What does "Starfog" tell us about interstellar civilization five thousand years after the Terran Empire? There is no introduction or summary so it is necessary to extract information from a rereading of the entire text.
Spaceship and computer technologies have advanced:
"Jaccavrie navigated, piloted, landed, lifted, maintained, and, if need be, repaired and fought for herself." (p. 712)
The single Ranger traveling in Jaccavrie merely converses with and gives orders to her.
Mankind has spread far beyond the four hundred diameter sphere of space known and controlled by the Terran Empire. Earth is in another spiral arm of the galaxy and has never been seen.
There is more but we have to dig it out.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I would argue the Known Space people like Flandry were aware of was far larger than the spaces and worlds of the Terran Empire. We should include the regions covered by the Merseian Roidhunate and the Domain of Ythri, etc. So I can imagine a few star trotters traveling as much as a thousand light years, either for pleasure or business.
Ad astra! Sean
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