Poul Anderson's A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows ends with Bodin's Prayer (see here) after the bombardment of Chereion (see here).
Before the bombardment, Flandry tells Gospodar Bodin that the Dennitzan action should spark a quarrel that will enable Emperor Hans to force appeasers out of his regime. Hopefully including Lord Hauksberg, if he is still around?
Bodin hopes that Dennitza will survive the Empire.
John Ridenour expects that Freehold will survive.
Flandry expects that Nyanza and Vixen will.
The Long Night is coming but is well prepared for.
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Kaor, Paul!
I too wondered if Lord Hauksberg was still alive and active in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS. And if he still had the same foolish views of Merseia seen in ENSIGN FLANDRY, Emperor Hans would be right to dismiss him!
While it was right of Flandry to do what he could to prepare as many worlds as possible for surviving the Long Night, I would rather the Empire had entered a period of revival and renascence. And we do see Flandy hoping, at the end of THE GAME OF EMPIRE, that the Empire would survive as long as two more centuries.
Sean
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