The link between Satan's World and "Starfog" is that when, in The Rebel Worlds, the Aenean rebels flee from known space, they depart from Satan. Another remote link between an earlier and a later installment is that Iapetus is explored for the first time in "The Saturn Game" whereas Dominic Flandry and his son dine there in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows. Thus, Flandry novels connect to the first and last installments of the Technic History. This diverse future history series is a unity.
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Kaor, Paul!
Darn, despite multiple readings of A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS, I completely overlooked how Flandry and his son had visited Iapetus.
Sean
I've wondered why the rebels fled quite so far. In the Technic universe habitable planets are fairly common, and people from the Empire don't go as far as their ancestors did. A couple of hundred light-years would have been sufficient, I'd think.
Mr Stirling,
Flandry said, "Go a long way, McCormac, as far as you possibly can." (p. 512)
I imagine that the rebels wanted to evade any possible pursuit.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Not only that, I think Flandry wanted to make QUITE sure McCormac would never be tempted to come back, not if he led the migration at least a thousand light years away from the Empire. Because the only way McCormac could return would be by raising a barbarian fleet and promising the wild beings territory ripped from the Empire. THAT would truly have made McCormac a lethal enemy. Going really and truly far away would have made that danger unlikely.
It's also my belief that not all the McCormac rebels settled on Kirkasant, seen in "Starfog." Because mention is made in that story how the Kirkasanters had the ruins of only one interstellar to study as they regained a high technology. I think one of McCormac's ships either lost contact with the main flotilla during the migration or rebelled against his authority and struck off on their own.
In many ways Kirkasant was a very marginal and unsatisfactory planets for humans to settle, given the high background radiation. But much is explained if the original colonists had only one ship. Perhaps their ship was damaged or getting worn out and the crew had little choice but to settle on Kirkasant.
Sean
Sean,
Your 1st para. That's it.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Thought so! Glad we came to the same conclusion about what Flandry meant.
Sean
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