Historical Review

I want to pause to review the awesome fictional history that we have recently followed on the blog. It is always possible to focus on fresh details of the Technic History.

David Falkayn was a Master Merchant of the Polesotechnic League and both a protege and a grandson-in-law of the living legend, Nicholas van Rijn.

David and Coya Falkayn led the joint human-Ythrian colonization of the Hesperian Islands on the planet Avalon in the Domain of Ythri.

Their son, Nicholas, traveled from Chartertown on First Island to the Ythrian island of Trauvay/Wingland, there to join the research and development team for the colonization of the Coronan continent.

During the allocation of territories on Corona, the Stormgate Choth received the Andromeda Range which they called the Weathermother and John Birnam saved the life of Ayan, Wyvan of Stormgate.

A.A. Craig, who had previously written a narrative account of Nicholas van Rijn, interviewed Birnam in his old age and fictionalized the story of Birnam's rescue of Ayan as "Rescue on Avalon."

After the Terran War on Avalon, Hloch of Stormgate Choth compiled The Earth Book Of Stormgate, a history of the human-Ythrian interactions that had led to the founding of Stormgate.

The Earth Book included previously untold stories of van Rijn and Falkayn and concluded with "Rescue on Avalon."

In The Technic Civilization Saga, Hloch's Afterword to the Earth Book is immediately followed by Donvar Ayeghen's Introduction to the fifth chapter of the Memoirs of Rear Admiral John Henry Reeves, Imperial Solar Navy.

Reeves describes how Manuel Argos led a slave revolt and proclaimed the Empire of Sol.

The Terran Empire, as it comes to be called, exists in the next seventeen installments of the Technic History.

After that, just four post-Imperial installments complete the History.

In "The Star Plunderer," Argos refers to "'...the decadent Commonwealth government...'" (p. 342) but cannot mention the Polesotechnic League, the Home Companies or the Seven in Space because Anderson created these details later. Reeves speaks as if the characters' actions were on the scale of "'...the Galaxy!'" (p. 357) whereas later-written texts more realistically confine them to the edge of one spiral arm.