Turning Corners

At least four corners are turned in The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume II, David Falkayn: Star Trader:

in "The Trouble Twisters," David Falkayn begins to lead Nicholas van Rijn's first trader team;

in "Day of Burning," many Merseians resent owing their survival to the Polesotechnic League;

in Satan's World, Technic civilization is vulnerable to an external threat from the belligerent Shenna;

in "Lodestar," the conflicts within Technic civilization come to a head and this leads to a major confrontation between van Rijn and Falkayn.

Continuing the theme of corners turned, in Volume III, Rise of the Terran Empire:

in Mirkheim, there is civil war within the Polesotechnic League;

in "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon," Avalon is colonized;

in "The Star Plunderer," Earth is sacked but Manuel Argos proclaims the Terran Empire;

in The People of the Wind, the Terran Empire and the Domain of Ythri wage war to settle a border dispute but Avalon remains in the Domain.

And the world - in this case meaning a volume of galactic space - is a very different place after all those corners have been turned.