Darklake City
Names: Darklake CityDarklake
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 4 (THREE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 4Darklake City is Oaktier's capital, sited in hilly subtropical coffee-growing country beside a lake.
Connections
- inOaktier
- containsClayden Clinic
- containsArea 37
- containsShansorel Partnership
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 4Murder of Tara Shaheef and Wyobie Cotal
Forty years before Bose's discovery, a disguised killer cuts the power, murders Tara and Wyobie, destroys their memorycells, and removes the bodies and Tara's belongings.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula interviews Tara and Matthew
At the plantation, Paula questions Tara about her affair with Wyobie, the Tampico trip, and weapons. She concludes the Tampico story was a setup and Tara was likely killed over something she encountered.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula and Hoshe interview Morton
Paula questions Morton about Tara's departure, divorce, finances and enemies, and requests the divorce file and a check on Tara's Tampico shares.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Morton's private reflections
After they leave, Morton reveals his predatory view of Mellanie, his ambitions for Gansu, and unease over Tara and Cotal, then prepares for a party on Resal's boat.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Paula's case progresses
Paula and Hoshe plan a search of Darklake for the bodies; Mel Rees arrives unexpectedly with an apparent new assignment.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Bodies found beneath condo
Hoshe's scans find two box-contained bodies ten meters below a thirty-story Darklake condo. Paula arrives, promises extraction teams and says she can now get an arrest warrant.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Morton arrested
Paula and Hoshe arrive at Morton's penthouse and arrest him for the bodykill and memory erasure of his ex-wife Tara Jennifer Shaheef and Wyobie Cotal. Morton insists it's a mistake.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Paula asks Hoshe Finn for help
Paula visits Hoshe unofficially and asks him to investigate the Shansorel Partnership's software link to Rigin's modulator.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Hoshe meets Kareem
Using Giscard Lex's introduction, Hoshe finds Kareem in his garage and, posing as a tax-dodging importer, pays a deposit for a software fix and hands over a memory crystal.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Paula offers Hoshe a job
Paula visits the recovering Hoshe, comforts him, and offers him a job as her assistant at Senate Security, citing her distrust of her old team. He asks about the medical benefits.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Mellanie contacts the Guardians
Mellanie calls Adam Elvin, learns the LA Galactic killer was Bruce McFoster, and gets a new onetime address. She then visits Paul Cramley.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Mellanie recruits Tiger Pansy
Mellanie fights Jaycee at Wayside Production and persuades Tiger Pansy to join her for a special sensorium job, promising medicine and rejuvenation.