Landing
Names: LandingLanding City
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 5 (5. Progress)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 5The colony town on Vulcan is officially named Landing.
- Ch 16Landing abolished private vehicles, using communal AMI-driven transport, and looks established only three months after landing.
- Ch 29Landing's fences will be reinforced with metal rods driven twenty feet down to stop raptors digging under.
Connections
- inVulcan
- containsGroggery
- containsThe Shaded Green
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 5Raptors kill two colonists
Raptors sneak into camp behind log trucks and kill two colonists, prompting debate over whether they are intelligent.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Butterworth learns of the Others
Howard tells Butterworth about the Others' planet-stripping genocide; the colonel erupts, and Howard explains Mario's scouting and Bill's weapons work.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Raptors breach Landing
Raptors tunnel under the fence into Landing; Howard's drones find them hiding in a shed, but they escape back out without killing anyone.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Howard introduces Bridget and Stéphane
Howard brings Bridget and Stéphane together for beers to set up unofficial channels that bypass the colony committee.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Mall date and mockery
On a lunch date at Landing's mall, a teenager mocks Howard and Bridget's apparent age difference; Bridget tells Howard her family has no vote in her relationships.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Butterworth's suicide
After a movie date, Howard and Bridget learn from the coroner that George Butterworth has died by neurotoxin; his note to Howard explains his incurable dementia and his refusal to be replicated.