A team of Merseian physicists returning from an expedition to an unusual pulsar near the border of the Terran Empire noticed the unique orbital configuration in the Siekh System and investigated that also. As a result, Ydwyr came to study the Talwinians and had to accept that the base on Talwin would also have an Intelligence aspect. He hopes that Flandry, an alien with an Intelligence agent's knowledge of xenology, will help his research.
Flandry and Djana mess with Merseian civilians who treat them cordially and with interest, naturally enough. I remember my mother looking at a photograph of Russians laughing in a street in Moscow. She commented, "They can't all be devils." Well, of course not. Differentiate between a people and their regime.
Cnif hu Vanden, who becomes friendliest with Flandry, is a colonial to whom Merseia is strange. We realize that there is more to the Merseians than the Roidhunate's conflict with Terra.
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Kaor, Paul!
Of course, but a fair number of the Russians in those pictures must have been willing supporters and servants of the Soviet regime. And that would have been even more true of Merseians, because I believe the Roidhunate was not as stupidly organized and governed as was the USSR.
Ad astra! Sean
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