Kyllikki
Names: KyllikkiWalter Saastamoinen's schoonerthe great schoonerthe schoonerthe boatthe argosy
First appears in Book 4: The Adversary, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 1Marc orders salvaged equipment set up aboard Kyllikki, using small sigmas so the children and Aiken Drum cannot farsense it clearly.
- Ch 3Seventy-meter four-masted schooner raised by the Ocala folk, large enough to carry half the apparatus on Ocala.
- Ch 7A heavily loaded four-masted schooner anchored off Ocala Island with the ex-Rebels aboard, without a sigma-field umbrella.
- Ch 13A seventy-meter, four-masted gaff schooner built by Walter Saastamoinen, navigable by a crew of six and long the colony's main freighter.
- Ch 13Later became a party boat for bored degenerates and carried Rebels and their children on a tour of the Antarctic Islands.
- Ch 13Veikko scuttled her in shallows of Manchineel Bay instead of sinking her deep; Marc later raised her for the punitive voyage to Europe.
- Ch 13Only her hold was deep enough to house Marc's cerebroenergetic enhancer, making her key to his plans.
- Ch 13Kyllikki is Marc's great schooner, carrying his followers and an armament of X-lasers.
- Ch 15Schooner carrying Marc's followers and charged X-lasers, now between Bermuda and the Azores, arriving at Goriah in at least nineteen days.
- Ch 24Kyllikki is Walter's ship crossing the North Atlantic carrying the CE rig's powerplant, with storms ahead and its autopilot broken.
- Ch 29Kyllikki carries Marc's CE-rig power supply and is hidden by a farsight fuzzer camouflage near the Gulf of Armorica.
- Ch 32Kyllikki is a boat with solar-collection sails that carries Marc's CE complex.
- Ch 32Kyllikki is a golden-sailed argosy/schooner with a barricaded stern hold housing the CE equipment; others aboard turned against Marc.
- Ch 33Kyllikki was captured by the King from the Adversary and given to the Peace Faction, with most armament removed; a prize crew is taking it to Goriah.
- Ch 34Kyllikki is a ship sailing from Goriah to carry refugees and Elizabeth's allies to safety.
Connections
- inOcala Island
- created byWalter Saastamoinen
- led byWalter Saastamoinenmaster of the ship
- related toWalter Saastamoinensails the schooner on Marc's course
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 13Helayne Strangford's rampage
During a storm, Helayne goes berserk, stabs Steve, kills fifteen people including the Keoghs, and climbs the jiggermast. Patricia's metaconcert fails against her; Steinbrenner shoots her dead as she coerces them to climb.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Marc returns from Poltroy
Marc returns from a successful d-jump test to Poltroy, learns of the murders, and brutally punishes Manion's taunting with a mental attack.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Marc confesses his impotence
After lovemaking, Patricia glimpses Marc's secret; he admits he has been unable to reach climax since Cyndia's death and swears her to secrecy, as it could ruin morale.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Alex's theory undermines Marc's plan
Patricia reveals Alex Manion's theory that the time-gate site cannot be destroyed. Marc rejects it but will question Manion, and outlines alternative plans.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Marc reveals d-jump rescue plan
Marc promises regular conferences and shows Patricia that d-jump could carry others, ending their exile without outside rescue.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Hagen and Veikko confer by farspeech
Veikko reports from Camp Bettaforca; Hagen discusses Goriah's progress, Kyllikki's approach and Marc's threat, and orders Veikko to kill Marc on sight if he appears.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Walter plans sabotage
After a tense exchange with Patricia, Walter talks to Veikko about his plan. He then wins over the docilated Manion and leads him to the forward hold to break Marc's lock and sabotage the X-lasers.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Marc and Walter aboard Kyllikki
Marc admits helping the climbers and likens Walter's punishment to the Little Mermaid. Steve Vanier takes the helm, and Walter limps to his cabin leaving bloody footprints.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Marc and Anatoly discuss damnation
In the Montagne Noire, Marc and Brother Anatoly finish the cognac and debate imputability and Marc's own damnation, while Marc checks on Kyllikki's safety.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Marc decides to sail upriver
Marc tells the magnates the children refused him. He cannot see a way through the defenses, orders Kyllikki camouflaged and sailed up the river, then says he will go fishing.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Survey of the Seine
Aiken, Dougal and Betsy scanned the Seine from high altitude seeking Marc's hiding place and found only a hopping anomaly, which Aiken chose not to probe.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Kramer joins the mutiny
Walter and Manion persuade Kramer, using his children's safety, to join a plot to mind-meld against Marc's loyalists and trap Marc in gray limbo; Kramer frees Manion from the docilator.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Burke finds Kyllikki
Burke spots the moored Kyllikki on the Seine and calls Aiken, who heads there.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Marc escapes Kyllikki
Patricia, Jeff and Cordelia overload themselves to restore power; Patricia dies. Marc teleports his equipment to a camouflaged gully near Castle Gateway.