David
Names: DavidDavid DunbavandDunbavand
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 7 (SIX)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 5David Dunbavand is a 200-year-old vine nursery owner who stayed to fight after sending his family away; he is one of the group's calmest heads.
- Ch 5David judges the huge machine pumping dark liquid into the lake is a wormhole gateway delivering something biological from the alien home planet.
- Ch 7David has a shattered, gangrenous leg and other broken bones; Rob treats him with painkiller, biovirals and a healskin sheath.
Connections
- family ofLydiamarried couple, owners of the catamaran
- ally ofSimon Randfellow resistance fighter
- related toMandynurses him
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 7Family barbecue debate
At a family evening, relatives argue over the Commonwealth Cup, the Guardians' shotgun, and the starship project, and Mark reveals his promotion was delayed again.
- Book 1 · Ch 23Day on Trine'ba
Mark and his family and friends dive and sail on Trine'ba, until they spot navy helicopters landing near Goi'al, bringing in the detector station despite protests.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Rear-guard fight at Randtown
Simon Rand's guerrillas fire on landing Prime troops; the aliens retaliate, destroying many buildings and causing panic among the defenders.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Mellanie halts the aliens
Mellanie walks into the street and, with the SI's help, freezes the Prime troops and grounds their flyers, telling the humans to take their weapons and retreat to the convoy.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Mellanie stops the Prime soldiers at Randtown
Mellanie and the SI disrupt the Primes' communications, freezing the soldiers, so Mark's group can take weapons. The SI confronts MorningLightMountain, which vows destruction. Mellanie escapes through a wormhole as flyers fire.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Aliens pump liquid into Lake Trine'ba
Simon and David spot a wormhole gateway at Randtown pouring dark liquid into the lake and resolve to tell the other resistance fighters.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Meeting in the cave and new plan
In the survivors' cave, Cat's Claws treats David and feeds the group. They plan to evacuate them and, following the Cat's idea, plant a nuke at the future force field boundary.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Wormhole rescue from the Trine'ba mountains
Morton's team receives Mellanie's message, verifies her, and passes through a wormhole to Augusta with survivors and the Bose motile.