elevation mechanism
Names: elevation mechanismmechanismAnomine elevation mechanismthe machine
First appears in Book 3: The Evolutionary Void, chapter 10 (SIX)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 16The plaza is a solid cylinder about five hundred meters deep, made of inert long-chain molecules, and only Anomine minds could reawaken it.
- Ch 16Gore deduces at least fifty-four elevation mechanisms exist, each beside a zero-width wormhole and an open plaza.
- Ch 18The elevation mechanism refuses to lift Gore because he is not Anomine; it exists only to lift Anomine to their next stage.
- Ch 20The elevation mechanism's hidden sentinels resist Gore's infiltration packages, and its consciousness declares the attempt to steal its nature an act of hostility.
Connections
- related topower siphonsupplies power via the zero-width wormhole
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 16Tyzak refuses to activate the machine
Tyzak reveals the plaza is the elevation mechanism but declines to reawaken it, so Gore plans to hack it and checks its power source.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Elevation mechanism awakened and refuses Gore
Tyzak agrees to ask the elevation mechanism to awaken, but it refuses to elevate Gore, so Gore plans to hack it after reactivating the siphon.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Marius attacks the Delivery Man's ship
Marius fires quantumbusters at the ship in the star; a borderguard destroys them. Gore is exposed and the elevation mechanism denounces his hostile infiltration.