Halo City
Names: Halo CityHalo
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 64 (Bunker Era, Year 11 Lightspeed II)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 64Halo City is a medium space city, with interior area between fifty and two hundred square kilometers, far from the Jovian city cluster, almost outside Jupiter's shadow.
- Ch 65Halo City is a wheel-plan space city at the Sun-Jupiter L2 point, outside Federation jurisdiction, built by the Halo Group as a research center.
- Ch 65Halo City declared independence from the Federation and was under a two-week blockade by more than twenty stellar-class warships.
- Ch 65Halo City is a ring-shaped tunnel over thirty kilometers long with parks and real birds, comprising the Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the accelerator Control Center.
Connections
- part ofHalo Group
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 65Passing the blockade
Cheng Xin and Cao Bin's dinghy meets the Federation blockade; envoy Blair and the president allow Cheng Xin in, hoping she will persuade Halo City to stop resisting.
- Book 3 · Ch 65Curvature propulsion demonstration
In a sophon-free lab, Wade and Bi Yunfeng use Cheng Xin's hair to demonstrate curvature propulsion, moving it two centimeters, and argue lightspeed ships are near.
- Book 3 · Ch 65Cheng Xin forces Halo City's disarmament
Shown the antimatter bullets, Cheng Xin demands Wade surrender them and stop resistance. Wade relents, the soldiers pile their bandoliers, and agents in other cities are ordered to surrender.