Wren

**Wren Asonoe** is a Defender working at Kratone and is one of the two protagonists of the Martian Frontier.

*Information is accurate as of Chapter 13.*

## Biography

### Early life

Wren was born to Nathaniel Musset's wife alongside her twin brother Tobias. She was always close with her brother but her father concentrated more on the Musset Company. Details of her mother are currently unknown, however it is implied that she died or left.

After growing up she and her brother enrolled as Defenders in Kratone, however the Gravedigger took her and her brother's memories of their father (and their father's memories of them likewise), resulting in them beginning to lead a more low-to-middle-class life.

### Tobias's kidnapping (Chapters 1-2)

On the day of the Arrival Day festival which welcomes new migrants from Earth, the Red Planet Riders, led by the Gravedigger, swarm the festivities on their motorcycles, the Gravedigger himself taking Tobias away.

### Investigation (Chapters 3-7)

After being told by the Defender Captain that, due to Tobias's kidnapping, she would have to take on both their debts, as well as discouraging her from trying to find him, Wren tracks down Francis, a Red Rider operative working undercover in sanitation. After learning Syms was working closely with the Captain and that there was corruption rising amongst the Defenders, she opts to use Francis's position to try to get into the Riders.

### The Red Dust Ball (Chapters 8-9)

To try to learn more of the corruption and to further her search for her brother, Wren uses the codes Francis stole in Chapters 6 and 7 to get into Nathaniel Musset's office. She manages to find numerous documents, including about the failed Martian settlement and Project Happiness. After returning to Francis's hideout she receives a letter from Nathaniel Musset, complimenting her on her getting into his office and inviting her to the Red Dust Ball. At the ball, Musset tells her about the difference between the Alpha and Beta Flies. She would then see Tobias and the Gravedigger at the ball, who had come to 'get her out of danger'. The lights all go out, and she escapes with Tobias and the Gravedigger on motorcycles. However, at the Rider hideout Syms soon arrives, having installed a tracker in Wren's ballgown. It transpires that Tobias had been keeping the fact that he'd been taking Wren's memories of their dead parents, leading to Wren going with Syms. However, before leaving she secretly mouths the words to Tobias: 'Trust me'.

### Syms reveals the truth behind her parents (Chapter 11)

Wren asks Syms to take her to the Outcrop, the place where she believed her parents had died from drinking poisoned water. Syms tells her more about her backstory, which leads to the topic of Nathaniel Musset - namely, that he and the Gravedigger used to be friends, until the day that the Gravedigger stole the memories Musset valued most, which he then reveals were of his son and daughter, who had just enrolled as Defenders in Kratone - namely, Wren and Tobias.

### Chanterelle Colony (Chapter 13)

Francis receives a coded message from Julian that Tobias wants to meet Wren at the Soggy Dog, so she and Syms return there. Tobias then leads them to the glowing underground town he discovered in Chapter 12, and after looking a bit more deeply into it, they find the town was built by a different company to the Musset Company - named Chanterelle Limited - and then find a recorded hologram message fully revealing that there are many other corporations with settlements on Mars other than the Musset Company, and that a hundred years ago there was an uprising which led to each corporation removing all contact and memories of the other corporations from their citizens. Chanterelle Colony itself suffered great damage, leading to its abandonment and the company's assets being acquired by the Musset Company.

## Quotes

"I don’t care if it’s a classic. If the show kills the detective half way through, then that makes it a bad show. You can’t just kill off a character like that, not until the end!"

## Trivia

* The name 'Wren' means 'Small Bird'. Syms often calls her 'Little Bird', in relation to this fact.