Nicholas van Rijn takes over the organization of a war so that both sides will realize the need for a truce so that he will be able to talk to both sides together:
"'Sit down, both you nations, and listen to Nicholas van Rijn!'" (XIX, p. 142)
How did the two nations become so opposed? And how did either develop in the first place?
See Diomedean Evolution.
Chapter XX answers a question that had arisen from reading Chapter IX and that was asked in Diomedean Social Developments. It is good to learn that the text is coherent.
Van Rijn survives adversities and takes the golden road to Samarkand. But there must be bones of dead merchants on other planets.
One Dominic Flandry novel shows us some of the later historical developments for Flock and Fleet on Diomedes. As the publicity for one Star Trek film said, "The adventure continues..."
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Exactly, the most destructive wars were/are those which become desperate life and death struggles for unlimited rather than limited ends.
Ad astra! Sean
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