Gelden

Did Korkal, or Jim, or Outsider, or that oddball pacifist Hunzza, Harpalaos, know where Gelden was?

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The disappearance of that fleet as it approached Gelden coincided with the transformation of Gelden's star into a singularity, a black hole.

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Sun-poppers would deal with the red giant, and lesser weapons would deal with Gelden and whoever, or whatever, now lived on the surface of that doomed planet.

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Most humans were still making the transition from hunting large animals to planting small fields when Hunzzan astronomers noticed that the F7 star around which the planet Gelden revolved had vanished After the star reappeared twelve days later, they reported the incident to Hunzza Prime, and the Imperial Nest took notice.

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And Gelden had devastated Hunzza as casually as self might swat a fly.

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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN in the world of proper time, in the world of flesh and blood, the Gelden singularity was a twist of nothingness that tugged and pulled at vision.

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Jim moved his patterns of his existence closer to the Gelden singularity.

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The news that Lord Denai had revealed the most secret -- the existence of Gelden, and what Gelden Serena Half Moon had made his actions inevitable.

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Just like what Gelden did, five thousand years ago.

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If there was a link between Terra and Gelden, transmitted through Jim Endicott and the mind arrays, then he could see possible weakness in it: the arrays themselves.

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