Merseia
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Merseia is a fictional planet and later empire in Poul Anderson's Technic History. It first appears in "Day of Burning" from The Earth Book of Stormgate, set in 2433. At this point it is technologically about a century ahead of late 20th century humanity. The story details how Falkayn, Chee Lang, and Adzel negotiate its salvation from a supernova approximately 4 light years away. However, the Mersians bitterly resent the methods used by Falkayn and his comrades - specifically their appointing the criminal underworld of Mersia to administer the technology the League will sell them to save them from the effects of the supernova. By the 31st century, the period of the Flandry books, it has grown into an expansionistic interstellar empire, the Terran Empire's primary rival. The Mersians remembered very well being manipulated by Terran agents, and are determined to take revenge.
