Characters

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

• George Darwin - lead (exo)biologist (Heinlein/planet-c)
• Franklin Drake - Mission commander (Heinlein) (Think Benjamin Sisko on ST:DS9, (Avery Brooks))
• Elizabeth Sawyer - 2IC, geologist/planetologist, pilot of the Robert A. Heinlein, planet-c, sw (Think Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, perhaps)
• Xiaojing Wu - microbiologist (Heinlein) planet-k?
• Ganesh Patel - captain/pilot of the Chandrasekhar, planet-c
• Jennifer Singh - botanist (Chandrasekhar/planet-c), sw
• Peter Finley - geologist, Canada (Chandrasekhar/planet-c), sw
• Fred Tyrell - geologist (Chandradrasekhar/Anderson/planet-k), sw
• Ulrika Klaar - biologist (Krechet/planet-k), sw
• Dmitri Tsibliev - captain/pilot of the Krechet, planet-k
• Krysansky - medical doctor (Krechet) sw
• Roger Dejois - Krechet - French biologist/ecologist?) sw
• Geoff Tracey - captain/pilot of the Anderson (nod to Jeff Tracy of Thunderbirds, created by Gerry Anderson)
• Greg Vukovich - astrophysicist (Anderson)
• Simms - meteorologist (Anderson?)
• Naomi Maclaren engineer, (Anderson), sw (Australian-American?) (Think Pal Kenzy (Linda Newton) on Star Cops)

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

Sawyer's World

All land aboard the Anderson

• Previously landed on Kakuloa
  • Elizabeth Sawyer - 2IC, geologist/planetologist, pilot of the Robert A. Heinlein, planet-c, sw
  • Jennifer Singh - botanist (Chandrasekhar/planet-c), sw
  • Peter Finley - geologist, Canada? (Chandrasekhar/planet-c), sw
  • Fred Tyrell - geologist (Chandradrasekhar/Anderson/planet-k), sw
  • Ulrika Klaar - biologist (Krechet/planet-k), sw
• Personal first landing
  • Krysansky - medical doctor (Krechet) sw
  • Roger Dejois - Krechet - French biologist/ecologist?) sw
  • Naomi Maclaren engineer, (Anderson), sw

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
  • unnamed yet - Base security officer
  • Sid Ryden - biology lab technician
• Skrellan Pharmaceuticals
  • Dennis Lodgson - head of research for Skrellan
  • Victoria Holmes - VP at Skrellan, Lodgson's boss

(others TBD)

Jason's Era

• Jason Curtis - owner/pilot of the Starfire
• Renee
• George Menzies

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.

• Dr. Hannibal Carson - archaeologist

• Jaqueline (Jackie) Roberts - owner/pilot of the S-class Sophie
• Quentin Ducayne - unspecified director in Homeworld Defense Intelligence Agency
• Marten (a timoan) - archaeologist
• Hopkins - bad guy, dealer in illicit alien artifacts
• Rico - works for Hopkins
• Malcolm Brown - works for Ducayne, some background in archeology, (Brown may not be his real name)
• Maynard - bad guy, Velkaryan
• Vaughan - Velkaryan (Reticuli Deception, Eridani Convergence)
• Hubble - Executive Projects Director, Church of Divine Stellar Providence (the Velkaryans), Earth

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
• Petrov - prospector and pilot of the Rockhopper at Alpha Mensae

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