Roanoke
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 52 (Chapter Fifty-Two: Re-Arrival)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 52Roanoke, their first alien civilization, fifty light-years from Earth, is chosen because it is intact, modest in size and likely has printed books.
- Ch 52Roanoke's cities are ringed by greenbelts and linked by suspended monorails, suggesting a planet without overpopulation.
- Ch 52Automated mechs on Roanoke still perform ongoing building maintenance despite the planet being uninhabited.
- Ch 54Roanoke shows no corpses, abandoned vehicles or affected wildlife, suggesting an orderly, planned exodus.
- Ch 54A three-day SUDDAR sweep finds no hidden Roanokian population underground.
Connections
- related toEarthfifty light-years from Earth
- containsRoanoke library
- containsRoanokiansnative species, now absent
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 52A library is found on Roanoke
Drones and roamers map a Roanoke town, observe automated maintenance, and discover a book repository that a roamer manages to enter.
- Book 5 · Ch 54Scanning the Roanoke library
Roamers scan the library's books while Icarus and Daedalus, in mannies, study Roanokian writing and the planet's abandoned state.
- Book 5 · Ch 54SUDDAR sweep finds no Roanokians
A three-day planetary SUDDAR survey finds no hidden population, convincing Daedalus that the whole population left in an orderly manner.