Characters, ships and flotillas
A quick-reference list of every named character, ship and flotilla. Fuller entries appear on each faction's page.
| Name | Faction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sovereign | Unique | The Digital Intelligence of unknown origin behind the Solar War. See Sovereign. |
| The Queen of Saturn | Kingdom of Saturn | The unnamed "ancient Queen" whom the Kingdom rallies behind. About 450 years old, daughter of the founding King and Queen and one of the oldest humans alive. Flesh and blood kept alive by organ replacements and cybernetics. Charismatic, witty and shrewd, she holds court daily on Titan. See The Queen. |
| The founding King and Queen (unnamed) | Kingdom of Saturn | A wealthy couple descended from the House of Windsor and the Imperial House of Japan who settled Titan about 500 years ago. Parents of the current Queen. |
| The Archbishop of Sinlap (unnamed) | Kingdom of Saturn | Highest priest of Saturn's Anglican-Bushido Church, seated in Sinlap crater on Titan. Leads the Church in practice; the Queen is its titular head. |
| Princess Lianna | Kingdom of Saturn | Commander of Her Majesty's twenty-third garrison flotilla. Matcha drinker, mourning the Earl Grey, with a carbon-steel sword and lion-head pommel. |
| H.M.S. Haguro | Kingdom of Saturn | Princess Lianna's cruiser. |
| Baron Von Baryon | Kingdom of Saturn | A Duellist, a Rogue and a Drunk. One of the first to take a flotilla deep into the void. Boar sigil and striking red ships. |
| The Punctured Pig | Kingdom of Saturn | The Baron's flagship, always left slightly damaged from the last battle to show his scars and give opponents a sporting chance. |
| Sir Lucan, the Old Wolf | Kingdom of Saturn | Patient manoeuvre tactics with ferocity in the attack. Out of contact for years: rogue, or on the Queen's direct orders? |
| Lady Hera of Argon | Kingdom of Saturn (believed) | Her purple, white and gold ships bear the fleur-de-lis with a sword. |
| Marshall Miyamoto | Kingdom of Saturn | Commander of the Azur Flotilla. |
| The Azur Flotilla | Kingdom of Saturn | Defends new Kingdom colonies from piratical raids on their transports. |
| Foreman Edgermann | Ceres Cooperative | A bearded, synthcigar-chewing Foreman whose battered cruiser is mining an asteroid as hostile "vultures" close in. |
| Ceres mining garrison flotilla | Ceres Cooperative | Garrisons an asteroid cluster rich in heavy metals and radioactive minerals. |
| Ceres recovery flotilla | Ceres Cooperative | Retrieving stolen property and territory from a local pirate gang. The expected losses are a reasonable risk. |
| Isolated Ceres flotilla | Ceres Cooperative | Badly damaged and cut off. Its sturdy (unnamed) Foreman wages guerrilla war. |
| The Plutocracy heiress (unnamed) | The Plutocracy | An ambitious commander planning to assault a NOVA-blockaded waystation. |
| Her hologhast great-grandfather (unnamed) | The Plutocracy | A grumbling digital ghost taken from the family catacombs, urging risk and ruthlessness. |
| The Don | The Plutocracy | Holds a secure void base, charging tolls and protection money. |
| The Dagger Patrol | The Plutocracy | Harasses trade and colonies in controlled space from the cover of a gas cloud. |
| NOVA jungle-moon detachment | NOVA | In peacekeeping blue. Defends a jungle moon with low-tech ursine natives. Cut off and preparing to repel a raid. |
| NOVA prison-ship security detail | NOVA | Escorts a prison ship through unsecured void space. |
| Paul MacTavish (22nd century) | Mars | Wealthy, eccentric billionaire who first settled Mars and began to warm it by means nobody understands. Revered by the Martian clans as the prophet who promised them a green Mars. |
| The matriarch of Clan Mayflower (2525, unnamed) | Mars | Born on Earth in 2199, she arrived on the Mayflower as a child at the height of Mars Madness. By 2525 she is more than 325 years old, one of the oldest living people on Mars, kept alive by long-life technology. In 2525 she warned that the Solar government had come to Mars to find something. See "Mars Is Ours!". |
| The colonel of the Conqueror (2525, unnamed) | Solar government | A one-eyed officer whose subsidiary led part of the occupation of Mars. |
| Sergeant Clayton (2525) | Solar government | A trainer aboard the transporter Conqueror. |
| The Earth-born reporter (2525, unnamed) | Unknown | Author of the dispatches in "Mars Is Ours!". |
| Phobos Cohort flotilla | Martian Confederacy / Phobos | A balanced flotilla bearing the hammers of Mars, eager for glory. |
| Martian Patrol | Martian Confederacy / Phobos | Supplies a desert moon whose lizard-like tribes the Martians value as shock troops. |
| The disgraced Martian force | Martian Confederacy / Phobos | Crews branded cowards, retaking a lost system for Phobos Station with no help from home. |
| Commander Colwell | Unknown | Cunning leader of an Attack Flotilla with aggressive markings and a balanced mix of ships. It "no doubt has a target in mind and will attack with ferocity". |
| The Brotherhood of Bones | Outlaws | An eclectic mix of pirates and corsairs who loosely follow a set of guidelines and work together to attack weak settlements and trade stations. |
| The Axemen | Outlaws (Brotherhood of Bones) | A band of the Brotherhood with a fearsome reputation for massacres. |
| The smuggling cartel | Unknown | Moving quietly through space, carrying ancient alien artefacts to Sol for the black market. |
| Deep-void scientific expedition | Supported by the Ceres Cooperative and NOVA | A decade spent mapping the deep void. It has met hostile alien fleets, physics-defying celestial phenomena and the remains of ancient civilisations. |
| The Solar Navy | Solar Supremacy (historical) | Defeated in the Solar War. Its remnants retreated through the waystations. |