orbital spaceport
Names: orbital spaceportspaceport
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 15 (Deterrence Era, Year 12 Bronze Age)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 58Panicking crowds swamp the spaceport; some people launch shuttles amid the crowd, incinerating dozens with fusion plasma, and empty flying cars block launches.
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 15Bronze Age returns to Earth
After eleven years, Bronze Age is escorted by Gravity into the orbital spaceport, where a crowd welcomes the crew with flowers.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Crew arrested
After roll call, the welcome turns out to be a deception. The fleet captain dishonorably discharges the crew, and military police arrest them for murder and crimes against humanity.
- Book 3 · Ch 58Photoid alarm panic
A window avalanche reports Observation Unit #1 detected a photoid; unconfirmed officially, the public panics and flees to spaceports, causing chaos and crashes.
- Book 3 · Ch 58AA selects three children
At the spaceport, Cheng Xin asks to take stranded space-camp children; AA can take only three and chooses by three puzzle questions.
- Book 3 · Ch 58Launch frenzy and Cheng Xin's refusal
Shuttles launch amid the crowd, killing many; AA prepares to launch first, but Cheng Xin refuses because people are nearby.