Sol City, capital of the First Empire, was built:
"'...fifty or sixty thousand years ago...'" (p. 275)
- according to the Galactic called Cluthe. And Jorun says that that Empire:
"'...fell, fifty thousand years ago.'" (p. 263)
The earliest Terrestrial, interplanetary and interstellar civilizations had to have been a long time before that. Thus, nothing from any earlier period is mentioned in this story - except that the science of psychotechnics has been revived and fully developed. Only when Jorun is very tired does he feel his:
"...psychosomatic control slipping." (p. 264)
This story shows a human apotheosis after a history of conflict. The equivalent story in Poul Anderson's later Technic History is "Starfog."
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Kaor, Paul!
Except we see no nonsense in "Starfog" about any Asimovian "scientific" planning or predicting of human beings and their societies. No Psychohistory or Psychotechics. Anderson rightly came to reject such notions as absurd.
Ad astra! Sean
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