A Future History Outline

In recent posts, we have referred to just a few instalments of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History but these few have indicated an interesting future history:

conflicting sovereign nations were a disruptive factor on Earth;

the bulk of the population became technologically redundant;

when the hyperdrive was discovered, there was mass emigration from Earth;

the Traveller became lost in space, searched unsuccessfully for Earth, then settled on Harbor but some of its crew resumed their endless voyage and became the first Nomads;

the Coordination Service served the Stellar Union;

Coordinator Trevelyan Micah intervened in the Good Luck case, then later worked with and joined the Nomads;

the Nomads carried knowledge through the Third Dark Ages and influenced later interstellar civilizations whether or not those civilizations include the Galactic Civilization of "The Chapter Ends."

Anderson later added "The Pirate" because that story fitted into that background but it was the story that counted. "The Pirate" refers to the planet Nerthus which is a common setting and reference point in the series although the stories referring to it are quite dissimilar.