David Merrill’s Reviews > Downbelow Station > Status Update

So, I think one thing that would have improved my internal chronology reading of the Cherryh Alliance/Union books would have been to read the introductory material in chapter 1 of Downbelow Station before reading Heavy time and Hellburner. While it's very dry reading, it does explain the basis for conflicts emerging in those two books and gives a run down of all the planets, stations and some of the ships.