Khazaki Politics

"Star Ship." 

For discussion of Khazak, see Planet Stories, combox.

OK. On Khazak, King Aligan of Krakenau had outlawed Prince Volakech who, however, raised an army of pirates, mercenaries and other outlaws and bargained with groups within the city. The rebels capture the royal arsenal of human-made guns and crush resistance. Volachek also seizes the single recently constructed rocket because he wants to reach the orbiting Star Ship and thus command the planet. The rebels within the city were led by Masefield Carson, now King Volachek's lieutenant, but so far have failed to apprehend Carson's sister, Ellen, the only being of either species on Khazak who can fly the rocket because she had learned astrogation from her grandfather, killed by the rebels. 

As you can see, this is quite a complicated scenario specific to a single short story. The instalments of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History are not episodes of a single narrative but more like beads on a string. When the conflict in Krakenau has been resolved, the History will move to another planet, Nerthus.