Systematic Infrastructures

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For a series that was not pre-planned but that grew organically, Poul Anderson's Technic History is remarkably systematic in its structure and infrastructures:

the overarching history of Chaos, Commonwealth, Troubles, Empire, Long Night and subsequent civilizations;

the history of human-Ythrian interactions;

the stages of David Falkayn's career and of his interactions with van Rijn and the trader team;

the stages of Dominic Flandry's career and of his conflict with Aycharaych -

a trilogy of novels introduces Flandry defending the Terran Empire;

a single novel introduces Aycharaych of Chereion subverting the Empire;

one short story and one short novel present the conflict between Flandry and Aycharaych;

a further novel completes that conflict;

however, two novels later, it is hinted that Aycharaych might return and meanwhile Fr. Axor studies the remnants of Chereionite civilization.