Anshun
Names: AnshunAnshun starship project complexAnshun starship complexCST's Anshun starship complexAnshun complex
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 6 (FIVE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 6Anshun, 217 light-years from Earth, hosts CST's phase three exploration division and is expected to become the junction for a new sector of space.
- Ch 6Anshun hosts CST's starship complex and an assembly platform orbiting a thousand kilometers above it; components arrive through the planetary station's gateway.
- Ch 11The complex is attacked: a power generator explosion, intruders in the gateway control room, firefights and datanet failure.
- Ch 12The attack site is on Anshun; the Alamo Avengers were exported to a shell company's planned museum there.
- Ch 13An attack on Anshun reportedly damaged the human starship.
- Ch 25Anshun is the CST junction planet for the sector and the most heavily populated, and the navy's old base.
- Ch 25Anshun took the worst pounding; fallout will spread across the planet and evacuation is judged cheaper than decontamination.
- Ch 25The navy ships Dauntless, Defiant and Desperado and scoutships Conway and Galibi arrive at Anshun and fight the Primes in a battle lasting over an hour.
- Ch 25Anshun's evacuation is nearly complete; aerobots destroyed ninety percent of Prime landing sites, though forty-eight wormholes stayed open above it.
Connections
- containsTreloar
- containsBromrine
- includesTreloar
- led byGilda Princess MardenFirst Speaker of Anshun
- containsDauntless
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 6Wilson arrives at the starship project
Wilson travels by express to Treloar on Anshun, is driven across the derelict junction yard, and enters the starship project complex.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Tour of the Second Chance
Wilson tours the Anshun complex and assembly platform with Nigel and Daniel, sees the unfinished ship, and discusses timetable, power, and safety.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Wilson names the ship
Nigel lets Wilson name the starship, and Wilson chooses Second Chance. He also sets a cautious approach for the mission.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Crew planning and Halgarth conference
At Anshun, Oscar and Wilson plan crew selection and discuss Ulysses survivors. They then confer with Halgarth about the Marie Celeste and the Dyson Pair.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Attack on the Anshun complex
Kaos software, an explosion and intruders hit the complex. Wilson seals the assembly platform's gateway, orders everyone to Second Chance's life-support ring and names Anna Hober his executive officer.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Alamo Avengers attack the Anshun starship complex
Under cover of kaos software, three Alamo Avengers burst from rail wagons, fire particle lances at the complex's force field dome, which holds, and begin tunneling beneath it.
- Book 1 · Ch 11The SI breaches the raiders' fireshields
The SI flushes out the kaos and starts cracking the gateway control room's fireshields; Rob's team realizes they are being watched and shoots the cameras.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Investigation of the Alamo Avenger attack
Columbia, Rees and Paula examine the wrecked Alamo Avenger, argue over blame, and Columbia gives Paula full Directorate resources to pursue Johansson.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Second Chance departs into the wormhole
Wilson leads the crew aboard, Douvoir disengages the ship from its platform, and Tu Lee opens the wormhole. The ship enters it, cutting its link to the unisphere.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Second Chance fights over Anshun
Tu Lee's Second Chance destroys projectiles and jumps around Anshun launching missiles, until Prime wormholes block its hyperdrive and ninety-six missiles per wormhole fly at it.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Loss of the Second Chance
The Second Chance is destroyed in orbit above Anshun while trying to escape Prime wormholes.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Evacuation and defense of Anshun
Commonwealth forces funnel refugees and aerobots through Wessex; aerobots deploy from Treloar to confront Primes landing at Scraptoft, but are beaten back by Prime fusion exhaust and smog.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Humans use electronic warfare at Scraptoft and Anshun
Wilson's EW aerobots jam Prime communications at Scraptoft, disabling armored soldiers and flyers. Navy warships arrive at Anshun and fight an hour-long battle with the Primes.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Desperado's suicide strike
Jean Douvoir flies the Desperado back at 0.2c into a Prime wormhole, detonating and opening it to a temporary sun. The blast rips through the wormhole to the Prime staging post.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Humans fall back
Wilson, Nigel and the President decide to evacuate all assaulted worlds as Prime wormholes stay open and gateway machinery is landed.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Guerrilla sabotage campaign
Armored humans sabotaged bridges, factories, fusion generators and farms, and detonated fusion bombs at Randtown, Olivenza, Sligo, Whalton, Nattavaara and Anshun, forcing constant rebuilding.