Ultimate
Names: UltimateUltimate Law
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 8 (“Yet its engine lights up. We’ve observed that. When it went out for a second time, Blue Shadow wasn’t close enough to capture an image in time, so we don’t know where the light came from.”)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 8Its captain shot himself on the aft platform, murmuring 'Dark. It's so fucking dark.'
- Ch 8Ultimate Law launched twelve cloaked missiles with infrasonic H-bombs at the other four ships, killing everyone on Natural Selection, Enterprise and Deep Space.
- Ch 8Blue Space destroyed Ultimate Law with gamma-ray lasers, nuclear missiles and railgun fire, leaving no survivors.
Connections
- part ofStarship Earth
- enemy ofNatural SelectionUltimate Law attacked Natural Selection with infrasonic H-bombs
- enemy ofBlue SpaceBlue Space destroyed it in counterattack
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 8Droplet destroys Mantis and the first row of the fleet
Communications are jammed, the droplet ignites its tail halo, vaporizes the team and Mantis, then speeds through the fleet's first row of a hundred warships, detonating them in fusion explosions in 78 seconds.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Zhang Beihai's attack on the four ships
Zhang Beihai locks targets and arms infrasonic H-bombs against four pursuing ships, but hesitates; Ultimate Law strikes first and wipes out all aboard Natural Selection, including Zhang Beihai.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Blue Space destroys Ultimate Law and holds funeral
Blue Space, protected by vacuum, destroys Ultimate Law, salvages the dead ships, builds a space tomb for the victims, and departs into darkness. Bronze Age similarly destroys Quantum's crew far across the Solar System.