Covering every angle, Anderson also presented many cases of peaceful cooperation between rational species:
the Solar Commonwealth allowed extra-solar aliens to colonize Mars;
the Terran Empire made Mars, with these "Martians," a Duchy;
the Empire sold Jupiter to the Domain of Ymir;
many species cooperated in the Polesotechnic League and later in the Terran Empire;
Ythrian and human colonists amicably divided Avalon between them, many human beings joined choths and some Ythrians adopted the human life-style of individuals in a global community;
immigrants from Merseia lived on Dennitza, contributed to Dennitzan society and retained Vachs while also sending representatives to a third House of the legislature;
members of some species adopted and practiced the religions of others;
in the Psychotechnic History, dwellers on terrestroid planets and dwellers on Jovoids amicably divided the galaxy between them.
So it is not all war and strife.
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Kaor, Paul!
And the Empire rescued and settled the survivors of the two intelligent races of Starkad on the planet Imhotep, in the Patrician System. Thus creating a world inhabited by three species: human in the highlands where they could breath without needed special equipment, Tigeries in the lowlands, for similar reasons, and the Sea People in, well, the seas.
And thru out the Empire many planets had communities of beings from different races, beings who had happened to settle on others than their native worlds for one reason or another. Such as on Irumclaw or Terra herself. The description of Admiralty Center in Chapter II of THE REBEL WORLDS mentioned that not all the people Flandry saw and passed were human.
Sean
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