On Suleiman

"Esau."

Beyond Antares and on the far edge of Polesotechnic League activities, the star Osman has one inhabited sub-Jovian planet, Suleiman, with life based on hydrogen, ammonia and methane, where the primitive but friendly natives harvest bluejack, a spice and tonic plant, in exchange for trade goods from Nicholas van Rijn's Solar Spice & Liquors company which maintains a scientific base, run by the Altaian Emil Dalmady, from where the bluejack, to be sold to other hydrogen breathers, is transported by a regularly calling Cynthian spaceship. The best market for bluejack is the planet Babur orbiting Mogul about thirty light-years further away. One Baburite country has acquired enough interstellar exchange to invest in robotics and to commission some hyperdrive ships with crew training.

Thus, the story so far has referred to:

Earth

Suleiman

Altai

Cynthia

Babur

All these planets except Suleiman will play important roles later. There will be a Cynthian in van Rijn's first trade pioneer crew led by David Falkayn and also Cynthians in the Supermetals Company secretly initiated by Falkayn as well as a bar run by a Cynthian and a Cynthian village on the planet Daedalus during the Magnusson Rebellion in the Terran Empire. Also, the Empire will have bought Llynathawr from Cynthians.

Yet another partial overview of the Technic History.