Quin
Names: QuinQuinlan home planet
First appears in Book 4: Heaven’s River, chapter 14 (14. Council of War)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 14Bridget names the Quinlan home planet Quin and vetoes using it for full manny testing, fearing biological warfare agents.
- Ch 15A dead Quin city is built along a river and crisscrossed by diamond-shaped canals, with artful tinted windows and abundant green space.
- Ch 15Quin's buildings are well preserved, with non-glass windows, possibly due to an absence of decay organisms.
- Ch 18A former Quinlan capital on Quin was bombed with explosives and hit with an engineered virus, according to Skippies modelling.
- Ch 66Quin was ravaged by simultaneous wars and attacks and left dying, after which all survivors fled to Heaven's River.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 30A VR of pre-Jackpot Quin, built from ANEC's archival footage, is now a second-level VR for ex-Quinlans.
Connections
- related toSnarkshome planet
- containsSnarks
- part ofQuiniversesecond-level VR
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 15Field test on Quin
Bob and Bridget land Quinlan mannies in a dead city on Quin, explore its canals and a government building, and Bridget autopsies a corpse.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Viral evidence found
Bridget finds remains of a large viral load in the corpse and sends scans to the Skippies for simulation.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Will and Howard swim the ruins of Quin
Will invites Howard to try Quinlan mannies in a bombed former capital on Quin; they swim the canals and examine wrecks.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Howard breaks his manny
A strong current pulls Howard through a tunnel between canals and flings him onto rocks, badly damaging his manny; roamers retrieve it.
- Book 5 · Ch 16Death of Theresa Sykorski
Bob, in his quinny Enoki, attends Theresa Sykorski's death at the family villa and scans her brain amid her relatives' unease.