Lindau
Names: LindauCNE Lindau
First appears in Book 2: The Temporal Void, chapter 5 (THREE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 5The navy scout ship Lindau contacts Aaron on his emergency band while he crosses the frozen plain.
- Ch 8Communication with the Lindau was lost, but Kazimir can still track it through the secondary transdimensional channel all navy ship drives emit; it remains on Hanko.
- Ch 8The Lindau is badly damaged by the high-gee runs in Hanko's storms, with a snapped stress strut, gas leaks and power loss to drive support systems.
- Ch 11The Lindau is a borrowed navy starship, badly damaged by Aaron's extreme maneuvers, now waiting a million kilometers from Hanko while bots repair it.
- Ch 11The Lindau needs about three more hours of repairs to make its drive and power systems reliable, and would be easily tracked anywhere it appeared.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Has left the Hanko system on a steady course toward the Spike, flying slower than capable, possibly damaged.
- Ch 8The Lindau is a small, damaged scout ship, with broken furniture and a corrupted culinary unit, still in hyperspace en route to the Spike.
- Ch 10The Lindau is the starship carrying Aaron, Inigo and Corrie-Lyn; it docks on a landing pad on an H-congruous tube of the Spike.
Connections
- related toAaronAaron commandeered the ship and is taking it to the Spike
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 5Lindau contacts Aaron
While heading to Jajaani, Aaron receives a hail from the navy scout ship Lindau on the emergency band.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Lindau lost; Yangtze dispatched
Kazimir reports communications with the Lindau lost, possibly taken by Aaron. He tracks it still on Hanko and sends the River-class Yangtze.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Aaron searches Hanko in the storm
Aaron pilots the Lindau at extreme speed and gee-forces through Hanko's terminal storms, sweeping strips of terrain for something, and the ship suffers serious damage.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Escape from Hanko aboard the Lindau
Aaron gets Corrie-Lyn and Inigo aboard the damaged Lindau, which launches off Hanko. They discover the crew dead, Corrie-Lyn is treated, and Aaron admits he does not know where to go next.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Breakfast clash aboard the Lindau
After a nightmare, Aaron breakfasts with captives Inigo and Corrie-Lyn, argues with Corrie-Lyn, and tells Inigo he'd kill him if he were taken.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Inigo and Corrie-Lyn reconcile
Corrie-Lyn confronts Inigo about abandoning Living Dream; he explains his reasons, they pledge to stop the Void together and become intimate.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Aaron's nightmare shared
Corrie-Lyn is woken by Aaron's tormented memories via his gaiamotes. At breakfast she confronts him; he denies impairment while Inigo and she urge him to prepare for a breakdown.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Aaron breaks down
Under the amplified emotions of Ozzie's dream, Aaron blasts open the cabin door and threatens Inigo and Corrie-Lyn. Inigo persuades him the trauma is internal, and Aaron falls into an emotionless fallback mode.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Telepathy experiments
Inigo and Corrie-Lyn find they can sense each other's minds and emotions, and experiment with the effect for hours, finding it disquieting and exposing.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival at the Spike
The Lindau arrives, receives docking permission from the Spike's AI, and lands on a tube pad. Aaron decides to seek Isaacs in the largest human settlement.