In return for helping Lilisaire, Aleka and presumably also her people, a mixed community of human beings and intelligent seals, will receive:
"'...a country of your own...'" (p. 151)
That sounds familiar. An oblique Biblical reference? But how can a Lunarian make such an offer? And will anyone have to be displaced to enable Aleka's people to take possession? From previous readings, I know that this is not the case but cannot remember any details. This is not an FTL scenario with uninhabited exo-planets to colonize. David Falkayn was able to lead fellow human beings and Ythrians out of known space in order to colonize the terrestroid planet that they renamed Avalon but Aleka's new country has to be within the Solar System and probably on Earth. I might finally remember such details better after the current rereading.
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Kaor, Paul!
It's mistaken to say David Falkayn founded the mixed colony of humans/Ythrians on a hitherto unknown planet beyond the spaces covered by Technic civilization. The planet called Grey/Avalon had been known as early as the first Grand Survey. But Technic civilization had so much else on its hands nearer its center that Grey attracted little interest till Falkayn's time.
Ad astra! Sean
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