Half Way
Names: Half WayHalf Way wormhole gateway
First appears in Book 2: Judas Unchained, chapter 4 (Chapter 4)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 4Half Way is a barren, icy planet orbiting an M-class star with a neutron-star companion; no plant life or fossils have ever been found there.
- Ch 4Its atmosphere has high carbon dioxide and argon, so visitors need rebreathers and heated suits; equatorial daytime temperatures are around minus ten to minus fifteen Celsius.
- Ch 4Its last remaining sea is salty and cold, squeezed between huge polar glaciers that formed five million years ago.
- Ch 15The wormhole at the Half Way end has vanished, leaving the Guardians stranded with only the planes at Shackleton.
Connections
- containsShackleton
- containsPort Evergreen
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 4Flight across Half Way
Mellanie and Dudley take a ten-hour Carbon Goose flight from Shackleton to Port Evergreen, seeing whurwals along the way.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Teams advance to Half Way gateway
The train is halted by broken rails. Teams transfer to armored cars and trucks; Vic stays to hunt Tarlo while the others attack the Half Way gateway defenses.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Guardians pass through the gateway
The Guardians destroy the maser cannons and send a drone and their trucks through the gateway to Half Way, with suspiciously little opposition.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Gateway destroyed and Tarlo killed
After the Guardians pass, explosions wreck the wormhole generator. Vic confronts Tarlo, who says the trap succeeded, then shoots him dead.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Guardians arrive on Far Away
Wilson sends the stormrider into the neutron star; Qatux opens a wormhole and Bradley's party crosses to Far Away near Armstrong City, then the wormhole is closed.