Olympus Resort - An international, multibillion-dollar off-planet recreation project. In Purity in Death, it was said to be on FreeStar One.
Description[]
Features[]
It was a high-class, high-dollar vacation paradise. The station was built for pleasure and entertainment.[1] It was designed to contain hotels, casinos, homes, resorts, and parks; all of it lavish.[2]
Specific amenities include:
- Vacation and retirement homes; villas, mansions, sleek penthouses, and presidential suites.[2]
- Olympus Grand Hotel[3]
- Apollo Casino, where Mavis Freestone played a week-long gig in Purity in Death[4]
- The main casino hotel was mentioned in Betrayal in Death[5]
- Apollo Tower[6]
- from the rooftop bar, the view was stunning[6]
- Entertainment complex, with new videos[7]
- Autotronics Arcade[8]
- Athena Club - music and drinks[7]
- Tropics Sector[5] (called the “tropical sector” in Judgment in Death[9])
- A stunning man-made beach.[10]
- Athena Lake and surrounding “young forest”[6]
- Horseback riding available[6]
- An amusement park and a beach and arcades, according to Nixie Swisher in Survivor in Death, whose family was maybe going to go there one day. Roarke told her he was working on a different sector, with vacation villas, and they were going to put a river in.[11] It was described later in the story as an elaborate development, complete with winding river and a sheer tower ringed with people glides. Although five people were in the meeting Eve interrupted, Eve expressed surprise that there were six architects for one development. Roarke started to explain that it was a rather large and complex development that included buildings, landscape, water, and interiors, but broke off when he realized Eve didn’t care.[12]
- Sea and Space Museum, mentioned in Forgotten in Death when Roarke was having considerable revisions done to it[13]
Construction[]
The beginning phases of construction began in 2058.
Description while under construction[]
From Rapture in Death:
The Olympus resort would be, with Roarke pulling the strings, completed and fully booked within a year.[14] From the terrace of the Olympus Grand Hotel, Eve could see out over the hub of the resort. The lights brightly burned for the night crew, the quiet hum of machinery spoke of round-the-clock labor. The fountains, the lances of simulated torchlight and rainbows of color running fluidly through the spewing waters, were for her, she knew.[14]
Leaning over, she watched the light and water show, scanned the buildings, all domes and spears, all glossy and elegant to house the sumptuous people and the sumptuous games they would come to play.[15]
The casino was completed and glowed like a golden ball in the dark. One of the dozen pools was lighted for the night and the water glimmered cobalt blue. Skywalks zigzagged between buildings and resembled silver threads. They were empty now, but she imagined what they would be like in six months, a year: crammed with people who shimmered in silks, glowed with jewels. They would come to be pampered within the marble walls of the spa with its mud baths and solicitous droids. They'd come to lose fortunes in the casino, to drink exclusive liquor in the clubs, to make love to the hard and soft bodies of licensed companions.[16]
Ownership[]
Olympus involved a partnership between Roarke Industries, Tokayamo, and Europa. Details were finalized after three years of negotiations and planning.[17]
Other Mentions[]
- In Holiday in Death, Roarke was on a business trip there, and things weren’t going well. He called Eve to let her know he would be another couple of days, and to try to convince her to join him for the weekend, but when he saw her face and realized she was having nightmares without him being there, he told her he called to say he was coming home that night.[18]
- “Dante” told Bryna Bankhead he was well-traveled: Paris, Moscow, the Olympus Resort, Bimini… in Seduction in Death.[19]
- Robert Lowell had planned to “spend some time in Roarke’s extra-planetary playground, the olympus Resort” after he finished his work in New York in Creation in Death, including torturing and killing Eve, but was sent to prison before he could manage the trip.[20]
- In Eternity in Death, Tiara Kent’s father was vacationing on the Olympus Resort with his newest fiancée when Tiara was killed.[21]
- In Judgment in Death, Roarke told someone in charge of the project, “It’s neither possible nor is it convenient for me to make the trip at this time.” When told the situation required his personal attention due to Tonaka dragging their feet over this acquisition and the delays in the environmental clearance on the tropical sector, and they couldn’t hope to meet deadline without his immediate intervention - cost overruns and penalties... he told the person, “You’re authorized to deal with it. I pay you to deal with it. I’m unable to make the trip to Olympus for the next several days, perhaps longer. If Tonaka is dragging feet, cut them off at the knees.”[9]
- At the end of Judgment in Death, Eve, realizing that Roarke had been putting off a necessary business trip to Olympus, offered to go with him after Max Ricker and Art Clooney were arrested and her investigation closed.[22] Eve referred to their trip in Betrayal in Death, saying “When we took those few days last week you spent a lot of time fixing stuff.” Roarke assured her, “The sort of thing that’s expected to arise in a project of that size and scope. It’s under control. There might be some added delays, costs, some complications [if he weren’t at the helm], but yes, I have a strong team in every area of that project.”[23]
- Sylvester Yost held the deed to beach-front property and the house just completed on it in the Tropics Sector under his alias, Martin K. Roles. He contracted one of Olympus’s own site decorators to outfit the place and had a consult scheduled for a few days after Betrayal in Death ended. He reserved a suite at the main casino hotel a day or two after the end of the story, and had a private craft booked into the transpo station there.[5]
- Trevor Whittier had his eye on “an exciting and palatial penthouse on the sumptuous off-planet Olympus Resort that would suit him very well as a pied-à-terre” in Remember When.[24]
- In Indulgence in Death, Winston Dudley IV’s ex-wife, Annaleigh Babbington, was vacationing there for two weeks.[25]
- In Celebrity in Death, K.T. Harris had put a hefty deposit down on a high-end, high-class villa there for two weeks, starting December 23, for her and Matthew Zank, even though they were no longer together.[26]
- In Vendetta in Death, it was mentioned that Perfect Placement had a recently established center there.[27]
References[]
- ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 115-116; Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 271
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 264
- ↑ Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), pp. 7-8
- ↑ Purity in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Betrayal in Death (ISBN 0-425-17857-9), p. 320
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Treachery in Death, Chapter 12
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Rapture in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ Rapture in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Judgment in Death, Chapter 20
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 312
- ↑ Survivor in Death, Chapter 12
- ↑ Survivor in Death, Chapter 21
- ↑ Forgotten in Death, Chapter 16
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 7
- ↑ Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 8
- ↑ Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), pp. 8-9
- ↑ Naked in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Holiday in Death, Chapter 1
- ↑ Seduction in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ Creation in Death, Chapter 9
- ↑ Eternity in Death, Chapter 2
- ↑ Judgment in Death, Chapter 23
- ↑ Betrayal in Death, Chapter 5
- ↑ Remember When, Chapter 30
- ↑ Indulgence in Death, Chapter 14
- ↑ Celebrity in Death, Chapter 11
- ↑ Vendetta in Death, Chapter 1