Pandora's Star

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Pandora's Star is a sci-fi space opera story by Peter F. Hamilton.

The sequel is Judas Unchained.

I enjoyed this optimistic vision of a future civilization.

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Adam Elvin
(c2: a.k.a. Huw North): A socialist party terrorist that illegally acquires weapons for export to Far Away for Bradley Johansson's Guardians of Selfhood.
Alberto Risonto (?)
(c6): A likely Guardian who hoodwinked April Halgarth in order to use her author certificate to shotgun Guardian propaganda to the Unisphere.
Alessandra Baron
(c6): A unisphere talk show host viewed by Marty, Mark Vernon's father.
(c10): Covers the attack on the Second Chance.
Alexis Denken
(c22): A mentor and possible lover of Paula Myo who took her in following her parentsʼs trial. Lived on Huxleyʼs Haven as a Freethinker.
Alic Hogan
(c19) Rafael Columbia's political appointee for supervising Paula Myo following the conversion of the Serious Crimes Directorate into an investigation group of the Commonwealth Planetary Defense Agency.
Angelia
(c6): A friend of April Gala Halgarth from Queen's University Belfast.
Anna Hober
(c?): Assists Wilson Kime during the Alamo Avenger attack on the Second Chance.
(c21): A Lieutenant Commander in the Commonwealth Navy and Admiral Wilson Kime's Chief Staff Officer. Is engaged to Kime.
Antonia Clarke
(c14): Engineering chief of the Second Chance.
Antonio
(c6): Boyfriend of Kyle, Mark Vernon's older brother.
April Gala Halgarth
(c6): A tall 20-year-old first-lifer with light ebony skin of the Halgarth family. Was a victim of a Guardians of Selfhood shotgun scheme. A student of 20th century history.
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Barry
(c6): Mark Vernon's eldest son.
Big Bear
(c8): A native American barman of The Last Pony in Liddington.
Bradley Johansson
(c4): Former director of the Marie Celeste Research Institute. According to Kazimir, was mind-controlled by the Starflyer ailen but was freed by the Silfen after the Starflyer sent Bradley to explore the Silfen paths.
Brewster Kumar
(c3): The Commonwealth President science advisor. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council.
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Carys Panther
(c6): Mark Vernon's aunt and older sister of Mark's father, Marty. A multi-lifer who designs dramas for a living. Wears designer clothing of Jacvins.
(c24): Carys travels to Elan and is with Mark Vernon during the initial Prime attack.
Crispin Goldreich
(c3): A Commonwealth senator chairing the Commonwealth budgetary commission.
(c17): Attends Justine Burnelli's Sorbonne Wood weekend. Receives political power guarnatees in exchange for supporting Elaine Doi and the formation of a Commonwealth Navy.
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Daniel Alster
(c5): Nigel Sheldon's executive aide. Receives Wilson Kime before their tour with Sheldon of the Second Chance construction area.
David
(c6): Liz's 45-year-old son, an accountant working in AECʼs export credit division.
Dimitri Leopoldovich
(c21): An academic tactician for the StPetersburg Institute for Strategic Studies. Advises Patricia Kantil, Wilson Kime, Rafael Columbia, Daniel Alstair, Oscar Munroe, and Anna Hober. Warns them the Primes likely pose a significant threat and the Commonwealth Navy is orders of magnitude inadequate.
Don Mares
(c2): A senior detective of the Tokat metropolitan police. Works with Maggie Lidsey to provide assistance to Paula Myo in pursuing Adam Elvin on Velaines.
Dudley Bose
(c1): An astronomer who witnessed the subsecond occultation of one of the Dyson pair stars.
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Elaine Doi
(c3): Commonwealth Vice-President. A career politician who has been active in politics for 180 years. Disliked by Nigel Sheldon. Has dark ebony skin to emphasize her ethnicity.
Elene Castle
(c12) A deputy manager for the Manby Memorial Clinic.
Emily
(c5): A six-year-old great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Wilson Kime. Playmate of Victor.
Estella Fenton
(c4): A friend Justine made shortly after her re-life procedure who suggested a hyperglider trip to Far Away.
(c17): Provides intelligence to Justine Burnelli on Isabella Helena Halgarth who arrives to Justine's Sorbonne Wood weekend with Patricia Kantil, Vice President Elaine Doi's chief political advisor.
Eugene Cinzoul
(c3): Chief Attorney at the Commonwealth Law Commission. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council.
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Frank
(c6): A likely Guardian collaborator of Alberto Risonto who hoodwinked April Halgarth. The name is likely a pseudonym.
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Gabrielle Else
(c3): Director of the Commonwealth Industry and Trade Commission. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council.
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Hoshe Finn
(c5): A local detective of Darklake City, Oaktier, who works with Paula Myo to investigate the possible bodykill of Tara Jennifer Shaheef.
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Isabella Helena Halgarth
(c17): The 19-year-old second daughter of Victor and Bernadette Halgarth. Taller than Justine. Has long blonde hair. Accompanies Patricia Kantil, the chief political advisor of Vice President Elaine Doi, to the Sorbonne Wood weekend Justine Burnelli holds for planning the second Dyson Pair exploration mission following the Second Chance's first encounter.
Jean Douvoir
(c14): A crewmember of the Second Chance mission to examine the Dyson Pair. Their nickname for the object believed to be the barrier generator, Fortress of Darkness, result in the object being named The Dark Fortress.
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Jes
(c8): A bar patron at the Last Pony in Liddington who criticizes Ozzie for being a wealthy tourist who wants to meet the Silfen.
Joanne
(c6): Great-granddaughter of Liz, Mark Vernon's wife.
Justine Burnelli
(c4): A multi-lifer who went on a hyperglider trip to Far Away with Estella Fenton. Meets and has sex with Kazimir McFoster, a young Guardian of Selfhood.
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Kazimir McFoster
(c4): A Guardian of Selfhood who by chance meets Justine Burnelli on Far Away after Justine's flight over Mount Herculaneum. Appears ethnically Indian.
(c12): Kazimir goes on a raid against an Institute convoy. Sees Bruce McFoster crushed by their own wounded steed.
Kyle
(c6): Mark Vernon's older brother (by 115 years). Boyfriend of Antonio.
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Larry Frederick Halgarth
(c17): A third generation of the Halgarth dynasty. Is Justine Burnelli's connection to Rafael Columbia and Natasha Kersley.
Laura
(c6): A friend of April Gala Halgarth from Queen's University Belfast.
Lee Ki
(c3): Director of the phase two space economic policy board. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council.
Leonard Denken
(c22): A Freethinker who lives on Paula Myoʼs birth planet Huxleyʼs Haven. Gives advice to Paula after she is fired by Rafael Columbia. Is a great grandson of Alexis Denken.
Liz
(c6): Wife of Mark Vernon. Great grandmother of Joanne.
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Mariana
(c6): A friend of April Gala Halgarth from Queen's University Belfast. Has a thick Irish accent.
Mark Vernon
(c6): A resident of Augusta. Son of Marty Vernon, nephew of Carys, monogamous husband of Liz. Father of Barry and Sandy.
Mathew deSavoel
(c9): Husband of Tara Jennifer Shaheef. Resident of Oaktier. Older than Shaheef by a couple of decades.
McClain Gilbert
(c7; a.k.a. Mac): The forward crew chief of the team directed by Oscar Monroe to explore Chelva.
Mellanie Rescorai
(c9): Mortimer's lover. A 19-year-old swimmer of Oaktier's national diving squad. Rebelled against her family in order to live a luxurious high life with Mortimer (a.k.a. Morty).
(c?): Attends Mortimer's trial.
(c?): Physically assaults a pornographer who purchased the rights to her story involving Mortimer's trial. Is recruited by the SI.
(c21): Interviews Mark Vernon at a Randtown protest against the Commonwealth Navy.
Melissa
(c6): A likely Guardian collaborator of Alberto Risonto who hoodwinked April Halgarth. The name is likely a pseudonym.
Mel Reese
(c5): A deputy director of the Intersolar Serious Crimes Directorate and direct supervisor of Paula Myo. Has been with the Directorate for 40 years. Assigns Paula Myo to investigate a possible deliberate bodykill and memory loss of Tara Jennifer Shaheef, a member of an important family of Oaktier.
Moonshimmer
(c8; a.k.a. Moonie): A 7-year-old girl Ozzie meets upon first arriving at Silvergalde.
MorningLightMountain
(c18; meta: a.k.a. MLM): A Prime immotile of Dyson Alpha. Acquires the memories of Dudley Bose. Seeks to secure its own survival at any cost.
Mortimer
(c3): A resident of Oaktier. Husband of Tara Jennifer Shaheef.
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Natasha Kersley
(c17): The chief executive of the Commonwealth Special Science Supervisory Directorate. Arrives to the Sorbonne Wood weekend along with Larry Frederick Halgarth and Rafael Columbia. Works on exotic weapons, according to Larry Halgarth.
Nigel Murphy
(c2): A member of the Intersolar Socialist Party, Velaines, 7th chapter. Puts terrorist Adam Elvin in contact with arms dealer Rachel Lancier. Has a slim figure with a narrow face. Is nearly bald with graying hair.
Nigel Sheldon
(c1): Co-invented wormhole technology along with Ozzie Issacs.
(c3): Founder of CST which connects all Commonwealth worlds by rail. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council representing CST operations.
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Orion
(c8): A 15-year-old boy resident of Liddington with curly ginger hair, long skinny limbs, and freckles.
Oscar Monroe
(c7): A manager for the CST exploration division who helps open a wormhole to Chelva. Is recommended by Nigel Sheldon and recruited by Wilson Kime for the Second Chance mission.
Ozzie Fernandez Isaac
(c3): Co-founder of CST with Nigel Sheldon. Wealthy eccentric. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council as technical advisor.
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Patricia Kantil
(c17): A woman who maintains a look of being in her 50s. Is of Latin ethnicity. Is the chief poltical advisor for Vice President Elaine Doi. Arrives to Sorbonne Wood with 19-year-old Isabella Halgarth.
(c21): Continues to provide support to President Elaine Doi after Doi's successful election campaign.
Paul Cramley
(c23) Mellanie uses their illicit software to secretly tail Paula Myo. Paula detects the illegal software and confronts Mellanie with a warning to stop, saying they've reported Cramley's software to law enforcement.
Paula Myo
(c2): An investigator for the Serious Crimes Directorate that pursues Adam Elvin on Vellaines (?). Fails to capture him due to unknown outside interference.
(c21): Receives rank of Commander in the Commonwealth Navy.
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Rafael Columbia
(c3): Chief of the Intersolar Serious Crimes Directorate. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council. Just over 200 years old with a physical appearance of late fifties. Has bushy eyebrows and bright gray-green eyes as most Halgarth family members.
(c17): Is invited to Justine Burnerlli's Sorbonne Wood weekend retreat via Larry Frederick Halgarth. Accompanies Larry Halgarth with Natasha Kersley, the chief executive of the Commonwealth Special Science Supervisory Directorate.
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Sabbah
(c2): A member of the Intersolar Socialist Party, Velaines, 7th chapter. A first-lifer in their mid-30s. An informant for Paula Myo.
The SI
(c3): A powerful artificial intelligence that advises Commonwealth leadership regarding the Dyson pair. The SI urges the Commonwealth to collect information for why Dyson pair suddenly were obscured.
(c8): Was given the planet Vinmar by Nigel and Ozzie when several sentient intelligences who had mostly emerged from CST wormhole control programs.
Silfen
(c7): Members of an ancient interplanetary nomadic civilization that somehow travel between planets. Often greet Commonwealth explorers when CST explorers open a wormhole onto a new planet.
(c8): Resemble tall lanky elves of human folklore. Many inhabit the forests of Silvergalde. Although resembling humans and capable of mimicking human speech and song, Silfen have mouthparts extremely dissimilar to humans.
(c17): They hunt ice whales on the Ice Citadel planet.
Simon Rand
(c15): Mark Vernon recalls Simon Rand's origin story.
(c21): Simon Rand thanks Mark Vernon and Liz for attending a protest against the Commonwealth Navy's use of fission micropiles.
Mr. Stafford
(c8): A stableman at Top Street Stables of Liddington. Recommended by Orion to Ozzie who buys a Lontre (?) and a horse.
Starflyer
(c4): An alien from Far Away that roams the Commonwealth, corrupting politicians, that Kazimir McFoster warns Justine Burnelli about.
(c6): A conspiracy theory alien that the Guardians of Selfhood claim is manipulating Commonwealth politicians.
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Tara Jennifer Shaheef
(c3): Resident of Oaktier, a phase one planet. Wife of Mortimer. Murdered in her own apartment along with her lover Wyobie Cortal while Mortimer was away for a week to an industry conference in Talansee, a settlement of Oaktier.
Thompson Burnelli
(c3): A Commonwealth Senator and chair of the sciencen commission. A member of the ExoProtectorate Council. A straight-talking man and North America's UFN delegate to the Commonwealth Senate. Wears expensive clothing and is a former Ivy League college athlete.
(c21): Is assassinated by an assailant in response to Thompson pushing through cargo inspections to Far Away.
Tochee, (The)
(c16): An intelligent yet mute creature with locomotion flesh ridges that Ozzie meets at the Ice Citadel. Has an egg-shaped body about 3.5 yards long, with a height bringing it to the middle of Ozzie's chest. Has a loose wrinkly hide of caramel-colored dark bristly fur. Black seaweed-like fronds grow from its skin folds. Its eye is a curved pyramid about a yard behind its mouth. Its eye consists of three oval sections of translucent black flesh; the central section is twice as large as the smaller ones. Ozzie discovers it communicates via ultraviolet light patterns projected from its eye. It has two sets of flesh ridges running the length of its body that are capable of extreme deformation and tactile manipultaion; the pair of ridges on its belly provide locomotive ability; the pair running along its back can deform out to form prehensile tentacle limbs to grip objects.
Truten, Professor
(c12) An acquaintance of Wendy Bose who teaches law at Leonida City university in Gralmond.
Tunde Sutton
(c14): Interprets sensor readings for Wilson Kime during the Second Chance exploration of Dyson Alpha.
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Valtare Rigin
(c19): An arms dealer based in Venice Coast hired by Adam Elvin to deliver force field equipment. Owner of an EK museum.
Victor
(c5): An eight-year-old relative of Wilson Kime and playmate of Emily.
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Wendy Bose
(c1): Wife of Dudley Bose.
(c12): Close friend of Professor Truten[1], a fellow academic of Bose from Gralmond who teaches law.
Wilson Kime
(c1): Third human to walk on the surface of Mars on a NASA mission upstaged by Nigel and Ozzie.
(c5): An executive for Farndale Engineering and landowner on Los Vada (?). Is recruited by Nigel Sheldon to captain the Second Chance to explore the Dyson pair.
(c21) Is Admiral of the new Commonwealth Navy.
Wyobie Cortal
(c3): Resident of Oaktier. Lover of Tara Jennifer Shaheef. Murdered in Tara's apartment after her.
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Places

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AFR98-2B
An F2 spectral-class star 27 light-years from Merredin.
Anshun (?)
(c?): A Big15 world.
(c24): One of the Commonwealth worlds attacked by the Primes. Is where the Second Chance is destroyed, captained by Tu Lee.
Aphrodite's Seat
(c4): Clifftops below the caldera plateau of Mount Herculaneum with an impressive view.
Armstrong City
(c4): A large city on Far Away.
Augusta
(c6): One of the Big15 planets. Is a habitable plant that orbits a star named Regulus. Established by CST to act as an industrial world with few environmental protection laws. Home to Mark Vernon, his wife, Liz, and their children.
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Babuyan Atoll
(c?) Where Pentagon 2 is located.
Balya
(c24): One of the Lost 23. One of the two planets lost in the initial Prime attack due to destruction of their CST stations.
Big15
(c?) A set of Phase 2 planets serving as hubs for the Phase 2 space expansion. Members include: Anshun, Augusta, Wessex.
Boongate
(c5): A place with a CST gateway facility through which shipments to Far Away are transported. Paula Myo has lobbied unsuccessfully for years to inspect cargo to Far Away.
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Chelva
(c7): The third planet of the star AFR98-2B which is explored by a team directed by Oscar Monroe from a wormhole based in Merredin. Orbits AFR98-2B at a distance of 199,000,000 km. Is 14,300 km in diameter.
Clayden Clinic
(c5): A medical facility in Darklake City on Oaktier in which Wyobi Cortal is re-lifed. Is visited by Detectives Paula Myo and Hoshe Finn.
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Dauʼsing Mountains
(c?): Mountains near Randtown.
(c?): Related to The Regents, a mountain range on the southern continent of Elan.
Dessault Mountains
(c4): A mountain range on Far Away.
Democratic Republic of New Germany
(a.k.a. DRNG; c17): A Big15 world. Gerhard Utreth is a senator.
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Earth
The origin and capital of the Commonwealth.
(c24): Suffers a complete civil power loss when Nigel Sheldon diverts the Moon's solar array output to defend Wessex.
EdenBurg
A Big15 industrial planet founded by the Halgarth family, a major Intersolar Dynasty.
Elan
A temperate world in Phase 3 space. Randtown is located on its southern continent at the foot of the Dauʼsing mountains.
(c24): Is the second-closest planet to the Dyson Pair, after Far Away.
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Far Away
A relatively undeveloped planet in Phase 3 space.
(c3): A planet expensively connected to the Commonwealth by CST to investigate the Marie Celeste.
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Huxleyʼs Haven
(c?; a.k.a. The Hive)
(c9): Paula Myoʼs origin story as a child kidnapped from Huxley's Haven.
(c22): Paula Myo visits Leonard Denken here.
Hondu Ocean
(c4): An ocean on Far Away from which large storms originate, flowing east to be concentrated into Stakeout Canyon located between Mount Zeus and Mount Titan.
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Ice Citadel
(c17): A Silfen-made shelter on a nearly inhabitably-cold planet on the Silfen Paths. A menagerie of intellient species reside in the structure, working together to survive in the cold environment.
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Jaruva
(c9): An Isolated planet cut off from the Commonwealth by CST due to a civil war against the Commonwealth by evangelicals and various nationalist culture factions. Hosts the Unstorn clinic used by Bradley Johansson for their rejuvenation treatments who accesses the planet via a Silfen path.
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The Last Pony
(c8): A bar in Liddington that Ozzie visits after first arriving on Silvergalde.
Liddington
(c8): The town on Silvergalde where the CST gateway was located. Has a population of roughly 10,000 Commonwealth residents. Accessible via a CST train from Beova (?).
Little Sussex
(c12) A residential district in New Costa Junction where the Manby Memorial Clinic is located.
Los Vada
(c5): A Big15 planet. A consortium of families from Los Vada purchased York5, the planet where Wilson Kime lives.
Louisiade
(c24): One of three worlds whose Anshun-generated CST wormholes were directed to attack MorningLightMountain. The others were Malaita and Tubuai.
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Malaita
(c24): One of three worlds whose Anshun-generated CST wormholes were directed to attack MorningLightMountain. The others were Louisiade and Tubuai.
Manby Memorial Clinic
(c12) A re-life clinic in Little Sussex, a residential district in New Costa Junction. Is where Paula Myo interviews Dudley Bose, interrupting their partial rejuvenation treatment.
Mars
(c0): The fourth planet of Sol. Visited by the NASA crew of the Ulysses, including Wilson Kime. Was the location of the first public demonstration of Nigel Sheldon and Ozzie's wormhole technology.
Merredin
(c7): A planet from which Oscar Monroe opens a CST exploration division wormhole to explore Chelva.
Mount Herculaneum
(c4): An active volcano on Far Away known to cause extreme meteorological conditions nearby.
Mount Titan
(c4): A mountain on Far Away with a crater.
Mount Zeus
(c4): A mountain on Far Away that poses a geographical hinderance to retrieval teams of hyperglider pilots flying over Mount Herculanium.
Meriden
(c7): A planet from which Oscar Monroe leads a CST team to explore a planet via wormhole.
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New Jerusalem
(c8): A planet with a bar where Ozzie Issac met a traveler with knowledge of the Silfen paths.
New Costa Junction
(c23): A city in Augusta where the Welcome Back Ceremony takes place.
New Rio
(c3): Location of the Commonwealth Presidential Palace.
North Sea
(c4): A body of water on Far Away near Armstrong City.
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Oaktier
(c3): A planet where Tara Jennifer Shaheef was murdered.
Olivenza
(c24): One of the Lost 23. One of the two worlds lost in the initial Prime attack due to destruction of their CST stations. The other world was Balya.
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Paris
(c2): A city of Earth where the Intersolar Serious Crimes Directorate is based. Is where Paula Myo lives.
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Randtown
(c?): A tourist town south of the Dauʼsing Mountains at the foot of the Regent mountains.
(c21): Locals protest the construction of a Commonwealth Navy Wormhole Detector station due to use of fission micropiles that violate local environmental laws.
(c24): Is one of the first worlds attacked by the Primes.
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Schiaparelli Crater
(c0): A crater on Mars where Wilson Kime first met Nigel Sheldon.
Silvergalde
(c8): A planet where billions of Silfen live. A CST gateway exists but only with permission from the Silfen. Otherwise, the Silfen enforce a roughly Victorian-level technology cap via an unknown method that interferes with the operation of complex electronics (e.g. arrays). Has twin moons, each in the same 500,000 km orbit.
Stakeout Canyon
(c4): A place where hyperglider pilots stage their craft prior to taking flight in a major daily storm affecting part of Far Away.
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Tampico
(c5): The recorded destination of Tara Jennifer Shaheef and Wyobie Cortal after Shaheef divorced Mortimer.
(c6): Where Kyle travelled to see a sports game.
Trineʼba
(c?): A large lake near Randtown on Elan.
(c24): Where the Prime aliens land.
Tubuai
(c24): One of three worlds whose Anshun-generated CST wormholes were directed to attack MorningLightMountain. The others were Louisiade and Malaita.
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Velaines
(c2): A planet where Adam Elvin acquires weapons from arms dealer Rachel Lancier.
Vinmar
(c8): A planet given to the SI to inhabit after the controvertial emergence of sentient intelligences among CST wormhole control programs. Computing arrays were provided to house all the SIs and power generation equipment was provided to permit autonomy. After initial physical setup, little further physical mass transfer was performed. After 2178, ongoing contact with the rest of the Commonwealth via the Unisphere was maintained primarily by narrow wormholes for information transfer.
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Westwould
(c6): A planet containing a farming town named Hemeleum from which the Guardians of Selfhood transmitted a shotgun message warning of the Starflyer alien.
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York5
(c5): A habitable private planet, owned by a consortium of families from Los Vada, with few plant and animal species that colonization and land development easy. Is the home world of Wilson Kime.
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Things

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Abaddon station
(c2): A terrorist attack on November 21, 2344 in which Adam Elvin killed 480 people, a third of which were total deaths due to them being children too young for memorycell inserts. Adam Elvin argues the attack was supposed to derail the Kilburn grain train but a train schedule change disrupted their plan.
array
(c1): Synonym for computer. May come in small handheld or stationary immobile forms. Distinct from OCTattoos.
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bamtran (?)
(c8): A domesticated beast pulling vehicles or carrying people seen by Ozzie in Liddington.
Bayfoss
(c9): An engineering company that assembled class three and four remote probe satellites on the High Angel for the Second Chance.
bodyloss
(?): The death of a physical body.
(c5): With a memorycell insert, bodyloss may pose only a discontinuity of memory for Commonwealth citizens who have re-life technology to download their memories into a clone body which resumes their identity. Without a memorycell, bodyloss is more accurately described as a total death.
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Cox Education charity
(c12): Paula Myo asks Wendy Bose about an attempted hack on this organization's account at the Denman Manhattan Bank. Paula noted the charity is one of the sponsors of Dudley Bose's astronomy department.
(c24): Dudley mentions to Mellanie that Paula told Wendy that Bradley Johansson thought the Starflyer funded his own observation of the Dyson Pair through this charity since Johansson's Guardians likely attempted to hack the charity and Wendy received a message directly from Johansson intended for Paula. Mellanie asks the SI about the matter and the SI reveals the Cox Education charity has very suspicious public financial statements that are circumstantial evidence of Guardian claims.
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Dyson pair
(c1): A pair of stars, named Dyson Alpha and Dyson Beta, that suddenly disappeared while under observation by Dudley Bose.
(c3): Nigel Sheldon and other Commonwealth leaders decide to mount an exploration mission to explore the reason for why the Dyson pair disappeared.
Dawson Knight
(c17): The legal and accountancy firm that manages the Burnelli Family's wealth.
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e-Butler
(c1): A class of semi-sentient programs used by Commonwealth citizens to manage their data and interface with the Unisphere.
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Farndale
(c5): An engineering company for which Wilson Kime is an executive.
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galen (?)
(c8): Quadruped from Niskar (?) seen by Ozzie in Liddington.
Guardians of Selfhoood
(c4): A paramilitary organization of Far Away led by Bradley Johansson to combat the Starflyer alien.
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Halgarth family
(c6): An intersolar dynasty that founded EdenBurg, a Big15 industrial planet. Benefitted greatly from shield technology acquired from the Marie Celeste alien wreck on Far Away.
hysradar
(c14) An FTL scanning device equipped to the Second Chance. Permits observing objects from within the ship's continuous flowing wormhole.
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ice whale
(c17): Fauna of the Ice Citadel planet. Is ritualistically hunted by the Silfen. Has the appearance of a dinosaur-sized polar bear with many tusks from its muzzle. It has a series of leg-fins on its underbelly.
Intersolar Serious Crimes Directorate
(c2): The Paris-based police organization Paula Myo works for in her quest to capture the terrorist Adam Elvin and associated paramilitary organization the Guardians of Selfhood.
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lontrus (?)
(c8): shaggy-pelted octopeds seen by Ozzie in Liddington.
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Marie Celeste
(c3): An empty alien ship found on Far Away.[2]
memorycell
(c1? c2): A data storage device often installed as an implant in Commonwealth citizens to record their experiences to augment their memory recall ability or to later download into a replacement clone body in the event of bodyloss.
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niling d-sink
(c4): Justine finds one in a very rural part of Far Away after landing her hyperglider after flying over Mount Herculaneum (?). The device's charging mechanism generated recurring electromagnetic pulse that caused her e-butler running in her OCTattoo implants to crash.
(c22): Paula Myo had been investigating theft of such a device which later was found to restart the first wormhole generator in the Great Wormhole Heist.
(c24): Big15 worlds fall back onto niling d-sink power reserves when Nigel Sheldon reroutes utility power to Wessex to disrupt alien wormhole assaults.
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OCTattoo
(c1): Electronic circuits housed in living flesh. Permits mobile computing for Commonwealth citizens. May be advanced enough to store large quantities of data or to run e-Butlers.
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path (Silfen)
(c8): A transportation method used by the Silfen to walk between planets; described by Ozzie Issac to the SI when explaining their strategy of walking said paths to find an adult Silfen community who may be able to explain why the Dyson pair were enveloped. Ozzie begins their journey to walk the paths with Orion.
(c9): Bradley Johansson uses a path to the Isolated planet Jaruva to access a clinic for their rejuvination treatments.
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rejuvination
(c1): A medical procedure that reverses aging of a human body, restoring it into a healthy youthful state while preserving the mind. The procedure is expensive but accessible to most Commonwealth citizens, but usually requires they find adequate employment.
RI
(c8): Restricted intelligence. An instance of a sentient control program created by the SI with strategic limiters placed on their cognition in order to prevent emergent hostility and self-determination. Created by the SI to replace themselves after Nigel and Ozzie struck a deal with the sentient intelligences after they emerged from CST wormhole control programs.
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shotgunning
(c6): An advertising practice in which a nuisance message is sent to many recipients with little to not cost.[3] Subject to a large irritant fine as of 2174. Successful shotgunning requires compromising author certificates of notable individuals (e.g. minor grand family members). Used by the Guardians of Selfhood to warn the Commonwealth of the Starflyer alien.
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tan (?)
(c8): A domesticated beast pulling vehicles or carrying people seen by Ozzie in Liddington.
tinnars (?)
(c8): A domesticated beast pulling vehicles or carrying people seen by Ozzie in Liddington.
total death
(c2): Death without a memorycell insert. Due to lack of recorded memories from which a cloned body can be grown and a person re-lifed, a total death is permanent.
TSI
(le c6; a.k.a. total sensory immersion): A multisensory medium analogous to audiovisual works such as television. Commercial entertainment serials often take this form, requiring actors to be wetwired to record their sensory inputs so audience members can later feel the same sensations.
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Unisphere
(c1): The Internet of the Commonwealth. The greater network of arrays and communication nodes through which most Commonwealth citizens can access the sum total of human knowledge.
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wenshrikes (?)
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Narrative

HH:MM:SS times are from the 37h21m26s audiobook.

Page numbers are from the 988-page paperback (ISBN: 9780345479211).

Prologue

page 1

Summary: Wilson Kime lands the Eagle 2 on Mars for a NASA mission. Nigel Sheldon and Ozzie Issacs upstage NASA by visiting Mars first via wormhole.

Chapter 1

00:22:06; page 11

Dudley Bose witnesses the Dyson pair.

00:22:06. (POV: Dudley Bose; Location: Gralmond)

Chapter 2

01:09:01; page 32

Adam Elvin smuggles weapons on Velaines. Paula Myo fails to thwart him.

Adam Elvin travels to the planet Velaines in order to visit the 7th chapter of the Intersocial Socialist Party in order to find an arms dealer for acquiring weapons.

Adam Elvin uses the identity Huw North.

01:20:20: Adam Elvin recalls causing the Abadan station attack.

01:20:23: Adam openly discusses their personal involvement in causing the 2344-11-21 Abaddon Station attack.

Chapter 3

02:31:10; page 69

The ExoProtectorate Council meets. Nigel, Ozzie, the SI, Vice-President Elaine Doi and various dynasty leaders meet.

03:04:48: (POV: Tara Jennifer Shaheef). Murder of Shaheef.

Chapter 4

03:16:40; page 89

Justine Burnelli flies across Mount Herculanium on Far Away, finds a Niling E-sink, and meets and beds Kazimir McFoster.

Chapter 5

04:43:53; page 127

Nigel Sheldon recruits Wilson Kime to captain the Second Chance, gives Kime a factory floor tour.

04:43:53. (POV: Wilson Kime) A history of Los Vada. Wilson Kime walks their Los Vada vineyard with their child relatives Emily and Victor.

Nigel Sheldon opens a wormhole to meet Kime in person. Kime punches Sheldon.
Sheldon invites Kime to captain a space ship to explore the Dyson pair.

05:29:12: (POV: Paula Myo) Mel Rees assigns Paula Myo to the disappearance of Tara Jennifer Shaheef on Oaktier.

05:40:38: Paula Myo visists the Clayden Clinic with Hoshe Finn. Myo asks a recently re-lifed Wyobi Cortal about Shaheef.

Chapter 6

05:48:49; page 155

The Guardians of Selfhood shotgun the Unisphere. Mark Vernon is overworked. Reni and Tarlo investigate the Halgarth shotgun.

05:48:49. (POV: N/A) A shotgun message from the Guardians.

05:53:13. Starflyer background.

05:56:40. (POV: Mark Vernon) Augusta background. Mark is late to a family gathering.

06:34:34. (POV: Reni (?)) Reni and Tarlo investigate the Halgarth shotgun.

06:43:13: April Gala Halgarth is named. Reni interviews April.

Chapter 7

06:55:00; page 184

CSTʼs Oscar Monroe explore a new planet by wormhole. Dudley Bose is burgled.

06:55:20. (POV: Oscar Munroe) A history and current status of the CST Exploratory Division.

07:24:17. McClaine Gilbert names the planet Chelva.
The CST Exploratory crew evacuates the planet due to hostility of dangerously acidic predatory flora.

07:36:20. (POV: Wilson Kime) Wilson Kime says Nancy Kresmair (?) of Ulysses refused position on the Second Chance.

07:37:20. Kime discriminates against Jane Oshtenson (?) of Felicity.
07:39:10. Kime asks Oscar to query Silfen and Raiel about Dyson pair.
07:39:42. Kime talks with Institute Directory James Timothy Halgath about the Marie Celeste.

Chapter 8

08:11:20; page 218

Ozzie goes to Silvergalde to ask the Silfen about the Dyson pair envelopment.

08:11:20. (POV: Ozzie) Ozzie leaves the ExoProtectorate Council meeting. Ozzie is disenchanted by how New York City has become a high class suburb.

08:23:39: Ozzie places a call with the SI.
08:28:00: Ozzie recalls background of SI. Ozzie and Nigel had given the SI, an amalgamation of sentient intelligences that had controversially emerged, their own planet, Vinmar.
Ozzie shares a tale of meeting a man on New Jerusalem who claimed to have walked the Silfen paths for years, visiting various places including tree reefs in a gas nebula so dense it was breathable. Ozzie recalls the man claimed there was an adult Silfen community different from the embodied versions familiar to the Commonwealth; Johansson called the embodied ones “chrysalides”, implying the existence of a Silfen life cycle. Ozzie believes the adult Silfen community may know the story of the Dyson pair envelopment event. Ozzie decides to travel to meet the Silfen.
08:36:53: Ozzie travels to Silvergalde.
08:50:16: Ozzie meets Orion, a 15-year-old resident of Liddington. Orion possesses a Silfen friendship charm.
Ozzie purchases mounts with the help of Orion. Ozzie rides out early one morning to search Silfen Paths. Orion catches up with Ozzie. Orion successfully lobbies themselves to become Ozzieʼs guide. Orion explains that their friendship charm allows them to reliably find the Silfen.
09:18:53: Ozzie and Orion meet Silfen.
Ozzie learns from NineSky (?) that the Silfen know about his secret asteroid habitat.
Orion deduces the Silfen do not know where his parents are.

Chapter 9

09:32:46; page 254

Bradley Johansson calls Adam Elvin to lead the Guardians against Starflyer targets within the Commonwealth

(POV: Adam Elvin) Bradley meets Adam in a café in Leithpool, the capital of Lothian.

Adam asks where Bradley gets his rejuvenation treatments. Bradley says they use the Unstorn clinic on Jaruva. Adam learns Jaruva was an Isolated planet cut off by CST due to a civil war against the Commonwealth by evangelicals and various nationalist culture factions.
Johansson asks Elvin to destroy the Second Chance.

09:49:38: (POV: Wilson Kime) Wilsom Kime gives tour of Second Chance construction to Nigel Sheldon. Sheldon recommends Kime take on Dudley Bose, citing political pressure and public expectations cultivated by Bose himself.

09:57:52: (POV: Paula Myo) Paula and Hoshe visits Shaheef.

10:13:39: Details of Myo's illicit upbringing as a stolen Huxley's Haven infant.
10:26:48. Paula Myo sees Mellanie Rescorai swimming at Morton's pool. Myo looks up her background information.

Chapter 10

10:45:58; page 286

Oscar and Mac ask the High Angel about the Dyson pair. Paula and Hoshe ask Qatux, a High Angel Raiel, to review Shaheefʼs memory store. Guardians attack the Second Chance.

10:45:58. (POV: Oscar Munroe) Mac spots Paula Myo. Oscar and Mac marvel at the gravity manipulating transport of the High Angel. Oscar and Mac meet with Toniea Gall, Chairwoman of the Residents Association of human settlements on the High Angel. Gall advises Oscar against meeting with the High Angel in order to not risk human relationships with it and her settlement; however, Gall does give Oscar and Mac permission to speak with the High Angel. Oscar and Mac meet with a human-shpaed image of the High Angel in a private room. The High Angel admits curiosity about the Dyson pair envelopment event but is content with observing from afar.

11:18:47. (POV: Paula Myo) Paula and Hoshe meet with Qatux on the High Angel. Paula gives Qatux Taraʼs memories. Hoshe is reluctant to give Qatux anything due to the lack of official Commonwealth policy regarding giving aliens memories of citizens, believing Qatux to be an unreliable junkie of some sort. Paula advises Hoshe that police work relies being confident in their judgement; Paula gives Hoshe the option to leave the case but Hoshe decides to continue.

11:41:12. (POV: Rob Tannie) Mercenary Rob Tannie is activated to attack the Second Chance manufacturing facility. Rob and others shed their disguises and take over the orbital assembly platform gateway control room.

11:53:25. (POV: Wilson Kime) Wilson Kime, aboard the Second Chance, receives a Oscar Munroe's report about his meeting with the High Angel. The report is cut short as an attack disrupts local utility power.

11:58:26. For the emergency, Kime appoints as his executive officer: Anna Hober, the Second Chance's sensor expert and navigator who was previously an astronomer from CST's exploratory division. Kime sees a bright light followed by complete darkness on the other side of the gateway. Kime concludes the attack is targeting the Second Chance.

12:01:20. (POV: Lennie Al Husan, a media reporter) Lennie Al Husan is waiting outside for a bus near the Anshun CST station. He laments being tardy due to train delays in StLincoln. Lennie's e-butler notices Kaos contamination in local cybersphere nodes. Lennie witnesses two Alamo Avengers, mechanized armored dinosaur-like quadrupeds armed with various guns and cannons, emerge from two train wagons. Lennie records the event. The SI clears local network, permitting Lennie to stream video to his home office on Kabul.

12:05:42. (POV: gatehouse guards) Two guards witness the destruction of various parts of the planet-side Second Chance manufacturing complex. After the security command center is incommunicado, they activate the complex's force field.

12:08:23. (POV: Rob Tannie) Mercenary technicians are surprised at how quickly Kaos contamination was flushed in the exterior network. Local guards are killed when a local elevator shaft is destroyed. Mercenary techs are surprised at how quickly their network fireshields are being bypassed. They conclude the SI has joined the fight against them.

12:14:30. (POV: gatehouse guards) The guards identify incoming hostiles as Alamo Avengers (AA). The AAs fire upon the complex's shields, killing bystanders outside from raw acoustic power and causing internal bleeding in the security guards within. The AAs begin digging beneath underground to bypass the force field.

12:19:39. (POV: Adam Elvin) Adam Elvin watches the attack from the Prince's Circle Cafe in Leithpool's Castle Mount. Adam watches two hijacked spaceplanes fly in retrograde orbits to intercept the Second Chance's assembly platform directly.

12:23:11. (POV: Wilson Kime) Kime reviews the current situation with the SI. The SI informs Kime that the planetary government's Security Directorate has sufficient firepower to neutralize the AAs. Wilson laments that the response time, at least 25 minutes, is likely slower than the time required for the AAs to break through the gateway to reach the Second Chance.

12:32:12. The SI informs Kime that two 250-ton spaceplanes were launched without authorization into retrograde orbits to intercept the Second Chance directly. Kime contemplates firing the Second Chance's thrusters to maneuver the ship out of danger immediately.

12:34:15. (POV: none) Alamo Avengers emerge from the floor of a laboratory within the complex. The AAs charge towards the gateway.

12:36:24. (POV: Adam Elvin) Adam watches the spaceplanes as shown on the Alessandra Baron show. Adam witnesses the Second Chance firing two plasma rockets to move itself away from the assembly platform.. The Alamo Avengers break through the gateway into the remains of the platform. The spaceplanes strike the platform, destroying it. The Second Chance, 100 kilometers away, is safe.

Chapter 11

12:41:16; page 336

(POV: Hoshe Finn): Finn reviews Oaktier crime organizations.

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13:01:42. (POV: Ozzie) Ozzie and Orion on the Silfen Path. Non deciduous trees.

13:46:10. Sara Bush (?) of the Ice Citadel.

13:47:33. (POV: Paula Myo) Paula reviews Aquastate (?) accounts.

13:50:32. Aftermath of the Second Chance attack. Kime and Ana. Columbia recruits Paula.

Chapter 12

14:15:33; page 377

(POV: Kazimir McFoster) Kazimir and Bruce McFoster go on a raid. Bruce is killed.

15:05:11. (POV: Paula Myo): Paula interviews Wendy Bose regarding an attack on the Cox Education charity that used some of Dudley Bose's credentials. Wendy remembers and relays a message intended for a “Paula” from a reporter named Brad: “Stop concentrating on the details, itʼs the big picture that counts.”. Paula Myo deduces the reporter was Bradley Johansson and that the message was intended for herself.

(POV: Ozzie): Ozzie and Orion are rescued by Sara and Bill, residents of the Ice Citadel.

15:15:41. Ozzie and Orion arrive at the Ice Citadel.

(POV: Wilson Kime): A farewell party is held for the crew of the Second Chance on the night before departure.

15:32:52. Anna asks awkward questions of Doi.

15:52:26. (POV: Wilson KIme): The Second Chance departs for Dyson Alpha. Jean Duvolle (?) pilots.

Chapter 13

15:57:04; page 421

Paula visits Hoshe again and apologizes for failing to provide Serious Crimes Directorate resources she promised. Hoshe shows Paula evidence of two corpses buried deep beneath a parking structure that was being built when Tara disappeared. Paula promises to Hoshe that Morton can now be successfully be prosecuted for murder.

16:03:29. Paula arrests Morton.

16:07:45. Kazimir mourns Bruce.

16:20:58. Morton's trial.

Chapter 14

16:49:13; page 445

The Second Chance examines the Dyson Alpha barrier.

16:49:13. (POV: Wilson Kime): An account of the Second Chance voyage towards the Dyson Pair, several months in. A description of shipboard life.

Wilson compares the fear they feel at exploring to the fear of nearly drowning in a deep pool during childhood.

18:03:02. The Dyson Alpha barrier falls.

18:39:10. (POV: Dudley Bose)

18:52:41. The Second Chance is spotted by inhabitants of the Dyson Alpha system.

19:00:01. (POV: Wilson Kime) Wilson sees attackers charging towards the Second Chance. Oscar reports Dudley and Verbiki (?) is lost.

Chapter 15

19:14:29; page 508

19:14:29. (POV: Mellanie) Mellanie is homeless. A description of how Mellanie trusted a news reporter to sell her story to a media company to make it into a TSI.

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19:50. (POV: Mellanie) Mellanie asks the SI to be her agent.

19:53:40. (POV: Mark Vernon) An account of Mark Vernon in Randtown. Mark was called out in the early morning to fix a coffee maker for Mandi, a waitress at Tea for Two. Mark contemplated adultery.

20:08:19. Mark received news of the Second Chance's return from his Abel's garage sales assistant, Olivia. Mark is absorbed by the details of the disappearance of the barrier and the violence of the civilization within.
20:12:30. A description of Simon Rand's vision of Randtown on the southern continent of Raisiel (?).
20:19:50. Mark learns that two people were left behind, one of which was Dudley Bose.
An account of Mark and his family. Mark's son is a glutton. Mark's wife believe Dudley Bose and Verbiki (?) are body-dead.

Chapter 16

20:44:25; page 548

20:44:25. (POV: Nigel Sheldon) The ExoProtectorate Council meets again, but without Ozzie Issacs. Thompson Bernelli criticizes Wilson Kime for not collecting enough information about the Dyson aliens. Nigel argues for the creation of a Commonwealth Navy.

21:04:55. (POV: N/A) Another Guardians shotgun message. The Guardians demand that Commonwealth citizens lobby for the creation of a defense armada to prepare for the coming invasion of the Dyson aliens.

21:07:30. (POV: Ozzie) The Ice Citadel. Ozzie becomes a reluctant leader of daily discussions. Orion asks Ozzie for dating advice.

21:25. Ozzie talks with the workshop foreman George, formerly of the Molehills out of Mountains corporation, regarding building vehicles to evacuate the entire population of the Ice Citadel. George objects, believing the Silfen purposefully send people to the Ice Citadel for a reason.
21:32:25. A description of the Tochee from Ozzie's point of view. Ozzie describes Tochee's locomotive flesh ridges as amoeba-like.
21:39:30. Ozzie discovers Tochee communicates with ultraviolet light patterns displayed on their eye. Ozzie explains to Orion that Tochee wishes to leave the Ice Citadel. Ozzie proposes they recruit Tochee to their party. Orion is skeptical because they cannot directly communicate to Tochee due to their human inability to see ultraviolet light. Orion is curious about Ozzie's plan for teaching Tochee to understand the written Commonwealth language.

Chapter 17

21:44:20; page 575

21:44:20. (POV: Justine Burnelli) Justine Burnelli plans for Gore Burnelli to attend an event at Sorbonne Wood[4], the Burnelli family's West Coast retreat near Seattle.

21:56. Campbell Sheldon arrives. Campbell flirts with Justine, asking for a night of sex. Justine offers a cold plunge in a local waterway instead.
21:56:58. Patricia Kantil arrives next. She arrives accompanied by Isabella Halgarth, an Intersolar Dynasty member whom Justine is unfamiliar with. Justine consults Estela Fenton who informs Justine about Isabella, placating Justine's need for intel and control over all elements of the weekend's politics.
22:02:05. Gerhard Utreth arrives, a member of the Braunt family[5] and senator of the Democratic Republic of New Germany.
22:02:35. Justine describes the invitee Larry Frederick Halgarth, who was Justine's connection to Rafael Columbia. Natasha Kersley, the chief executive of the Commonwealth Special Science Supervisory Directorate, accompanies Larry.
22:03:20. Justine describes two senator invitees: Crispin Goldreich (Commonwealth Budget Commission) and Ramon DB (senator for Buta and leader of the African caucus in the Commonwealth Senate; also Justine's ex-husband). Justine criticizes Ramon DB's unhealthily high body weight. Ramon, approaching an apparent body age in their 60s, argues any health issues will be resolved by a re-life procedure. Justine talks with Ramon about their great granddaughter, Abby.[6]

22:07:35. (POV: Gore Burnelli (?)) A description of Gore Burnelli integrating their mind with Sorbonne Wood's computing and surveillance systems.

Gore advises Thompson and Justine. Justine is concerned about Patricia Kantil's lover, Isabella. Gore demands Justine and Thompson engineer conversations to put the Navy construction yards at the High Angel instead of Anshun.

22:14. (POV: Justine Burnelli) Sorbonne Wood guests attend a dinner. Isabella declines to attend.

22:17:00. Justine talks with Crispin Goldreich. Crispin agrees to support the Burnellis if he gets support from Elaine Doi on her reëlection and is guaranteed their Budget Commission position; Crispin promises to implement a budget oversight committee over future starship projects.

22:20:30. (POV: Thompson Burnelli) Thompson talks with Gerhard Utreth. Gerhard agrees to support the formation of the government starflight agency and Elaine Doi so long as the Democratic Republic of New Germany is given deals for manufacturing defense equipment.

22:25:38. (POV: Gore Burnelli) Gore talks with Patricia Kantil. Gore reassures Patricia that Gerhard and their Big15 world supports Elaine Doi. Patricia is relieved. Gore advises Patricia to make Elaine Doi the president Nigel Sheldon wants: one who will give money to a starlight agency even at the expense of raising taxes; doing so will guarantee Doi the presidency.

(POV: Thompson Burnelli) Thompson fails to persuade Ramon DB to support the creation of the starflight agency even with promises to give the African Caucus business at the High Angel.

22:39:30. (POV: Gore Burnelli) Gore notices Isabella chose to have sex with Ramon DB. Gore believe Isabella is the go-between for Ramon and Patricia. Gore reminisces about his favorite book, The Art of Financial Warfare by a James Barclay (?). Gore is unsettled by how easy his political preparations are for the new starflight agency; individuals who should be fighting one another are cooperating.

22:43:00. Gore deduces that to manipulate the starflight agency creation before he himself had, one would need to know the outcome of the Dyson pair mission before it had been launched.
22:43:50. Gore notices Justine is sleeping with Campbell and approves.

(POV: Justine Burnelli) Justine and Campbell talk about Justine's beauty. Justine remembers Kasimir.

22:48:30. At breakfast the next day, Sunday, Ramon DB presents the idea of parallel development.[7]
22:51:25. Justine holds a progress meeting. Larry insists attendees have security clearances. Isabella is denied access. Larry argues that Natasha Kersley's strategic weapons development program form the core of an offensive force to take the fight to the Dyson aliens should they invade. Columbia successfully lobbies for his own Serious Crimes Directorate to be transformed into the starflight agency. The group agrees the secretive weapons development program can be kept secret under the Serious Crimes Directorate's existing information management procedures.

23:01:24. (POV: Ozzie) Ozzie runs Tochee and Orion through a test run with ski equipment.

23:07:39. The Silfen arrive at the Ice Citadel. Ozzie helps Orion pack and prepare to leave on short notice in the morning.
The Silfen prepare to depart the Ice Citadel. Ozzie loads Tochee into their sled shelter.
23:31:45. The Ice Citadel convoy follow the Silfen to a large crater. The Silfen and the convoy stop. The convoy sets up camp.
23:38:45. Ozzie examines the sand-oil emulsion contained within the crater. Sara warns Ozzie not to fall in since her policy is to make not rescue attempts. While attempting to flirt with Sara, Ozzie discovers Sara and many others at the Ice Citadel believed Ozzie and Orion had a sexual relationship. Ozzie vehemently denies that idea. Sara warns Ozzie against interfering with the Silfen hunt the next day.
23:40. Ozzie and company have breakfast. The Silfen throw spears that cause electrical discharges into the crater
23:45:40. Ozzie spots an ice whale.
23:52. The ice whale killing several Silfen traumatizes Orion. Orion angrily discards their Silfen friendship pendant.
Ozzie and the other skiers follow the Silfen as they depart the planet.
24:04:25. Orion collapses after 5 hours, unable to maintain the fast pace set by the Silfen. Ozzie notes only 51 minutes remain until sunset. They stop for the night.
Ozzie, Orion, and Tochee survive the night.
24:14:00. Ozzie cannot find the Silfen tracks anymore due to a recent snowfall. Ozzie consults Orion's friendship pendant. Ozzie follows a tenuous directional signal shown by the sparkling blue light within.
24:16:55. Orion notifies Ozzie that the weather has warmed to the point that ice is melting.

Chapter 18

24:21:27; page 644

24:21:27. (POV: MorningLightMountain) A history of Prime civilization.

The origin story of MorningLightMountain (MLM).
24:38:04. Primes discover fire.
24:38:20. Primes establish mathematics.
24:41:00. MLM investigates for a decade how to transmit neural impulse commands across great distances. MLM develops electronics. MLM builds surveillance infrastructure. MLM develops radio. MLM enjoys a massive advantage against competitors thanks to superior communication infrastructure.
24:43:45. MLM is now 3000 immotiles.
24:44:28. Other Primes form a grand alliance to oppose MLM. MLM forms their own imperial alliance in response. Military technology advances facilitate political consolidation of various territories.
24:45:14. Nuclear weapons development halts further consolidation. Threat of nuclear war enables small factions to hold off conquest by larger fractions.
22:46. ColdLakePromontory (?) makes an immotile to explore and asteroid.
24:48:15. MLM makes the first interstellar exploration vessel. MLM purposefully restricted the explorer via engineering designs that prevent it from becoming independent. The explorer, MLM-8658 (?) discovers an industrialized alien civilization. MLM-8658 conqueres and conscripts the local population and its factories to become independent.
24:51:45. A second Prime ship sent by a different immotile arrives. MLM-8658 and the new arrival fight. They establish peace by dividing up the planet into territories.
24:52:43. A century and 28 exploration ship losses later, a single heavily armed exploration ship finally returns with news of the breakaway Primes.
24:54:49. A barrier seals MLM. MLM is unable to escape.

24:55:36. The barrier vanishes. MLM sends scout ships to flee the system.

24:58:24. MLM notices an alien ship.[8]
24:59:46. MLM receives a transmission from the ship. It is a message from MLM-17735 warning MLM that the aliens ok board the ship are dangerous.
25:01:53. The two captured humans are brought down to the Prime home world.
25:25:44. MLM decides to dismantle the smaller damaged alien motile in order to directly access its brain.
25:27:40. While MLM cuts open the smaller alien motile, the smaller motile wipes its own electronic circuitry and dies.
25:32:10. MLM reverse engineers the dead small motile's implanted electronics. MLM triggers a transmission which wakes the larger surviving motile. The larger motile sends a remote command to permanently disable the small motile's electronics.
25:34:28. MLM blows apart the top of the sensor stalk of the surviving alien motile, killing its organic components immediately, in order secure access to its likely unsecured electronic components.
25:36:57. Dudley Bose awakens as memories stored within MLM. MLM interrogates the Bose memories in order to collect intelligence about the Commonwealth capabilities and location. MLM learns the fundamental equations for creating wormholes and the precise starmap of all Commonwealth worlds.

Chapter 19

25:44:54; page 679

25:44:54. (POV: Paula Myo) Venice Coast in the Anacona (?) polar region.

Paula Myo regrets the lack of crowds of the daytime siesta.
25:53:01. Myo's employer, The Planetary Security Agency, sister organization to the Commonwealth Starflight Agency, is mentioned. Myo regrets the transformation of the Serious Crimes Directorate into the Planetary Security Agency even taking the larger budget into account due to the additional oversight from Alic Hogan, signed by Rafael Columbia form Columbia's own legal department. Myo and Tarlo sit surveiling an arms dealer's museum.
25:58:14. A description of how Valtar Rijin (?), the museum owner and arms dealer. The dealer was identified with the increased budget of the PSA instead of Myo's private intelligence gathering efforts.

26:00:33. (POV: Adam Elvin) Adam Elvin takes a gondola through Venice Coast.

26:03:45. Adam Elvin spots Paula Myo and retreats before he is noticed.

26:05:45. (POV: unknown) An unknown assailant[9] enters the Nystol Gallery.

26:08:54. The assailant enters the office of arms dealer Valtare Rigin. Valtare calls upon their Roberto to defend them. The assailant kills Roberto and interrogates Valtare for information on the arms deal and about Adam Elvin. Valtare provides a bill of materials and the location of the smuggled items. Valtare claims to not recognize the name Adam Elvin.
26:13:33. The assailant kills Valtare.

26:15:01. (POV: Kazimir) Kazimir meets with Bradley Johansson at a beach in Santa Monica. Bradley officially accepts Kazimir as a Commonwealth-based fighter for the Guardians. Bradley shares that the Silfen did not permit Bradley to remember what the Starflyer alien looked like.

26:27:10. (POV: Adam Elvin) Bradley Johansson meets with Adam Elvin. Bradley admits their source of intelligence has gone silent.[10]. Adam mentions the Nystol destruction occurred 2 days after they saw Myo and fled Venice Coast.

26:33. Bradley asks Adam to avoid retrieving Mars data through the Unisphere. Adam decided to use a courier. Bradley asks Adam to plan a blockade run to get Planet's Revenge parts through Boongate to Far Away. Bradley asks Adam for assistance in asking Wilson Kime for help. Adam knows Kime is on the Conway to Dyson Alpha.
26:37. Bradley asks Adam to exploit Adam's relationship with someone close to Kime.[11]

26:37:50. (POV: Kazimir) Kazimir reflects on Adam's request for proposals for an upcoming mission. Kazimir receives praise from Adam as they train to become a covert operations agent. Kazimir contemplates contacting Justine Burnelli. Kazimir looks up information on Justine.

26:45:26. (POV: Paula Myo) Paula Myo goes to Mel Reese's office to talk about the Planetary Defense Agency's failure at Venice Coast. Reese offers Myo the option to leave the Guardians case; Myo strongly refuses, saying she is the most capable to solve the case. Reese warns Myo that the public failure at Venice Coast has made Rafael Columbia displeased with Myo and her position at the PDA (?) is not secure.

26:49:54. Myo explains her current conclusions from Venice Coast aftermath. Forensic analysis indicates cutting edge wetwired shield tech used by the Venice Coast assailant. Myo lists the three possible possible affiliations of the assailant: Commonwealth Executive branch covert ops, Nigel Sheldon's CST Security, or the Starflyer. Myo's supervisor, Mel Reese, vehemently advises Myo against stating the Starflyer is real.

26:53:39. (POV: Hoshe Finn) Paula Myo visits Hoshe Finn. Myo asks Finn for a favor to investigate an Venice Coast arms deal supplier independently from Myo's own Planetary Defence Agency (?) which she suspects is compromised by some outside force intent on disrupting her investigation into the Guardians.

27:00:28. (POV: Paula Myo) Thompson Burnelli meets with Paula Myo. Myo asks Thompson to confirm whether or not an Executive covert ops agency exists that might have been responsible for the destruction of the Nystol Gallery and the associated arms deal that she was investigating. Myo asks for Thompson to lobby the Planetary Defense Agency's head, Rafael Columbia, and the new President, Elaine Doi, for a full inspection of all goods sent to Far Away. Thompson agrees because he and Myo have had a long-term mutually beneficial intelligence-sharing relationship.

Chapter 20

27:09:02; page 716

27.09.02. (POV: Wilson Kime) Kime flies to Dyson Alpha on the scoutship Conway which is accompanied by the scoutships StAsaph and the Langharne. They detect powerful wormhole activity.

27:16:41. Kime orders an approach to Dyson Alpha.

27:17:30. (POV: MorningLightMountain). MLM uses the Bose memories to research and manufacture wormhole generators. MLM unifies its Dyson Alpha immotile groupings via wormhole connections.

27:20:30. MLM detects the human scoutships.
27:24:16. MLM orders the Bose memories to lure the humans in. The memories betray MLM, warning Kime that MLM killed Verbeki and is extremely malevolent.

27:31:38. (POV: Ozzie) Ozzie, Orion, and Tochee explore a quiet temperate world with no flowers and tall green conical trees. Orion finds some Commonwealth litter. Ozzie attempts to communicate with ghosts. They spot a light of some other travelers.

Ozzie and company find ghosts and ruins of jelly-like creatures.
Ozzie meets some old Silfen. An old Silfen says Ozzie has arrived at this place due to their desires. Ozzie is confused and does not understand what the Silfen believe he desires.
28:13:25. Ozzie holds hands with old Silfen as they examine a globe containing memories of the lost world.
Ozzie witnesses an imperialistic interstellar fleet destroy the planet's fledgeling cvilization. Ozzie is completely disabled by a superhuman grief for the loss of so many minds. Ozzie laments the loss of so many minds who will never meet humanity.
A feverish Ozzie regains self-awareness. Ozzie tells Orion the Silfen did not help the fledgling civilization. Ozzie says the Silfen grieve massive loss if life by remembering the dead, not by intervening to prevent their deaths.

28:26. (POV: ?) Doi officially converts the Commonwealth Starflight Agency into the Commonwealth Navy with Admiral Wilson Kime as its leader.

Chapter 21

28:20:28; page 747

Doi and Kantil discuss the Prime threat. Hoshe finds a lead. Kime strategizes. Thompson updates Paula. Mark makes headlines. Ozzie's array works again. The LA Galactic Fiasco.

28:20:28. (POV: Elaine Doi). A story of Doi's initial time as President of the Commonwealth.

28:23:10. Elaine Doi addresses the Commonwealth regarding Captain (?) Wilson Kime's second encounter with the Prime aliens at Dyson Alpha.[12]
28:30. Doi and her aide, Patricia Kantil, discuss polling numbers and the possibility for Primes going to war against the Commonwealth. Kantil is hesitant to reassure Doi that war is unlikely. Kantil mentions a Leopoldivich (?) report highlighting the illogicality of the Primes building the giant wormhole they built.
28:33:40. Kantil mentions a culture lifeboat proposal from Columbia's agency to use the High Angel as an escape craft for a segment of the Commonwealth population. Doi balks at the proposal's plan to evacuate herself, the Commonwealth President, as one of the million humans on the lifeboat. Doi demands Kantil never leak the lifeboat plans.

28:36:36. (POV: Hoshe Finn). Hoshe investigates the Shantrel (?) vendor for the Venice Coast arms deal. Hoshe talks with a related software developer preparing to flee to the Silfen paths. The dev leaks that they recently did another private contract for another client.

28:44:44. (POV: Wilson Kime). The Commonwealth public's reaction to the Navy formation.

28:47. A description of Kime's office at Pentagon 2 on Babuyon Atoll (?) near the gas giant Italianes (?). Kime prepares for a meeting.
Anna is Lieutenant Commander and Kime's Chief Staff Officer. Anna arrives with Oscar Munroe. Anna was engaged to Kime after Kime proposed to Anna upon their return on the Conway after the second Dyson Alpha mission.
Rafael Columbia is Vice-Admiral and bases their Defense office on Kerensk. Columbia jokes at Kime and Anna not having a marriage date despite not being engaged, citing Columbia's own long term engagement record.
28:50:19. A description of a disagreement between Kime and Columbia over ownership over Natasha Kersley's Seattle Project.
Daniel Alstair and Dimitri Leopoldivich arrive for the meeting. Alstair provides a summary of Dudley Bose's story. Bose is schizophrenic due to the trauma of being relifed and hearing news of their other self at Dyson Alpha warning Kime. Alastair reassures Kime that Bose has no interest in getting involved with Navy affairs. Kime is visibly relieved.
28:54:45. Patricia Kantil arrives. Kime gives a summary of scoutship missions to survey space near Commonwealth. Kime gives summary of Navy ship construction status. Only a handful of ships will be completed soon with geometric increase in production occuring over the next few years. Exponential increase in budget raises concern with Kantil.
28:59:30. Leopoldivich (meta: Leo) highlights illogicality of Prime's crash course wormhole project. Leo warns against assuming Primes will take logical actions regarding Commonwealth. Leo warns the Primes likely have compromised the memories of Bose and or Verbiki (?). Leo warns that the Commonwealth Navy strength is orders if magnitude smaller than observed Prime fleets. Leo advises the creation and installation of weapons which can pierce forcefields that will likely shield Prime wormholes.

29:06:29. (POV: Paula Myo). Paula visits a Paris Bistro. A summary of office politics involving orders from Rafael Columbia to relocate to Kerensk, organizational shifts (the Serious Crimes Directorate became part of the Commonwealth Defense Agency which transformed into the Commonwealth Navy Defense Department), and Paula's own determination to not have her investigation into Johansson disrupted. Paula receives a call from Thompson Burnelli, her political contact. Thompson informs Paula that the Executive does not have a covert operations group and so could not have been the host organization for the assailant that disrupted Paula's Venice Coast arms deal investigation. Thompson tells Paula that their efforts to have exports sent to Far Away inspected have been stymied by some unidentifiable political entity. Thompson shares that such a minor request having such strong opposition is highly unusual. Thompson reassures Paula that they will continue to lobby to get Far Away imports inspected.

29:12:34. (POV: Mark Vernon in Randtown) Mark and his wife Liz being their children to attend a protest against nuclear-powered Commonwealth Navy wormhole detector station construction in the Dauʼsing Mountains above Randtown.

29:22:04. Simon Rand greets Mark and Liz. Liz is unimpressed.
29:29:35. Mark flirts with a beautiful and talkative young woman named Mel.[13] Mel asks several questions about the protests.
29:35:00. Mark and Liz meet with others back at Randtown in the Phoenix Bar. Mark defends Simon Rand's blockade which has trapped tourists. Carys Panther calls Mark to tell him he made Commonwealth news on the Alyssandra Baron (?) show. Mark's criticism of the Navy to Mellanie is cut to highlight portray Mark as anti-human.

29:44:04. (POV: Ozzie) Ozzie, Orion, and Tochee arrive at a new Silfen world. Ozzie feels an abrupt humidity change and smells ocean water.

29:47:45. Ozzie's electronics start functioning again. Ozzie programs his array to translate Tochee's UV eye symbols in realtime. Ozzie uses instruments to deduce they are in the Gas Halo he heard of from Bradley Johansson.

28:55:30. (POV: Stig McSobel (?)) Stig takes a CST train from Seattle to LA.

29:58:97. (POV: Hoshe Finn) Hoshe tracks a Guardian for Paula Myo. Hoshe talks with Paula who is also on site at a nearby food stall at the CST station. Hoshe privately concludes that either the Commonwealth Executive is killing citizens with impunity (e.g. Venice Coast) or Bradley Johansson's Guardians were fighting a just cause (i.e. the Starflyer was real).

29:59:29. (POV: Stig) A summary of the history of LA Galactic and how CST facilitated US military deployment. The end of old Earth militaries and the founding of the United Federal Nations (UFN). A summary of Guardian operations and how LA Galactic is their defacto headquarters. A history of Adam Kevin's clandestine activities over the decades.

30:04:15. (POV: Adam Elvin) Adam Elvin has rented an entire floor in a tower for Lemuel's Max Transit, another shell company among many.

30:05. The Guardians monitoring Stig notice unusual encrypted traffic around him. They reduce the Navy is following him with a box formation. Adam Elvin orders the software Stig carries to be deposited in a blind drop.

30:06:20. (POV: Stig) gray on yellow. A dead recovery order. Stig drops a data crystal into a toilet. Stig buys some miscellaneous items. Stig retrieves an emergency kit from a storage locker. Stig reaches the taxi cab stand.

39:10:18. (POV: Adam Elvin) Adam enters the Guardian HQ near LA Galactic, a floor in a commercial office tower. A summary of the legitimate business of Lemuel's Max Transit. Adam is coming close to confirming the Starflyer is real. Guardians notify Adam that they saw Paula Myo approaching the LA Galactic operations center. Adam finds how Paula found him via the software developer of the Chansrell (?) company that wrote software for components in the Venice Coast failure.

30:17:40. (POV: Paula; location: LA Galactic operations center) Tarlo apologizes, believing the Guardian saw him when the Guardian exited the restroom. Paula attempts to subtly interrogate Tarlo in order to determine if he was part of the corrupt element that has historically foiled her Guardian investigation operations. Paula is actutely aware Taylor was also involved and on-site of the Venice Coast operation and failure.

30:20:26. (POV: Adam, Location: Lemuel's Max Transit office). Adam retrieves the data crystal from the sewer recovery bot.

30:21:46. (POV: Paula, CST security operations room) Paula and her now expanded security team monitor the Guardian as they walk on foot towards the Del Rey marina.

30:22:44. Paula received a call from Thompson Burnelli. Thompson tells Paula that they confronted Elaine Doi directly about Far Away cargo inspections; now all cargo sent to Far Away will be examined at Boongate. Thompson also informs Paula that Nigel Sheldon's office has been historically blocking inspections for cargo sent to Far Away. The Guardian walking in the marina jumps into the sea. Neither Paula's monitoring team nor her tactical response squad have divers on standby.

30:25:36. (POV: Kazimir) Law enforcement continue to search the marina until late local time. Kazimir waits at a nearby house along the shore. Kazimir hears an exhausted Stig and pulls them out of the water and into the Guardian safe house. Stig has lost most of their equipment except for a nearly depleted gill mask. Kazimir tells Stig that Adam received the software. Kazimir hesitantly tells Stig the news that all cargo to Far Away will be inspected. Kazimir believes the Guardians are now screwed.

30:28:53. (POV: Paula, Loc: LA Galactic storage lockers) Paula, Arlo, and Renni (?) speculate on how Nigel Sheldon may be involved in the Guardians operations. Paula assigns Renni and Tarlo to consult Navy weapons research personnel regarding the hardware captured at Venice Coast and have them imagine up possible applications, included far-fetched ideas.

30:31:55. (POV: an assassin, Location: Clinton Estate) An assassin has killed someone near the Clinton Estate squash courts. The assassin hacks a nearby sizeable array to divert and nullify local emergency response signals. The assassin pretends to be filling in for Thompson Burnelli's squash tutor. Thompson kindly greets the assassin. The assassin chops Thompson's neck, severing his spine. Thompson's calls for help are blocked by the assassin's hack. The assassin punched Thompson's face with enough force to shatter the senator's skull.

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Tochee's backstory. Mark grumbles against the Commonwealth Navy. A shotgun says Doi works for the Starflyer. Paula is fired. A motile goes rogue. Paula consults her mentor's descendant.

30:34:22. (POV: Ozzie) Tochee recounts why they first decided to seek out the Silfen Paths. Tochee recalls an elder family member who testified that “forests within forests” existed despite such concepts being considered lunacy in the age of science and reason. Tochee explains they secretly followed their elder's clues and ended up lost in the Paths. Orion is amused that Tochee's profession was librarian.

30:45:12. (POV: Mark Vernon) Mark and Liz take their kids out to swim at Lake Trineba (?) With neighbors. Barry plays with luminescent aquatic microfauna. Mark and Barry board the catamaran (?) where Liz prepares a meal.

30:51:55. (Location: Trineba) Mark has a meal on the catamaran with fellow Randtown citizens (Lydia and David Dunbervan and company). Mark sulks when the topic of Alyssadra Baron (?)'s propaganda comes up. Liz and the Dumbervans assert the Randtown is resilient enough to survive since most buyers of exports share many of Randtown's ecological ideals.
The group witnesses heavy lift helicopters flying near Golal (?), one of the Dau'sing peaks above Randtown. Mark concludes and laments that it is a Navy wormhole detector station. Liz chides and comforts Mark.

30:57:29. (POV: N/A) A Guardian shotgun message warning the Commonwealth that Elaine Doi id a Starflyer agent.

30:59:36. (POV: Paula Myo, Location: her Paris office) Paula does paperwork following up the LA Galactic failure. Paula thinks about Thompson Burnelli's murder. Admiral Rafael Columbia arrives and reprimands Paula for failing to utilize a sufficiently large amount of Navy resources to track the guardian at LA Galactic. Paula says they used a small team because she believes the Navy has a leak, although she has no solid evidence yet. Columbia says Paula is incompetent and neurotic, blaming an imaginary leak. Columbia strips Paula of authority over leading the Guardian investigation and places his deputy, Alic Hogan (?) in charge. Paula quits.

Paula returns to her apartment 1 kilometer away, recalls her kidnapper parents leaving the courtroom 160 years ago, and cries.

31:11:43. (POV: MorningLightMountain) MLM nukes via wormhole all immotile rivals in their home star system before their monopoly on wormhole technology. MLM asserts complete control over the star system. MLM continues work on the interstellar gateway towards the Commonwealth.

31:15:38. (POV: Dudley Bose motile)

31:17:45. (POV: Paula Myo) Paula travels to Huxley's Haven via the Wessex CST station. A description of how citizens live in Huxley'd Haven without electronics at an early 19th (?) century technology level.

31:27:26. Paula's personal recollection from 2043 of seeing the Great Wormhole Heist in person. How 1.7 billion US earth dollars was stolen and how evidence attributed the crime to Bradley Johansson. How Paula kept pursuing Johansson after 139 years.
31:38:13. Paula visits freethinker Leonard Denken, the great grandson of a previous freethinker Alexis Denken who was Paula's mentor and lover following her kidnapper parents's trial. Paula says she needs advice. Paula explains her Guardian case and the mounting circumstantial evidence that implies the existence of the Starflyer and the just cause of Bradley Johansson. Paula explains that the assassinated senator Thompson Burnelli asserted that Nigel Sheldon's office supported the Guardians by blocking inspections on cargo to Far Away. After some discussion, Leonard advises Paula to contact Johansson directly on Far Away since the Starflyer poses a greater threat than Johansson, especially if the Guardians'd claim that the release of the Dyson Alpha aliens was engineered by the Starflyer to harm the Commonwealth. Paula decides to accept Leonard's advice. Leonard decides to take Paula's advice to marry his very young girlfriend, nurse Matilda.

32:00:57. Paula encounters Gore Burnelli at the entrance of her apartment.

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Gore gives Paula a promotion. Justine sees Kazimir again. Dudley makes a mess for Oscar. Adam asks Oscar for help. Mellanie seduces Dudley.

32:01:25. (POV: Justine Burnelli) A history of the Tulip Mansion in Rye (?) County, New York, built by billionaire Miles Foran (?). A mention of Jeff Baker, inventor of crystal memory storage technology which wiped out the wealth of Miles Foran (?).

32:04:30. Justine holds Muriel's engagement party at the Tulip Mansion. A description of legal and financial details of the union between Muriel of the Burnelli family and their engaged partner of the Constantine (?) family.

32:11:22. Muriel offers Justine a night with her beau, Sterial (?). Justine is amazed at her sincerity and youthful attitude.
32:12:30. Justine and Muriel stiffly greet Alessandra Baron (?) and Mellanie Rescouri (?). Baron asks Justine to ask Thompson for an interview as soon as he is re-lifed. Mellanie congratulates Muriel.
32:14:50. Gore Burnelli arrives with Paula Myo, whose business suit Justine notices violates the party's 1950s clothing requirement.
32:18:34. Paula shares with Justine that she suspects the assassin that killed Thompson worked for the Starflyer. Justine rejects the notion out of hand. Gore Burnelli tells Justine he believes Paula. Justine is aghast. Gore cites the ease with which they were able to make political deals to profit from the creation of the Navy during the Sorbonne Wood weekend. Gore asks Justine to put Paula as head of Senate Security so she can continue following the case via the Navy Intelligence. Gore says he will send family covert ops agents to investigate both the Guardian and Starflyer factions on Far Away. Justine, as a Commonwealth Senator with power, agrees to give Paula the security clearances and requires. Justine remains unconvinced that the Starflyer is real but obeys her father.

32:23:27. (POV: Mellanie) An overview of Mellanie's crash course effort to blend in with Commonwealth high society. Alessandra Baron asks Mellanie to seduce and fuck Campbell Sheldon for intelligence on the Navy starship construction status. Mellanie spots Paula Myo. Mellanie asks Alessandra for permission to investigate Paula in exchange for sucking Campbell's dick. Alessandra agrees.

32:28:20. (POV: Justine Burnelli) Justine is annoyed her father believes the Starflyer is real, attributing his folly to the shock from the death of his son, Thompson.

32:30:13. Kazimir McFoster, disguised as a waiter, gives Justine a hat she left behind on Far Away. They have passionate sex through the night in her bedroom. On the morning, Kazimir reveals he still works for the Guardians. Justine pleads with Kazimir to renounce the Guardians. Kazimir refuses. Justine and Kazimir declare their love for one another. Kazimir departs. Justine calls Alic Hogan (?) to report Kazimir to the Navy.

32:40:34. (POV: Mellanie) Mellanie stalks Paula Myo, waiting outside her Paris apartment. Mellanie attempts to surreptitiously tail Paula in order to use her destination to dig up more details to justify to Alessandra Baron her will to learn more about Paula's activities. Mellanie fails; Paula confronts Mellanie, telling her that the Paul Cramley (?), the software developer whose illicit programs permitted Mellanie to track down Paula, is to be prosecuted and their equipment likely taken away. Paula refuses to give Mellanie any intelligence except for a vague hint to investigate deep space. The SI informs Mellanie that Paula is capable of lying if lies facilitate her investigations.

32:46:02. (POV: Oscar Munroe) The StAsaf (?) returns to the High Angel. Captain McClain Gilbert reports that no Prime wormhole activity was detected. Gilbert joins Oscar Munroe and Wilson Kime to watch the christening of the warship Dauntless.

32:50:41. Oscar arrives at the hotel venue for the Welcome Back ceremony for Bose and Verbiki. Oscar is hungover and irritated. Antonia[14], a friend, helps medicate Oscar with a hangover treatment injection. Oscar is Master of Ceremonies for the cermony. Oscar gives a speech at the event, irritated that he cannot tell how he felt annoyed by how the incompetent Bose had been allowed on the Second Chance mission at all.
32:53:30. Dudley Bose uses their speech to criticize the Navy for leaving him to die. Oscar speaks frankly about how Bose was not appropriate nor prepared for the mission. Alessandra Baron criticizes Oscar and Captain Kime for failing to leverage their FTL advantage to outmaneuver the Dyson Alpha aliens. Oscar reiterates the Second Chance mission was to collect intelligence and Bose screwed up. Oscar's friend Antonia hurries him off stage before the media asks more questions.

32:57:55. (POV: Dudley Bose) Dudley escapes his handlers. Dudley is proud for telling off the Navy. Mellanie approaches and seduces Dudley, pretending to be a fan of Dudley. Mellanie leads Dudley to her hotel room.

33:02:32. (POV: Oscar Munroe, Location: a hotel near New Costa Junction) Oscar relaxes after escaping reporters following the Welcome Back Ceremony fiasco and the cancellation of the planned subsequent banquet.

33:04:59: Adam Elvin approaches Oscar in his own hotel room. Oscar recognizes Adam. Adam brings up the fact that Oscar used to be a comrade for the Socialist party. Adam criticizes Oscar for working for CST, the largest capitalist corporation if the Commonwealth. Oscar brings up their shared history under Professor Greva (?), saying the professor hoodwinked both of them into fighting for a lost cause.
Adam asks Oscar to review the Second Chance logs to find out who switched off the Dyson Alpha Barrier and who sabotaged the sensors that got Bose and Verbiki lost. Oscar initially believes Adam is indirectly asking him to apply Guardian misinformation into the logs. Adam slugs Oscar, saying the request is genuine and the Guardians want an honest review of the data, not a forgery.

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Carys helps Mark. Mellanie learns Paula suspects the Starflyer. The Primes attack the Commonwealth.

33:19:50. (POV: Carys Panther) Carys arrives at Elan, heading to Randtown. A brief description of Carys's profession of writing long somewhat fantastic stories.[15] Carys drives fast and violates speed limits.

33:25:01. (POV: Mellanie; Location: Randtown, Elan) Mellanie fucks Dudley for several days. Between mental illness related to his re-life, his divorce from Wendy, and hatred for the Navy, Dudley is distracted by star constellations that indicate he is on Elan. Dudley mentions they are as close to the Dyson Alpha pair as is possible without being on Far Away.

33:29:55. Dudley mentions being burgled by the Guardians and how Paula Myo took so much of an interest that she took Dudley out of his partial rejuvenation treatment during the aftermath of the Guardian attack on the Second Chance. Dudley shares with Mellanie how his wife likely met Bradley Johansson, according to Paula Myo. Mellanie fucks Dudley hard in personal celebration for finding a lead on a Paula Myo story that could free her from Alessandra Baron's patronage. Dudley becomes worried that Mellanie will leave.

33:31:43. (POV: Mark Vernon, Randtown) Carys Panther arrives at Randtown and meets up with Mark and his family. Mark is mildly amused and aghast when Carys mentions that the automobile she arrived in was not her property but that of her boyfriend's wife.

33:35:28. (POV: Mellanie; Location: Randtown, Elan) Dudley is worried Mellanie will abandon him now after he gave her valuable intelligence on Paula Myo. Mellanie reassures Dudley with more sex. Dudley soils hotel furniture with breakfast food with his violent copulations. Dudley recounts how he met Paula Myo; it was immediately following the attack on the Second Chance when Paula was given broad powers to investigate the Guardians who had launched the attack. Bose said Paula had simply been investigating anomalies and the burglary of Bose's equipment carrying credentials to log into the Cox Educational Charity had interested her. Bose recalls that Wendy had spoken to a reporter who had asked about who funded Dudley Bose's observation of the Dyson Pair. When Wendy disclosed the name of the charity that had been the primary financial backer, Bose's house was burgled and equipment containing login credentials to the charity was stolen.[16] Dudley highlights a serendipitous comment said by the reporter, likely Bradley Johansson according to Paula, who asked Wendy to pass a message on to someone named “Paula”: “Stop concentrating on the details. It's the big picture that counts.”. Dudley Bose gives Mellanie the name of the charity that Bradley Johansson believes funded the Dyson Pair observation: the Cox Educational Charity.

33:40:50. During a recuperative bath Mellanie calls the SI. Mellanie asks the SI to review the public information available for the Cox Charity Foundation accounts. The SI highlights a misleading financial discrepancy: despite donating a very large amount (1.3 million earth dollars) to fund Bose's Dyson Pair observations, the Cox Foundation donated extremely small amounts to many other causes besides Bose's as if to conceal its focused financial support from cursory inspection; 70 000 earth dollars, in total, donated to over 100 science projects. The SI gives Mellanie the name of the law firm and the associates who executed the Cox donations. The SI notes the charity shut down 2 years after Dudley observed the envelopment, 6 months after Paula interviewed Bose.

33:42:42. (POV: Mark Vernon, Loc: Randtown, Mark Vernon's home) Carys mentions a recent Uni sphere poll that made her nephew, Mark Vernon, the “Most Hated Man in the Commonwealth”, due to his comments broadcast on Alessandra Baron's show. Carys, as an entertainment media expert Liz called for help, councils Mark about how he can repair his and, more important to Mark's future, Randtown's image. Carys cites ski season ticket prices: 50% discounts are being offered very earli, indicating few people are travelling to Randtown. Carys offers to coach Mark to be able to talk on live interviews to dispel the hate.

33:44:55. Before Carys can elaborate further, Mark, Liz, Carys, and the children notice a bright flash. Look hearing Sandy squeal in pain in the outside garden, adults, Mark, Liz, and Carys, exit Mark's dry coral dome house to investigate. They witness several flashes of light and what appears to be a bright sun and clouds rising above where the Dau'sing Mountains should be. One flash results in Mark's wrist array suddenly deactivating. Mark deduces the detector station has been nuked. The sound blast reaches Mark and company.

33:46:43. (POV: Mellanie, Location: Randtown, a hotel) Mellanie reports to Alessandra Baron the Paula Myo - Dudley Bose - Guardian connection and shares that she's been fucking Dudley Bose for information. Mellanie shares her conclusion that Paula Myo suspects, if not outright believes, that the Starflyer is real; Mellanie cites the suspicious financial records surrounding the Cox Educational Charity. Alessandra asks Mellanie to let her talk to Dudley Bose.

33:50:25. During Mellanie's call, SI suddenly advises Mellanie to take cover on the floor beside a nearby bed. The SI warns Mellanie that Navy wormhole detector stations have detected wormhole activity within the Commonwealth. The SI says the nearby Regents detector station is under attack. Mellanie takes cover. A bright flash occurs outside.

33:51:24. (POV: Wilson Kime, Location: ?) While planning a meeting for providing updates on warship construction, Wilson Kime receives an emergency report of 48 wormholes open in each of 23 star systems; over 1100 unregistered wormholes have opened. Wilson regrets that only 3 functional warships are in service and only 8 scoutships refitted as middle carriers. Scarlet diamond-shaped wormholes launch nuclear missiles at multiple wormhole detector stations, reducing the Navy's wormhole detection resolution. Anna Hober joins Kime in analyzing the attack.

Far from the other attacked Phase 3 planets, the Bug15 world of Wessex is under attack.
33:57:30. Captain Tu Lee of the Second Chance reports available for duty. Kime orders Tu Lee to intercept missiles striking Anshun's surface.

33:58:15. (POV: Tu Lee; Loc: Second Chance, over Ashun) SC intercepts several missiles with plasma lances but is eventually overwhelmed with sheer numbers. SC escapes via its own wormhole. Tu Lee receives reports that hostile missiles have poor automation; many are disabled by EMP blasts.

34:04:04. Tu Lee mines space above Anshun with loiter missiles.
34:05:30. 8 Prime wormholes encircle the SC, disabling the SC's own wormhole. 8 additional wormholes appear closer to the SC, releasing 96 missiles each.

34:06:24. (POV: Nigel Sheldon; Location: a mansion in New Costa) Nigel enters a virtual reality environment in order to accelerate his own reaction time and augment his own cognitive processes to be able to grasp the attack on the 23 planets. Nigel activates force fields across all CST stations. Force fields of the 23 attacked planets activate immediately and without warning to ward off the nuclear missile bombardment, causing massive loss of life as various classes of transport vehicles en route towards the stations crash into force field barriers. CST stations on planets not under attack permit transports time to slow down or to pass through into the station unharmed. Nigel calls a meeting with the SI.

34:10:49. Nigel sees Alan Hutchinson (?), the founder of Wessex, commanding combat aerobots to intercept missiles falling upon Narrabri, the main city of Wessex.
34:12:26. Nigel sees Tu Lee, one of his direct descendants and captain of the Second Chance, get intercepted and destroyed above Anshun.
34:15:36. Nigel takes direct control of three Narrabri Station CST wormholes in order to interfere with the Prime wormholes above Wessex. Nigel unarchives memories of his knowledge of wormhole physics. Narrabri asks the SI for help who, surprisingly, finally offers assistance besides indirect counsel. The SI takes direct control over wormhole actuation and follows directions given by Nigel. Nigel and the SI successfully destroys one of forty-eight wormholes above Wessex at the cost of one CST wormhole.

34:18:29. (POV: MLM) MLM is cautious as it prepares to invade the Commonwealth. prior to the attack, MLM colonizes 8 habitable planets in systems near its home world. MLM decides that, despite the distance between itself and the Commonwealth, eventually they would one day compete for the same material resources. MLM aspires to achieve immortality by colonizing every part of the galaxy.

34:20:39. MLM opens 1104 wormholes into the Commonwealth. MLM suddenly loses 3 wormholes attacking Wessex before they conclude the losses are being caused by a counterattack. MLM presses the attack over Wessex but loses confidence in its ability to outperform Commonwealth control systems and power availability. MLM loses a total of 30 wormholes before they cease their attack on Wessex and redirect wormholes to strengthen their attack on other planets. MLM prepares to send its fleet of 48,000 ships.

34:25:40. (POV: Wilson June) Wilson holds a meeting with Nigel Sheldon, Elaine Doi, Tunde Sutton, and Dimitri Leopoldovich. Elaine Doi asks Sheldon to destroy all alien wormholes. Nigel Sheldon notes CST lost 18 Anshun wormhole generators destroying only 30 alien wormholes.[17]

34:31:52. (POV: Mark Vernon) Amid broken glass and blown down vineyards, Mark, Liz, their kids, and Carys take stock. Mark repairs his family vehicle. Carys's vehicle is nearly completely functional. Mark, Liz, and Carys debate on an evacuation destination. Carys believes Randtown is safe since it likely holds no strategic value. Carys argues a journey through the Regents to return to Elan's planetary CST station is too long and exposed. Liz argues they need to travel to Randtown to gather more intelligence on their situation. They pack up their things, load up the kids's dog, Panda, and evacuate to Randtown.

34:37:58. Mark and company arrive at Randtown. A description of the devastated city: glass shards everywhere, blood running in the streets, dead bodies strewn about. Mark vomits.
34:46:57. Mark encounters an injured Mellanie Rescouri accompanying Simon Rand. Mellanie gives a crowd a summary of the Prime attack on Wessex. Mark, knowing how networks work and being unable to establish network connectivity with the Unisphere, accuses Mellanie of lying. Mellanie gives Mark a low bandwidth connection to the Unisphere, saying she has “long range inserts”. Simon announces an evacuation of Randtown. CST is scheduled to open a wormhole to Randtown eventually. Mark and others of Randtown lament their low number on the wormhole evacuation priority list. Mellanie receives bad news. Simon announces a change of plans: Randtown will evacuate to the High Marsh. Mellanie points to an alien ship landing in the Trineʼba.

34:52:00. (POV: Alessandra Baron) Alessandra is excited to cover the alien invasion. Alessandra works with Bunny, an assistant (?) to coordinate news gathering from field reporters.

34:56:09. Alessandra learns Melanie is alive and in Randtown despite Randtown being disconnected from the Unispherr. Bunny puts Mellanie's viewpoint on the live broadcast feed. Baron watches two Prime ships descend into a lake. Baron cries out for Mellanie to run. Mellanie replies that she isn't able to before her feed cuts out.

35:01:36. (POV: Wilson Kime) Wilson coordinates the Commonwealth military response. Nigel Sheldon organizes the transport of evacuees from various worlds to Narrabri Station on Anshun, working with the SI to open wormholes to evacuate various worlds. Ana wrangles information for Wilson. President Elaine Doi follows directions from Wilson and Nigel. Rafael Colombia coordinates Planetside defense. Various planets report alien landing ships. Stealth drones report a Prime flyer at Scraptoft (?) lands and disgorges some armored and shielded aliens that are taller than humans. Ana reports the Prime alien forced are connected by constant wireless transmissions. Wilson orders EWAR units to be deployed to disrupt alien communications.

35:12:03. (POV: Mark Vernon) Randtown citizens panic. Various vehicles flee. Mark, who has been repairing an evacuation bus, is threatened by panicking evacuees. Simon Rand restores order by firing a pump-action shotgun into the air. Simon reiterates the evacuation plan to High Marsh is still valid. Simon calls for volunteers to form a rearguard to buy evacuees time to escape.

35:14:42. (POV: mellanie) Dudley complains about busses being crowded. Mellanie directs Dudley to board the next one without her. Mellanie notices the SI analyzing the alien craft through her inserts. Dudley whines about Mellanie leaving him. Mellanie reassures him with a deep kiss but says she must stay behind to provide help that only she can give. Mellanie feels confidence from having the SI inserts.

(POV: MV) Mark and Liz squabble about who will stay behind to defend Randtown.

35:18:40. Mark and Liz and others prepare to defend the evacuation.
35:24:37. Several of Simon Rand's guerillas open fire at the aliens before Mark. Retaliatory fire devastates the defenders and Randtown.
35:26:45. Liz sees Mellanie confront the aliens out in the open without a weapon. Mellanie somehow influences the aliens to stop moving and to stand idle, including the flyers in the sky which land. Mellanie appears to have silver skin. Mellanie tells the defenders to take what handheld alien weapons they can and to join the convoy. Mellanie says goodbye to Mark. Mellanie stands as still as the aliens.

35:31:15. (POV: Mellanie) The SI examines the alien communications in Randtown through Mellanie's inserts. The SI analyzes MLM's communications and deduces it is a singular entity that has integrated itself with its machinery. The SI generates a wireless interference signal which causes MLM's units to cease obeying instructions. Mellanie gives Mark and the other defenders weapons from the disabled alien infantry.

35:36:30. The SI makes first contact with MLM. MLM claims it must extinguish all other life besides itself in order to achieve immortality. The SI says MLM is simply inexperienced and has not yet learned to coëxist with other civilizations. MLM orders its infantry to disengage from its communication system and to take independent action to attack, sacrificing control for autonomy to circumvent the SI's interference signals. MLM sends 18 flyers to attack Mellanie's position.
35:40:15. Mellanie escapes via a wormhole the SI opens for her. Mellanie deduces she is on Ozzie's asteroid. Mellanie demands the SI use Ozzie's wormhole to evacuate the citizens of Randtown. The SI is reluctant.

35:43:20. (POV: Wilson Kime) Wilson sees electronic warfare (EW) aerobots completely disable alien flyers and infantry at Scraptoft (?). Wilson orders Columbia to deploy all available EW units and to counterattack with combat aerobots. The SI volunteers to use civilian Unisphere wireless infrastructure to interfere with Prime signals. Wilson accepts the help. Ana reports the Commonwealth Navy ships have arrived at a rendezvous point.

35:46:44. (POV: None; Location: Anshun). 2 warships and 3 scout ships of the Commonwealth fight above Anshun. The night sky becomes bright as daylight. Laser fire turns some spots of planetary surface rock molten. After an hour, the battle concludes with Prime ships continuing their landings.

35:49:11. (POV: MV) A description of local geography. The convoy reaches the wormhole. Carys, Barry, and Sandy make it through. Simon organizes a defense.

35:56:45. (POV: Wilson) Wilson, Rafael, and Doi are despondent after losing 4 of the 5 ships in the battle at Anshun. Leopoldovich (?) insists that the alien wormholes be physically breached, not simply assaulted from the outside. Wilson grows annoyed with Doi who whines about reëlection problems.

36:00:50. (POV: Jean Duvoir (?); Loc: The Desperado, Anshun) Wilson orders the Desperado to regroup at High Angel. After the call, Jean decides to reprogram his ship's wormhole to directly and physically assault a wormhole.

36:05:00. (POV: MV) A description of the alien weapons purloined by Simon's defenders. Mark and Liz monitor alien progress towards their location based on the disappearance of network nodes.

36:08:53. (POV: Jean) Jean directs the Desperado to exit its wormhole at 0.2c, puncturing a diamond alien wormhole above Anshun. High energy radiation shines through and on Anshun.

36:10:21. (POV: MV) Mark fights flyers and infantry. Mellanie remotely takes over a flyer and causes it to attack fellow flyers. Mark destroys a bus rigged to act as a bomb, breaking shields and injuring several aliens.

36:16:45. Nearly at the wormhole, Mark sees the valley suddenly illuminated by daylight. Mark sees the light comes from a five intensifying stars in the sky. Mark laments the incoming of an orbital strike, falling to his knees and cursing the aliens. Mellanie informs Mark that the lights are something the Commonwealth did. Liz and Mellanie haul Mark up and send him through the wormhole. Simon Rand refuses to evacuate, opting instead to continue to fight in Elan.

36:18:53. (POV: MLM) MLM loses an entire asteroid and 287 wormhole generators to a suicide attack by a human starship. MLM nearly loses its main wormhole. MLM reorganizes exit points for its remaining wormholes and continues to send ships through to occupy the Commonwealth.

Chapter 25

36:21:37; page 962

36:21:37. (POV: Ozzie; Loc: an island of a gas halo) Ozzie is confused about the gas halo. Ozzie cannot figure out the size of the planet he, Tochee, and Orion are on. They build a raft using local plant materials. Ozzie shaves. Ozzie commits Orion to improving their personal appearance and lessons while they travel. Ozzie names the raft the Pathfinder. They set sail.

36:39:15. (POV: Mellanie; outside Alessandra Baron's skyscraper penthouse in Salamanca, New Iberia) Mellanie recalls the panicked crowd around the wormhole during the Elan evacuation. Mellanie meets with Alessandra Baron. Baron asks Mellanie to seduce and pump a government official (?) for Navy budget information. Mellanie demands to know where her research staff for investigating the Starflyer is. Baron tells Mellanie that the Cox Educational Charity was legitimate; Bunny had spoken with a representative and found Mellanie'd accusation to be false. Mellanie departs, asking the SI for assistance in securing a fast escape from the skyscraper. Mellanie tells the SI that she believes Baron is working for the Starflyer. Mellanie tells th So she must tell Paula Myo about Baron being a Starflyer agent.

36:51:34. (POV: Kazimir; Rio, Earth) Kazimir travels to LA Galactic, finishing a courier mission. Kazimir is surprised at how Earth people seemed to treat the alien invasion as a low priority news event whose only major impact was a power outage on Earth. Kazimir detects no Navy surveillance tracking him.

36:59:01. (POV: Justine Burnelli; CST security office, LA Galactic) Justine personally monitors Alic Hogan's Navy investigation operation track Kazimir from LA Galactic. Navy personnel have been following Kazimir since Justine reported him and they identified his Santa Monica apartment. A summary of the Navy tracking Kazimir when he abruptly travelled to Rio[18] and then a remote observatory in the Andes Mountains of South America. Justine travelled to LA Galactic to personally monitor the Navy operation, feeling herself to be a sort of guardian angel.
37:02:59. (POV: Kazimir; Loc: Caralvo (?) Terminal, LA Galactic, Earth) Kazimir thinks about how seeing Justine at the Tulip Mansion was worth risking everything for.
37:05:26. Kazimir sees Bruce. Bruce shoots Kazimir. Kazimir dies, sending one last message to Justine.
37:08:17. (POV: Justine) Justine cries out, recognizing her brother's murderer as the man Kazimir was staring at. Justine watches Kazimir blow open Kazimir's chest with an ion weapon. Hogan's Navy operation pursues the assailant that killed Kazimir. Justine reads Kazimir's message. Justine orders no Navy personnel may touch Kazimir. Justine travels to the side of Kazimir's corpse. Paula Myo arrives next to her. Justine asks Paula how Kazimir could have died, despite her authority ordering the Navy not to harm him. Paula says a leak exists in the Navy. Justine concludes to Paula that the Starflyer is real.

37:13:08. (POV: Ozzie) Ozzie finds the Pathfinder is travelling quickly, carried by a water current and a favorable wind. Ozzie naps. Upon waking, Ozzie finds a strong wind propelling the Pathfinder towards a fog bank and the sea around them appears choppy. Ozzie ties himself and Orion to Pathfinder in anticipation of some kind of storm. Tochee simply grips the Pathfinder with its locomotion flesh. Ozzie sees the horizon approach and abruptly realizes they are at the top of a waterfall extending as far as the eye can see in two directions. Ozzie cries out in frustration. The Pathfinder falls off the edge of the world.

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  1. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-08: Likely romantic partner since she pairs with them following Dudley Bose's re-life.
  2. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-12-30: The Marie Celeste name is likely a reference to the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered adrift in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores Islands on 1872-12-04.
  3. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-10-15: i.e. spam
  4. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-12-25: I cannot find a location with this name near Seattle, WA. I imagine it is a fabricated place name.
  5. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-12-25: I thought this might have been a reference to the “Brandt” family who plays a central role in the plot of The Chronicle of the Fallers, a sequel to Peter F. Hamilton's Void trilogy, but “Braunt” isnʼt quite the same as “Brandt”.
  6. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-12-25: I do not believe Abby comes up in the story ever again.
  7. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-12-27: This was Isabella's idea.
  8. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-12-30: The Second Chance.
  9. ↑ Baltakatei: 2023-12-30: Bruce.
  10. ↑ 2023-12-30: Ozzie.
  11. ↑ 2023-12-30: Oscar Munroe, a college classmate of Adam.
  12. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-01: Doi calling the Dyson Alpha aliens “Primes” is a bit of a narrative pothole. The story never mentioned the Prime aliens communicating with Kime nor sending any self-identifiers. The simplest way to fill this hole is to assume some Commonwealth intelligence analyst came up with the name and it was later adopted by the Commonwealth and Silfen for clarity of communication.
  13. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-02: This is Mellanie Rescouri (?).
  14. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-08: Probably Antonia Clarke, the engineering chief of the Second Chance's first mission to the Dyson Pair in Chapter 14.
  15. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-07: Arguably breaking the fourth wall since the details likely match the author's own profession.
  16. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-08: When Paula had spoken to Wendy while Bose was in partial rejuvenation, Paula had mentioned that the financial institution hosting the Cox accounts had repelled an attack in which Bose's codes were used to attempt to illicitly gain access. This unlawful behavior likely augmented Paula's suspicion if the situation since, by the time the Dyson Alpha scouting mission by the Second Chance was announced, she was aware of Guardian propaganda arguing that the mission was a threat engineered by the Starflyer.
  17. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-09: Wilson Kime said earlier in c24 that the Navy detector network counted over 1100 alien wormholes.
  18. ↑ Baltakatei: 2024-01-12: Presumably Rio de Janeiro.
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