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Gralmond

First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 2 (ONE)

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What you know

Book 1: Pandora's Star

Ch 2Gralmond is a cold, semifrontier world with a thin atmosphere and about eighteen million people, 240 light-years from Earth, settled in the second expansion phase.
Ch 2Gralmond's university astronomy department is poorly funded and has failed to win sponsorship from CST.

Connections

containsLeonida City
part ofIntersolar Commonwealth
containsDr. Marance

Key moments

Book 1 · Ch 2Dyson Alpha vanishes
Dudley Bose watches Dyson Alpha vanish from his telescope in under a heartbeat, but sensors were not active. Sensors later show only an infrared signature, implying instantaneous envelopment.

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