Chuan In Crommelin

The Fleet Of Stars, 7, returns us to Mars, this time to the city of Crommelin, and introduces a new character, Chuan, although he converses with Kinna Ronay whom we have previously seen in conversation with a Lunarian, Elverir. Chuan's parents, back on Earth, are registered as allegiant to the Padmayana sect which sounds authentic although I cannot find "Padmayana" on google. There is a Padmasana.

Kinna, wondering why Chuan has invited her, asks:

"'...why not cultivate somebody studying, oh, psychotechnics, with an idea of going into the Coordination Service?'" (p. 92)

Deja vu. Psychotechnics and a Coordination Service are major features of the Psychotechnic History, which was Poul Anderson's first future history whereas Harvest Of Stars is his seventh and second last. The distance between them approaches the infinite.

Chuan is a synnoiont who has been trained from childhood to commune with the cybercosm. We must learn what this means as we read about it.