Merseian Disaffection

The connection that I missed in the previous post was that Merseians were disaffected because of an action by Falkayn. After outlining how Polesotechnic League merchants will be able to help to shield Merseia against supernova radiation, Falkayn concludes:

"'...you'll still have your civilization. You'll also have a great deal of new equipment and new knowledge. I think you're getting a bargain.'"

-Poul Anderson, "Day of Burning," IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, March 2010), pp. 209-272 AT p. 221.

The culture that becomes dominant on Merseia does not regard having to be helped as any kind of a bargain. When Falkayn confirms that, if he has any say in the matter, the League will not teach the Merseians how to build interstellar spacecraft, Morruchan Long-Ax, Hand of the Vach Dathyr, comments:

"'Another score. Not important in the long run. We're bound to learn a great deal else, and on that basis...well, galactic, our grandchildren will see.'"

-ibid., p. 271.

Later, Sheldon Wyler, a man working for the Baburites, tells Falkayn that several Merseians have enlisted in the new Baburite Navy:

"'Mostly they belong to the aristocratic party at home and have no love for the League, considering how it shunted their kind aside and dealt instead with the Gethfennu group. You know, not many League people seem to understand what a cosmos of enemies it's made for itself over the years.'"

-Poul Anderson, Mirkheim IN Anderson, Rise of the Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, March 2011), pp. 1-291, AT VI, p. 96.

(Gethfennu = organized crime.)

Later again, Olaf Magnusson, a man wholly converted to the Merseian cause, tells Dominic Flandry that:

"'...the Terran rescue mission upset their whole order of things and found ways to get rich off their tragedy...'"

-Poul Anderson, The Game of Empire (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 189-453, at CHAPTER EIGHTEEN, p. 397.

Authenticity: this is exactly how such issues will be discussed if they ever arise in the future.