Dramatis Personae

Roderick Harold, Lord Blaine, Commander, Imperial Space Navy

Arkley Kelly, Gunner, Imperial Marines, and Blain family retainer

Admiral Sir Vladimar Richard George Plekhanov, Vice Admiral Commanding Imperial Space Navy Forces, New Chicago, and Acting Governor General, New Chicago

Captain Bruno Cziller, Imperial Space Navy, Master INSS MacArthur

Commander John Cargill, ISSS, First Lieutenant of MacArthur

Commander Jock (Sandy) Sinclair, ISN, Chief Engineer of the MacArthur

Midshipmen Horst Staley, ISN, senior midshipman aboard the INSS MacArthur

Midshipmen Jonathon Whitbread, ISN

Kevin Renner, Sailing Master, Lieutenant, Imperial Space Navy Reserve

Lady Sandra Liddell Leonovna Bright Fowler, BA, M.S., doctoral candidate in Anthropology, Imperial University of Sparta

His Excellency Horace Hussein Bury, Trader and Magnet; Chairmen of the Board, Imperial Autonetics Company, Ltd.

Midshipmen, Gavin Potter, ISN

Fleet Admiral Howland Cranston, Commander and Chief, His Majesty’s Forces beyond the Hay Stack

His Imperial Highness, Richard Stefan Merrill, Viceroy for His Majesty Dominions beyond the Coal Sack

Dr. Anthony Horvath, Minister of Science for Trans-Coal-sack Sector

Dr. Jacob Buckman, Astrophysicist

Father David Hardy, Chaplain-Captain, Imperial Space Navy Reserve

Admiral Lavienti Kutuzov, Vice Admiral Commanding His Majesty’s Expedition beyond Murcheson’s Eye¹

Senator Benjamin’s Bright Fowler, Majority Leader and Member of Privy Council

Dr. Sigmund Horowitz, Professor of Xenobiology,² University of New Scotland.

Herbert Colvin, onetime captain of Space Forces of the Republic of Union, and one time master of Union cruiser Defiant

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^{1:The Mote in God's Eye- Wikipedia}

^{2: Xenobiology - Wikipedia}

"The Mote in God's Eye", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle