Poseidon Administrative Council
Names: Poseidon Administrative CouncilCouncilPoseidon Council
First appears in Book 3: All These Worlds, chapter 3 (Trouble Brewing)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 3The Poseidon Administrative Council has stopped pretending it will hold elections, suggesting a drift toward totalitarian rule.
- Ch 8The Council dictates where people live and work, has declared Riker's founding agreement non-binding, and bans Marcus's flying cities.
- Ch 8After rejecting Marcus, the Council cuts the conspirators' supplies, reassigns Gina and Denu, and plants listening bugs in Kal's home.
- Ch 13The Council has long had administrative access to autofactories and printers and could have built things Marcus doesn't know about.
- Ch 16The Council sends security squads to block citizens from boarding flyers to the aerial cities.
- Ch 16The Council punishes dissent with penalties ranging from loss of privileges to house arrest and incarceration.
- Ch 19The Council declares the flying-city residents deserters, cuts off trade and contact, confiscates their assets and issues arrest warrants.
- Ch 19The Council locks Marcus out of colony systems and seizes the materials stockpiles and autofactories at the Lagrange points.
- Ch 26The Council secretly built armed cargo ships and tried to board the cities Lothar, Morbus, Xanator and Gathol, but was repelled.
- Ch 26The Council members' locations are unknown; Marcus suspects they are hiding in submarines.
- Ch 31The Council built warships modeled on version-3 Heaven vessels, apparently using designs from BobNet.
- Ch 31The Council's fleet was based at a mat disguised as an automated farming platform.
- Ch 35Five of the seven Council members have been captured; the other two may have escaped in submarines.
- Ch 35Four captured Council members face trial for the hundred and fifty deaths of Thark citizens, likely sentenced to fish plant labor.
Connections
- enemy ofKalopposes its power grabs
- enemy ofGinaopposes its power grabs
- has memberCouncilor Benben
- has memberCouncilor Murray
- has memberCouncilor Brennan
- enemy ofRevolutionary Council
- enemy ofMarcus
- led byGinaChairperson of the new Council
Key moments
- 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 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 19Council declares city residents deserters
The Poseidon Council declares the flying-city residents deserters, issues arrest warrants, locks Marcus out of colony systems and seizes the Lagrange stockpiles.
- 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 35Poseidon's new government
A month after the uprising, Marcus, Kal, Denu, Gina and Vinnie meet as Poseidon's new government to decide the fate of captured Council members and plan elections.