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This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of '''''[[Cytonic (book)|Cytonic]].''''' We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.
* [[Spensa Nightshade]]
* [[M-Bot]]
* [[Chet|
* [[Doomslug]]
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Spensa and [[M-Bot]] stand in front of the nowhere portal on [[Starsight (station)|Starsight]], contemplating it as Superiority soldiers come closer. Spensa grabs M-Bot and [[Doomslug]], and enter the nowhere. Spensa senses [[Chet|the delver she changed]] and turned away from Starsight, and she can feel its fear. She communicates with it, and it tells her that she can learn more about her powers in the nowhere. The delver puts a location in Spensa’s mind, a location important to cytonics. It tells her to walk the [[Path of Elders]]. Spensa sends Doomslug a message to go home, then activates her powers and hyperjumps to the location.
== Part
=== Chapter 1 ===
;Characters
;Plot Summary
Spensa emerges out of the nowhere portal, M-Bot with her but Doomslug missing. She finds herself in a jungle, an unfamiliar sight for her. She tries to sense Doomslug but can’t feel her. She tries to reach for Detritus, but can’t sense it or any other familiar location. M-Bot
=== Chapter 2 ===
;Plot Summary
Three aliens attack Spensa, two [[Heklo]] and one [[dione]]. Two more join the fray, and they defeat Spensa and take her gun. They assume Spensa is a
=== Chapter 3 ===
;Plot Summary
They crash through the jungle, and M-Bot follows, expressing fear. The pirates notice that the grig feeds on energy, and the beast grows sluggish. Spensa introduces herself and M-Bot, and Chet is disturbed by the fact that Spensa brought an AI into the nowhere. Chet calls M-Bot an abomination, and M-Bot practices insults by calling Chet a noodle-brain. He then asks Spensa to rate his insult from one to ten. Chet offers to be Spensa’s guide in the nowhere for the price of one reality ash per day, the silver dust that is produced by reality icons. Chet tells her about the Path of Elders, a series of the first nowhere portals, left by ancient cytonics, and Spensa tells him that she must follow
=== Chapter 6 ===
;Plot Summary
Spensa follows Chet along the edge of the fragment as the
=== Chapter 7 ===
;Plot Summary
Spensa asks Chet about the nowhere, saying it looks different from when she
=== Chapter 8 ===
Spensa’s mind drifts, and her mind finds [[Jorgen]], fighting in a Poco in a battle. His face is covered in a dozen tiny cuts. He looks up and apparently sees Spensa in the reflection of his canopy glass. He talks to Spensa, able to feel the meaning of her words. Spensa tells him that she’s in the nowhere. She asks what is happening there, and Jorgen says it’s been a few days since the delver came to Detritus. Jorgen tells her that they got a communication from Cuna, and that they found a huge colony of taynix, which they’re trying to use as hyperdrives. Spensa realizes that Jorgen is a cytonic, and Jorgen says he’s been training with [[Gran-Gran]]. Spensa says she has to stay in the nowhere for a bit to learn, and says she thinks Winzik will try and use the delvers as weapons again.
Spensa leaves Jorgen, and hears Brade communicating with the delvers, speaking for Winzik. He offers to silence the annoying buzzing if the delvers help destroy
== Part 2 ==
;Plot Summary
M-Bot wakes Spensa up, telling her that Chet woke up and left the cave. Spensa walks over to him, and they discuss their cytonic abilities. Chet says he also has the ability to visualize the entire belt in his head. As they cross several fragments, Spensa
=== Chapter 10 ===
;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
=== Chapter 12 ===
;Plot Summary
Chet and Spensa find a wooden building, and take the doors
=== Interlude I-2 ===
;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 ===
;Plot Summary
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
=== Chapter 19 ===
;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
=== Chapter 20 ===
;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
=== Chapter 24 ===
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
=== Chapter 25 ===
;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
=== Chapter 26 ===
;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
=== Interlude I-3 ===
;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
== Part 4 ==
;Plot Summary
Spensa and the other pilot duel. Spensa notices white patches on some of the rocks in the arena and she is able to hear the delvers communicating with her when she gets close to them. She starts to notice her opponent performing DDF maneuvers and realizes that her opponent is Hesho after communicating with him. Spensa wins the duel by tossing Hesho out of the arena with her light line causing him to be shot by the pirates waiting outside the arena.
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.
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In her sleep, Spensa communicates with Jorgen to catch him up. Spensa apologizes to Nuluba for being aggressive towards her, as she had thought Nuluba to be a horrible person like Winzik. Spensa asks Nuluba if she wants to be a pilot, but she replies that she likes things simple. Spensa talks to Shiver, who thanks her for making the assault possible. Spensa asks how Dllllizzzz is doing, and Shiver says that she varies a lot, sometimes almost making full sentences but sometimes only sending tones and hints at meanings. Shiver says that there is a reality icon at Surehold, that appeared with Peg when she was thrown in. Shiver says that icons sometimes move around on their own, so that Spensa’s icon probably wasn’t stolen, but just moved. As Spensa leaves, Shiver requests that if Spensa escapes, if she would open a path for Dllllizzzz and her to leave. Spensa promises to try. As Spensa goes through her pre-flight checks, Chet asks to fly with Spensa into battle. Spensa warns him that it will be dangerous, but she agrees to take him with her.
=== Chapter 33 ===
* [[Doomslug|Chaser’s pin]]
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As Hesho flies, Spensa notices that the delver is still using Hesho’s skills. Many of the other ships have been locked up, and the other ships have agreed to a temporary truce because of the dangerous battlefield. As Spensa chases Hesho, she opens a direct line to Hesho’s ship. She acts as if
=== Chapter 35 ===
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Spensa awakes to find Hesho in the room with her, who had watched over her as she
=== Chapter 38 ===
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Spensa finds Chet, and they both go to the
Chet says that the other delvers wanted to destroy him, so he hid himself, joining with Spensa to help guide her. He formed the body and personality of Commander Spears, who had visited the nowhere long ago. Chet did this because he thought Spensa would trust someone familiar that she knew of. Chet apologizes and asks for Spensa not to hate him. Chet says that the reality ashes made him feel like a real person, and that he enjoyed exploring the nowhere with her. Spensa says that she doesn’t hate him. Spensa struggles to comprehend the influx of new information, and comes to the conclusion that delvers are AI. Chet tells her that the last stop in the Path of Elders is the Solitary Shadow, a white fragment very close to the lightburst. It contains his memories, things that the delvers purposefully forgot.
;Plot Summary
Spensa doesn’t fly towards the lightburst at full speed, giving them time to plan. Spensa explains to the others what she’s learned about delvers, Chet, and Doomslug to M-Bot and Hesho. Chet says that the delvers hate AI because they see AI as a possible threat that could conceivably replace or harm them. The delvers have trouble seeing into the belt, and don’t see Spensa’s ship, but Spensa warns the others that they will see them soon, probably when they reach the final portal. Spensa plans to bolt for the lightburst as soon as they retrieve the memories from Solitary Shadow. They just have to get past whatever obstacles the delvers present, and then hyperjump back to Detritus. Chet warns that the delvers can likely
=== Chapter 41 ===
;Plot Summary
They arrive at Solitary Shadow, which is a simple white plane. The only structure is the final portal. M-Bot joins Chet and Spensa as they tap into the memories. The memories take place around the end of the First Human War. Chet says that he was Jason’s
=== Chapter 42 ===
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Spensa becomes nervous as they approach the lightburst. As they draw near, Chet’s face begins to melt, it becoming harder for him to hold his shape. Many of the delvers form bodies, creating about a hundred ships to fight Spensa. As Spensa destroys them, a new one emerges from the lightburst to replace it. Spensa struggles against them all, the ships not obeying the laws of physics and moving in impossible ways. Hesho sends out M-Bot’s old drone, which is programmed with a copy of M-Bot. Hesho pilots the drone, flying it off as a distraction, and it confuses many of the delvers, who follow it. Spensa learns from Doomslug that the slug had been hiding M-Bot from the delvers, but can’t any longer. Eventually, the delvers destroy the M-Bot drone. As she evades the delver ships and flies towards the lightburst, Spensa reaches out with her senses and is able to sense where the ships are about to move, and when they’ll shoot. She does well for a while, but soon the sheer numbers overwhelm her. With so many shots being fired at her, there isn’t any way for Spensa to evade all of their shots. She gets hit multiple
Just as Spensa is almost to the lightburst, ten thousand more ships emerge and block her path, forming a wall of metal. As Spensa panics, Doomslug says to land on the ground close to the lightburst. When they land, Doomslug hides the ship, making it look like a big rock. The delvers can’t see them, and are confused. M-Bot distracts Spensa, lying and saying that there’s two taynix outside. Once Spensa, Doomslug, and Hesho are outside, M-Bot locks the ship, ready to sacrifice himself. Spensa promises to come back for him somehow. He flies off, the delvers chasing him and destroying him quickly. The delvers think Spensa was on the ship, and so leave. Spensa, along with Hesho and Doomslug, step into the lightburst.
* [[Hesho]]
* [[Kauri]] (mentioned only)
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