Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Dominic Flandry's Multiple Legacies

(i) In Ensign Flandry, Flandry has a relationship with Persis d'Io.
In A Knight of Ghost's and Shadows, Captain Flandery meets their son.

(ii) In Ensign Flandry, Flandry visits Starkad, befriends Starkadians and learns that their planet will be destroyed.
In The Game of Empire, Admiral Flandry visits Imhotep where some Starkadians have been resettled.

(iii) In A Circus of Hells, Lieutenant Flandry brings it about that Terra and Merseia establish a joint scientific base on Talwin.
In A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Captain Flandry meets Tachwyr and Aycharaych in the base on Talwin.

(iv) In A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Djana curses Flandry never to have the woman he really wants.
In The Rebel Worlds, Kathyrn McCormac stays with her husband.
In A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Kossara Vymezal is murdered.

(v) In The Rebel Worlds, Lieutenant Commander Flandry defeats the McCormac Rebellion and exiles the rebels.
In The Day of Their Return, Chunderban Desai copes with the aftermath of the Rebellion.
In "Starfog," descendants of the exiles return.

(vi) In "Tiger by the Tail," Captain Flandry subverts the Schotanian Empire.
In "Hunters of the Sky Cave," he leads a crew that includes a Scothanian.

(vii) In "Hunters of the Sky Cave," Captain Flandry resists Ardazhiro occupation of the colony planet, Vixen.
In "Starfog," Vixen has a colony, New Vixen. 

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

A very impressive legacy indeed! Most of us, including me, would be doing very well if we managed to achieve even just one of these triumphs by Flandry.

Ad astra! Sean