Rahal Gara

> "*Now, this is a preliminary result and we have to run some feasibility tests, but f we can hammer* this *diagonalization into place, there's a chance we can modify our threshold winnowers to work.*"
> ― Rahal Gara
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Captain-magistrate **Rahal Gara** was a Rahal Doctrine officer on the cindermoth *Unspoken Law*. She appears in Ninefox Gambit.

## Appearance and Personality

Gara was pale and thin, with a strong voice. She was familiar enough with Kel formation geometry to assess an unfamiliar formation and extrapolate its weaknesses and strengths.

## History

Gara was assigned to the *Unspoken Law*, replacing the cindermoth's former Doctrine officer, to watch Brevet General Kel Cheris for signs of physical and emotional bleed-through from the revenant of General Shuos Jedao. Cheris, who had not been informed of the switch, met Gara during her first visit to the cindermoth's command center. Gara, along with several other officers, later attended the duel between Cheris and Commander Kel Nerevor.

Cheris asked Gara for Doctrine's analysis of the calendrical rot in the area before engaging with a scout swarm from the Fortress of Scattered Needles. Gara analyzed null swarm's formation going into battle and noted that though it would be vulnerable at three pivot points, Cheris had chosen it for modulation speed. After the engagement, Cheris asked Gara to extrapolate information on the heretics' calendar from the battle data.

When Cheris used Rahal faction signifiers to weaken the Fortress's shields, Gara's mouth compressed, but she confirmed the resulting numerical data consistent with the information they had about the heretics' calendrical keys. She fell to the floor and went into convulsions when the shield inverted, but survived.

Gara met with Cheris to discuss the possibility of getting the swarm's threshold winnowers to work on the Fortress. She was disturbed to realize that Cheris was speaking with Jedao's accent, but made no mention of it.

During Gara's off-shift, Cheris contacted her to plan a calendrical spike that involved preempting a heretical remembrance day with a feast-day. Gara confirmed that though the four-day timing was tight, the next available date would be seven months later. Gara also asked for word on the Hafn invasion, but there was none. Cheris asked her to work with the Weapons department on both of the swarm's cindermoths to prepare the threshold winnowers for deployment.

At high table after the Fortress's calendar began to normalize, Gara saw Cheris catch herself admiring Analyst Shuos Liis and then flinch. The calendar continued to normalize and Gara and the other Doctrine officers had a number of whispered conferences over the next few days.

When Commander Kel Huan of the bannermoth *Coiled Stone* arrived to relieve Cheris's swarm, Gara sent him an unauthorized signal from her console with an override Jedao had never seen before. Moments later, *Coiled Stone* fired a carrion bomb at *Unspoken Law*, approximately 8,000 of the swarm's soldiers, including Gara and the other non-anchored people on the cindermoth.

## References

1. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 7
2. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 8
3. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 7
4. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 8
5. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 9
6. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 10
7. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 15
8. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 16
9. ↑ Ninefox Gambit, Chapter 20