Cast of Characters

CAST OF CHARACTERS

SOL SYSTEM AND HUMAN TERRAFORMED WORLDS

YURI ALSTER			Connexion Corporation security chief
CALLUM HEPBURN			Emergency Detoxification team leader
SAVI CHAUDHRI			Connexion security undercover agent
MOSHI LYANE			Team deputy
ALANA KEATES			Detoxification team
COLIN WALTERS			Detoxification team
RAINA JACEK			Detoxification team, IT (ex-hactivist)
HENRY ORME			Detoxification team
DOKAL “DOK” TORRES			Connexion lawyer
AINSLEY BALDUNIO ZANGARI			Connexion founder and CEO
POI LI			Connexion head of security
JESSIKA MYE			Yuri’s assistant
FERITON KAYNE			Connexion, exosolar security division
ALIK MONDAY			FBI, senior special detective
KANDARA MARTINEZ			Dark-ops mercenary
EMILJA JURICH			Utopial movement founder
JARU NIYOM			Utopial movement founder
LOI			Yuri’s assistant and technology advisor
ELDLUND			Callum’s advisor
AKKAR			Ecowarrior
GWENDOLINE			Ainsley’s (unacknowledged) granddaughter
HORATIO SEYMORE			Gwendoline’s boyfriend
LUCIUS SOĆKO			Connexion security squad captain
CANCER			Dark-ops mercenary
SALOVITZ			Detective, NYPD
KRAVIS LORENZO			NY lawyer
ROSE LORENZO			NY socialite
JAVID-LEE BOSHBURG			NY gang boss
RAYNER GROGAN			NY gang boss
KRUSE			Akitha Home Security Bureau
TYLE			Home Security Bureau
OISTAD			Home Security Bureau
NAHUEL			Buddhist monk, 2199 ecumenical delegation

JULOSS

Immerle Estate Boys

DELLIAN

ORELLT

FALAR

JANC

URET

XANTE

RELLO

COLIAN

Immerle Estate Girls

YIRELLA

TILLIANA

ELLICI

Immerle Estate Adults

ALEXANDRE			year tutor
JENNER			principal
URANTI			munc-tech
KENELM			Captain of the Morgan

Timeline

TIMELINE

1901…Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio message across Atlantic Ocean.

1945…First nuclear explosion (above ground).

1963…Limited Test Ban Treaty signed, prohibiting atmospheric nuclear bomb tests.

2002…Neána cluster, near 31 Aquilae, detects electromagnetic pulse(s) from atomic bomb explosions on Earth.

2005…Neána launch sublight mission to Earth.

2041…First commercial laser fusion plant opens in Texas.

2045…First commercial food printers introduced.

2047…The US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency reveals artificial atomic bonding generator—the so-called force field.

2049…US Congress passes act to create Homeland Shield Department, charged with building force fields around every city.

2050…China forms Red Army’s City Protection Regiment, begins construction of Beijing shield.

2050…Saudi kingdom installs mass food-print factories. Twenty percent of the kingdom’s remaining crude oil allocated for food printing.

2050…Russia starts National People’s Defense Force; its shield generator project starts with Moscow.

2052…European Federation creates UDA (Urban Defense Agency)—builds force fields over major European cities.

2062…November: Kellan Rindstrom demonstrates quantum spatial entanglement (QSE) at CERN.

2063…January: Ainsley Baldunio Zangari founds Connexion.

2063…April: Connexion twins portal doors between Los Angeles and New York, charges ten dollars to go between cities.

2063…Global stock market crash, car companies lose up to ninety percent of their share value. Shipping, rail, and airline stocks fall. Aerospace stocks rally as space entrepreneur companies announce ambitious asteroid development plans.

2063…November: Space-X flies a QSE portal into LEO on a Falcon-10, providing open orbit access. Commencement of large-scale commercial space development.

2066…Astro-X Corporation’s mission to Vesta. Establishment of Vesta colony.

2066–2073…Thirty-nine national and commercial colony/development missions to asteroids (the Second California Rush—so called because of the number of American tech company CEOs involved). Large number of World Court injunctions filed by developing nations and left-wing groups against exploitation of exo-resources by for-profit companies.