Characters
The years refer to Gehenna years since the founding of the original colony.
- Union military personnel
- Colonel James A. Conn (d.3) – governor
- Captain Ada P. Beaumont (d.0) – lieutenant governor
- Union civilian personnel
- Marco X. Gutierrez (d.32) – biologist
- Non-citizen personnel
- Jin 458-9998 (d.58) – "A" class azi
- Pia 86-687 (d.46) – "A" class azi
- Cloudside settlement
- Elai (b.178, d.241) – ruler of the Cloud River towers
- Styxside settlement
- Jin 12 (b.170, d.205) – ruler of the Styx River towers
- Alliance personnel
- Dr. Elizabeth McGee (MaGee) (active 188–205+) – scientist studying the Cloudside settlement
- Dr. R. Genley (active 188–205, d.205) – scientist studying the Styxside settlement
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
—Clifford Irving (b. 1930)