (Poul Anderson, Flandry's Legacy, New York, 2012, p. 251)

During the Long Night, Roan Tom, born on a spaceship but with a father from Lochlann, gains power on Kraken and re-establishes trade, including mutually beneficial arrangements with the planets Sassania and Nike. We learn that Kraken gravity is 1.25 standard.

Later, a joint expedition from Lochlann and Nuevamerica contacts the lost colony on Gwydion. Later again, a few planets, including Atheia, Kraken and Nuevamerica, form the Allied Planets, whose explorers, "...struggling back to civilization ranged across the ruins of empire..." (p. 665), and the extreme case of Gwydion is referred to. (p. 680)

We learn that part of Kraken remains half barbaric and that Krakeners from that region are intricately tattooed whereas Atheia "...was supposed to have retained or regained almost as many amenities as Old Earth knew in its glory..." (p. 665) Expeditions find lost colonies and advise a Board on whether civilizing missions should be sent. Thus, both Atheia and Kraken are involved in the restoration and Atheia may even have retained, rather than merely regained, the former benefits of civilization. Here is a degree of continuity between Empire and Allied Planets that I was not previously aware of.

In the concluding installment of Anderson's Technic Civilization History, a peaceful civilization spanning several spiral arms includes New Vixen, an off-shoot of the colony on Vixen which Flandry had visited.