History Literature / TechnicHistory

* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: Most of the planets they spend much time on whether human or alien are multicultural.
** It is a notable fact that the political geography does not correspond exactly to the racial geography. Thus there are some Meresians on Terran dominated worlds and vice-versa, and the same goes with Terrans and Ythrians. The Terran Empire and the Polisotechnic League often have no more then an outpost on any given world which otherwise runs itself. And most races are divided among their various cultural and political lines.

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Averted. Slavery is [[DeliberateValuesDissonance part of life.]]

** The general Merseian attitude seems to be that while they may despise the Terran Empire as senile they regard humans as a species for being a [[FriendlyEnemy fellow]] ProudWarriorRace.

** Downplayed in Avalon. Avalon is like Medieval Iceland, being founded by human dissidents who wanted to get away from government and Ythrians who always had a low government level anyway. Ythrian laws are rather like Iceland; Humans have a more conventional [[TheRepublic Republic. Also Avalonians have a poetic culture though it has a different flavor then that of the saga writers.

** Subverted with Ythrians. They have the CloserToEarth and the HonorBeforeReason down. However they are a technically advanced race. They are called "uncivilized" in the original sense of not being urbanized, but are not uncivilized in any other sense.

* FriendlyEnemy: Sort of. The Terran Empire never had a grudge against Ythrians as such and many officers admired them. Ythrians and Avalonian Humans resented Terran aggression but even so the war was [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen civilized as wars go]], and the memory didn't leave as much bad blood as might have been.

** The general Merseian attitude seems to be that while they may despise the Terran Empire is senile they regard humans as a species as being a [[FriendlyEnemy fellow]] ProudWarriorRace.

** The general Merseian attitude seems to be that while the may despise the Terran Empire is senile they regard humans as a species as being a [[FriendlyEnemy fellow]] ProudWarriorRace.

* NotSoDifferent: When some Meresians visit a Terran outpost for a drinking party Flandry observes that they both have a history of war and predation.

** Aycharaych is a villainous WarriorPoet in the service of the Meresians. Or [[DragonWithAnAgenda not...]].

** Aycharaych is a recurring villanous WarriorPoet.

** In The Plague Masters, Van Rjn is a saga hero on a planet Flandry visits.

** Aycharaych is a villanous WarriorPoet.

*** Aycharaych is a villainous WarriorPoet in the service of the Meresians. Or [[DragonWithAnAgenda not...]].

** In ''Day of their Return'' a visiting Meresian emisary observes this to the Imperial representative. When he responds,"I am not a man of war", the Meresian says that that only means he is not fond of ''physical'' violence, but that his [[DoYouWantToHaggle tough negotiations]] prove that he has quite laudable competitive instincts. He then [[KlingonsLoveShakespeare goes into]] a discourse on warlike passages from HinduMythology.