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EVENTS IN THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SUN TYCOONS

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1923 (Oldstyle) In flight from the Cheka, or so he says, тАЬIvan IvanoffтАЭ reaches Hong Kong on a forged
Portuguese passport. A wiry little man with a strong nose and a spent pistol bullet lodged in the
socket of his blind right eye, he speaks seven languages, all of them loudly but badly, Russian no
better than the rest. He carries diamonds he says are Czarist sewed into the lining of his astrakhan cap.
Confounding foes with a wild eloquence and a one-eyed leer, he recovers his health and takes the
name of his Eurasian mistress. As Ivan Kwan, he sets out to regain the imperial station he claims the
Bolsheviks have raped away.




Cycle of the Elderhood 77:54:03

Among the ice-moons of the outermost planet of a G2 core-star in Draco, a young heatseeker queen
yields to her princely suitor. Consuming the male in the way of her kind, she then sets out in solitary
flight to found a new hive. Her destination is the Sun.




1951 Ivan KwanтАЩs three sons, banker, mathematician, and shipping magnate, sign a secret charter to
form the House of Kwan, pledging themselves to live for his imperial plan.




1969-1974 Sergei, the bankerтАЩs black sheep heir, refuses to sign the Kwan charter. Drummed out of the
family, he leaves Hong Kong. Fails as poet, fails as artist, fails as impresario. Destitute and sick, he
finds refuge with Penny Morang, an unemployed cocktail waitress in Little Rock, Arkansas. John
Kwan is born on her fatherтАЩs hardscrabble Ozark farm.




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