CSS Drumadoon Bay
Names: CSS Drumadoon BayDrumadoon Bay
First appears in Book 3: Diamond Mask, chapter 9 (CSS DRUMADOON BAY [Hu 12-201] GALACTIC YEAR: LA PRIME 1-382-401/422 [6–20 JUNE 2062])
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 9The Drumadoon Bay is a starship that leaves from Unst Starport and travels 533 lightyears to Caledonia in fourteen days of daily hyperspace jumps.
- Ch 9The ship carries road-building equipment, embryonic livestock, medicines, rhocraft taxis, luxury goods, and empty sherry barrels for Caledonia's whisky industry.
- Ch 9An old, 400-meter-plus freighter of the MacPherson Line with spartan passenger quarters, one of the first colonial merchantmen built after the Milieu transformed Earth astronautics.
Connections
- related toUnst Starportdeparture port
- member ofMacPherson Line
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 9Dee fakes the minidose
Dee pretends to inject herself with the minidoser and keeps her mind-screen up during the first hyperspace jump. Gran suspects, confronts her, and tries to coerce answers, but Dee reveals only her self-redacting power.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Ewen Cameron meets Dee
Ewen pulls Dee from the hyperspace viewport, tricks her into answering farspeech, warns her of the danger from Gran, implants a protective mental 'angel', then erases her memory of him.
- 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.