Decent trilogy, although I still have no idea what the Trigon Disunity is, and that is the name of the trilogy itself! 3 meandering stars. All of this took place as humanity gears up for war amid political struggles to define what the future governance structure will look like. The speculations on human nature were also fun (is humanity doomed to war, are we Janus-faced between 'protection' and 'procurable', etc.). What I found most intriguing about this installment were the cultures elucidated by Kube-McDowell of the diaspora colonies, which range from matriarchies to scholarly kingdoms unfortunately, the cultures were not fully developed here, just certain aspects that played a role in the broader story. Trigon: Space Story is a roguelike single-player game that focuses heavily on strategy. After Merrit revealed this, humanity's space explorations ceased, but a new 'war' faction emerged, who want to confront the Mizari and essentially wipe them out. Turns out, there is yet another alien species, the shadowy Mizari, who inhabit space fairly close to humanity's explorations and they do not like visitors. While 'transported' to the spindle, Merrit finally was given the answers to the 'Founder Civilization' (e.g., who was behind the human diaspora colonies) and what destroyed it.

The last installment concluded with Merrit Thackery making contact with an alien species that lives in the 'spindle' universe, one that parallels our 'material' one, or rather, our material one exists as a subset of theirs (whew!). Kube-McDowell's eclectic trilogy finishes with more of a whimper than a bang, but Emprey provides enough philosophical and sociological ponderings to keep the reader going.

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