Interstellar wormhole
Names: Interstellar wormholegiant wormhole
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 21 (TWENTY)
Appearances
B1
B2
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 21A toroid with a 2.5 km aperture at a gas giant's moon, run by twelve thousand immotile brains; large ships enter every five or six minutes.
- Ch 21Tunde estimates its reach at four to five hundred light-years, so it cannot yet reach the Commonwealth, though Wilson suspects that is its eventual destination.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 21MorningLightMountain builds wormholes
Using Bose's memories, MorningLightMountain develops wormhole generators, links its settlements and builds a huge interstellar wormhole, spotting the approaching human ships three weeks after it began operating.
- 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.