power siphon
Names: power siphonsiphonsiphon force field
First appears in Book 3: The Evolutionary Void, chapter 16 (NINE)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 16A fifty-kilometer lenticular force-field disc held by gravatonic manipulation two thousand kilometers below the star's surface, it is a huge mass-energy converter powering the elevation mechanism.
- Ch 20The siphon is a fifty-kilometer lens-shaped force field with a giant generator inside, drawing two-million-degree hydrogen through its rim; its control is a distributed AI routine.
Connections
- related toelevation mechanismsupplies power via the zero-width wormhole
Key moments
- 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.