Artful Dodger
Names: Artful Dodgerthe good ship Artful DodgerAlini
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 2The Artful Dodger is a chrome-purple ovoid private starship with a malleable cabin and an ultradrive reaching fifty-five lightyears per hour.
- Ch 6The ship is of obviously Higher origin and has an ultradrive, which Aaron had thought only a rumour; this suggests he works for an ANA Faction.
- Ch 10The Artful Dodger is a private yacht registered on Sholapur, previously on Ellezelin until just after the Riasi fane incident.
- Ch 10The Artful Dodger is Aaron's starship; its smartcore follows his preloaded orders and will give Corrie-Lyn full control only if he dies.
- Ch 10The Alini, a private starship registered to a Sholapur company, docked at the Raiel dome on High Angel with a possible ultradrive signature.
- Ch 12The Artful Dodger is an ultradrive ship with a metallic chrome-purple hull, used by Aaron and Corrie-Lyn to reach Hanko.
- Ch 12Aaron's ship; its regrav units nearly reached their limits descending through Hanko's storms to the base.
- Ch 14Aaron's starship Artful Dodger was destroyed by the Hawking m-sink as it lifted off from Kajaani.
Connections
- related toAaronowner
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Journey to Ellezelin
He travels via Eagles Harbour and wormholes through St Lincoln to Lytham, boards the Artful Dodger, and flies by ultradrive to Riasi spaceport on Ellezelin.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Corrie-Lyn confronts Aaron about his dream
Corrie-Lyn tells Aaron she read his leaked dream of fleeing people and a winged shadow, and urges him to explore it; he refuses and redirects to finding Inigo.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Destruction of Kajaani
An unidentified ship destroys the base's force field with a gamma-ray laser, then kills the Artful Dodger and ruins Kajaani with a Hawking m-sink, which will consume Hanko.