Accelerators
Names: AcceleratorsAccelerator FactionANA FactionAcceleratorthe factionAccelerator team
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 11Paula and Kazimir suspect them of allying the Primes with the Ocisen Empire to force use of the deterrence fleet and learn what it is.
- Ch 11Paula suspects the Accelerators run the base and cannot afford to leave evidence, so they destroyed it.
- Ch 11The Accelerators strive to impose their will on spacetime to reach a postphysical manifestation, using an inversion core.
- Ch 11The Accelerators destroyed their ice moon station with a quantumbuster.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Paula visited an Accelerator ice moon station where several Cat copies had been in suspension; none remain.
- Ch 1The Accelerators are desperate to acquire Araminta, and covertly supported the Ocisens and manipulated Living Dream.
- Ch 3The Accelerator Faction developed independent Primes as allies for the Ocisens, manipulated Living Dream to reach the Void, and erased memory segments before ANA suspended it.
- Ch 5The Accelerators have gained Dark Fortress technology, which they used to build the Swarm and the Sol barrier.
- Ch 5The Accelerator Faction has imprisoned Earth behind a barrier, removing ANA from the Commonwealth.
- Ch 5The navy believes the Accelerators will use a Dark Fortress-based force field to get past the Raiel in the Gulf.
- Ch 6The Accelerators want to capture Araminta, the Second Dreamer, because they cannot enter the Void without her.
- Ch 14The Accelerator Faction is trapped behind the Sol barrier with ANA, so it cannot carry out its Fusion plan.
- Ch 20Accelerator agents would never permit anything that might stop Ilanthe's attempt to Fuse with the Void; a ship follows the Last Throw.
Connections
- has memberMariusrepresentative
- has memberIlanthe
- ally ofTroblumbuilds for them, believes in their philosophy
- has memberNeskia
- ally ofthe Catsupplied with a ship by them
- related toTroblumreceives illegal money from Accelerator contacts
- has memberDonald Chatfield
- related toOcisen EmpirePaula believes the Accelerators manipulate them
- led byIlanthe
- has memberColabal
- has memberAtha
- has memberValean
- createdSol barrier force fields
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula's plan to test the Primes
Paula and Kazimir deduce the Accelerators want the deterrence fleet weapons to use against the Raiel, and plan to board a Prime ship with Capital-class ships to see if humans drive them.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Raid on the ice moon base
Paula infiltrated the Accelerator base, found multiple Cats in suspension, and fought them. Sentries attacked, and a quantumbuster destroyed the moon and the evidence.
- Book 3 · Ch 1ANA moves to suspend the Accelerators
With Kazimir's evidence, ANA:Governance will convene a suspension conclave against the Accelerators, and Kazimir returns to Sol.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Judicial conclave suspends the Accelerator Faction
ANA:Governance convenes its second judicial conclave, charges the Accelerator Faction with high treason, exposes its plots, and suspends and freezes all its members. Ilanthe's mentality escapes into the inversion core.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Sol sealed in a force field
The Swarm materialized around Sol and imprisoned the system, with ANA and the deterrence fleet, cutting it off. The Delivery Man learns this while arriving on Gralmond.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Accelerator trap at the coliseum
Valean, posing as Ondra, springs a trap with her team and jams Laril's connection; Laril is nearly seized.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Valean's team destroyed
Valean and six agents attack Paul's bungalow; Paul traps them in accelerated-time fields and they age to death within seconds, their bodies teleported away.