Terra In THE GAME OF EMPIRE

We were looking for information about Terra during Dominic Flandry's lifetime. The most comprehensive account was in A Stone in Heaven. The Game of Empire imparts nearly nothing. Flandry meets Miriam at debarkation, gets her waved through inspection and hurries her to their apartment in a single sentence. While in the apartment, he looks through the transparency:

"Through a light rain and an early dusk, the city flashed hectic, as far as vision could fare."

-The Game of Empire, CHAPTER TWELVE, p. 320.

That is all unless we also include the apartment's interior: an odour of roses and a Mozart concerto. Flandry's hectic but undescribed Archopolis might remind us of Manse Everard's fleetingly described New York: sky hectic as lights flame against it; streets crawling with automobiles and a hurrying, faceless crowd; arrogant Manhattan towers. If the Flandrys live in the same appartment that Flandry had before he remet Miriam, then it is surrounded by graceful two hundred year old towers. Information is to be found in the texts if we look for it.

Maybe we should next look for information about Terra in pre-Flandry periods. The opening instalment of the Technic History, "The Saturn Game," is set entirely off Earth but its introductory passages impart some relevant information and indicate how our history transitions into the future history.