Silverbird
Names: Silverbirdthe Silverbirdsthe little starshipthe starship
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 14 (7)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 14The Silverbird may have an ultradrive, which Trachtenberg suspects.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 1The Silverbird is Justine's purple ovoid, ANA-designed ultradrive starship with a smartcore; it outpaces all other evacuating ships and heads to the Wall stars.
- Ch 3The Silverbird is Justine's ship, crossing the Gulf toward the Void boundary.
- Ch 3The Silverbird crossed into the Void when the boundary opened a cone for it, damaged by radiation burns and shock waves; the Raiel warships then turned back.
- Ch 3The Silverbird is a ship making hyperspace jumps near the Void, battered by radiation while Raiel warships destroy a gas giant.
- Ch 6The Silverbird's hyperdrive is inoperative because the quantum state of its location doesn't match the external universe's parameters.
- Ch 6The Silverbird can run indefinitely on its direct mass converter and has a level-seven replicator, maintenance bots, and a medical cabinet that can hold Justine in stasis over a century.
- Ch 6Sophisticated systems on the Silverbird suffer unexplained glitches that vanish under real-time review, suggesting the Void is hostile to technology.
- Ch 6Justine sets the ingrav to accelerate the Silverbird to 0.7 lightspeed toward the nearest star, three light-years away, a trip of just over four years.
- Ch 10Silverbird carried Justine through three years of suspension toward a star about a light-year away; it decelerated to meet the Skylord, then re-accelerated to 0.7 lightspeed.
- Ch 10The Silverbird's glitches were minimal while Justine was in suspension.
- Ch 13The Silverbird suffers growing glitches inside the Void: ingrav efficiency falls, sensors degrade, and after landing none of its drives work, for no discoverable reason.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 2The Silverbird's course heads past a slipper-orchid-shaped nebula eleven light-years away toward an unseen destination.
- Ch 17Silverbird travelled at 0.9 lightspeed and has degraded over forty years, with all drives except the ultradrive working above eighty percent efficiency.
Connections
- related toJustine Burnellipilots
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 3Justine's chase to the Void
Raiel warships pursue the Silverbird with hyperspace shock waves; Araminta, via the gaiafield, asks a Skylord to open the boundary, and Justine enters the Void.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Arrival lost in the Void
Justine survives passing through the Void boundary but finds the hyperdrive dead, no boundary, no nearby mass, and unrecognizable nebulae. She discovers she can use Farsight.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Silverbird lands on the dream world
Justine wakes, sees an H-congruent planet, and crash-lands the Silverbird beside a replica of the Grand Triad, a landing she realises was predetermined.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Reset confirmed and second Skylord encounter
Justine wakes in the reset timeline, meets the Skylord again, and persuades it to take her to Querencia; it accelerates the Silverbird to 0.93 lightspeed.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Justine enters suspension
Told the trip will take until Querencia has orbited thirty-seven times, Justine shuts down the confluence nest and enters suspension for the rest of the flight.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Justine wakes near Querencia
Justine leaves suspension after forty years, recovers, and sees Querencia and nearby nebulae as the Skylord carries her in; she dismisses it and her ship goes on alone.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Silverbird lands in Golden Park
After preparing supplies and a pistol, Justine lands the Silverbird in overgrown Golden Park in Makkathran, using the confluence nest to keep failing systems working through a rough descent.