Trondheim is a critical battleground for both factions. Trondheim was the name of a planet in the Hundred Worlds of the Ender's Game book series. Trondheim has an international airport, Trondheim Airport, Værnes, situated in Stjørdal, which is Norway's fourth largest airport in terms of passenger traffic. Værnes has non-stop connections to cities such as London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Berlin, among others. The domestic route Trondheim - Oslo is among the busiest air routes in Europe with around 2 million passengers annually. Busiest air routes Major railway connections are the northbound Nordland Line, the eastbound Meråker Line to Åre and
Deepwater Nautilus lost approximately of marine riser and a portion of the subsea well control system. Less than a month later, "Deepwater Nautilus" broke free during Hurricane Rita. Deepwater Nautilus Deepwater Nautilus is an ultra-deepwater, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig. Built in 2000 in South Korea, she is owned by Transocean, registered in Panama, and currently leased through August 2017 to Royal Dutch Shell at the rate of $531,000 per day for drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. "Deepwater Nautilus" is a fifth-generation, RBS-8M design, ultra-deepwater, column-stabilized, semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, designed to drill subsea wells for oil exploration and production.