a new story set earlier in the timeline, e.g., the "earliest" story in Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization History is "The Saturn Game," set in the twenty first century long before any of the other works in the series but published as late as 1981;
a work that is set later in the history but that nevertheless imparts new information about events that had occurred earlier but that had not been recorded yet.
The Game Of Empire, set, according to Sandra Miesel's Chronology of Technic Civilization, in the thirty first century, informs us for the first time of two autonomous communities, Dakotia and the Zacharians, that have existed since the Breakup of the twenty second century. Thus, we must now retrospectively regard the entire History as incorporating these two communities from that early date.
The Zacharians, bred for superiority and leadership on the interstellar frontier, have features in common both with the Exaltationists of Anderson's Time Patrol Series and with Kahn Noonien Singh's people in Star Trek.
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Hi, Paul!
And, unlike the Exaltationists, the Zacharians failed to achieve the power and leadership they had been deliberately bred for. They ended up as merely one more ethnic enclave on a planet containing many other ethnic groups, in a vast Empire holding thousands of worlds, human and non human, not in the least interested in being led by them. It was their resentment over not being the leaders of humanity which caused all adult "cloned" Zacharians to commit mass treason working with Merseia.
If Poul Anderson had wanted to "tie in" his Technic History with the Time Patrol series, the Zacharians might have been the link he used to do so. I can see how the Zacharians might have been linked with, or been the origin of the Exaltationists.
But, I'm still glad Anderson did not do this if he ever had that idea. It is my belief the Technic History and the Time Patrol series are too DIFFERENT for them to have been artificially or forcefully linked like this without weakening both series.
Sean
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