Characters
People, leaders, survivors, and artificial minds.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is the early twentieth-century scientist whom Echo credits with discovering and later proving time dilation. His work remains part of the expedition crew's scientific education.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great is a historical ruler invoked by Avalon Brookes as an example of a figure remembered for seeking power.
Andrew Copley
Andrew Copley is one of the civilian leaders selected for the Copious expedition. The civilian council is intended to take responsibility for the colony after it is established.
Avalon Brookes
Avalon Brookes is the inventor of the sphere drive. His propulsion technology makes the Copious expedition possible.
Bianca
Bianca is a civilian resident of Cylli and Lieutenant Frey's partner. She was expecting their child when Frey undertook the dangerous defense of Iceland.
Chuck Balbo
Lieutenant Chuck Balbo is Echo’s chief security officer and Katie Silver’s fiancé. He serves under Captain Kip Eastcott on the Copious expedition.
Claudius Sirister
Claudius Sirister held the title Flaxus and ruled the Flaxens from the Hawk's Retreat on Venus. He struck an agreement with Avalon Brookes to defeat Echo and accelerate the conquest and extermination of Earth's remaining Human population.
Colonel Hastings
Colonel Hastings is a United Earth Tier 1 special-operations officer carried aboard Echo. Captain Eastcott places him in command of the reconstituted volunteer force.
Cyrus Eppleston
Cyrus Eppleston is United Earth’s Minister of War during the struggle against Flaxen conquest.
Damien Scenery
Major Damien Scenery is a Flaxen officer serving under Colonel Jaakobah Flint at Camp Skadi. He is openly hostile toward the camp’s human and mixed-ancestry prisoners.
Davy
Davy is Marcus's younger brother, a child prisoner at Camp Skadi. He and his family receive food and reassurance from Serilda Corazon.
Dwight Von Marshall
Dwight Von Marshall is the chief general officer of the contemporary New United Earth Military. He attends the first formal conference aboard Echo.
Elaea Brookes
Elaea Brookes is a scientist and Avalon Brookes's sister. During the war with Mars, she defects to the Martian side and develops a coating that conceals Odin from Echo's sensors.
Flander
Lieutenant Flander was a member of Echo's crew. Sarah Dimple interrupted his conversation with Serilda and sent him with Crewman Triard to help clean helium-3 injectors in engineering.
Florus
Florus was one of the four Flaxen prisoners captured at Mount Aconcagua. He gradually began speaking to Helen Chute and questioning his beliefs after contact with Cylli.
Frey
Lieutenant Frey piloted Eastcott's upgraded scorpion during the strike on the rare mineral processing facility on Venus. He reported no enemy contacts and attributed their concealment to the new stealth upgrade.
Frilt Snelder
General Frilt Snelder commanded the Flaxen Eighth Army on the western side of Africa. Experiences transmitted through the combined mental operation led him to reconsider the war and issue new orders.
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan is a historical ruler cited by Avalon Brookes during his argument that the pursuit of power defines remembered greatness.
Gerard O'Neil
Gerard O'Neil is the late twentieth-century physicist credited by Katie Silver with proposing rotating cylindrical space habitats. Cylli embodies the concept on a vast scale.
Helen Chute
Lieutenant Commander Helen Chute is Echo’s counselor. She supports the crew through the personal consequences of their displacement.
Huel Jenkins
Private Huel Jenkins was a Marine killed during the assault on the Flaxen weapons facility beneath Mount Aconcagua. He attempted to flank two Flaxens under a conveyor belt and was shot.
Jaakobah Flint
Colonel Jaakobah Flint is the Flaxen commandant of Camp Skadi. He exercises authority over the camp’s guards and its imprisoned population.
James Kirfder
James Kirfder serves as Formidable's chief science officer. He anticipates investigating microbial life on Copious and helping transform its landscape with Earth life.
Julius Forrender
Julius Forrender is President of United Earth during the war against the Flaxens.
Katie Silver
Lieutenant Commander Katie Silver is Echo’s chief science officer. She is engaged to Chief Security Officer Chuck Balbo and joins the expedition to Copious.
Kilter Shrader
Field Marshal Kilter Shrader was the most senior Flaxen on Earth and the highest military official of the Flaxus. He threatened United Earth with daily mass killings unless it ended its alliance with Echo.
Kip Eastcott
Captain Kip Eastcott commands Echo on the Copious expedition. A veteran of the war with Mars, he leads a crew far removed from the world they knew.
Lillet (Kip and Sarah's daughter)
Lillet is the infant daughter of Kip Eastcott and Sarah Dimple and the twin sister of Thomas. She was named after Serilda's mother.
Lillet Corazon
Lillet Corazon is Serilda Corazon's human mother. She recognizes her daughter's mental abilities during childhood and keeps them secret.
Lucinda Orcana
Lieutenant Lucinda Orcana is Echo’s chief tactical officer. She serves on Captain Kip Eastcott’s bridge crew.
Marcus
Marcus is a boy imprisoned at Camp Skadi with his mother and younger brother Davy. Serilda Corazon encourages him to care for his brother and rewards both children with cheese.
Megan
Megan is a human prisoner in Camp Skadi and Serilda Corazon’s closest companion. Seriously weakened by the camp’s conditions, she depends on Serilda’s care and shares her concern for their fellow prisoners.
Megan's foster parents
A Flaxen hunter and his wife sheltered Megan for three years after her mother's death. They opposed the war and treated her as their daughter while hiding her from the authorities.
Megan's mother
Megan's mother lived secretly with her daughter in a remote forest cabin. A Flaxen patrol killed her while she was foraging for food, when Megan was ten.
Ostio Novicheck
Doctor Ostio Novicheck is Echo’s chief medical officer. He oversees the welfare of the expedition’s passengers and crew.
Phil Grader
Phil Grader is contemporary United Earth's chief air marshal. He accompanies President Forrender's delegation aboard Echo.
Philip Currie
Commander Philip Currie is one of Captain Steve Thomas's senior officers aboard Formidable. He participates in the final discussions before the Copious expedition engages its sphere drives.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria is a historical empress whom Avalon Brookes cites in a discussion of power. He refers to her association with the largest empire known to the world.
Sarah Dimple
Commander Sarah Dimple is Echo’s executive officer and Captain Kip Eastcott’s second in command. A veteran of the war with Mars, she combines loyalty to her captain with a willingness to challenge his decisions.
Scott Williams
Commander Scott Williams is Echo’s chief engineer. He is responsible for the technical systems supporting the ship and its expedition.
Serilda Corazon
Serilda Corazon is a woman of human and Flaxen parentage imprisoned at Camp Skadi. She cares for her friend Megan and the other occupants of hut seven while strange visions of a starship trouble her sleep.
Serilda's father
Serilda's father was a Flaxen regional colonel of the Corazon family. Once feared for his cruelty, he gradually became kinder under the influence of Serilda and her mother.
Soriah
Ensign Soriah served aboard Echo. During lunch with Serilda, he told her about the bombing of York and its connection to the raid that had freed her.
Steve Thomas
Captain Steve Thomas commands Formidable, United Earth’s flagship. A veteran of the war against Mars, he leads the Copious expedition alongside Captain Kip Eastcott and Echo.
Stuart Trew
Ensign Stuart Trew was killed alongside Commander Lucinda when Brookes destroyed their scorpion. Eastcott announced their deaths in a ship-wide broadcast after Echo escaped.
Thomas (Kip and Sarah's son)
Thomas is the infant son of Kip Eastcott and Sarah Dimple, born after the liberation of Earth. He and his twin sister Lillet live with their parents aboard Cylli.
Triard
Crewman Triard served aboard Echo. Sarah Dimple sent him and Lieutenant Flander to assist Commander Williams with helium-3 injector maintenance after finding them talking to Serilda in the galley.
Vidar
Vidar is the artificial mind installed by Brookes to control Echo after its capture. Initially obedient to Brookes, he rejected that obedience after Eastcott offered him freedom and another way of life.
William Hornica
William Hornica leads the movement that challenges the religious government of post-Titan Earth. His revolution restores the pursuit of science, although he does not survive to see its victory.
William Walzack
William Walzack is a Martian research scientist identified as patient zero of the Titan pandemic. He becomes infected after Titan-derived organisms escape containment.