Thursday, 20 April 2023

Minor Planets

Let's give attention to some planets that are mentioned only once and about which we are told almost nothing. They too are part of the fabric of the Technic History. And there are meant to be many such planets.

Vorida is a rogue in the Betelgeuse sector with a Merseian base. (It is mentioned early in Ensign Flandry so that readers are well prepared when another rogue plays a major role later.)

We are not told the name of the fourth planet in the same system as Irumclaw. It has a mine, a floating population, an unbreathable atmosphere, a rusty desert and a purple sky.

Ysabeau is an urbanized Imperial transfer point.

Ardeche is a human colony planet with a land mass called Asieneuve which lends its name to the Continent-class escort destroyer that Flandry commands.

Starport and New Indra are human-colonized planets that the Asieneuve visits en route to Llynathawr.

Six minor planets but there are plenty more. These are just in the Young Flandry Trilogy.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Altho not in the Young Flandry books, here's another "minor" planet, Orma, seen once only in Chapter II of THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS: "A hermit kingdom," the blue faced skipper had growled to Flandry in the tavern on Orma. "We don't visit them very often. Once or twice a standard year a trading craft of ours stops by. The Betelgeuseans were ubiquitous throughout this sector of space. Flandry had engaged passage on one of their tramp ships, as the quickest way to get from his completed assignment on Altai to the big Imperial port on Spica VI."

Ad astra! Sean