Wessex
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 23 (TWENTY-TWO)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 7Wessex is where the human invasion force launched, with a large mechanical loading system feeding bubbles and aerobots into a wormhole.
- Ch 12Wessex is a Big15 world with expansive industrial facilities and has cut off all its links to phase two space.
- Ch 13The wormhole from Wessex to Boongate will not open to transport again, confining the Starflyer to the Commonwealth unless already on Boongate.
- Ch 14Wessex's population is being evacuated into the future through a gateway that will open only once.
Connections
- led byAlan Hutchinson
- containsNarrabri
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 25Nigel destroys a Prime wormhole above Wessex
With the SI's help, Nigel overloads one Prime wormhole using three CST gateway exits and power from nuclear stations; further successes follow, though burning out many CST generators.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Nigel accelerates the frigate program
Nigel tours the Speedwell and frigate bay, then orders Mark Vernon to attach the assembly bay to the lifeboat Searcher and finish the Charybdis en route to Wessex within thirty hours, with the weapon section moved too.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Charybdis assembly continues
Mark and his exhausted team continue wiring the Charybdis while scientists lower a lethal missile into its magazine.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Wilson orders strike on Hell's Gateway
Wilson commits to acting and sends the Cairo and Baghdad toward Hell's Gateway while quantumbusters are used against flare bombs, irradiating Commonwealth worlds.
- Book 2 · Ch 13War Cabinet votes to exterminate Primes
The War Cabinet unanimously approves using every means, up to extermination, against the Primes, and debates evacuating the New48 worlds.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Alic's team prepares for the Wessex gateway
Alic's team is cleared to take a track engineering train through a one-time wormhole gateway at Wessex to confront Tarlo.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Hanko evacuation begins
The Hanko wormhole opens to Anagaska; Hasimer Owram drives through first and millions of refugees begin to stream in as Doi and Nigel watch.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Michelangelo's hostile interview
Michelangelo grills Doi live about Kime, Baron's death, Boongate and Patricia; she deflects, then rages in the limousine and suspects the navy leaked information.