Falkayns, Avalon And Flandry

In The Technic Civilization Saga, the seven volume complete edition of Poul Anderson's major future history series, the History of Technic Civilization, it is appropriate that, at the mid-point of the series, Volume III, Rise Of The Terran Empire, begins with Mirkheim and ends with The People Of The Wind and that Volume IV, Young Flandry, begins with Ensign Flandry:

in Mirkheim, because the political and economic systems, the Solar Commonwealth and the Polesotechnic League, have entered their terminal decline, David and Coya Falkayn plan to depart with their young family and to start again somewhere new;

in The People Of The Wind, centuries later, the colony founded by the Falkayns successfully resists annexation by the Terran Empire while the Merseian Roidhunate grows rapidly;

Ensign Flandry initiates a series in which, more centuries later, Dominic Flandry defends the Empire against the Roidhunate.

It is good that we see the outcome of the Flandry's efforts centuries later. The People Of The Wind is transitional between Mirkheim and Ensign Flandry. Philippe Rochefort is a precursor of Flandry although the latter would never have been tricked into passing disinformation back to his superiors.