I have trisected Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History as follows:
The UN/Solar Union History
Eleven works;
beginning with recovery from World War III;
covering the periods of UN and Solar Union government;
thus also covering psychotechnic government, the terraforming of Mars and Venus, the Humanist Revolution, the anti-Humanist counter-revolution, Jovian secession and the beginning of slower than light interstellar travel;
ending with Terrestrial descent into social chaos.
The Nomads and Stellar Union History
Six works;
beginning with the founding of the Nomads;
covering the period of the Stellar Union;
thus also covering the work of the Coordination Service and its interactions with Traders, Galactic Survey and Nomads;
(Coordinators operate across a fraction of the galaxy, not throughout the Galaxy);
ending with a much later Galactic civilization involving psychotechnicians.
The presence of psychotechnicians in the Galactic civilization is the only tenuous connection between these two future histories.
Other Works
Five works;
including three "Galactic civilization" stories although this is not the same Galactic civilization as the one mentioned above;
some references that make these five works overlap with aspects of the two future histories.
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Kaor, Paul!
And we see no mention of a FIRST Empire in the earlier stories, only in "The Chapter Ends." That story still feels like a non series one off to me.
Ad astra! Sean
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