Tunde Sutton
Names: Tunde SuttonTunde
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 15 (FOURTEEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 15Tunde Sutton heads astrophysics; his science team has become excitable and aloof, acting like first-life science geeks.
- Ch 15Tunde, the astrophysicist, concluded hyperspace and real-space force cannot breach the barrier, and proposed signalling the inhabitants with gravity waves.
- Ch 15Tunde, a physicist, wants a large outpost and wormhole chain to study the Dark Fortress, calling its technology potentially transformative for humanity.
- Ch 15Tunde is the physics section head who judges the Dyson aliens could not have built the barrier, implying an outside agency did.
- Ch 15Tunde reasons the Dysons were watching for the barrier-builders after the barrier fell and detected the ship via wormhole gravitonic and quantum signatures.
- Ch 17Tunde Sutton was properly trained and passed all tests but was aboard Second Chance partly for political expediency.
Connections
- member ofSecond Chanceastrophysics head
- related toBruno Seymorescience officer under
- related toRussell Sallscience officer under
- ally ofBruno Seymore
- related toThompson BurnelliBurnelli's man
- ally ofWilson Kimeadviser
- member ofSeattle Project
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 15Second Chance emerges near Dyson Alpha
Wilson's ship exits hyperspace in interstellar space, and sensor modules survey Dyson Alpha's barrier at progressively closer stages, finding no threats and little new information.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Hysradar sweep and approach to the barrier
At one light-month the crew uses hysradar, which is reflected like a mirror, then jumps to one million km above the barrier's equator and learns wormholes cannot penetrate it.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Department heads reject breaking through
Tunde says no hyperspace or physical route through the barrier exists. Wilson orders a circumnavigation of the equator and approves a gravity-wave signal plan.
- 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 15Decision to move on
Wilson, Oscar and Tunde agree the Dark Fortress can't be understood with onboard resources and politically won't earn follow-up missions, so the flight around the barrier resumes.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Barrier turns transparent
An emergency alarm wakes Wilson as hysradar shows the barrier bowing inward. He takes the ship to one million kilometers, and the barrier begins turning transparent.
- Book 1 · Ch 15The barrier vanishes
Dyson Alpha's barrier loses cohesion and disappears as the Second Chance approaches, revealing a civilized, heavily colonized system and a changed Dark Fortress. Oscar fears something knows they are there.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Dysons signal the Second Chance
Laser and microwave beams from Alpha Major's moonlets target the ship. Wilson's crew concludes the Dysons detected them, and hysradar then reveals eight ships approaching.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Primes begin planetary landings
Wilson's team watches Prime ships enter atmospheres on many planets, immune to aerobot fire and heading for water landings, so reinforcement of cities is planned.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Prime flare bomb strikes Hanko's star
Dublin observes a Prime device plunge into the corona and become a flare bomb; Seattle Project scientists identify it, warning the biosphere of Hanko is threatened.