Characters
- Sirius
- The Five – peer group of five senior administrators of the Sirian Colonial Service
- Ambien II – one of the Five, Sirian representative to Rohanda
- Canopus
- Klorathy – senior Canopean Colonial administrator
- Nasar – permanent official on Rohanda
- Shammat
- Tafta – Shammat representative to Rohanda
Read more about this topic: The Sirian Experiments
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