Wormhole hub
Names: Wormhole hubmajor hubAlien System
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 8 (Chapter Eight: Wormholes)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 8The system beyond the second wormhole shows hundreds of microwave signals, suggesting a major wormhole hub.
- Ch 12The hub system contains 342 wormhole gates, each flanked by satellites aligned with the galactic axis.
Connections
- containsWormhole network
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 8Icarus reaches the hub
Icarus flies through the second wormhole and finds himself 1,700 light-years away in a system detecting hundreds of wormhole signals, a major hub.
- Book 5 · Ch 12Decoding the gate addresses
Icarus and Daedalus find the radio frequency that makes wormhole satellites reply with address packets, identify source and destination fields, and map them to galactic coordinates.
- Book 5 · Ch 12Plan to follow the network
Seeing long-distance links, Icarus proposes using the network to travel around the galaxy, choosing a destination about seven degrees around as the next hub.