Zap-Star
Names: Zap-StarZap-Star netBig CherryZap-Star battle-mirrors
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 59 (13)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 70Zap-Star is a satellite laser-mirror defense system, 150 battle-mirrors and twenty ground batteries, run by UN peacekeepers from Christmas Island; completion expected late 2013.
- Ch 70Satellites use guidance systems made by O'Connor's company with built-in override, letting his console access the system, and he has two private ground bases.
- Ch 70Its beams can destroy targets or wreck all electronics, which could return a city to the Dark Ages.
- Ch 72The unfinished Zap-Star laser defense net could be converted into weaponry, and nations fear each other doing so.
- Ch 73Kieran pitches ruling the world through the Zap-Star's threat; he knows the scheme is flawed but expects Victor to find workable ways to use it.
- Ch 75Zap-Star is a satellite system whose override command file, iMARY.KOC, is valid but not operational until 25 December 2013.
- Ch 75Victor calls Zap-Star the ultimate edge; he plans to use it selectively, not as the crude death-ray scheme Shannon's father devised.
- Ch 75Its system has been penetrated, and the government knows it, but Victor doubts they can stop its activation on schedule.
- Ch 76A suspicious unauthorized chip was found in a Zap-Star battle-mirror; O'Connor's engineers called it harmless, but it might hide an override activated by coded signal.
- Ch 76Removing the dubious chip from the 130 non-Chinese battle-mirrors would take about four years and cost $7.2 billion, while Chinese units stayed operational.
Connections
- related toKieran O'Connorsecretly controls via override