But what is coming (shortly) will affect all the Interdependency. Apparently this happened previously, well over a thousand years ago when Earth got isolated, and then again once later with another system.
She becomes aware that her late father had covertly sent a physicist decades ago to Hub to prove his theory that the Flow was about to shift after a thousand years and isolate all the unwitting Interdependency systems. Meanwhile a new (and reluctant) Emperox is being installed on Hub (the nexus of all the Flow streams). When a ship arriving at 'End' finds its cargo labelled (falsely) as contaminated, amidst one of End's all-too-regular conflicts for power, it becomes clear that one of the Houses is playing a power game. The reason this interstellar community was called the 'Interdependency' is because there are 'Houses' (familial clans) each with a monopoly, hence each star system needs the others. It is this Flow that makes faster-than-light travel possible as the 'Flow' is not really in our 4D space-time continuum. Yet only one star system has a habitable planet a world called 'End' at one end of this nexus of 'Flow' streams. This was made possible by a kind of hyperspace 'Flow': a series of streams that ran to and from some five thousand star systems.
Humanity has left Earth and forged an 'Interdependency' on 47 star systems. Review of The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi Fiction Reviews
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