Jean Douvoir
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First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 13 (TWELVE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 13Douvoir is the Second Chance's pilot, a veteran of engineering pods at the High Angel and developer of spaceplane RI pilot control routines.
- Ch 25Defying orders to return to base, Jean reprograms the Desperado's hyperdrive, removing safety limiters, to fly back and ram a Prime wormhole at Anshun.
- Ch 25Jean's memory store was updated before departure, so he expects to rejoin his crew through re-life after dying.
Connections
- member ofSecond Chance
- leadsDesperado
- led byWilson Kime
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 13Second Chance departs into the wormhole
Wilson leads the crew aboard, Douvoir disengages the ship from its platform, and Tu Lee opens the wormhole. The ship enters it, cutting its link to the unisphere.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Hemisphere discovered
During the equatorial survey, hysradar finds a 25,000 km hemisphere with an apex opening, gravity pulses and a strong magnetic field. A satellite is launched to look inside.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Exploring the Dark Fortress
Using Galileo and Armstrong satellites, the crew maps four lattice spheres and the central rings, discovering electro-repulsive and negative mass layers, and finds no hole on the opposite side.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Desperado's suicide strike
Jean Douvoir flies the Desperado back at 0.2c into a Prime wormhole, detonating and opening it to a temporary sun. The blast rips through the wormhole to the Prime staging post.