Last Throw
First appears in Book 3: The Evolutionary Void, chapter 5 (THREE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 5Last Throw is Gore's ultradrive ship, designed and built by the Conservative Faction; the Delivery Man had been flying it unnamed.
- Ch 10The Last Throw travels at fifty-five light-years an hour and dropped confluence nest satellites in orbit around the Anomine star.
- Ch 10Last Throw's sensors detected 124 functional advanced devices on the Anomine homeworld.
- Ch 16The Last Throw is Gore's starship; a stealthed ship that followed them from the Leo Twins keeps watching from five million kilometers away.
- Ch 18Last Throw is being refitted with a Stardiver-derived design to withstand a star's energy at zero range.
- Ch 20The Last Throw is descending through a star's photosphere into the convection zone toward the siphon, protected by super-reinforced force fields and hyperspace-shunting drives.
- Ch 20The starship presses its force field against the siphon's shield and uses TD channels to probe the siphon's control network and load infiltrator packages.
- Ch 20The Delivery Man's ship escaped the star's gravity gradient in two seconds using an ultradrive never designed for stellar gravity.
Connections
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Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 5Departure for the Anomine homeworld
Gore collects five confluence nest satellites and flies Last Throw into hyperspace while Marius pursues on Ilanthe's orders.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Passing the borderguard
The Last Throw drops out of ultradrive beside a borderguard; the smartcore negotiates, claiming humans seek to emulate the Anomine, and receives permission to examine items on the homeworld without removing them.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival at the Anomine homeworld
Gore admits he has no firm knowledge where the elevation mechanism is. They settle into orbit to map the planet for anomalies and consider talking to natives.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Discovery of the power siphon
The Last Throw flies to the star and finds a force-field disc inside the convection zone. Gore proposes descending to infiltrate it.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Descent into the star
The Delivery Man pilots the Last Throw through a star's photosphere into the convection zone toward the siphon, guided by Gore.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Hacking the siphon
The Delivery Man maneuvers Last Throw to the siphon, probes its control network, loads infiltrator packages, and on Gore's order starts the wormhole and power-up sequence.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Marius novas the Anomine star
Marius fires novabombs into the star to destroy the power station feeding the elevation mechanism; the Delivery Man barely escapes in the Last Throw as the nova begins.