by Tony Daniel
Jeep
A nine-hundred-year-old semisentient Jeep that roams upstate New York.
Major, later Colonel, Theory
Free convert in the Federal Army, and Roger Sherman’s principal aide. Theory is a very logical fellow who finds that he is developing intuition in fits and starts. Theory has a son, whom he has not yet named.
Sergeant Kwame Neiderer
Orphan from beyond Pluto who joins the Federal Army and eventually becomes a soldier in the Third Sky and Light Brigade on Triton. Has a fully space-adapted body.
C
Chief of special operational intelligence and cryptology for the Met. His real name is Clare Runic. Probably.
Amés
Chairman of the Interlocking Directorate of the Met. Formerly a musical composer trained by the famous free-convert composer, Despacio. Obscure origins. Amés is a fully integrated, multiply differentiated LAP, a manifold.
The Graytor Family
Kelly Graytor
Junior partner in the E-Street firm of Teleman Milt. An accomplished trader in “quantum futures” before the war. Husband to Danis and father of Aubry and Sint.
Danis Graytor
Free-convert portfolio management software and wife of Kelly Graytor.
Aubry Graytor
Sixteen-year-old (Metaplanetary) daughter of Kelly and Danis Graytor.
Sint Graytor
Youngest child of Kelly and Danis Graytor.
TB-, Andre-, and Molly-Related People
Bob the Fiddler
Half-crazed musician in the Carbuncle, and later on Triton.
Makepeace Century
(Metaplanetary) Former FUSE terrorist on Mars, and captain of the spaceship Mrs. Widow during the war.
Cardinal Morton Filmbuff
(Metaplanetary) Andre Sud’s boss in the Greentree Way. A LAP manifold “quantum event detector” designed to see the entire human present so clearly that the future becomes manifest as a vision. Filmbuff first has a vision of the coming war as the burning Greentree. He then has a vision of a new Tree, of which the old Tree is just a shadow.
Alethea Nightshade
The woman whom both Thaddeus Kaye and his regular human personality, Ben, loved. When Ben Kaye interfered in the creation of his own Thaddeus Kaye manifold, Alethea’s personality was blown apart and dispersed somewhere in the Met. Both men believed they had lost her, and her love, at that time.
Triton
Captain John Quench
Commander of Company A in the Third Sky and Light Brigade. Friend to Major Theory. Quench is currently a man, but originally a woman. His fiancé (a man), who will not join him on Triton, lives on Europa.
Constants
Free convert working for the Department of Immunity. Extremely fast and deadly. Major Theory’s former lover in Officer Candidate School.
Dahlia Sherman
Roger Sherman’s ex-wife and Leo Sherman’s mother. A LAP, one portion of which is an emergency-room doctor on Triton.
Gerardo Funk
Mondo grist engineer and leader of the doomed partisan resistance on Titan, Saturn’s moon. Later the commandant and chief research director at the Federal Army’s Forward Labs on Triton.
Captain Thomas Ogawa
Captain of the spaceship the Mary Kate, who brought five hundred refugees to Neptune from Saturn’s Titan after that moon fell to DIED forces. Later a commander in the Federal Navy.
Hilly St. Johns
(Metaplanetary) Free-convert bartender at the Officers’ Club of the Third Sky and Light Brigade.
New Miranda Politicians and Such From
Metaplanetary
Thoreau Delgado
(Metaplanetary) AKA the “Thin Man.” Leader of the Free Integrationists on Triton. A LAP. Aspect is entirely Triton-adapted.
Mallarmé de Ronsard
(Metaplanetary) Neo-Flare poet, and Free Integrationist on Triton.
Shelet Den
(Metaplanetary) Old-guard member of the Motoserra Club on Triton.
Janry Craig
(Metaplanetary) First engineer of the Neptunian Mill.
Frank Chan
(Metaplanetary) Chairman of the New Miranda Town Meet. A LAP.
Kali Mfud
(Metaplanetary) Member of the Trade Economists faction on Neptune’s moon Triton.
Titan Invasion (Metaplanetary)
Vincenze Fleur and Pazachoff
(Metaplanetary) Titan residents, part of the initial partisan resistance.
Ins and Del
(Metaplanetary) Free converts, the former cipher keys to the Titan Rocketry Shield. Del was the complementary key to Ins.
Amés’s Theater Commanders
General C. C. Haysay
Commander of the DIED forces conquering Titan and the Saturn system. Haysay is a LAP.
General Blanket
DIED conqueror of Pluto and commander of the force that included the DIED ship Streichhöltzer. Asian, with jet-black hair worn severely cropped.
Zebra 333
Leader of the DIED forces attacking Jupiter. A LAP who exists entirely in the virtuality. Frequently appears with an animal head of some sort. Zebra 333’s headquarters is on the carrier Schwarzes Floβ.
Admiral Carmen San Filieu
(Metaplanetary) LAP commander of the Met forces attempting to conquer Triton. Her flagship is the Montserrat. Also a society dame in the New Catalonia Bolsa on the Diaphany. Also Amés’s lover on Mercury. A LAP can do all these things, and more. She can also die horribly and all at once, as San Filieu proved.
Montserrat Crew Under San Filieu (Metaplanetary)
Captain Meré Philately
Non-Catalán senior officer on the DIED ship Montserrat. Survived the destruction of that craft and became a POW. Later the leader of the Federal Army’s Virtual Extraction Corps.
Captain Bruc
(Metaplanetary) Catalán senior officer on the DIED ship Montserrat.
Jovian Command
General Meridian Redux
Commander of the Federal Second Army in the Jovian system.
Major Anke Antinomian
Federal Army officer. Announces the fall of Ganymede at the cloudship Constitutional Congress. Adjutant to and chief of intelligence for General Redux in the Jovian system.
Captain Deadpan
Free-convert staff officer to Redux, statistics wiz.
Cloudship Yüan Hung-tao
Held in reserve by Redux at Callisto during Fall of Io.
Cloudship Sandburg
Cloudship who took part in the defense of Io, carrying Winny Hinge as a press observer.
Fall of IO
LEO ’ SPLATOON
Private Aschenbach
Leo Sherman’s assumed name and bodily identity during his flight to the outer system.
Corporal, later Sergeant, Dory Folsom
DIED soldier who took part in the conquest of Titan, the invasion of Io, and the fighting on Charon. Leo Sherman’s platoon leader during his flight to the outer system.
Llosa
Soldier in Dory Folsom’s platoon during the invasion of Io. Op 2. From the Carta Cylinder on the Vas.
Corporal Merrymaker
Platoon quartermaster at Egolo Barrel on the Diaphany.
Corporal Alliance
Surf 1 communications man in the platoon. Dies in canyon recognizance from a grist grenade.
Platoon
Includes Privates Gerhard, Meeker, Asad, Chin, Extraslim.
Lieutenant Fooks
In command during initial part of the Capacitor raid.
Lieutenant Tae
In command during canyon recognizance on Io. Runs into a zip net.
FEDERAL FORCES ON IO
Carkey
Federal Army defender of the Capacitor during the DIED invasion.
Corporal Dowan
Carkey’s compatriot in the weapons blister.
Assistant Mayor Mathaway
Free convert in Capacitor gristlock.
> Uncle Yoland
Ionian relative of Carkey’s.
Uncle Hors
Ionian relative of Carkey’s.
WINNY HINGE - RELATED
Winny Hinge
JBC merci reporter aboard Cloudship Sandburg. Sponsored by Jermatherm Coats-Like-New pellicle enhancer.
Ron Edgekirk
Host of the merci show Plasmaskate , Winny’s ex-boyfriend who fell in love with a free convert.
Battle of the Three Planets
Jake Alaska
Merci reporter for IDC news service.
Framstein Wallaby
Another IDC reporter.
Panda
The IDC free-convert database.
Captain Allsky
Third Sky and Light company commander on Cloud-ship Austen.
Sensor Drone Maria-Alpha
Semisentient. First detects General Haysay’s invasion forces.
Childe Elrondius
Inhabitant of Uranus’s moon Oberon, deluded by Fremden grist into thinking he’s a knight on a dragon-killing quest.
Major Monitor
Theory’s right-hand man and sensor chief.
Corporal Orfeo
One of Allsky’s troopers who missed the net in the Mill skirmish near Neptune.
Major Zane
DIED General Haysay’s well-mannered adjutant.
Cloudships Engaged at Neptune
The “Kuiper Group,” consisting of: Mark Twain, Austen, Homer, McCarthy, Cervantes, and Carlyle.
Various Cloudships and Cloudship-Related People
Tacitus
The first LAP cloudship, along with his friend, Cloud-ship Lebedev. Historian of the War for Republic and engineer of the Metaplanetary Constitution of the First Solarian Republic. One of the oldest living human beings.
Cloudship Lebedev
One of the original cloudships, along with Tacitus. Born 2375 C. E. in Russia. Cofounder of Bradbury University. First Commandant of the Federal Naval Academy.
Cloudship Tolstoy
The curmudgeonly keeper of the cloudship graveyard far out on the Dark Matter Road toward Alpha Centauri. He has thirteen sons and one daughter. An instructor in the Federal Naval Academy.
Cloudship Mark Twain
First person to visit Alpha Centauri system. Pro-Republic. Took part in the Battle of the Three Planets, defending the Mill at Neptune.
Cloudship Austen
Economist. Pro-Republic. Took part in the Battle of the Three Planets, defending the Mill at Neptune.
Cloudship Mencken
(Metaplanetary) Chair of the Congress of the Cloud- ships.
Cloudship Beatrice
(Metaplanetary) Alarmist. Anti-Republic.
Cloudship Markham
(Metaplanetary) Pro-Republic.
Cloudship Kafka
(Metaplanetary) Pro-Republic.
Cloudship Bernhardt
(Metaplanetary) Pro-Republic.
Cloudship al-Farghani
(Metaplanetary) Elitist. Anti-Republic.
Cloudship Huxley
(Metaplanetary) Argumentative. Anti-Republic.
Cloudship Ahab
(Metaplanetary) Elitist. Anti-Republic.
Cloudship Grieg
(Metaplanetary) Anti-Republic.
Cloudship Cézanne
(Metaplanetary) Anti-Republic.
Elgar Triptych
(Metaplanetary) Amés’s slippery ambassador to the cloudships. Later the Met’s representative to the outer system during the conflict.
New Catalonia (Metaplanetary)
Josep Busquets
(Metaplanetary) Wicked youthful male lover to the aspect of Carmen San Filieu who lives in New Catalonia.
Noñells
(Metaplanetary) A banking family in New Catalonia.
Other Jill- and Aubry-Related People
Alvin Nissan
Free-convert partisan commander and expert v-hacker. Pelota fanatic. Played goalkeeper for the “Celtics.” He also created the “Aschenbach” persona for Leo Sherman.
Logan36
Free-convert v-hack on the Silicon Valley break-in team. Played midfield for the “Celtics.”
Bin___128A
One of the “protocol vermin.” He discovered the trick to taking out a Department of Immunity antipersonnel sweeper, a Met policing-and-attack unit. Later became a man, and a principal leader of the partisan forces in the Met.
Bastumo
Legendary pelota player. Aubry uses his semisentient grist patch overlay to play pelota during the break-in at Silicon Valley.
Tod
Gnostic time tower. Object of devotion of the Friends of Tod.
Otis and Game
Leaders of the Friends of Tod on Nirvana, prior to its destruction.
Taylor
(Metaplanetary) Friend of Tod who operates an old-fashioned ham radio on Nirvana.
Mrs. Lately
(Metaplanetary) LAP teacher on Mercury who saw promise in Aubry Graytor and thought she might be a good LAP candidate.
Kwame Niederer-Related People
Private Rastin
(Metaplanetary) Soldier in the Third Sky and Light Brigade who helped destroy the rip tether.
Sergeant Peal
(Metaplanetary) Soldier in the Third Sky and Light Brigade who had a nervous breakdown trying to destroy the rip tether on Triton and killed his lieutenant.
Lieutenant Flashpoint
(Metaplanetary) Soldier in the Third Sky and Light Brigade who was killed by her crazed sergeant while trying to destroy the rip tether on Triton.
Lieutenant Boxset
(Metaplanetary) Short-lived soldier in the Third Sky and Light Brigade who took part in the attack on the Montserrat .
Privates Tiempos and Cue
(Metaplanetary) Short-lived soldiers in the Third Sky and Light Brigade who took part in the attack on the Montserrat .
Lieutenant Chalk
(Metaplanetary) Soldier in the Third Sky and Light Brigade who took part in the attack on the Montserrat. Kwame Neiderer’s eventual commander. Chalk put the antimatter bomb that destroyed the Montserrat down the bore shaft.
Rules
(Metaplanetary) The Rules was the not-quite-sentient algorithmic director of the orphanage where Kwame Neiderer grew up.
Platoon at Charon
Lieutenant Twentyklick, commander. Benetorro, Denmark, Fusili, Mays, Hardrind.
The Shadows and the Tigers
Two platoons fighting to the death and beyond in the weird landscape of the anti-information zone on Charon. Ultimately these are Jungian representations of Kwame’s subconscious when his mentality was captured and subverted by the transformed grist-mil on that moon.
Ping Li Singh-Related People
Professor Hamarabi Techstock
LAP, head of the Science Directorate in the Met. Hamar is his nickname.
Hugo Singh
Li’s father. He lives on the Vas in Akali Dal Bolsa. Has pellicle-induced lupus.
Harold Singh
Li’s brother. Works in the Vas’s Umberto Barrel, at the silo.
Suni Singh
Li’s sister. Planned to sing the ardasa at Hugo’s funeral.
Siscal
Free-convert statistician relegated to guard duty at Complex B at Sui Sui University.
Gertel
Passenger on the Dedo travel bead. Pharmaceutical grist sales person. Sells Dendrophytis, an alleged quantum-based aphrodisiac.
Hill
Passenger on the Dedo travel bead. Met exterior repair technician. Space-adapted, bone white color.
McHood
Li’s colleague and fellow prisoner on Earth.
Norm regulator 1
Guy who gives Li a hard time at Checkpoint Cesium.
Claude Schlencker (Amés)-Related People
Despacio
First free-convert music composer. His most famous works are the celebrated A-4 Variations. Despacio later became crazy Bob the Fiddler. Or so Bob
claims.
Delmore Schlencker
(Metaplanetary) Claude Schlencker’s alcoholic, disappointed father.
Getty
(Metaplanetary) Principal of Claude Schlencker’s school in Polbo Armature.
Janey Beth Schlencker
(Metaplanetary) Claude Schlencker’s mother.
Eynor Jensen
(Metaplanetary) A music teacher at Asap Gymnasium who recommended Claude Schlencker to Despacio.
Mrs. Ridgeway
(Metaplanetary) A teacher in Polbo Armature who saw promise in young Claude Schlencker.
Other Kelly Graytor-Related People
Hazen Huntley
(Metaplanetary) A junior partner in Teleman Milt.
Hed Ash
