Hunter
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 71 (Galaxy Era, Year 409 Our Star)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 71Hunter is Guan Yifan's tiny numbered lightspeed ship named for a friend from Gravity; it lacks an ecological cycle, so long trips require hibernation.
- Ch 71A small tetrahedral ship with a curvature engine and a fusion engine; only the fusion engine is used for travel within a system.
- Ch 72Hunter is an orbiting ship whose powerful neural computer has an AI capable of natural language; ground-to-orbit communication suffers over ten seconds of delay.
Connections
- led byGuan Yifancontrols it as a drone
- related toPlanet Graytravels to and orbits it to investigate
- has memberGuan Yifancrew member of Hunter
- includesshuttle
- related toPlanet Blueorbits and scans
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 71Alert from Planet Gray
At midnight, before departure, Hunter relays an alert from the monitoring satellite orbiting Planet Gray, waking Guan Yifan.
- Book 3 · Ch 71Journey to Planet Gray aboard Hunter
After the satellite alert, Yifan and Cheng Xin leave AA, dock with Hunter and fly four days to Planet Gray. Yifan reveals dark truths about dimensional strikes and light tombs.
- Book 3 · Ch 72Awakening and exit from lightspeed
Cheng Xin and Guan Yifan wake after sixteen days, decelerate out of reduced lightspeed with antimatter engines, and find themselves inside the light tomb. They land on a purple Planet Blue.
- Book 3 · Ch 72Discovery of the carved message and the door
Cheng Xin insists on scanning for writing; Hunter finds fragments of giant carved words from AA and Tianming deep underground. A smart door appears, and the two walk through it hand in hand.