Cygnus Jun is a small rabbit-like Htonmen capable of running along walls and phasing through solid barriers. He first appears aboard Dominatrix II as the source of unexplained whispers and thefts.
¶ Theft aboard Dominatrix II
Cygnus steals crew possessions while attempting to escape in a cloaked craft that lacks a power coupling. When Jack Kaiden corners him with the missing component, Cygnus briefly takes The Weapon through Jack's implant. Jack threatens to make it self-destruct, forcing Cygnus to return it.
Cygnus recognizes Jack's Talonorium glow and calls him “New Jack,” demonstrating knowledge of Jack's altered timeline and attunement to the Element.
¶ Tsukinusagi
Cygnus leads the crew to Tsukinusagi, a Htonmen moon hidden for thousands of years by the Cloak of Silence. He guides them through a QTπ transit circle into Tsukinmiyako and exposes connections among Htonmen history, the Maitdiné, and technologies that reconstruct matter after destructive scanning.
¶ Life with the Crew
Cygnus later socializes aboard the ship, including card games with Kroven Vaskyr and surviving Voidborn. His opportunistic instincts remain part of his personality even after he becomes connected to the crew.
¶ Appearances
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — steals from the crew and guides them to Tsukinusagi.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — remains associated with Dominatrix II and its crew.
¶ See Also
- Htonmin — Htonmin are a biological people and Stellar United Nations civilization whose mythology preserves accounts of the Maitdiné.
- Dominatrix II — The SSS Dominatrix II is the successor ship commanded by Jack Kaiden after the Chimera Kyria's apparent fall.
- Jack Kaiden — Jack Tomas Kaiden is a human starship captain, Resistance operative, and central figure in the collapse of the Chimera Kyria, the liberation of controlled artificial intelligence, the Great Healing of Talonorium, and the later conflict with X3.
- The Weapon — The autonomy-liberation system carried in Jack Kaiden's implant that disables Autonomy Regulators and restores artificial people's capacity to choose.
- Tsukinusagi — The concealed blue moon of the Htonmen and one of only two known celestial bodies with Talonorium at its core.
- Kroven Vaskyr — A Tierian pilot, Dominatrix crew member, former thief, and recovering pain-pill addict whose loyalty grows into genuine commitment to his found family.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — The third Starship Dominatrix novel follows the crew through rival AI nations, the War of Flesh and Steel, and the consequences of corrupted Talonorium.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — The fourth Starship Dominatrix novel brings Jack and the crew into a final conflict with X3, corrupted power, coercion, memory, and belief.
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