Centurion Station
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 1An observation outpost on a never-named planet where many alien species and humans monitor the Void through orbiting probes, laid out in crescent-shaped rings.
- Ch 1Its oldest ruins at the centre were built over four hundred thousand years ago; the Raiel observation is far older still.
- Ch 1Humans joined the observation 280 years ago; a handover party in the garden dome marks each arrival of new observers.
- Ch 14Centurion Station is an observation post about fifty lightyears from the Void's boundary, with human, Ethox and Forleene sections, run with Navy support.
- Ch 14Nearly a third of the station's observation staff are Living Dream followers.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 1Centurion Station is an alien observation base on an unnamed planet near the Wall stars, where hundreds of species watched the Void; it is destroyed by gravity waves.
Connections
- led byLionWalker Eyrestation director
- led byLehr Trachtenbergdirector
- has memberGraffal Ehasz
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1Arrival at Centurion Station
The CNE Caragana lands at Centurion Station after 83 days; Inigo and the other new observers suit up and walk to the station.
- Book 1 · Ch 1Handover party and meeting the director
At the garden dome gala Inigo meets drunk director LionWalker Eyre, discusses the Void and sees DF7 rise, then goes to bed and dreams someone else's dream.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Justine plans Centurion trip
Justine and Paula discover the hangar was cleared and learn Living Dream is preparing for martial law and possible invasion of Viotia. Justine decides to go to Centurion Station to seek traces of the Second Dreamer.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Gravity waves strike Centurion Station
At Trachtenberg's party for Justine, gravity waves hit the station. The Void's boundary is expanding superluminally, and the Raiel's DF machines move into position, so the station begins evacuation.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Void devourment phase begins
Ethan reveals the Void began a devourment phase right after the Second Dreamer rejected the Skylord, which he expects will force him to dream again.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Centurion Station evacuated and destroyed
Gravity waves from the Raiel DF spheres and the Void's expansion wreck Centurion Station. Trachtenberg orders evacuation and all species flee; the station's structures collapse.