List of Minor Characters

## Intergalactic Republic

#### **Major General J. Golding Frederick**

A high-ranking member of the  IGR. Takes Agent Park away to Zone Z when he is suspected of leaking information to  Ricky Q, promoting Agent McCabe to the rank of Agent in his absence. Leads the IGR effort on  New Jupiter when the Rumor makes landing and orders McCabe to execute Krejjh, despite this being a violation of the Treaty that ended the  Human/Dwarnian war. Her office appears to be Room 1013 in  ADVANCE Labs/CIU Headquarters, where she tortures Violet Liu for information by shooting Arkady Patel in the leg. Believes that "the willingness to abandon torture as a strategy stems from rather a lack of imagination". She is knocked out when Violet Liu injects her with a syringe of heptocaldrin, but survives despite the later explosion on the lab's penthouse floor.

#### **Junior/Acting Agent Goodman**

A Junior Agent working under Agent Coleman, who is "loaned" to the Iris I/Rumor investigation following Agent Park's disappearance to  Zone Z. Has a dislike of the song Whisky In the Jar due to having been forced to listen to it "at least fifteen times" in the twelve hours following the Rumor crew's decision to execute Plan B, and threatens to shoot Violet Liu on  New Jupiter if she continues singing it. He later assumes the role of Acting Agent following Agent McCabe's presumed defection to the side of the Rumor crew, and gives all Agents the order to "shoot to kill [Agents Park and McCabe]", prompting Park to state that he "never liked that guy".

#### **Ensign Best**

The transcriber of the Iris casefiles, who is later found to be the real source of the leak to  Ricky Q and apprehended, causing Agent Park to be released.

#### **Agent Clark**

An Agent working with Agents  Park,  McCabe and  Goodman on the Rumor case, who helps to "direct"  Ensign Best in transcribing the reports. Agent Park states that Clark "can be bribed" if necessary.

#### **Agent Seiders**

An Agent who works alongside  Agent Clark in directing the transcripts of the Iris casefiles. During the altercation on  New Jupiter, they lead Team Two into the Rumor in an attempt to apprehend the crew, whom they believe are hiding inside, and are subsequently killed when the ship explodes.

#### **Officer Wu**

An IGR officer whom Violet Liu impersonates in order to gain entry to CUI Headquarters after the Rumor touches down on  New Jupiter. It is subsequently revealed that Officer Wu is not on duty that night.

#### **Agent Coleman**

Presumably  Junior Agent Goodman's superior, who "loans" him to the Iris/Rumor investigation after  Park is taken away to  Zone Z. Mentioned by Park as "sweeping another area" during the altercation on New Jupiter.

#### **Agent Bauman(n)**

An Agent credited with assisting with the Iris casefiles. Mentioned by  Park as "sweeping another area" during the altercation on New Jupiter. Their name is spelt "Bauman" in the episode credits, but "Baumann" in the Episode 10 transcript.

#### **Agent Cross**

An Agent credited with assisting with the [Iris]] casefiles. Mentioned by Park as "sweeping another area" during the altercation on New Jupiter.

#### **General Jahansooz**

An high-ranking official in the Intergalactic Republic assisting with the Iris casefiles, who may also have overseen the capture of  Thasia when they arrived on  New Jupiter attempting to bring the  nanoswarm to the IGR. Does not "believe in torture", but has no problem authorizing extremely cruel and inhumane methods of treatment that border on torture.

#### **Officer Perry**

An IGR officer on Telemachus who witnesses the Iris II's landing there.

#### **Nan Walker**

Childhood friend of  R.J. McCabe on  Martineau.

## Resistance Movement

#### **Emily Craddock**

A close childhood friend of Thasia who grew up alongside them on Halton Station in the Neutral Zone. She provided the voice for the software program E.L.L.A. and had a test account on the system created for her by  Alvy Connors. She was carrying out "recon" at ADVANCE, working in PR, when she discovered Thasia being held prisoner there in a tank and aborted her mission to free them. She worked alongside Other Violet Liu, and sent a message to Alvy Connors via her test account in an attempt to warn him about the IGR's plot. Due to her weak lungs, she was severely impacted by the nanoswarm infection and died after just three days.

#### **Alvy Connors**

A talented computer engineer who had a security consulting business on  New Jupiter and worked at ADVANCE alongside  the other Violet Liu and Emily Craddock. He and Brian Jeeter were friends, having worked together at the bar Jamie Price's on Ryedell Station in the Neutral Zone, after which the two kept in touch, trading occasional information and favours. He went to the Neutral Zone to "learn whatever he could about alien tech", and was interested in Dwarnian coding languages. He set up tech on the Iris I where he worked alongside Violet Liu, and was killed in the away shuttle explosion.

#### **Intermediate in Zone Z**

An unnamed "intermediate" working with the resistance inside Zone Z, whom Agent Park was able to contact when he turned against the Regime, and give his password to access the security systems on  New Jupiter.

## Other Humans

#### **Roderick Quincy Cresswin Jr. (Ricky Q)**

A member of the Cresswin family, who owned and founded Cresswin Landing, formerly the largest prison in the galaxy. He went against his family in order to help organise the Cresswin Landing uprising, but then disappeared and sold out the movement "three months before go time", throwing operations into jeopardy. Since then, he has used the alias Ricky Q to work with various criminal organisations. He went to school with both Agent Park and  Ensign Best, whom he bribes to alert him if one of his aliases appears in an  IGR report. He is apprehended by the IGR after Sana Tripathi reveals his identity during their meeting on  Hafizah.

#### **Shelly**

Someone close to Agent Park, possibly a significant other or close relative. When he is taken away to Zone Z, he asks  McCabe to "tell her not to expect me".

#### **Ignatius Campbell**

An expert forger and long-time friend and trading partner of the Rumor crew based on  Telemachus. When the Rumor crew diverts their course in response to  Alvy Connors' message, they are forced to miss a planned drop-off with Campbell. Nevertheless, he helps them to obtain forged identity documentation on  Elion. He grows tomatoes, and has nephews of whom he is extremely fond. He describes himself as "a man with a weakness for good stories and bad moonshine". Has a mutual ongoing flirtation with Sana Tripathi, and appears to be romantically interested in her. His real name (per speculation from the IGR) may be Alexander Cole or Jonathan Johnson.

#### **Theodore "Red" Gregor**

A close friend and contact of  Campbell's, based on  Elion. Campbell was best man at both of his weddings.

#### **The Fowley Siblings**

A criminal operation based on Elion. Described by Arkady Patel as "the lowest of lowlifes". One of the siblings is named Jay, and offers the crew of the Iris II a place to land while being bugged by the  IGR.

#### **Chancellor Dean**

A Chancellor whom  Sana claims to have murdered and been impersonating for eight years when the Rumor crew are inventing fictitious crimes to bog the  IGR down in paperwork.

#### **President Andrade**

Referenced by Arkady Patel as having assisted her in a fictitious crime to steal the Vaideesh Diamonds. May be a wanted criminal or fugitive, thus making the crime even more worthy of investigation by the  IGR.

#### **Birdie and the Swansong**

A band or group who composed and performed the song 'Fear For the Storm'. The identity of the lead singer is unknown;  Violet claims that she is really the singer when the crew are inventing fictitious crimes.

#### **Slim Timmy Williams**

A member of the mafia in the  Neutral Zone, referenced by  Brian in *Vignette 3: First Impressions*.

#### **Kim Hoff**

A pirate and leader of the Bald Cat Gang, known to have operated on  Moon B7-02439, nicknamed "Hoff's Hideaway". In the bonus vignette *Intro to Sociopiratical Linguistics*, she is also revealed to have been Brian Jeeter's thesis advisor. Her ship is called the *Lynx*. She is named after a real friend and Patreon supporter of Jessica Best, who helped with the scholarly language and linguistics detail in Vignette 10: *Selected annotations from The Saga of the House of Zravshen*.

#### **Nate Hawthorne**

Implied by  Dr. Robinson to be a space pirate similar to  Kim Hoff.

#### **Leanne Tao**

The lead singer of And The Destroyer, a student band at Harmony College, referenced in Vignette 6: *Rock On*. The band continued to perform following the  IGR's ban on "unlicensed crowds", before Leanne Tao mysteriously vanished.

#### **Piper Tanaka**

The alias of a DJ who co-hosts Radio Free Telemachus (RIFT), an anti-Regime pirate radio station broadcast from orbit amidst the rubble of  Telemachus. She enjoys speculating about romantic attachments among the Rumor crew (particularly  Violet and  Arkady) following the release of the Iris casefiles to the public net.

#### **Kestrel Colven**

The alias of a DJ and co-host of Radio Free Telemachus (RIFT). Wears a faux leather jacket, and is exasperated by  Piper's love of speculating about romantic relationships among the Rumor crew.

#### **Reina Sakamachi**

The sound specialist for Radio Free Telemachus, who is "too cool for a bird alias".

#### **Sackville**

A thief friend of Sana Tripathi who already had the IGR on her trail. She declined the *Iris II'*s request for help after their escape from  New Jupiter.

#### **McCresky, Chen, Hernandez, and Anders**

Others who declined to help the *Iris II* crew after their escape from  New Jupiter. Technically Anders said yes, but may have been in shock as they were being actively raided at the time.

#### **Juniper Liu**

Younger sister of Violet Liu, a 22-year-old grad student who has been under IGR surveillance since the end of Season 1. Conducting research into the story of Max Gavins and his old unit, the Echoes, on  Mirzakhani

#### **Talo Riveli**

An individual with whom Agent Park once had a run-in on New Jupiter, and whom Park spotted in a bar on Hypatia.

#### **Dr. Robinson**

Sylvia Robinson is a doctor and friend of Campbell's on Telemachus who treats Brian's respiratory condition.

#### **Julio**

Partner of Max Gavins who works at Max's school. Trained as a counselor.

#### **Kelly**

A toddler at Max Gavins's school who tried to eat a caterpillar.

#### **Oakley Cannon Brown**

An older student at Max Gavins's school. McCabe is inspirational to em for their choice of pronouns while being an adult. Possibly color blind.

#### **Adelaide Schmidt**

A terrible neighbor of Violet Liu's parents on Lovelace who tries to turn in a new person to the government every week.

====**Wyatt**====.
Former landlord of Violet Liu's parents. Had some banned books.

#### **Joyce Hanson**

Current landlord of Violet Liu's parents, who doubled their rent under threat of formally accusing them of helping Violet.

#### **Amelia Taylor**

Juniper Liu's friend who lives near Juniper and Violet's parents. Originally from New Zealand.

#### **Ferdinand McCabe**

Also called Ferdy, brother of  R.J. McCabe and friend of  Nan Walker.

#### **Madge Ferguson**

A resident of Telemachus, and member of the short-wave radio "phone tree."

#### **Irene Wells**

A resident of Telemachus who was taken prior to the events of Signs and Signals, a former member of the short-wave radio "phone tree."

#### **Esperanza Vasquez**

A resident of Telemachus and member of the short-wave radio "phone tree." Has a family that consists of Della and a baby.

#### **David Parker**

A resident of Telemachus and member of the short-wave radio "phone tree." Works as a clerk.

#### **Yuuri Nakamura**

A resident of Telemachus and member of the short-wave radio "phone tree." Has the skills to hot-wire ships. Helps evacuate people from Telemachus during the airstrike. At the end of Season 2, takes Brian, Arkady, and McCabe to  Mirzakhani.

#### **Gloria Navarro**

A graduate school colleague of Brian Jeeter. They had the same advisor. Lives on  Lachlan Station.

## Dwarnians

#### **Eejjhgreb**

A relative of Krejjh's, akin to "an aunt or uncle". A diplomat and politician "in a position of some influence." They offer to use their influence to smooth things over for Krejjh so that they can come back to the Dwarnian homeworld. They disapprove of Krejjh's choices to stay with a group of smuggler humans rather than return and get a respectable job.

#### **Thasia**

A religious wanderer. On their travels, they met and befriended the Swarm. When they approached the IGR on  New Jupiter with a warning that factions within the Dwarnian government were advocating war, the IGR imprisoned them and tortured them for information. The IGR also took the part of the Swarm that Thasia had brought and began Project Sentry, reprogramming and converting the Swarm into spy tools that they used to acquire the Iris Files. The cause of Thasia's disappearance was widely unknown but it was the catalyst for the Human-Dwarnian War.

Thasia was later rescued from their prison by their childhood friend  Emily Craddock, and is now a member of the Resistance working with Other Violet Liu trying to overthrow the IGR.

#### **Chairfolk Vashren**

A high-ranking Dwarnian who was in favor of the Human-Dwarnian War. Tried to kill  Thasia for speaking against the war, and also used Thasia's disappearance as an excuse to enter the war. Basically wants to kill all humans. Suspected of being involved in an arms deal with the IGR. Not friendly with  Eejjhgreb.

#### **Reshthreb**

Health chancellor and close friend of Eejjhgreb.

#### **Larshreb**

Friend of Eejjhgreb. Presumably high-ranking.

### Fictional Dwarnians

#### **Hreshfel**

Character on Sh'th Hremreh. The servers of  Vellagreb fall under their employ. Rival privateer to  Chiss'Vatham, with whom they share a romantic interest.

#### **Chiss'Vatham**

Character on Sh'th Hremreh. Rival privateer to  Hreshfel, with whom they share a romantic interest.

#### **Shrinsh**

The quartermaster on  Chiss'Vatham's ship.

#### **Vellagreb**

Someone who owns a ceremonial private hover-balloon.

#### **Vellagreb's Guard**

A Dwarnian in Vellagreb's employ who catches  Chiss'Vatham and  Hreshfel together.

1. ↑ Episode 10 - Off the Air transcript, Google Docs. Accessed December 28, 2020.
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 4, "Phone Home."