Fleet of Worlds

Fleet of Worlds

Infobox fictional planet
name=Fleet of Worlds


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universe=Known Space
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people=Nessus, Hindmost, Chiron
races=Pierson's Puppeteers
creator=Larry Niven
genre=Science fiction|

Fleet of Worlds are both a location and a book in Larry Niven's Known Space series.

Planets

The Fleet of Worlds are the planets of the Pierson's Puppeteer race. They consist of the actual homeworld and its agricultural worlds, arranged in a polygonal Klemperer rosette. They moved their worlds into this formation when their home star turned into a red giant, using an inertialess, reactionless drive purchased at great price from the Outsiders. After the discovery that the core of the galaxy is exploding, the Puppeters turned the fleet towards the Magellanic Clouds, gradually reaching a speed of 80% lightspeed.

Novel

The novel, co-written by Niven and Edward M. Lerner, was released in 2007. It is set shortly after the events of "At the Core", and was followed by the sequel "Juggler of Worlds" by the same authors in 2008.

Misconceptions

The word Klemperer rosette was misspelled as 'Kemplerer rosette', as it has been since it first appeared in Ringworld.

External links

* [http://www.freewebs.com/knownspace/index.htm The Incompleat Known Space Concordance]


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