Characters
- Commander Roderick "Rod" Blaine
- A navy officer member of an aristocratic family, gets promoted to Captain of the Imperial battlecruiser, INSS MacArthur, and is given secret orders to take Horace Hussein Bury and Lady Sandra Bright Fowler, to the Imperial capital, Sparta.
- Lady Sandra "Sally" Bright Fowler
- the 22 years old Senator Fowler's niece. After leaving the Imperial University at Sparta with a master's degree in anthropology, she persuaded her uncle that she should travel through the Empire and study primitive cultures first hand. Sally and a classmate, Dorothy, left Sparta with Sally's servants, Adam and Annie. During a stopover at New Chicago, they get caught in a revolution. Sally's friend Dorothy, disappears and Sally is imprisoned into a camp. Months later, she is rescue by imperial forces and send home aboar the MacArthur.
- His Excellency, Trader Hussein Chamoun al Shamlan Bury
- Magnate, Chairman of the Board of Imperial Autonetics, and influential member of the Imperial Traders Association. Son of a rich trader, educated on Sparta, he is the most rich and powerfull men on New Chicago. He tries to take control of New Chicago by starting a revolution, with the help of Jonas Stone, and fails.
The navy thinks Bury was behind this rebellion, but there's not enough evidence to put him in preventive detention. He recuest to appeal to the Emperor and is sent to Sparta to make his appeal on board the MacArthur.
- Nabil
- Bury's servant, skilled with dagger and poison learned on ten planets. Travels with Bury to Sparta.
- Jack Cargill
- First Lieutenant of the MacArthur, gets pormoted to Exec after the battle of New Chicago.
- Jock Sinclair
- the Chief Engineer of the MacArthur. Born in New Scotland.
- Jonathon Whitbread
- Midshipman of the MacArthur. He's the first man to make contact with a living mote.
- Staley
- Midshipman of the MacArthur.
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