Hawking m-sink
Names: Hawking m-sinkm-sinkM-sinks
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 10 (5)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 10A device containing a quantum black hole; it absorbed 327 tonnes of the machine and is carried in a regrav sled.
- Ch 14A Hawking m-sink is a tiny black hole with an enlarged event horizon that grows by absorbing matter; it is new and dangerous.
- Ch 14The m-sink will sink to Hanko's centre and consume the planet in about a fortnight; the continents will collapse within three or four days.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 18Hawking M-sinks are missiles that force fields cannot stop; Paula neutralizes them by flooding space with energized debris so they absorb mass.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 10Machine destroyed
The Delivery Man flies the Jomo into the hangar and vaporizes the whole planet-moving machine into the Hawking m-sink in forty minutes, then leaves Arevalo. Justine watches him depart.
- 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.