Cabo da Roca-Azores mainline bore
Names: Cabo da Roca-Azores mainline boreCabo da Roca-Azores
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 3 (2)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 3A Class Three tectonic slip crumpled a three-kilometer section of the bore and its service tunnel 793 kloms out, vaporizing a mirror station.
- Ch 3It carries a solar photon beam from Serra da Estrela to the Azores mariculture farms; a bypass restored Azores power within a second.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 3Alert and descent
A klaxon interrupts the Lisboa crew's card game. Georgina's team takes drill-rigs down the service tunnel under the Atlantic to repair a Class Three break in the Cabo da Roca-Azores power bore.
- Book 1 · Ch 3Stein sidelined
Georgina gives the prized mainline rebore to Hubert, humiliating Stein, who suppresses his fury and starts cutting open the service tunnel with Georgina.