Hell's Gateway
Names: Hell's Gatewaystaging postPrime staging poststaging post star
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 22 (TWENTY-ONE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 22A giant Prime wormhole; Dimitri's team theorizes it is a species survival route, a path to confront the barrier builders, or a route to the Commonwealth.
- Ch 25The staging post lost an asteroid and its equipment, with two hundred eighty-seven wormholes collapsing in the blast.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 5The star where Hell's Gateway leads is the Primes' one truly weak point, according to Wilson.
- Ch 6The Defender's hysradar has picked up what is believed to be the other end of Hell's Gateway in a star system three light-years away.
- Ch 7It detected quantum distortion waves from a human starship engine three light-years away, revealing that the Commonwealth has discovered its location.
- Ch 8Hell's Gateway is a giant wormhole about three hundred light-years beyond Elan, heavily defended and linked to wormhole generators for the Lost23.
- Ch 10The navy attacked it; if successful, the alien wormholes in Commonwealth space would have shut down, but they haven't.
- Ch 10Hell's Gateway wormhole remains intact and functional, along with the subsidiary wormholes linking it to the Lost23.
- Ch 11The navy was heavily defeated at Hell's Gateway when the Prime wormholes returned to the Lost23.
- Ch 12Hell's Gateway is the Primes' staging post with a star ringed by magflux extractors and missile platforms, powering over 150 wormholes into the Commonwealth.
- Ch 12A Commonwealth ship fired a weapon into the staging post star, triggering a nova that destroyed MorningLightMountain's wormhole generators and halted the invasion.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 25Staging post devastated
The Desperado's radiation destroys the Prime wormhole generator, thousands of ships, and many Primes at the staging post; MorningLightMountain stabilizes the main wormhole.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Staging post location discovered
A human starship detected the staging post and left; MorningLightMountain expects a navy attack and rushes wormhole generator modifications and a new warfleet.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Prime wormholes shut and reopen
Before the attack, 772 Prime wormholes shut down, then all reopened five hours later, showing the human strike on Hell's Gateway failed.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Charybdis sent through to Hell's Gateway
Nigel merges CST wormholes with a Prime one, letting the stealth ship Charybdis pass through and fire a missile that sends the Primes' staging post star nova.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Nova of the staging post star
A Commonwealth ship triggers a nova in MorningLightMountain's staging post star, destroying its wormhole generators, halting the invasion and freezing local Prime motiles temporarily.