(i) The outbackers know that an attacking spaceship will descend. The section begins with a description of the descending ship as seen from below but then goes on to describe Captain Chang sitting on the bridge. The viewpoint moves to inside the ship. We have seen many fictional spaceship bridges, in Star Trek and in the works of sf writers like James Blish and Poul Anderson. HMS Isis, commanded by Chang, exists only in this passage.
(ii) An intelligently controlled ecology defeats high tech hardware and space technology, as in the film Avatar?
(iii) We meet another Nuevo Mexican Space Admiral, Fernando Cruz Manqual, and are informed that that planet produces many military men.
(iv) Like the Avalonians, who appeared in an earlier volume of the Technic Civilization History, but unlike the Aeneans, who will re-appear in the next installment, the Freeholders have fought the Terran Empire till they got what they wanted. Thus, it is by no means a foregone conclusion that the Empire defended by Dominic Flandry is always successful.
(v) Having first met John Ridenour in Ensign Flandry, we were pleased to meet him again here but this second appearance is also his last.
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