Caledonia
Names: CaledoniaRé NuadhCalliethe Scottish planetPlanet 4 of GrianGrian Planet 4
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 46 (43 ISLAY, INNER HEBRIDES, SCOTLAND, EARTH 16 FEBRUARY 2054)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 46Most of Islay's former hardscrabble population emigrated to the 'Scottish' planet Caledonia.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 5The first Scottish ethnic colony, a chilly, volcanic ocean world 533 lightyears from Earth, with about a million people in 2054 and many Rebel-leaning normals.
- Ch 5Its economy exports pearls, industrial and colored diamonds, wool, whisky and biochemicals from native balloonflora cultivated in airfarming.
- Ch 9Caledonia is a Scottish frontier planet where Ian's farm lies in a region opened to settlers only ten years earlier.
- Ch 9Caledonia is a cloudy, rainy, island-strewn world with violent thunderstorms and volcanoes; its only starport lacks sigma generators for shielded starship cradles.
- Ch 10A Scottish ethnic world where exotics and non-Scots may visit and work temporarily but not settle; most plants have colored leaves.
- Ch 10Scots chose it after the Great Intervention, when Simbiari Proctors set up ethnic worlds, for its tartan-like forests and crags.
- Ch 10Caledonia is a Scots-settled frontier world with ecological modification, pearls as a principal export, and volcanoes; capital New Glasgow, beyond which lands are wild.
- Ch 14An ethnic planet where the Rebel faction is especially well entrenched.
- Ch 23Scottish ethnic planet with diamonds in odd colors, tinted pearls, and tartan-colored trees; capital is New Glasgow.
- Ch 23Caledonia has nineteen small continents, each with one craton; seven seismically active ones are uncolonized and twelve are populated.
- Ch 23Deep seismic activity has increased across Caledonia's northern hemisphere in three years, notably around Clyde, including a kimberlite diatreme, the first in thirty thousand orbits.
- Ch 23Caledonia has only three grandmasterclass CE operators; forty-two Caledonian geophysicists are training for certification on Satsuma.
- Ch 24Colonial planet threatened by magma volatiles; diamonds are very common there. It is spring at Windlestrow Muir.
- Ch 25If the operation had aborted, the eruption would have thrown enough ash to devastate Caledonia's atmosphere.
- Ch 26Caledonia was saved from a devastating eruption by the ten-mind metacreative operation, which turned it into a harmless diatreme blowout.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 3A colony planet saved from a threatening diatreme eruption by metaconcerted mindpower, which ended in a shower of diamonds.
- Ch 4A CE-equipped geophysical team triumphantly modified a diatreme on Caledonia in November 2077; the Dirigent nearly died in the operation.
- Ch 7A sparsely populated Scottish ethnic world of about a million people, with little dry land, whose people are prickly and antiestablishment; motto 'Safe Is My Haven'.
- Ch 7Saint Andy's cathedral on Caledonia was destroyed by the diatreme; Beinn Bhiorach, the Macdonald farm, was untouched.
- Ch 25Scottish-flavored planet 533 lightyears from Earth, with Rebel sympathies among its people; its fungoids are never exported.
Connections
- includesBeinn Bhiorach
- containsKyle Macdonald
- containsDaddy
- containsWester Killiecrankie Starport
- includesClyde
- containsGlen Tuath Farm
- containsLoch Tuath
- led byDiamond MaskFirst Deputy Dirigent
- led byGraeme HamiltonPlanetary Dirigent until his death
- has memberNarendra Shah MacNabbchief surveyor of the planet
- containsWindlestrow Loch
- containsWindlestrow safety bunker
- containsCouthy 'Shroom
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 5Birth of Dorothea
Dorothea was born in 2057 on Caledonia, latent but healthy and with extraordinary potential; she needed to be taken to Earth for proper evaluation and treatment.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Arrival at Caledonia
The ship exits hyperspace, descends through storms and airplant sparks, and splashes down near Wester Killiecrankie Starport; Gran hurries Dee off to decontamination.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Kyle collects the family
Next morning Kyle greets the children, is stunned by rejuvenated Masha, warns the children about farm life, and flies them across Clyde toward Glen Tuath.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Gaelic quarrel in the egg
Kyle and Masha argue in Gaelic over his drinking and seditious plotting against the Milieu; Dee translates and learns of Ian's alleged involvement and Masha's intent to stay.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Torachan attack on GT-10
Torachan hidden in Ken's cargo shred his storage cells and gas envelope. His flitter spins and sinks, the pylon bolts fail, and the backup frees the fuselage, but the parafoil fouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee rescues Ken with psychokinesis
Prompted by the angel, Dee halts time, untangles the parafoil, and lands Ken softly on a grassy islet. Her father sees everything, and the flight recorder logged it, so she cannot hide her powers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Rebel meeting in the tavern
Rebels debrief Masha about Jack Remillard, her grandchildren's potential, and her upcoming trip to New Hampshire, and ask her to learn Catherine's stance on Unity.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Masha and Kyle reunite
After the others leave in egg-limousines, Masha and Kyle flee in his Porsche egg, cancel her hired transport, and surrender to their old passion while heading toward Beinn Bhiorach.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Dee's last farm chores
After a quiet breakfast, Dee trucks feed to the livestock and says goodbye to Cutach and Pigean before leaving for Earth.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Ian's request
Ian asks Dee to find out why Viola was killed, then recoils when Dee mentally compels him to wait. She promises to investigate.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Departure for Earth
After goodbyes with Janet and Ian, Dee, Ken, Masha and Kyle leave in the egg flyer for Clyde and Earth.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Dorothée becomes Deputy Dirigent
At sixteen she becomes a Magnate and is appointed First Deputy Dirigent of Caledonia under Graeme Hamilton, thwarting the Rebels' plan.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Dorothée asks the Remillards for help
At a wedding, Dorothée explains Caledonia's seismic threat and hopes Marc and Jack will test CEREM equipment there. Rogi's joke about her three grandmasters embarrasses her, and she leaves.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Dual metaconcert plan agreed
Jon proposes pairing himself and the Dirigent in a double metaconcert to contain Caledonia's magma; the group agrees, and the driller team goes to collect magma data before training.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Descent and confidences
During the hours-long descent Jack and Dorothea share life stories, and her hostility toward him gives way to sympathy.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Degassing begins and the queue ruptures
Jack and Dorothea form a lid over the magma reservoir while the other eight separate volatiles. Hours in, the rising queue breaks through the sheath and the alarm sounds.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Dysergism and flashover
Diamond's unexpected surge of creativity overwhelms the metaconcert, the reservoir lid collapses and flashover badly injures her. Jack rebuilds the metaconcert and a new, thicker lid holds.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Mysterious helper joins the metaconcert
As Jack prepares to abort, an unidentified powerful mind speaks by CE-enhanced farspeech, offers to phase in as a creativity brainboard and shouts to continue; Jack recognizes it with hysterical laughter.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Dorothea reveals her face to Ian
At the Intendant Assembly dining room, Dorothea persuades her sulking father to give her away at her wedding to Jack, showing him her old face and her scarred true face.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Tri-D debate and tense green room
After the televised debate, loyalists and Rebels spar over the loyalty oath, arms buildup and sequestration; Paul vows to prove the Rebels are stockpiling weapons.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Fury attacks Paul and kills Fred
In Hellfire Lane, Fury, disguised as Terekev, coerces Paul and brainburns him. Fred claws Fury and is killed. Denis briefly surfaces and Fury abandons the feeding, escaping by d-jump to Wester Killiecrankie Starport.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Ian's secret appeal
Ian asks Dorothea and Jack, on behalf of a Rebel faction, whether war can be averted; they reveal the loyalist strategy and that they will confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Ian conceals the counterassault leaders
Ian deduces Jack and Dorothea lead the counterassault; he forbids Janet from informing Calum Sorley, then is comforted by her.