hyperglider
Names: hypergliderhypergliders
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 5 (FOUR)
Appearances
B1
B2
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 5A hyperglider is a plyplastic craft that reshapes from a cigar form into wings; it is tethered, then released to ride storm winds.
- Ch 5The hyperglider reshapes its wings and stabilizer, uses a twister to climb to the stratosphere, then glides back down; it can land in about a hundred meters in extremis.
- Ch 5Hypergliding kills dozens of pilots every year; those lost far off course risk having their memorycell inserts recovered by locals for a fee.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 18Eight hypergliders sit in the Grand Triad Adventures hangar, with wing buds that unfold; they need main cells charged before flight.
- Ch 19Hypergliders are tethered with anchor struts driven into lava to hold them against the storm; pilots wear silver-blue emergency pressure flight suits.
- Ch 19Hypergliders have plyplastic morphing wings and are launched into the storm's flow to ride a parabola toward the summit.
Connections
- related toJustine Burnellipilots it on a tour-company caravan trip
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 5Twister ride to the edge of space
Justine flies the hyperglider into a twister, is flung up through the stratosphere, and glides over Mount Herculaneum's summit before descending.
- Book 1 · Ch 5Landing amid electronic failure
While landing in a rainforest clearing, the hyperglider suffers a multiple electronic failure resembling an em pulse; Justine lands safely and weeps with relief.