Integrators And Psychotechnics

"'The overworked integrators are years behind in correlating information,' [Trevelyan] said. 'A thing can grow to monstrous proportions before they learn of it.'"

-The Peregrine, CHAPTER IV, p. 30.

"Empires rose and fell among the stars."

Sandra Miesel, interstitial passage IN Poul Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 3 (Riverdale, NY, Riverdale, NY, July 2018), p. 194.

Interstellar imperialism proves that integration had failed. However, later:

"The psychotechnician sighed again...

"...the Integrator on Corazuno wasn't going to care..."

-Poul Anderson, "The Chapter Ends" IN The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 3, pp. 195-215, AT p. 197.

"He could have willed the vague regret out of his trained nervous system..."

-ibid., p. 199.

Integrators and psychotechnics are back, better than ever, with artificially mutated brains harnessing cosmic forces. So the aims of the long ago outlawed Psychotechnic Institute have at last been realized and Miesel provides a partial explanation:

"...as Trevelyan had foreseen decades earlier, the self-sufficient, enterprising Nomads bore seeds of knowledge through the Third Dark Ages. The antecedents of our own civilization were among those who reaped what the wandering Nomad ships had sown."

-op. cit., p. 194.