Cindercone

The Cindercone is a megafreighter owned by Tagon's Toughs, originally found in Eina-Afa. She appears as a perfect brown sphere, eight kilometers in diameter, constructed from material manufactured from a process lost to civilization millions of years ago. She consequently has a cost measured in "kilo-GNP".



Her AI, Cindy, appears as the head of an elderly humanoid woman with grey hair, and formerly ran the gunship Bristlecone.

The Cindercone hull is capable of splitting at its equator into two "hemis" for loading and unloading. She has an attendant boat, Divergent Elevator, for loading assistance.

The ship was later revealed to be not exactly a freighter, but rather a vast, highly advanced and massive Teraport Cage linked to a sister ship dubbed Cindertwin. (This is foreshadowed in a conversation between Yaeyoefui and Sorlie. In this conversation, Yaeyoefui states the amount that each pair of "world-movers" can "shift" at a time, to which Sorlie replies that that would mean they were only half-filled.Yeoyoefui refers to Cindercone and her sistership true function - World Movers.) In light of this, the Toughs sold Cindercone back to Eina-Afa, and transferred Cindy to the newly built Dragon-class warship Cynthetic Certainty.