Emmanuelle Verbeke
Names: Emmanuelle VerbekeEmmanuelleVerbeke
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 15 (FOURTEEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 15Emmanuelle Verbeke is the alien culture officer; she says the Dyson aliens' behavior cannot be predicted from current knowledge.
- Ch 15Emmanuelle is Dudley's partner in contact team A and has become friendly with him since leaving Anshun.
- Ch 15Emmanuelle suspects the shaft is laid out like DNA: parallel spirals joined by cross links.
- Ch 16Emmanuelle Verbeke was the second person left behind in the alien station.
- Ch 17Wilson is reasonably convinced Verbeke will do the right thing and wipe her memory and suicide if necessary.
- Ch 19Emmanuelle Verbeke was strapped to a vivisection table with her carotid artery cut while Bose screamed threats at the Primes.
- Ch 22Re-lifed with memory intact, she is much calmer than Bose.
- Ch 24Emmanuelle Verbeke, formerly sober and plain on the Second Chance, has been re-lifed into a youthful, cheerful eighteen-year-old.
Connections
- ally ofDudley Bosepartners in contact team A
- member ofcontact team A
- member ofSecond Chance
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 15Cautious contact plan and approach
Wilson authorizes a minimum-emission investigation of an abandoned wreck or habitat, with the ship on combat alert. The Second Chance crosses the old barrier line and heads for a chosen rock.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Exploration of the Watchtower
Mac's team enters the abandoned station and finds it stripped and long dead; Dudley's team A follows, descending the tunnels to level seven and preparing to explore a shaft into the rock.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Contact team loses comms
Dudley and Emmanuelle are deep in the Watchtower's spiral shaft when they drop out of communication; Mac and Francis try to go after them.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Two crew left behind
CST reveals Bose and Verbeke were abandoned. Kime justifies leaving them to bring back vital information, while Burnelli criticizes him and calls for another ship.
- Book 1 · Ch 19MorningLightMountain relives Bose's memories
Replaying the recording through one isolated immotile, MorningLightMountain experiences pain for the first time and learns about human society, the SI, Silfen, barriers and the Commonwealth's worlds.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Doi announces the Commonwealth Navy
Doi addresses the Senate, honors Kime, Bose and Verbeke, signs decree 1081 creating the Commonwealth Navy, and promotes Kime to admiral. The speech is received with applause and high approval.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Dauntless launched and welcome-back ceremony
Dauntless leaves High Angel and Oscar is offered Defender. The next day Oscar, hungover, attends a media welcome-back ceremony for Bose and Verbeke at the Nadsis Hotel.