One of the five earlier instalments about van Rijn had recounted the conflict between his company and the Baburites.
One of the three instalments about van Rijn and the trader team had introduced the planet Mirkheim.
Mirkheim, the novel that features the beginning of the end of the League, also covered the Baburite occupations of Hermes and Mirkheim.
After "Wingless," about Falkayn's grandson, a second story recounts a later stage of the colonization of Avalon.
When the League and the Solar Commonwealth have collapsed, the Terran Empire is proclaimed at the end of one story, expands in another and wages war against the Domain of Ythri in a novel where the action focuses on Avalon. After that, the Empire contends against the Merseian Roidhunate and, later, is helped by the Domain.
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Kaor, Paul!
I think Stirling was right, the beginning of the decay of the Polesotechnic League seen in MIRKHEIM was too rushed, it would have been better to have set it 25 years later. But Anderson wanted to show Nicholas van Rijn at a time when he could still be as active and wily as ever.
Even with Technic antisenescence an Old Nick aged 105 as active as we see him in MIRKHEIM might have been too much of a strain.
Ad astra! Sean
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