Halo
Names: Halothe new HaloHalo's AIthe yachtHalo City
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 58 (Broadcast Era, Year 8 Fate’s Choice)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 58Halo is a Halo Group corporate spaceship parked at the geosynchronous base; it has only five deep-sea-state capsules, so five can ride under maximum acceleration.
- Ch 58Halo can apparently voyage beyond the Solar System, surprising Cheng Xin, who thought it a planetary ship.
- Ch 58The new Halo is a miniature stellar spaceship seating twenty on planetary voyages and five for stellar flight, built by the board as Cheng Xin's mobile office.
- Ch 65The third ship named Halo, a small stellar yacht seating three, was returned to Cheng Xin by the Federation.
- Ch 67This Halo is the latest ship to bear the name, built only three years earlier; Cheng Xin and AA wake aboard it.
- Ch 69This new Halo is a small stellar yacht with capacity for four, a very redundant ecological system, and the ability to land directly on planets.
- Ch 69Halo has six small courtyards, each showing a different natural scene such as a lawn with brook, a copse with spring, and a beach.
- Ch 69Halo has an AI with a pleasant male voice that handles the voyage after the passengers confirm requests.
- Ch 70Halo is equipped with Engine Number One, a curvature propulsion drive capable of lightspeed flight, the only one of its kind.
- Ch 70Halo is a curvature propulsion ship that accelerates without hypergravity; it navigates automatically to most stars within fifty thousand light-years and will periodically hail others via gravitational waves.
- Ch 70Halo is the last curvature engine ship in the Solar System; it was sent to Pluto so Cheng Xin could take Luo Ji, and becomes the only 3D man-made object left.
- Ch 71Halo is a lightspeed yacht with a curvature engine; it crossed 286 light-years from the Solar System to DX3906 in fifty-two hours of ship time.
Connections
- part ofHalo Group
- related toCheng Xincarries Cheng Xin and AA to Pluto
- related toLuo Jihas unexplained history with the ship; its AI recognizes him
- inPlutolanded on Pluto's landing field
- related toCao Binsent Halo to Pluto
- related tocurvature propulsionuses it
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 67Cheng Xin and AA awaken at Jupiter
Cheng Xin and AA are woken on the Halo near Jupiter in Year 67. Cao Bin tells them an attack alert has sounded, though the cities are not hiding.
- Book 3 · Ch 69Federation requests an artifact rescue mission
Cao Bin asks Cheng Xin and AA to take Halo to Pluto to scatter museum artifacts in space and tells them Luo Ji wants to see them. They agree.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Flattened Earth and giant snowflakes
Cheng Xin, AA and Luo Ji watch the flattened Earth, whose frozen oceans form enormous snowflakes seen by telescope from fifty AU away.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Luo Ji reveals Halo's curvature drive
As Halo leaves Pluto, Luo Ji tells the women Halo has a lightspeed curvature engine and that they may go anywhere, explaining the secret program's history.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Luo Ji refuses to leave Pluto
Luo Ji declines to board and, using his authority over Halo, orders curvature propulsion, explaining that the black domain could be formed by lightspeed ship trails, and tells them to find the other survivors.
- Book 3 · Ch 70Halo enters lightspeed
Cheng Xin and AA select DX3906 as destination, and Halo accelerates to lightspeed, leaving the red two-dimensional Solar System behind.
- Book 3 · Ch 71Arrival at Planet Blue
Halo travels 286 light-years to DX3906, follows a landing beacon to Planet Blue, and meets Guan Yifan, who has waited for them.