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Individual Characters in T-Space

Currently T-Space stories can be grouped into three eras:

  • First steps (circa 2070) when man develops an effective warp drive and starts exploring the nearer stars. (Alpha Centauri series)
  • Jason's era (circa 2090s) warp ships have become affordable to well-off groups and individuals, and uncontrolled exploration is beginning
  • First contact (circa 2120) planets around the nearer stars are well-settled, there are a few colonies at the fringe, and we're starting to realize there are other star-farers around (The Chara Talisman, The Reticuli Deception, The Eridani Convergence)

Because a human lifespan easily overlaps these, it's possible that a given character may show up in stories in different eras (aged appropriately, of course).

First Steps

  • Dr. Algernon Brenke - inventor of the warp drive (full name mentioned in Reticuli Deception, ch. 34)

Associated with Alpha Centauri Expedition

  • Charles Kemmerer - (Deputy) Director of Quarantine Facility on Luna, successor to Darwin
  • Grainger - original lead exobiologist, injured in training accident
  • Wallace - original backup exobiologist, en route to Enceladus

Alpha Centauri Expedition

First Landing

  • Lee - captain/pilot of the Xing Hua
  • 3 other crew of Xing Hua.

Sawyer's World

All land aboard the Anderson

The Return (Book 3)

Chinese (Epsilon Eridani)

  • From first mission
    • Lee Shing - Captain of Xing Hua and Xinglong Hua
    • Zhing Yuan - Captain of Tianlong Hua (Shengfu?)
    • other personnel
  • Chen Jingyun - first officer and navigator of Xinglong
  • Wang Wei - scientist (M)
  • Zhang Min - scientist (F)
  • Cheng Jun - pilot of Xinglong (M)
  • Ping Wei - medic, landed w Xinglong (M)
  • Jian Qing - on Xinglong (F)
  • Fusheng Bai - scientist Xinglong, shooter

Characters on Earth

  • From the first landing
    • Franklin Drake - Commodore, in command of the overall mission until return
    • George Darwin - exobiologist, former Director of the Lunar Quarantine Lab
  • Lunar Quarantine Facility personnel
    • Grainger - exobiologist, designated lead exobiologist for first mission but replace by Darwin after injury
    • Keating - Base security officer
    • Sid Ryden - biology lab technician
  • Skrellan Pharmaceuticals
  • The service
    • Ben Howard - Rear Admiral, Drake's boss ('s boss?) (named for Thomas P. Howard and
    • Peter Carter - Rear Admiral, trial (named for Samuel P Carter)
    • Shankland - Rear Admiral, trial (named for Paul Shankland, director & lead astrophysicist NOSF)

Endeavour Crew

(others)

Early Expansion (Kakuloa)

Kakuloa: A Rising Tide

Landings
Berry Farm
  • Dr. Ellie Greystone - marine biologist studying treesquids (loosely inspired by Dr. Sylvia Earle) (she dives, does she surf?)
  • Dave Newton - owner (partner with pharmaco?) of "Newtons Berry Farm", a major squidberry farm
  • Bob McWhirter - Newton's foreman
  • Gulliver Newton - Dave's son (late teens)
  • Dr. Henry Caporale - ecologist (agronomist?) investigating long-term viability of berry farms
  • Juanita de la Paz - farm account manager, bookkeeper, etc
  • Dozen or so other farmhands, Mrs. Newton ? other kids?
  • Manning - farm to the north
  • Jim Lofgren - farm much further south
Other's in Greystone's life
  • Patrice Beauchamps - dive buddy, engineer
  • Jaydon Phillips - lab partner in grad school
  • Cheryl - Ellie's aunt
  • Ellie's mother
Other names mentioned
  • Manning - farmer north of Newton. 10 km of coastline and three creeks. Other farmers north of him
  • Jim Hernandez - another farmer, even further north. Mentioned that the current offshore is running faster, he was out fishing
  • Jim Lofgren - small squidberry farm to the south of Newton's (south of the peninsula) 60 or 70 km (by sea)
  • someone in a farm to the north brews beer, but wasn't explicitly named. Could be Manning or Hernandez might be a third.
Development
  • Parry Cohen - guy who wants tourist development on Kakuloa (gets Parry's named after him)
  • Loren Hewitt - early business partner of Cohen's
  • Financier for above

Jason's Era

First Contact Era

The below characters appear in some or all of the Carson & Roberts books, which so far includes The Chara Talisman, The Reticuli Deception, and (forthcoming) The Eridani Convergence.

Minor Named Characters

The Chara Talisman

  • Rajesh Gupta - pilot of Carson's (university-owned) ship on Verdigris
  • Brian, Gregor - hired hands for Carson's Verdigris dig
  • Pete - cargo office at Spitzer Spaceport, Epsilon Eridani
  • Roger & Laura Geary - newly-weds Roberts is taking to Epsilon Eridani
  • Dean Matthews - Carson's boss, Dean of Archaeology at Drake University in Sawyer City
  • Taggart, Rohm - two of Maynard's men
  • Tuco, Warshowski - Hopkin's men (in addition to Rico)

The Reticuli Deception

  • Reid - Velkaryan operative, Earth (from Sawyers World)
  • Petrov - prospector and pilot of the Rockhopper at Alpha Mensae
  • Hubble - Velkaryan Projects Director, Earth
  • Laquis - one of Hubble's men, Velkaryan
  • Vaughan - a Velkaryan dispatched from Verdigris to pursue Carson and Roberts
  • Mignon - one of Vaughan's men, Velkaryan

The Eridani Convergence

  • "Jack Smith" - Homeworld Security agent on Tanith (Jordan Burnside)
  • Tevnar - Timoan pilot
  • Mignon (see Reticuli)

The Centauri Surprise

  • Avril Boutelle - xenoanthropology grad student and Homeworld Security agent

The Pavonis Insurgence

  • Henry Prentiss - Homeworld Security agent-in-residence on Verdigris

Aliens

(Marten, the timoan, is mentioned above.)

  • Kukul and Quetz - in deep flashback scenes in The Reticuli Deception
  • Ketzshanass - meets with Carson, Roberts and Martin in Reticuli
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