Galactic Milieu
Names: Galactic Milieuthe MilieuCoadúnate Galactic MilieuIntervention of the Galactic Milieupresent galactic confederationUnitygalactic confederationCoadunate MilieuMilieus
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 2The Milieu comprises five exotic races who welcomed humanity into their peaceful union.
- Ch 7Plans an Intervention on Earth, hoping Earth's unique Mind may enrich the Galaxy.
- Ch 35The Milieu has about two hundred thousand million entities of five races across thousands of planets, with shared telepathy and no interplanetary aggression.
- Ch 57As the critical years of coadunating consciousness dawned for Earth, the Milieu stepped up psychosocial surveillance, sending more field-workers to track the emergence of operancy in humans.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 4The Galactic Milieu is a benevolent confederation that saved humanity from its own folly and opened the stars to it.
- Ch 24The exotics imposed a thousand-day probation on humanity's full Concilium membership, during which they could rescind voting rights, reinstate the Proctorship or abandon humans.
- Ch 27Life under the Galactic Milieu is much easier than before the Great Intervention about forty years earlier.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 5Exotic-dominated Galactic confederation whose policy favored meta colonists on ethnic worlds, a factor in the Metapsychic Rebellion of 2083.
- Ch 23Outlawed cerebroenergetic enhancement after the Rebellion.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 21The Milieu's official response to Mental Man was initially a month of silence, followed by referral to the Galactic Concilium.
- Ch 33The exotic races agreed that Milieu defense is directed solely by loyal human magnates; the victor of an upcoming confrontation gets primacy.
- Ch 33If Rebels win, humanity leaves the Milieu; if loyalists win, operants refusing Unity are sequestered and nonoperant Rebels face harsher restrictions than under the Simbiari Proctorship.
- Ch 34The Milieu faltered at Okanagon's destruction, its peoples shaken by an instinct for violent revenge, while the Lylmik only watched.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 78The Great Intervention begins
Pete returns the Great Carbuncle to Rogi and disappears; the sky fills with the Galactic Milieu's starships.