In the case of Anderson's Aeneas:
When Ivar Frederiksen becomes Firstman of Ilion, will he revisit the tinerans of Waybreak Train where those who had befriended him fleeced him and cast him out?
What action will he take against the telepathic parasites to which the tinerans are emotionally addicted?
When the Terran Empire falls, will the nearby Domain of Ythri endure?
Would Aeneas, or maybe the whole of Sector Alpha Crucis, join the Domain? (Future generations of Frederiksens would probably be involved.)
We have seen Landfolk, Townfolk (at least as represented by one merchant from the Web), scholars, tinerans, Riverfolf and Orcans but what are the Highlanders like?
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Kaor, Paul!
However naive and even foolish Ivar could be, he was not a bad man. So, yes, even before succeeding his father as Firstman of Ilion, I think he would visit the Waybreak tinerans and others of their trains, and try to convince of how those telepathic parasites had been warping them. But I'm sure he would bring scientists and technicians, so that his parasitic danger would be PROVEN to the tinerans. Whether the tinerans would cooperate in ridding themselves of these parasites is another matter.
And the only safe solution would be to exterminate these animals.
And I have my doubts the Domain of Ythri could survive the Fall of the Terran Empire. The analogy I have in mind being that of a too near small boat being dragged under by the suction of a huge sinking super tanker. I don't believe smaller states like the Domain would be UNAFFECTED by something as colossal as the Fall of the Empire. To say nothing, of course, of how the Domain could well be struggling with its own problems.
If I was living in the Empire at the time of THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN, I would far the Empire did not fall. And it's not likely to matter much at that time, because Terra's reign still had generations and even centuries to go before the Long Night came.
Ad astra and Merry Christmas! Sean
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