Lake Trine'ba
Names: Lake Trine'bathe Trine'ba
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 16 (FIFTEEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 16The lake is 180 km long and over a kilometer deep in places, with an isolated native ecology of coral reefs and atolls.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 5Lake Trine'ba has a unique marine ecology that humans protected for fifty years; the aliens are now polluting it with waste and dark liquid.
- Ch 12The Trine'ba lake is dying, its ecology killed by fusion fire and base cell pollution, covered in dead fish and decaying coral.
Connections
- containsRandtownRandtown lies on the Trine'ba lake shore
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 23Day on Trine'ba
Mark and his family and friends dive and sail on Trine'ba, until they spot navy helicopters landing near Goi'al, bringing in the detector station despite protests.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Aliens pump liquid into Lake Trine'ba
Simon and David spot a wormhole gateway at Randtown pouring dark liquid into the lake and resolve to tell the other resistance fighters.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Ravine ambush and battle
Locals ambush a Prime patrol; Morton and Rob kill the remaining aliens, but Doc's HVvixen use brings many flyers.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Parker detonates nukes
Doc dies; Morton hides in the stream with a survivor under his force field as Parker triggers two tactical nukes.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Escape downstream and rescue of Simon Rand
After the nuclear blast, Morton and Rob escape down the stream with the survivor, who identifies himself as Simon Rand, founder of Randtown.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Aftermath debate over the Bose motile
Rob expects rescue and release, but the Cat points out they still hold the Bose motile; Rob pressures Morton to hide it from the navy.