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;Plot Summary
M-Bot wakes Spensa and Chet hours later, and they cross to the next fragment. There are mysterious markings, and Spensa insists that they mean something, but aren’t a language. M-Bot grows frustrated, and whacks Spensa on the head with his grabber arm. They find the portal, which is locked, preventing them from getting back to the real world that way. Spensa opens her mind and senses the portals, and accesses the memories within. She sees a fragment being formed over hundreds of years, time being sped up rapidly. Spensa notices that there aren’t any delvers during this time. A dione
=== Chapter 12 ===
;Plot Summary
A small, dense, rock fragment
=== Chapter 13 ===
;Plot Summary
Chet works on plotting a course to the Broadsider base, and Spensa and M-Bot watch three star fighters survey the destroyed fragment. Spensa sees that the pirate pilots are passable pilots, but not very skilled. She also realizes that she misplaced Skullbreaker during the chaos, which saddens her. Spensa contemplates their journey so far, and finds the adventure exhilarating. M-Bot tells Spensa that he’s sad
=== Chapter 14 ===
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Chet and Spensa find a wooden building, and take the doors of their hinges. They make [[Not-ilus|a rough raft]] out of the doors and large nuts, and set sail across a large ocean fragment. A [[garqua]], a sea creature, comes up to their raft, and Spensa names it Gnash the Slaughterer. Using fruit to motivate it, Chet
=== Interlude I-2 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[Jorgen Weight]]
* [[Brade Shimabukuro]]
* [[Rodge McCaffery]] (mentioned only)
* [[Ohz Burtim Winzik]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
Spensa appears to Jorgen in her sleep again, and this time finds him shaving, wearing only a towel. Jorgen compliments her appearance, saying that she looks like a barbarian except for the jumpsuit. Spensa makes as if to take off her jumpsuit, enjoying the shock it causes him. Jorgen tells her that five days have passed since her last communication, and they catch each other up on what has happened since. Jorgen is surprised to learn there are pirates in the nowhere, and tells Spensa to take care of herself.
As Spensa leaves Jorgen, Brade’s mind slams into hers. Brade figures out that Spensa escaped into the nowhere. Spensa tries to convince her to stop working with Winzik, but Brade refuses to listen. Brade throws her mind against Spensa, trying to rip it apart. Spensa fights back however, and forces Brade’s mind to retreat.
== Part 3 ==
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Doomslug|Chaser’s pin]]
* [[Maksim]]
}}
;Plot Summary
Spensa and Chet go onto the pirate base fragment, and observe the base from a distance. Spensa notices both a human pirate and a dione one, and some of the pirates seem to be doing repairs. Chet advises that Spensa leave her reality icon behind, saying to bury it there so that the pirates don’t get it. Spensa is suspicious, and fakes burying the icon while secretly keeping it. M-Bot tells Spensa that there are three pirates working in the hangar, but no other heat signatures. The other pirates are asleep. They decide that Chet will make a distraction while Spensa can go in and steal a fighter.
=== Chapter 16 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Doomslug|Chaser’s pin]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Chet]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
As she goes to the hangar, Spensa sends M-Bot to spy on Chet and see if he digs up the reality icon. He doesn’t. Still, Spensa is suspicious. She buries the pin, then decides to go for a different hangar in case Chet plans to betray her. Spensa slips into the hangar, and goes to a sleek interceptor. She doesn’t see anything in the cockpit, and M-Bot tries to connect to the ship. He gets locked out, and lights in the cockpit turn on. Inside Spensa sees a hulking crystalline body inside the cockpit. She realizes that M-Bot had scanned for heat signatures, but not all aliens give off heat. Spensa tries to run, but the ship levels one of its destructors at her. Spensa stops and surrenders.
=== Chapter 17 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Chet]] (mentioned only)
* [[Shiver]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
The pirates tie Spensa to a chair, and Spensa sees that there’s only one human among them. Most of the pirates are diones, though there are several heklo, a [[varvax]], and a [[tenasi]]. The pirate captain is slightly impressed at Spensa’s audacity, and tells her that she is their new cleaning slave. Spensa sees that M-Bot is pretending to be an ordinary cleaning drone. Spensa introduces herself, and tells the captain that cleaning drone has some illegal programs, which let her hack into the ship. The captain introduces herself as [[Peg]], and tells her that Chet ran off. Peg tells the others to keep Spensa on a leash and to keep her away from M-Bot.
=== Chapter 18 ===
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* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[
* [[Chet]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Peg]] (mentioned only)
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Spensa is leashed to a wall with a light-line, and she is set to greasing parts. Spensa is glad for the work, glad she has something to make her angry. She talks cytonically to Chet, who has been shot by a destructor. Spensa learns to whisper when talking cytonically so as not to draw delver attention. Spensa confesses that she changed the plan in case he’d betray her, and felt his great pain and feeling of betrayl from him. She apologizes, and Chet tries to act as if he doesn’t care. Spensa observers the Broadsider, and sees that they only have nine starfighters. The human pirate, who introduces himself as Maksim, gives Spensa more things to grease at her request. Maksim talks to Spensa, trying to find out more about her past life, but Spensa doesn’t say much. Chet talks to Spensa again, and expresses his self doubt about who he really is. He says that if he isn’t a gentlemanly hero and explorer, he doesn’t know who he is. Spensa apologizes again, and Chet accepts it.
=== Chapter 19 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Nuluba]]
}}
;Plot Summary
Spensa learns more about the pirates, mostly through Maksim. She learns more about the pirates who work in the hangar, called Cutlass Flight. She notices that the Broadsider have a long-range scanner, and she tells Chet. Chet says that they’ll have to sabotage the scanner if they’ll want to flee and continue. The next day, Maksim takes off Spensa’s light-line, and Spensa volunteers to take on a harder task. She is set to fixing Shiver’s defective destructor. Spensa talks to Shiver as she works, who is a [[resonant]], and is thus made up of crystals. Spensa compares resonants to [[figment|figments]], which Shivers disagrees with. Shiver’s relaxed nature nature reminds Spensa of [[Kimmalyn]]. Spensa gets permission from [[Nuluba]] to use M-Bot to help clean the destructor, and Spensa fills him in on what has happened. M-Bot tells Spensa that she’s been with the Broadsider for two weeks, which shocks Spensa, who thinks it had been much shorter. Chet tells Spensa that it is dangerous to stay in one place too long.
=== Chapter 20 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Dllllizzzz]]
* [[Gremm]] (mentioned only)
}}
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Maksim talks to Spensa about his old masters, who kept him as a pet. He reminds Spensa of Nedd, and it takes Spensa an alarmingly long time to remember Nedd’s name. Spensa asks Nuluba about her past, and learns she did customer analysis. When she asked too many questions, she was tossed into the nowhere. Maksim tells Spensa that Peg was a Superiority officer, and head of base security at the mining station. When Peg and thirty others stole ships and joined the pirates, and her two children formed their own factions. They tell her that Peg wants to unify the pirate factions, and that one of her sons is the current pirate champion. If they can defeat the champion, Peg’s children will listen to her.
Spensa goes over to a starfighter while the pirates talk, and M-Bot uploads himself into the ship. Spensa talks with Maksim, telling him that she lived on the human enclave, which he hadn’t thought to be real. He asks her about life there, curious. Peg pulls Spensa aside, telling her that she is a killer. She says that she recognizes Spensa as a fellow killer. She lunges for Spensa and attacks.
=== Chapter 21 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Dllllizzzz]]
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;Plot Summary
Spensa and Peg engage in a fierce hand-to-hand fight, Spensa eventually defeating Peg by going for her knees. The other pirates level weapons at her, but M-Bot brings his new ship up into the air, leveling destructors at the pirates. Spensa gets into M-Bot, now in his new body. M-Bot opens the hangar doors and asks Spensa if he could fly. Spensa gives him permission, and he takes off clumsily, clipping the hangar door on the way out. M-Bot still isn’t flying very well when the pirates began to fly out after them. Spensa takes the controls and flies away, testing the pirates’ ability to keep up. Spensa evades the pirates expertly, outmatching them in skill. M-Bot discovers that the destructors on the pirates’ ships are not lethal, but only lock up ships by overwhelming their electronic systems. Spensa flies back towards the Broadsider base, and shoots new pirate ships as they try to fly out. Spensa gives M-Bot the controls and exits her plane to go to where she buried her father’s pin. It isn’t there.
=== Chapter 22 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Dllllizzzz]]
* [[Gremm]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
Spensa is shocked and grieved at the loss of her pin, and tells Chet, believing him when he says he didn’t take it. Spensa picks up Chet, who suggests heading for the Cannonade border. M-Bot informs them that they’d be intercepted before making it to the border. Spensa suggests going straight up. She starts flying upwards, and gets a radio communication from Peg. Peg shouts that she didn’t know Spensa was a pilot, and is very impressed with her flying. Peg warns her however, that flying up too high will make her lose her memories and sense of self. Peg offers that if Spensa returns, she’ll get Peg’s best ship. In exchange, Spensa will defeat the pirate champion for her. Peg says that if she wins and she gets the other factions on her side, they’ll assault the Superiority base of [[Surehold]] and take it back. Chet agrees that they should head back down, and Spensa flies down. Spensa joins the other pirates, who don’t shoot her down, and is determined to continue the Path of Elders.
=== Chapter 23 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Dllllizzzz]]
* [[RayZed]] (mentioned only)
* [[Guntua]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
Peg gives Spensa their best ship, and Spensa uploads M-Bot to it. Chet doesn’t want his own ship, preferring to stay in the ship with Spensa. At Peg’s request, Spensa helps teach Cutlass Flight some formation exercises to help improve their group flying. She helped them practice working in pairs and using their IMP. They exchange casual banter as they fly, reminding Spensa of time with her friends. Peg explains more about her past, and tells Spensa that the Superiority uses non-lethal destructors as well. They come up upon their destination, a fragment covered in ruins, and the location of the next step in the Path of Elders.
=== Chapter 24 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Dllllizzzz]]
* [[Jason Write]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
They land on the fragment, which is very large. When asked about the ruins, Spensa says that Chet is an archeologist. Peg orders the others to look for salvage. At the portal, Spensa and Chet identify human markings and murals in the structure around the portal. They connect to it, unlocking the memories inside.
They watch a group of humans in ancient clothing emerge from the portal and build the structure, time again sped up. Soon a fragment full of [[UrDail]] arrive, and greet the humans with familiarity. Spensa watch as they occasionally send people to each other’s planets, until one day the humans stop coming. Eventually, the UrDail stop coming. A woman appears, and responds when Spensa asks who she is. She says that she can feel their questions, and that she leaves her answers in the portal. She says that hundreds of cytonics fought against one delvers. Spensa says that they now face millions of delvers, and the woman tells them that they are then doomed. She tells them to seek out the memories of [[Jason Write]]. She sends an impression of the next portal. Chet recognizes the portal as being in Surehold, the seat of Superiority power in the belt.
=== Chapter 25 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Dllllizzzz]]
* [[Jason Write]] (mentioned only)
* [[Gremm]]
* [[Semm]]
}}
;Plot Summary
As they approach the ruins, Peg figures out that they are both cytonics. Spensa tells Peg that she’ll join in on the attack of the Superiority base. Peg tells them more about the other pirate factions, two led by her sons Gremm and Semm. M-Bot, Chet, and Spensa discuss what they learned from the portals. Spensa mentions Jason Write, who M-Bot identifies as the first human to initiate contact with the greater galaxy. He indirectly caused the First Human War. Peg asks about wha they saw, and Spensa relays the information to them. They talk about the delvers’ ability to possess people, and Peg says that large groups repel them, and they prefer people who are isolated and alone. As they fly towards base, they get an alert that a group of enemy pirates are flying towards the Broadsider base.
=== Chapter 26 ===
{{columns|
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Maksim]]
* [[Nuluba]]
* [[Shiver]]
* [[Dllllizzzz]]
* [[Gibsey]]
* [[Gremm]]
}}
;Plot Summary
They arrive back at base in the midst of a full firefight, and M-Bot highlights enemy ships on Spensa’s display. The enemy pirates are from the [[Jolly Roger Faction]], led by Gremm. Spensa goes for the weaker fighters first to prevent her flight from being overwhelmed. Spensa deals with the enemy ships with relative ease, surpassing the enemies in skill greatly. She shoots down three enemy ships in under five minutes. She uses her IMP to giver Cutlass Flight easy targets. Gremm chases after her, and they engage in a fierce duel in the air. Gremm prevails, scoring several hits on Spensa’s ship and locking it up. Spensa laughs, excited by the thrill of the fight. Chet wakes up, having lost consciousness during the dogfight. By the end of the battle, Spensa has four kills and three assists, astounding Peg. With the Jolly Rogers still soundly defeated and Gremm impressed with Spensa’s flying, Gremm agrees to officially duel Spensa the next day.
=== Interlude I-3 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[Jorgen Weight]]
* [[Brade Shimabukuro]]
* [[Ohz Burtim Winzik]]
* [[Alanik]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
While Spensa sleeps, she tries to cytonically reach out to Jorgen as she did before. She senses something blocking her however, and instead finds Winzik sitting on a throne, and Brade speaks to her. Brade says she’s been blocking Spensa from reaching out cytonically during her dreams. Winzik orders Brade to trap Spensa’s mind, but Brade says she doubts she can do it. Brade attacks Spensa with her mind, and Spensa fights back. Jorgen’s mind joins her, and together force Brade away. Spensa talks to Jorgen, again catching each other up on the past weeks’ events. Jorgen leaves, and Winzik speaks to the delvers through Brade. He tells them that cytonics like Spensa are out of countrol and loud. Spensa realizes that Brade had provoked her to make a lot of cytonic noise that would anger the delvers. The delvers say they can deal with the cytonics on their own, but Winzik convinces them otherwise. The delvers agree to Winzik’s deal.
== Part 4 ==
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Cutlass Flight]]
* [[Gremm]]
}}
;Plot Summary
About twelve hours after the pirate attack, Spensa and the entirety of the Broadsider Faction head to the arena, which is in the Jolly Rogers’ territory. Along the way, Spensa reads a trashy romance novel and is slightly confused by its purpose. M-Bot talks to Spensa about his feelings, saying he is getting a happy feeling as they fly over the oceanic fragment that they had sailed across. M-Bot tells Spensa that Peg has received an encrypted direct call from a pirate in the Jolly Rogers. M-Bot cannot hack into the pirate call since he is no longer in a surveillance and espionage ship. M-Bot tells her that she is talking with her son, Gremm. They arrive at the arena, which is a large open-air region, with pieces of fragments floating at varying elevations. Spensa sees patches of glowing white light on some chunks of rock, which make her uncomfortable as she approaches the arena.
=== Chapter 28 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Vlep]]
* [[Gremm]]
* [[Hesho|Darkshadow]]
* [[Peg]]
* [[Cutlass Flight]]
}}
;Plot Summary
Ships from all of the pirate factions are assembled in the arena, around a hundred ships. Gremm announces that he is no longer the champion, and has been defeated by a new member of the Cannonade Faction. He calls himself [[Darkshadow]], and Spensa thinks it’s an awesome callsign. A small ship flies forward, a third of the normal ship size. Spensa wonders if it might be a figment. Peg uploads arena boundaries onto Spensa’s proximity display, and tells her that if either of them strays outside of the boundary, the other pirates are allowed to shoot at them. Spensa boosts into the arena proper as the duel begins.
=== Chapter 29 ===
;Characters
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Hesho]]
* [[Cutlass Flight]]
* [[Gremm]]
* [[Semm]]
* [[Gward]]
* [[Ido]]
* [[Alanik]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
Peg speaks to the other pirates, saying that they are now strong and skilled. She urges them to join together and assault Surehold. Peg manages to sway both of her sons, and the other factions agree. Vlep and the Cannonade Faction however, declare that they won’t come. Spensa talks to Peg in private, and realizes that she had secretly been arranging things with her sons, who pretended to initially disagree with her. That way, when they agreed, the other factions would be persuaded. Spensa admires Peg’s brilliance, and wishes she had her in the DDF. Peg declares that they will go back to base and celebrate their major victory.
=== Chapter 30 ===
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet]]
* [[Cutlass Flight]]
* [[RayZed]]
* [[Becca Nightshade]] (mentioned only)
}}
;Plot Summary
Spensa tells a story to the gathered crowd of Broadsiders back at the base. She tells them the story of the exiled lion prince Simba, who returns and kills his uncle for the murder of his father. Simba kills his uncle and gains his revenge. The Broadsiders love the story, and feast. After the story, Chet talks to Spensa and says he doesn’t feel very useful among the pirates. Maksim compliments Spensa on the story, and says he doesn’t think lions can actually talk. Spensa eats some corn, but finds it disgusting. However, eating the corn reminds her of eating heritage foods back on Detritus with members of her flight. As Spensa starts to tell another story, the base’s scanner alarm starts going crazy.
=== Chapter 31 ===
=== Interlude I-4 ===
;Characters
{{columns|
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[Jorgen Weight]]
}}
;Plot Summary
Spensa tries to speak to Jorgen again, but feels something blocking her, like a prison. She feels lost. She can hear Jorgen, but can’t speak. Jorgen tells her that things are tough for him right now, and wishes he could talk to her. Spensa tries to speak again, but is too tired. She drifts off into true sleep.
== Part 5 ==
=== Chapter 37 ===
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