Boongate
Names: BoongateBoongate CST stationBoongate planetary stationFar Away section
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 6 (FIVE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 3Boongate is the link world to Far Away; families are fleeing, there is no maglev line, and security is badly understaffed since the Prime attack.
- Ch 4Boongate station is besieged by about ten thousand frightened people trying to flee on trains, held back by police and CST security.
- Ch 13Over a third of Boongate's population has left or is trying to leave; huge crowds besiege the CST station.
- Ch 13A Prime attack begins in the Boongate system, with alien ships emerging near the third gas-giant orbit; force fields cover the city and station.
- Ch 13Boongate's sky is ravaged by a borealis storm from flare radiation from its star.
- Ch 13Boongate station is nearly in anarchy as remaining people rush to the terminal building after Doi's announcement; the rest of the station is deserted.
- Ch 13The wormhole to Boongate is closed by CST, so reaching it normally would take twenty years.
- Ch 13Wormholes to the Second48 will not reopen, since the War Cabinet decided those populations must go into the future.
- Ch 14The gateway's wormhole is a time-travel gateway; the team would be gone about twenty years, and it is opened by CST widening it from zero.
- Ch 14Boongate was largely abandoned after MorningLightMountain's attack; about 37 million left and over 90 million remain sheltering under the capital's force field.
- Ch 14The planet has about a week until evacuation through a gateway to the future; unisphere links were bombed by Alster.
- Ch 17Boongate has dropped off the unisphere; its wormhole was apparently briefly reopened and trains sent through amid gunfire, which Doi did not know about.
Connections
- containsEdmund Li
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 22Cargo inspections ordered and Sheldon implicated
Burnelli tells Paula that Far Away cargo will be inspected at Boongate, and that lobbyists blocking her request work for Nigel Sheldon.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Suspicious shipment found on Boongate
Renne and Tarlo visit the Boongate freight warehouse and find crates of farm machinery with heavy-duty superconductors, some records missing; Tarlo stays to investigate while Renne returns to Paris.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mellanie and Dudley depart for Far Away
Mellanie and Dudley push through the crowds at Boongate, get cleared by inspectors with Niall's help, and board a train through the Half Way gateway.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Prime attack on Boongate
Prime ships arrive in the Boongate system, force fields activate, CST closes wormholes, and Niall buys an escape ticket and takes cash from the office safe.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Tarlo arrives at Boongate station
Edmund Li, watching the broadcast, sees Tarlo arrive in a limousine with a murdered man inside and hides.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Guardians react to Boongate and Starflyer pursuit
Bradley and Adam discuss the war, the nova bombs and Marisa's report that Victor Halgarth entered a Boongate warehouse. They plan to have Senator Burnelli block the Boongate wormhole, and Bradley joins Adam's team.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Tarlo found at Boongate
Edmund Li reports Tarlo seizing control of the Far Away section; Alic promises rescue and plans to petition the Admiral.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Hogan wins approval to pursue Tarlo
Hogan convinces the Admiral to open the Boongate wormhole so his team can arrest Tarlo, on condition of secrecy and staying behind if wrong.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Gateway hijacked
Nigel opens Boongate for Alic's team, but Mellanie and Johansson reveal Victor and a second unregistered train; Nigel loses control of the gateway system and Alster stops responding.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Chase through the Boongate gateway
The GH7 chases Alic's carriage; the carriage crosses the gateway to Boongate, the team jumps, and the escorts destroy it while the GH7 passes through safely.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Train breaks through to Far Away
Adam drives the Guardians' armored train through the Boongate gateway, then Nigel closes the wormhole behind them. They approach the Far Away station section.