-Poul Anderson, "The Sharing of Flesh" IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 661-708 AT p. 665.
"Clover was another of those life forms that man had brought with him from Old Earth, to more planets than anyone now remembered, before the Long Night fell."
-ibid, pp. 665-666.
"Not that he, or anybody from this part of the galaxy, had yet made it back to the mother world."
-ibid.
In Poul Anderson's Technic History, Sol III is referred to as "Earth" in the Polesotechnic League period, as "Terra" in the Terran Empire period and, usually, as "Old Earth" in the post-Imperial periods.
"'Do you know what records remain in Homeland?' Demring asked hopefully.
"Laure sighed and shook his head. 'No. Perhaps none by now. Doubtless, in time, an expedition will go from us to Earth. But after five thousand trouble-filled years - And your ancestors may not have started from there. They may have belonged to one of the first colonies.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Starfog" IN Flandry's Legacy, pp. 709-794 AT p. 728.
They were from Aeneas which is mentioned in the third instalment, "The Problem of Pain." "Starfog" is the forty third and last instalment.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I don't think all of the former McCormac rebels settled on Kirkasant, a not really quite SATISFACTORY world for humans to live on. I think "Starfog" makes it clear the founding ancestors of the Kirkasanters arrived there on one ship, not the FLEET led by McCormac.
I think that single ship either somehow got lost from the main fleet or there was a dispute, for whatever reason, and the crew/passengers struck out on their own.
Ad astra! Sean
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