Intersolar Commonwealth
Names: Intersolar CommonwealthCommonwealthCommonwealth Senatehuman commonwealth
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 2 (ONE)
Appearances
B1
B2
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 2The Commonwealth is a roughly spherical human-settled region four hundred light-years across centered on Earth, and has met several harmless alien species.
- Ch 17The Commonwealth has an industrial base spread over six hundred worlds, which Nigel says allows covert military manufacturing.
- Ch 25Over two million people have died in the Prime attack, and the toll is expected to rise.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 5The navy is assembling an army of wetwired soldiers to drop on the Lost23 for guerrilla war and sabotage against the Primes.
- Ch 12Abandoned the twenty-three invaded planets, which suffer ecological damage and ongoing violence between humans and Dysons.
Connections
- includesGralmond
- includesTanyata
- includesMerredin
- related toSecond Chancehumans' home; ship is to return there
- includesRandtown
- enemy ofMorningLightMountain
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 7Commonwealth counterstrike repelled
Wormholes opened over all twenty-three conquered worlds, releasing missiles and ground-level wormholes with aerobots. MorningLightMountain intercepted with nuclear weapons and numerical superiority, ending the attack after seventeen hours.
- 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 9MorningLightMountain repels the human attack
Twenty human starships attack the staging post star. MorningLightMountain deflects their missiles, destroys three ships, takes losses of generators and immotiles, and the rest retreat.