Charybdis
Names: Charybdisthe frigate
First appears in Book 2: Judas Unchained, chapter 11 (Chapter 11)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 11The Charybdis is the first frigate under construction, to be a fifty-meter flattened ellipsoid with active-stealth composite hull; it is several days from completion.
- Ch 12Charybdis is a lifeboat-project frigate being finished in the Wessex system's cometary belt, with active-stealth covering two-thirds complete and a missile being loaded.
- Ch 12Its missile warhead is so lethal that the weapons scientists treat it with extreme nervous respect; Mark thinks it will make genocide possible.
- Ch 12The frigate Charybdis, built at the Searcher assembly bay, finally became operational once its flux regulators worked, and it departed using gravospacial manipulation.
- Ch 12The Charybdis is a stealthy black ovoid frigate with a new drive undetectable by quantum signature, carrying an advanced quantumbuster.
- Ch 12The Charybdis passed through the wormhole to Hell's Gateway and launched a missile into the star there, which caused it to go nova.
- Ch 16The Charybdis mission was saved by Mark's work, though the frigate was held together with sticky tape and luck.
- Ch 17The Charybdis is an ultra-black ellipsoid Dynasty frigate carrying a nova bomb and ten quantumbusters, due to leave in five hours.
- Ch 17The frigate travels faster than light at thirteen point five light-years per hour, making Dyson Alpha about three days away.
- Ch 17The frigate left before its food stores were loaded, so there is no food aboard.
- Ch 19Charybdis, apparently carrying Ozzie, is heading for Dyson Alpha, less than fifteen light-years ahead of Scylla.
- Ch 19The Charybdis is a stealth frigate with an ultra-black hull, force fields and a quantumbuster, and it can fly through hyperspace.
- Ch 19Ozzie flies the Charybdis dark through the Dark Fortress plasma, evading hundreds of Prime ships and missile salvos.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 11Nigel accelerates the frigate program
Nigel tours the Speedwell and frigate bay, then orders Mark Vernon to attach the assembly bay to the lifeboat Searcher and finish the Charybdis en route to Wessex within thirty hours, with the weapon section moved too.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Charybdis assembly continues
Mark and his exhausted team continue wiring the Charybdis while scientists lower a lethal missile into its magazine.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Mark fixes the frigate's regulators
After forty hours of stress, Mark patches the power management software so the flux shunt regulators work, enabling the Charybdis to launch before collapsing from exhaustion.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Charybdis sent through to Hell's Gateway
Nigel merges CST wormholes with a Prime one, letting the stealth ship Charybdis pass through and fire a missile that sends the Primes' staging post star nova.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Hijacking of the Charybdis
Ozzie seizes command of the frigate through the SIsubroutine, leaves the dock with Mark aboard and heads for Dyson Alpha at FTL.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Ozzie hijacks the Charybdis and goes FTL
Ozzie blocks Mark from the arrays and the frigate jumps to thirteen point five light-years per hour, with Mark aboard against his will.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Mark fixes the quantumbuster launcher
After arguing, Ozzie persuades Mark to accept the flight; Mark gets fire authority and quickly fixes the launcher by balancing the electromuscle arms' traction.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Charybdis attacked at the Dark Fortress
Ozzie and Mark approach the Dark Fortress, activate active sensors, and are detected; MorningLightMountain opens wormholes and launches missiles at them while they accelerate at twelve gees.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Quantumbuster strikes at the Dark Fortress
Nigel Sheldon's Scylla fires a quantumbuster, annihilating the Prime fleet. Ozzie and Mark then reach the core and launch a quantumbuster at the Sparks ring distortion.