The Clusters was a four-volume epic poem, written by Mag Osellinos early in the Republic's Great Manifest Period. It is the poet's most famous, and most infamous, piece of work. The central character of The Clusters is the tragic hero Myont Tasseles. Under the employment of a fictional corporation he participates in the settlement of several star clusters in the Expansion Region. Though it at first attempts to negotiate with the native species already living there, under pressure from his superiors he and his colleagues find themselves driving many of them off of their planets, and forcing more into subservience to them, using exploitative techniques that, unknown to the general population of the Republic at the time, were commonly used in the Expansion Region. Smooth-talking colleagues an