Dave of Canada wrote...
It's not an actual sun, it's a screen which shows a sun behind him. He turns it on whenever he wants, be it to entertain himself or influence the conversation he's about to have with somebody.
It
is an actual sun. See
Retribution. His station was still orbiting it in the prologue:
The Illusive Man sat in his chair, staring out the viewing window that formed the entire outer wall of his inner sanctum. The unnamed space station he used as his base was orbiting a red giant-class M star. The semispherical edge of the burning sun filled the entire lower half of the viewing window, its brightness dominating but not completely obscuring the field of stars behind it. The star was in the last stages of its six-billion-year life span. As the grand final act culminating its existence, it would collapse in upon itself, creating a black hole to swallow the entire system. The planets and moons it had spawned in its birth would be devoured in the inescapable gravitational pull of the dark, gaping maw left behind by its death.
He can simply shut out the view of whatever is outside whenever he feels like it, and vice-versa:
The lights dimmed automatically as the wall behind him became transparent. The dying sun to his back cast an orange-red glow over the room.
As of the end of the novel, he'd relocated the station, so he'd have some other nifty backdrop now.
Modifié par didymos1120, 25 octobre 2011 - 08:53 .