Poseidon
Names: Poseidonplanet threeThree
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 4 (4. Water Planet)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 4The third planet is entirely ocean, about 800 km deep, with no land at all, yet has an Earth-like oxygen atmosphere.
- Ch 4Kilometers-wide floating plant mats produce the planet's oxygen and host a rich, highly biocompatible ecosystem.
- Ch 49Poseidon has a global ocean eight hundred kilometres deep and no land; colonists settle on huge floating vegetation mats.
- Ch 62Poseidon has three mat colonies running, two floating cities nearly complete, and no kraken attack in three months.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 8Twenty years after decanting, over ninety percent of Poseidon's humans still live on the floating mats, contrary to early expectations.
- Ch 35Orbital autofactories are building cities; about a dozen more will lift Poseidon's entire population into the air.
- Ch 39Poseidon's humans now live in aerial cities; the aquatic floating cities are being converted entirely to industrial use.
Connections
- part ofEta Cassiopeiae
- containsKraken
- inEta Cassiopeiae
- led byChief Draperhead of the colony setup
- containsMarcus
- containsWest Mat Four
- containsGreat Northern Mat
- containsThark
- containsAmhor
- includesPelias
- led byMarcusChairman Pro Tem
- containsNew Thark
- containsWest Indies mat
- related toMarcushas engineering friends on Poseidon
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mulder surveys a water world
Mulder discovers Eta Cassiopeiae's third planet is a landless ocean world with oxygen-producing plant mats and a biocompatible ecosystem.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Mulder joins BobNet
Mulder builds a SCUT from Bill's plans and connects to BobNet; Bill instantly appears in his VR across twenty light-years, and Mulder reports Poseidon.
- Book 2 · Ch 49Colony arrives at Poseidon
Monty and Marcus arrive at Poseidon; colonists begin settling on large floating mats in the tropics, waking in small groups.
- Book 2 · Ch 49Kraken kill settlers
After more settlers are taken by kraken, Marcus proposes an electrified defensive net, delaying the colony by six months.
- Book 2 · Ch 62Mulder departs Poseidon
Mulder files his final report and leaves Poseidon for a new system, Monty heads back to Earth, and Marcus remains, showing off his aerial city prototype.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Marcus joins the conspiracy
Kal and Gina convince Marcus that the Poseidon Administrative Council is grabbing power; he agrees to help as a wild card and resolves to make a personal appearance, calling Howard.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Council rejects flying cities
Marcus proposes his flying cities to Councilors Benben, Murray and Brennan, who reject them, insisting people must live where labour is needed and dismissing Riker's agreement.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Council crackdown and bugs found
The Council cuts off supplies and reassigns Gina and Denu; Marcus's roamers find three bugs in Kal's apartment, and the group switch to secure communicators, now officially revolutionaries.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Gina warns of war
Gina convinces Marcus that the Council will see the flying cities as war and target him, and he agrees to take security seriously.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Standoff over Thark emigrants
Council security blocks citizens from flyers bound for the aerial city Thark; Marcus lands cargo drones behind the crowd and carries them off without violence.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Riker relays the Council's complaint
At the Poseidon Council's request, Riker talks to Marcus about fomenting revolution; he sympathises but warns him not to get anyone killed.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Council blows up Marcus's decoy
While Marcus discusses the Council's moves with his allies, the Council destroys his decoy in space.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Council attacks the cities
Believing Marcus dead, the Council tries to seize four cities, attacks Amhor with missiles, threatens to shoot down cities, and downs Thark.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Marcus strikes back
Marcus's busters disable all tracked Council ships and squads of roamers overwhelm Council security; Kal's group takes the comms center.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Council attacks Aanthor, Kaol and Ptarth
Council warships fire missiles at several flying cities; Marcus's busters down seven attackers and track the two survivors home.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Capture of Brennan
Gina leads security forces, backed by Marcus's busters and roamers, to storm the Council's hidden airbase and capture Brennan.
- Book 3 · Ch 39Marcus retires
Voted out of office and with no duties left on Poseidon, Marcus tells Kal he is considering oceanography using an android dolphin body.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Leviathan passes
A huge leviathan glides beneath the pod near the mat; everyone keeps still until it passes, and Marcus alerts Perimeter Security.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Bob audit on Poseidon
Marcus asks Guppy for a summary of the audit of the Bobs' industrial presence in the Poseidon system.