See:
The Council Of Hiawatha: Earlier Posts
Sandra Miesel's Technic Civilization Chronology by Sean M Brooks
Companies squeezed out of the Commonwealth:
concentrated on markets elsewhere;
encouraged colonial declarations of independence;
took over the politics of some former colonies;
limited competition between themselves;
became the Seven In Space.
This sounds as if the Solar Commonwealth did have extra-solar colonies before at least some of them became independent?
Source: Mirkheim, IX, p. 142.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I think many colonies were founded or sponsored by member states of the Commonwealth, which would put them in the same status vis-a -vis the Commonwealth as those states. Other colonies, of course, were founded while totally independent of Earth.
We see something similar happening in THE STAR FOX, the colonial planet New Europe declared its independence from the Terran Federation. Because of the disgust felt by the colonists at how feebly Earth had reacted to Alerion aggression.
Sean
Sean,
Colonies founded by member states, not by the Commonwealth as such. Makes sense.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Exactly! The Ythrian editor of THE EARTH BOOK OF STORMGATE, Hloch, described the Commonwealth as a nation of NATIONS, member states. I can easily see why some colonies were founded by member states: as a means of preserving a national or ethnic heritage, at a time when Earth was becoming increasingly homogenized.
I've also been brooding over my revision of Sandra Miesel's Chronology of Technic Civilization. Mostly because I now strongly suspect I misdated "Lodestar." I still believe Falkayn discovered Mirkheim 18 years before the Mirkheim/Babur War, but I now think "Lodestar" should be dated ten years after that discovery (AD 2493, not 2483). Meaning the Mirkheim/Babur crisis came eight years later.
Sean
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