Primes
Names: PrimesPrime aliensPrimemotile
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 2The Primes are aliens pathologically hostile to non-Prime life, whose escaped member, the Starflyer, manipulated humans into opening the Dyson Alpha force field.
- Ch 12The Primes attacked Hanko with flare bombs in the star, and the Navy's quantumbuster counter-strike destroyed the biosphere.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 8Primes were thought contained twelve hundred years ago; a dead motile aboard an allied warship shows the Ocisen Empire has them as allies.
- Ch 11Surviving Primes on five Lost23 worlds accessed human legal memories and surrendered, citing human rights law; Admiral Columbia let them live.
- Ch 11Primes in the Commonwealth know humanity would exterminate them if they threatened again, so they are unlikely to cooperate willingly with the Accelerators.
- Ch 11A captured Prime warship exploded just before marine teams could board it, denying Kazimir a living immotile.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1The Prime ships carry human thoughts derived from Chatfield in Prime bodies; each ship is controlled by an immotile that governs the technology and motiles.
- Ch 10The Prime are a paranoid, aggressive, heavily armed species with biogenetically embedded xenophobia, trying to expand in slower-than-light starships; they genocidally invaded the Dyson Beta civilization.
Connections
- ally ofOcisen Empire
- related toOcisen EmpirePrime warships accompany the Ocisen fleet
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 8Battle with the Ocisen fleet
Commonwealth stealth ships tear a Starslayer command vessel from its wormhole and destroy two unknown allied ships, losing the Congo. Scans reveal a dead Prime motile aboard.
- Book 2 · Ch 11ANA reveals Primes with the Ocisen fleet
ANA: Governance told Ethan that Prime warships accompany the approaching Ocisen fleet and asked him to quarantine the wreckage.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Prime warship destroyed during capture
Navy ships pull a Prime warship out of hyperspace and disable it, but it explodes before marines board. Kazimir then orders the deterrence fleet launched.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Kazimir neutralizes the Ocisen fleet
Kazimir disables the Prime ships and ruins all Ocisen weapons in eleven seconds, discovers the Primes host Chatfield-derived minds, and warns them of navy custody.