The Confederation Handbook (16 page)

Candace Elford
Chief
Sheriff

Lieutenant Commander Kelven
Solanki
Confederation Navy

Lori
Edenist Intelligence
agent

Darcy
Edenist Intelligence
agent

Maki Grutter
Lalonde
Development Company employee

Jenny Harris
ESA
lieutenant

Rai Molvi
Colonist,
Aberdale council leader

Rosemary Lambourne
Captain
of the
Swithland

Karl Lambourne
Rosemary’s
son, crew-member of the
Swithland

Len Buchannan
Captain of
the
Coogan

Gail Buchannan
Len’s
wife

Laton
Serpent, in exile on
Lalonde

Camilla
Laton’s
daughter

Yuri Wilkin
Deputy

Mansing
Sheriff

Graeme Nicholson
Rover
reporter

Lieutenant Murphy
Hewlett
Confederation Navy Marine

Reza Malin
Mercenary, team
leader

Pat Halahan
Mercenary

Sewell
Mercenary

Jalal
Mercenary

Theo Connal
Mercenary,
scout

Sal Young
Mercenary

Ariadne
Mercenary

Shaun Wallace
Possessor

Chas Paske
Mercenary

Atlantis

Eysk
Fishing family chief

Mosul
Eysk’s son

Ombey

Ralph Hiltch
ESA Head of
Station, Lalonde, and General of the Liberation army

Cathal Fitzgerald
Ralph’s
deputy

Dean Folan
ESA G66
division

Will Danza
ESA G66
division

Kirsten Saldana
Princess
of Ombey

Roche Skark
ESA Director

Jannike Dermot
ISA
Director

Landon McCullock
Police
commissioner

Diana Tiernan
Police
Technology Division chief

Admiral Farquar
Commander,
Royal Navy, Ombey

Captain Nelson Akroid
Armed
Tactical Squad

Finnuala O’Meara
Rover
reporter, based in Exnall

Hugh Rosler
DataAxis
technician, Kiint observer

Tim Beard
Rover reporter

Neville Latham
Exnall’s
chief inspector

Colonel Janne Palmer
Royal
Marine

Annette Ekelund
Possessor,
Mortonridge defender

Hoi Son
Possessor,
Mortonridge defender

Devlin
Possessor,
Mortonridge defender

Milne
Possessor,
Mortonridge defender

Sinon
Liberation army
sergeant

Choma
Liberation army
sergeant

Elena Duncan
Liberation
army mercenary, boosted

Dr. Riley Dobbs
Royal Navy
personality debrief psychology expert

Jansen Kovak
Royal Navy
Medical Institute nurse

Moyo
Possessor

Stephanie Ash
Possessor

Cochrane
Possessor

Rana
Possessor

Tina Sudol
Possessor

McPhee
Possessor

Franklin
Possessor

Mixi Penrice
Petty
criminal

New
California

Jezzibella
Mood Fantasy
artist

Leroy Octavius
Jezzibella’s
manager

Libby
Jezzibella’s
dermal technology expert

Al Capone
Brad Lovegrove’s
possessor

Avram Harwood III
Mayor of
San Angeles

Emmet Mordden
Organization
lieutenant

Silvano Richmann
Organization
lieutenant

Mickey Pileggi
Organization
lieutenant

Patricia Mangano
Organization
lieutenant

Gus Remar
Rover reporter

Lieutenant Commander
Kingsley Pryor
Confederation Navy

Webster Pryor
Kingsley’s
son, hostage

Luigi Balsamo
Commander,
Organization fleet

Cameron Leung
Possessor of
the blackhawk

Zahan Oscar Kearn
Captain
of the Organization frigate
Urschel

Bernhard Allsop
Possessor

Kulu

Alastair II
The King

Simon Blake, Duke of
Salion
Chairman, Security Commission

Lord Kelman Mountjoy
Foreign
Office Minister

Lady Phillipa Oshin
Prime
Minister

Admiral Lavaquar
Defense
Chief

Prince Howard
President of
the Kulu Corporation

Prince Noton
Ex-President
of the Kulu Corporation

Nyvan

Gelai
Possessor, Garissa
genocide victim

Ngong
Possessor, Garissa
genocide victim

Omain
Possessor, Garissa
genocide victim

Richard Keaton
Data
security expert and Kiint observer

Baranovich
Possessor,
Organization sympathizer

Adrian Redway
ESA Head of
Station

Earth

Banneth
Light Bringer in
the sect of the High Magus of Edmonton

Andy Behoo
Sellrat, Jude’s
eworld, London

Ivanov Robson
Private
detective, London

Brent Roi
Detective, Halo
police

Courtney
Edmonton sect
acolyte

Billy-Joe
Edmonton sect
acolyte

Charles Filton-Asquith
West
Europe supervisor, B7

The
Confederation

Olton Haaker
Assembly
President

Jeeta Anwar
Chief
presidential aide

Mae Ortlieb
Presidential
science aide

Cayeaux
Edenist Ambassador

Sir Maurice Hall
Kulu
Kingdom Ambassador

Rittagu-FHU
Tyrathca
Ambassador

The Kiint
Home System

Tracy Dean
Observer

The Edenists

Wing-Tsit Chong
Edenism’s
Founder

Athene
Syrinx’s
mother

Astor
Ambassador to the
Kulu Kingdom

Sinon
Syrinx’s
father

The Mosdva

Quantook-LOU
Distributor
of resources, dominion of Anthi-CL

The Tyrathca

Baulona-PWM
Breeder,
electronics regulator

Waboto-YAU
Breeder,
mediator for Coastuc-RT

2020
Clavius base
established. Mining of Lunar subcrustal resources starts.

2037
Beginning of
large-scale geneering on humans; improvement to immunology system,
eradication of appendix, organ efficiency increased.

2041
First
deuterium-fueled fusion stations built, inefficient and expensive.

2044
Christian
reunification.

2047
First asteroid
capture mission. Beginning of Earth’s O’Neill Halo.

2049
Quasi-sentient
bitek animals employed as servitors.

2055
Jupiter mission.

2055
Lunar cities
granted independence from founding companies.

2057
Ceres asteroid
settlement founded.

2058
Affinity symbiont
neurons developed by Wing-Tsit Chong, providing control over animals
and bitek constructs.

2064
Multinational
industrial consortium JSKP (Jovian Sky Power Corporation) begins
mining Jupiter’s atmosphere for He3using aerostat factories.

2064
Islamic secular
unification.

2067
Fusion stations
begin to use He3as fuel.

2069
Affinity bond
gene spliced into human DNA.

2075
JSKP germinates
Eden, a bitek habitat in orbit around Jupiter, with UN protectorate
status.

2077
New Kong asteroid
begins FTL stardrive research project.

2085
Eden opened for
habitation.

2086
Habitat Pallas
germinated in Jupiter orbit.

2090
Wing-Tsit Chong
dies, and transfers his memories to Eden’s neural strata. Start
of Edenist culture. Eden and Pallas declare independence from UN.
Launch buy-out of JSKP shares. Pope Eleanor excommunicates all
Christians with affinity gene. Exodus of affinity-capable humans to
Eden. Effective end of bitek industry on Earth.

2091
Lunar referendum
to terraform Mars.

2094
Edenists begin
exowomb breeding program coupled with extensive geneering improvement
to embryos, tripling their population over a decade.

2103
Earth’s
national governments consolidate into Govcentral.

2103
Thoth base
established on Mars.

2107
Govcentral
jurisdiction extended to cover O’Neill Halo.

2115
First
instantaneous translation by New Kong spaceship, Earth to Mars.

2118
Mission to
Proxima Centauri.

2123
Terracompatible
planet found at Ross 154.

2125
Ross 154 planet
named Felicity, first multiethnic colonists arrive.

2125–2130
Four
new terracompatible planets discovered. Multiethnic colonies founded.

2131
Edenists
germinate Perseus in orbit around Ross 154 gas giant, begin
He3mining.

2131–2205
One
hundred and thirty terracompatible planets discovered. Massive
starship-building program initiated in O’Neill Halo. Govcentral
begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising
to 2,000,000 a week in 2160: Great Dispersal. Civil conflict on some
early multiethnic colonies. Individual Govcentral states sponsor
ethnic-streaming colonies. Edenists expand their He3mining enterprise
to every inhabited star system with a gas giant.

2139
Asteroid Braun
impacts on Mars.

2180
First orbital
tower built on Earth.

2205
Antimatter
production station built in orbit around sun by Govcentral in an
attempt to break the Edenist energy monopoly.

2208
First antimatter
drive starships operational.

2210
Richard Saldana transports all of New Kong’s
industrial facilities from the O’Neill Halo to an asteroid
orbiting Kulu. He claims independence for the Kulu star system,
founds Christian-only colony, and begins to mine He3from the system’s
gas giant.

2218
First voidhawk
gestated, a bitek starship designed by Edenists.

2225
Establishment of
one hundred voidhawk families. Habitats Romulus and Remus germinated
in Saturn orbit to serve as voidhawk bases.

2232
Conflict at
Jupiter’s trailing Trojan asteroid cluster between Belt
Alliance ships and an O’Neill Halo company hydrocarbon
refinery. Antimatter used as a weapon; 27,000 people killed.

2238
Treaty of Deimos,
outlawing production and use of antimatter in the Sol system, signed
by Govcentral, Lunar nation, asteroid alliance, and Edenists.
Antimatter stations abandoned and dismantled.

2240
Coronation of
Gerrald Saldana as King of Kulu. Foundation of Saldana dynasty.

2267–2270
Eight
separate skirmishes involving use of antimatter among colony worlds.
13,000,000 killed.

2271
Avon summit between all planetary leaders. Treaty of Avon,
banning the manufacture and use of antimatter throughout inhabited
space. Formation of Human Confederation to police agreement.
Construction of Confederation Navy begins.

2300
Confederation
expanded to include Edenists.

2301
First Contact.
Jiciro race discovered, a pre-technology civilization. System
quarantined by Confederation to avoid cultural contamination.

2310
First ice
asteroid impact on Mars.

2330
First blackhawks
gestated at Valisk, independent habitat.

2350
War between
Novska and Hilversum. Novska bombed with antimatter. Confederation
Navy prevents retaliatory strike against Hilversum.

2356
Kiint homeworld
discovered.

2357
Kiint join
Confederation as “observers.â€