Mercury
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 6 (Year 20, Crisis Era)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 6The underground test on Mercury threw up rock that formed a thin ring around the planet, making it the first ringed terrestrial planet.
- Ch 6The Mercury shaft reached only one-third of its planned depth because of a very hard metal-and-rock layer; Rey Diaz insisted on testing anyway.
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 70A secret curvature propulsion research base was built in a crater blasted by Manuel Rey Diaz's hydrogen bombs on Mercury, disguised as a solar activity institute.
Connections
- part ofThe sunMercury orbits closest to the sun
- related toManuel Rey Diazblasted a crater there with hydrogen bombs, later site of the secret base
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 6Mercury underground test
The stellar hydrogen bomb is detonated in a shaft on Mercury at one-third the planned depth, throwing up a mountain of rock, a five-minute fireball, and a ring around the planet.