Young Flandry

The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume IV, Young Flandry, collects a trilogy of novels about the beginning of Dominic Flandry's career. The first novel, Ensign Flandry, assumes the existence of the Terran Empire and its antagonist, the Merseian Roidhunate, both of which had been introduced in previous volumes. Ensign Flandry introduces characters who will either reappear in later volumes or at least influence later events:

Flandry himself;

his Merseian opposite number, Tachwyr;

Persis d'Io whose son by Flandry will later serve the Merseians;

Max Abrams whose daughter, Miriam, mentioned here, will later marry Flandry;

John Ridenour who will be on Freehold in  "Outpost of Empire."

Dragoika of Starkad who, with some of her people, will later be evacuated to Imhotep.

Each future history instalment builds on previous ones. Actions taken by Flandry in his third novel and later in his series will have consequences in the very last Technic History instalment set several millennia later.