"For generations this had been a borderland between the PPA and the United States of Boise, claimed by both and ruled by neither; raid and skirmish had gone back and forth across the marches along with the banditry that always sprang up in debatable lands."
-SM Stirling, Prince Of Outcasts (New York, 2017), Chapter Six, p. 103.
I grew up in border country. See Borders.
On an interstellar scale, Dominic Flandry refers to the Spican marches. He also learns that the Merseians have a secret scientific and intelligence base on the planet Talwin in the volume of space between the Roidhunate and the Empire. Thanks to Flandry and the Merseian Ydwyr, Talwin instead becomes a joint scientific base and a venue for diplomatic negotiations. Good as well as bad things can happen in border regions.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It would have been interesting if we could have gotten a longer look at Talwin in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS instead of that brief glimpse we do get.
Sean
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