Neskia
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 8 (4)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 8Neskia runs the station; she is hairless with huge round eyes and a long neck sheathed in gold rings.
- Ch 8Neskia says the station is building twelve ultradrive engines to power the Pilgrimage fleet, and wants Troblum's expertise.
- Ch 10She runs the station, has a metallic neck and large eyes, and tells Troblum to follow his social interaction program in public.
- Ch 14Neskia controls the Advancer station's airlock security and says Marius brought Troblum there; she vows to blame him to Ilanthe.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 11Neskia is an Accelerator station chief ordered by Ilanthe to take command of the swarm and bring it to Sol.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1A Higher who ran the Accelerator Faction's clandestine fabrication station; she has biononically modified her body into a metallic-gray, wide-eyed form and is totally devoted to the Accelerators.
- Ch 1Chosen by faction leader Ilanthe to fly the ship, she waits twenty-three light-years from Sol for Ilanthe's next call.
- Ch 3Neskia is aboard the Accelerator ship with Ilanthe and dismisses ANA as having wasted its potential.
- Ch 12Neskia is a devoted Accelerator who distrusts Araminta's conversion and wants Marius to eliminate Gore; she is shocked by Ilanthe's true goal.
- Ch 21An Accelerator agent who surrendered to the warrior Raiel without fuss because she had nowhere to go after being abandoned.
- Ch 21Neskia agrees to give Paula the Sol barrier deactivation code in exchange for immunity and the right to settle on a world of her choice.
- Ch 21Neskia vows to found the real Accelerator faction, still believing in human evolutionary destiny, after learning that the cause she served never truly existed.
Connections
- leadsultradriveruns the station building the engines
- member ofAccelerators
- member ofAdvancers
- ally ofIlanthefaithful operative
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 8Journey to the station
Marius forces Troblum to carry Lucken to a secret station at a red dwarf; there Neskia reveals he must help build ultradrive engines for the Pilgrimage fleet.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Troblum meets the Cat
Marius brings the Cat to Troblum in the saloon; he recognizes her, is paralysed with fear, and retreats to his quarters, disturbed that the Accelerators revived her.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Troblum's escape
Marius attacks Troblum's suite but finds only a solido projector decoy; the ship in the airlock is also a decoy. Marius sends the Cat to kill Troblum.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Accelerators plan around Araminta
Ilanthe tests an Araminta replica, predicts she will turn to Laril, sends Atha to recover wreckage and orders Neskia to bring the swarm to Sol.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Neskia waits with the Swarm
Neskia parks the ship twenty-three light-years from Sol, confirms eight thousand ultradrives of the Swarm are ready, and awaits Ilanthe's call.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Inversion core escapes and the Swarm seals Sol
The inversion core breaks out into spacetime and outruns the warships and Kazimir. The Swarm of 8,001 devices englobes the Sol system, collapsing wormholes while the Accelerator ship picks up the core and flees behind the force field.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Ilanthe reveals her true plan
Ilanthe tells Neskia that Fusion was a misdirection and that the inversion core will rewrite the laws of spacetime across the universe, ending entropy.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Neskia surrenders the barrier code
Paula Myo bargains with the captured Accelerator agent Neskia aboard the Raiel warship; Neskia gives up the Sol barrier deactivation code in return for immunity.