Characters
- Ted Harker - First officer of exploration spaceship Galileo
- Emily Collins - Space shuttle pilot, lover of Ted Harker
- Ian Lawrence - Captain of the Galileo as the result of political connections
- Jared Ramirez - Astrobiologist, convict, created telescopic array that makes first contact
- John Shillinglaw - Associate Director of the European Space Agency
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