Watchtower
Names: Watchtowerthe alien station
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 15 (FOURTEEN)
Appearances
B1
B2
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 15A razor-edged rock fragment over a kilometer and a half long, with a derelict polytitanium station at one end, found by Anna.
- Ch 15Radioactive decay dates the explosion that wrecked the station to 211 years ago; it is stripped of machinery and appears long abandoned.
- Ch 15The station's tunnels look more like pipes than corridors, lacking valves or pumps, and contact teams have found no valuable artifacts so far.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 6The Watchtower is a dead Prime structure, probably a mineral processing facility; no explored machinery was near working order.
Connections
- inAlpha Majorone and a half AU beyond the outer gas-giant orbit
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 15Exploration of the Watchtower
Mac's team enters the abandoned station and finds it stripped and long dead; Dudley's team A follows, descending the tunnels to level seven and preparing to explore a shaft into the rock.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Contact team loses comms
Dudley and Emmanuelle are deep in the Watchtower's spiral shaft when they drop out of communication; Mac and Francis try to go after them.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Alien flotilla fires missiles
Alien ships close at extreme velocity, then launch over a hundred missiles, twenty-four at Second Chance, and battle among themselves.