In this chapter, as in CHAPTER EIGHT, records are consulted and interpreted but, in this case, the interpreter is Flandry, not an unidentified narrator.
A reference to "Emperor Georgios" (p. 434) takes us right back to the beginning of Ensign Flandry. Flandry first heard of "Aycharaych, the telepath" (p. 435) in A Circus of Hells. "Crown Prince...Josip succeeded to the throne..." (p. 434) before the beginning of The Rebel Worlds. This new chapter informs us that the kinds of atrocities that we saw committed in Sector Alpha Crucis in The Rebel Worlds became widespread in Josip's reign. These Imperial betrayals drove Olaf Magnusson's father into the arms of the Merseian lord, Brechdan Ironrede, whom we saw in Ensign Flandry. We are receiving a substantial review of past future history plus new information which directly affects the events of The Game Of Empire. This pulls the Flandry period together before we leave it behind us as the Technic History continues into later eras.
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