Hedron

Overview

Hedron is the in-use name for the enormous icosahedral spacecraft widely associated with the Cousins. Elsewhere in this wiki, it has been tracked as the Cousins' ship. Observers describe a regular habit of keeping a circular "pusher plate" centered on one triangular face oriented toward visiting vehicles.

Description and Use

• Global form: A twenty-faced, strut-and-panel icosahedron with a smooth circular feature centered in one face that functions as a pusher plate.
• Propulsion behavior: Crew commentary identifies the system as nuclear-pulse propulsion, with the pusher plate absorbing impulses from small nuclear charges; a shuttered port at the plate's center opens to expel objects.
• Interaction systems: During a close approach recorded on a leaked speely, the craft jammed voice/data channels and employed a skeletal robot probe to grapple the capsule and transfer a suited visitor.
• Sensors/illumination: Later, the capsule crew reported high-power microwave pulses "illuminating" them, described as a narrow-beam radar-like signal.
• Orbit and attitude: Current accounts place the craft in an equatorial-belt ground track; it routinely presents the pusher face toward nearby observers.

Provenance/Ownership

• Operators: The ship is presumed to belong to the Cousins, a label avout use for the visitors. Some at the Convox have been calling the visitors "Geometers," though this naming is presented in dialogue and remains informal.
• Environment: Suit telemetry from the visitor ceased after jamming ended; onlookers including Sammann suggest this may indicate the suit was shut down, implying a breathable atmosphere inside. Others caution the visitor could have died before or during transfer; the text preserves that ambiguity.

Notable Mentions

• A crewed capsule's leaked speely records: (1) the Hedron maintaining its pusher plate toward the capsule, (2) a remote manipulator retrieving the visitor described as the Warden of Heaven, (3) prolonged jamming of capsule communications and data, (4) later high-power microwave illumination, and (5) the opening of a small central port on the base plate followed by ejection of the visitor back into space. The capsule recovered the body; subsequent details are reported second-hand in dialogue.
• In conversation, an observer notes that large plane-change maneuvers require many nuclear pulses and suggests the ship's supply of such "fuel" may be limited; this is offered as a speaker's inference, not an established fact.