The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. "But Pell was just the first living planet. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. "Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. From the publisher: "The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth.
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