Benjamin MacDonald was Director Timothy Randal’s procurement officer before Jack Halloway.
Category: People
Colonel Andrew Gunderson
Andrew (Andy) Gunderson is Director Timothy Randall’s head of security. Nominally part of the Human Resources Department, Gunderson is technically Director Carla Savage’s, subordinate but he reports only to Randall himself.
Timothy Randall
Timothy Randall is a Vice President and former board member of the Unity Corporation. He is now the director of the small moon Aetna in the Sicily system.
Carla Savage
Carla Savage is a Unity citizen with the rank of Director in the Human Resources Department. She is one of three key members of Vice President Timothy Randall’s inner circle when he takes his appointment on Aetna. She is also the first person to bring smuggler Jack Halloway to his attention.
Commander Lucas Hodgkins
Commander Lucas Hodgkins commands the New Athens scooter Archimedes.
Brody Gillian-Porter
Brody Gillian-Porter is the son of Roger Gillian and Helena Porter. He is the only child known to have been born during an interstellar gate construction mission. He was born on Athenian Gate Construction Mission D102, in the thirteenth month of travel.
Vox
Vox was the onboard AI for MoD Gate Placement Mission D102. Vox exhibited a growing sense of independence in its behaviors during the unusual mission, perhaps due to the continual upgrades it received from Dr. Helena Porter professor of Computer Science at Olympia City University.
Helena Porter
Helena Porter was a Professor of Computer Science and AI specialist at the Olympia College of Engineering and Math in the capital city on Athena. She argued very early on that the Unity Corporation was preparing for war. At the time she was considered a fear monger among the bureaucrats of the kingdom of Athena. She became a minor celebrity and sought after pundit when her fears proved correct.
When her husband Roger Gillian was ordered into reeducation during the occupation, Porter used her influence at the MoD to get herself placed on a gate construction mission to the Arcadia system. The mission launched on August 3, 328. It was no secret that the MoD was happy to let her go, as her presence was a continued thorn in its side during the occupation.
Porter is the only woman ever to give birth on an interstellar gate construction mission.
Roger Gillian
Roger Gillian was one of thirty-nine survivors of the Athenian troop carrier Calliope, destroyed in the battle for Apollos.
He was also one of two pilots on the Athenian Gate Placement Mission D102 and the father of Brody Porter-Gillian, the only child ever to be born on a gate placement mission.