DMZ
Names: DMZfirewallDMZ system
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 28 (Chapter Twenty-Eight: Wish Granted)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 28The system beyond the gate is empty space with only an asteroid station and two wormholes, acting as a firewall protecting a destination.
Connections
- containsSentry ships
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 28Captured by sentries
Passing through a gate from Hub Zero, Icarus and Daedalus fail to give a valid response to automated sentry ships and are towed by tractor beam to an asteroid station.
- Book 5 · Ch 28The dead prisoner
Surveying their prison, they find another long-held automated ship that has run out of fuel and died, hinting at their own fate.
- Book 5 · Ch 56Questioning the sentries in Roanokian
Using a drone speaking Roanokian, Icarus learns from the DMZ sentries that all member civilizations went through a gate, and that Security Central has been silent for millennia.