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TTie Galactic Milieu
and the Pliocene Exile

THE GREAT INTERVENTION OF 2013 OPENED HUMANITY S WAY

to the stars By the year 2110, when the action of the first
volume in this saga began, Earthlings were fully accepted mem-
bers of a benevolent confederation of planet colonizers, the
Coadunate Galactic Milieu, who shared high technology and
the capability of performing advanced mental operations known
as melafunctions The latter—which include telepathy, psy-
chokinesis, and many other powers—had lurked in the human
gene pool from time immemorial, but oniy rarely were mani-
fest

The five founding races of the Milieu had observed hu-
manity's development for tens of thousands of years After
some debate, they decided to admit Earthlings to the Milieu
"in advance of their psychosocial maturation" because of the
vast metapsychic potential of humanity, which might eventually
exceed that of any other race With the help of nonhumans,
people from Earth colonized more than 700 new planets that
had already been surveyed and found suitable

Earthimgs also learned how to speed the development of
their metapsychic powers through special training and genetic
engineering However, even though the number of humans with
operant metaftmctions increased with each generation, in 2 HO
the majonty of the population was stiii "normal"—that is
possessing metafiinctions that were either meager to the point
of nullity or else latent, unusable because of psychological
barriers or other factors Most of the day-to-day socioeconomic
activities of the Human Polity of the Milieu were earned on by
"normals", but human metapsychics did occupy privileged po-
sitions in government, in the sciences, and in other areas where
high mental powers were valuable to the Milieu as a whole

At only one period between the Great Intervention and 2110
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XIV

SYNOPSIS

did it seem thai the admission of humanity to the Milieu had
been a mistake This was in 2083, during the brief Metapsychic
Rebellion Instigated by a small group of Earth-based humans,
this attempted coup narrowly missed destroying the entire Mil-