immotile
Names: immotileimmotiles
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 19 (EIGHTEEN)
Appearances
B1
B2
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 19Prime immotiles have no names; they are identified by characteristics such as location, and are fundamentally individual, territorial and prone to shifting alliances.
- Ch 19An immotile forms when several motiles merge over about five weeks into one large body with a single fused brain; the limbs shrivel.
- Ch 19Prime immotiles of different alliances still fight each other despite the need to cooperate against the alien threat.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 12Left behind in Lost23, the immotiles are temporarily unified copies of MorningLightMountain but will drift toward autonomy and territorial alliances over time.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 19The force field falls and a message arrives
After 1,182 years the barrier vanishes. Days later MorningLightMountain17,735 sends a warning from an alien ship, which vanishes in a spatial distortion as Prime ships close.