Panda
Names: Pandathe dogpoppet
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 22 (TWENTY-ONE)
Appearances
B1
B2
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 22Panda is the Vernons' young white Labrador, nearly a year old, who obeys only Barry.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 22Vernon family joins the blockade
Mark, Liz and the children, with Panda, drive up to the Randtown blockade on MtZuelea, where Simon Rand leads residents blocking the navy's convoy in a picnic-like protest.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Regents detector station nuked
A nuclear explosion destroys the Regents detector station; Mark's family watches the mushroom cloud rise as electronics fail.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Mark's family heads for Randtown
After the blast damages their home, the family packs the repaired pickup and sets out toward Randtown to find neighbours and news, armed.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Family breakfast
Mark spends a rare day off at breakfast with Liz and the children, promising to try to take them to the orbital starships, while talking of the fleet and the war.