Library/ Caliban's War

Compendium Story so far

Reading position Whole book

Whole book

The Compendium

Showing only what's known by the whole book. Drag the slider above to move through the story.

The idealistic Earther captain of the Rocinante, now an OPA pirate-hunter still haunted by Eros.

A Ganymede botanist whose life's work and world collapse as war erupts — and whose daughter has vanished.

A towering, powerfully built Martian Marine gunnery sergeant, sole survivor of a monster's massacre on Ganymede.

A foul-mouthed, brilliant UN power broker at the Hague, quietly steering Earth's response to Ganymede and Venus.

The Rocinante's big, blunt, endlessly capable mechanic, fiercely loyal to Holden and the ship.

The Rocinante's brilliant Belter engineer and XO, Holden's partner and the crew's steady anchor.

The Rocinante's cheerful, drawling Martian pilot, ex-Navy and utterly at home at the controls.

Ganymede Monster

An unkillable, blue-eyed chitinous horror that slaughters a Marine platoon on Ganymede's surface unprotected by any suit.

A quiet, high-voiced UN admiral who names the obvious at the war council: Mars weaponized the protomolecule.

A self-satisfied young UN admiral, the hawk of the war council whom Avasarala distrusts and surveils.

Avasarala's gentle, white-bearded academic husband, the private refuge behind her public 'mask.'

Avasarala's soft-spoken, powerful UN superior, who shares her dread over Ganymede and Venus.

Jules Pierre Mao

A polished, dangerous magnate who supplied Protogen's Eros operation — and Julie Mao's grieving, evasive father.

A perceptive Marine chaplain and grief counselor assigned to accompany Bobbie to Earth.

A bright, immune-disordered four-year-old girl from Ganymede, abducted from her Montessori by her doctor.

Holden's crew's home: a state-of-the-art Martian torpedo bomber salvaged and renamed, now flying OPA patrols.

Avasarala's smooth young European personal assistant, fluent in her deniable errands.

A large, salt-smelling children's doctor on Ganymede who abducts his young patient Mei from school.

The world where the protomolecule fell with Eros — now stirring with intentional, inhuman purpose, disassembling ships that watch it.

A stranded Martian Pinkwater mercenary who signs his squad onto Holden's raid in exchange for passage off Ganymede.

The OPA's leader at Tycho Station and Holden's patron, who summons the Roci over trouble on Ganymede.

Prax's ex-wife and Mei's mother, living on Ceres — impersonated by Mei's abductor.

Nguyen's UN dreadnought flagship — holed by a monster and turned into an Eros-style protomolecule incubation chamber, now a quarantined plague-ship.

Avasarala and Arjun's daughter, mother of Kiki and Suri, who visits from Novgorod.

Avasarala's son, dead at fifteen in a skiing accident — a private grief that shadows her.

Avasarala's mild-mannered but deadly-competent UN security chief, who confirms the yacht is a death-trap they can't defend.

Jules-Pierre Mao's obscenely luxurious private yacht — a floating hotel and gilded prison carrying Avasarala toward Ganymede.

A Pinkwater mercenary gut-shot in the base assault, kept fighting on adrenaline and stimulants.

Basia Merton's gravely immune-disordered young son, missing from Ganymede alongside Mei.

Avasarala's shy, brilliant old friend who heads the special sciences committee and walks her through Venus's disassembly of the Arboghast.

A sleek racing pinnace stowed aboard Mao's yacht — Bobbie's fast answer to the race to reach Holden before Nguyen.

Sorrento Gillis

The charming, hollow UN Secretary-General — the perfect figurehead Avasarala privately calls 'the bobble-head.'

A cadaverous, warm-voiced Martian naval-intelligence captain who debriefs Bobbie and controls her deployment.

A UN general at the Ganymede war council, wary of looking weak to the OPA.

A rat-faced UN diplomatic-corps official pushing for immediate talks with Mars, disdained by Avasarala.

A genial UN surveillance analyst in Atlanta who relays the live Ganymede reports on Holden to Avasarala.

A UN science destroyer orbiting Venus, disassembled to its screws with all 572 crew by the intelligence stirring in the clouds.

A grieving Ganymede father, another support-group parent, choosing to evacuate rather than keep searching for his lost son.

Captain of the MCRN Cydonia, the Martian commander who saved the Roci and now generously rearms and escorts it toward Io.

Mei's very young Belter Montessori teacher on Ganymede, who unknowingly released her to her abductors.

A kindly ex-Marine gate guard at the UN complex who coaches the agoraphobic Bobbie through the open sky.

Church of Humanity Ascendant

A supernaturalism-free humanist religion whose missionaries run relief work on stricken Ganymede.

Prax's steady, wry senior botanist colleague on Ganymede, who saves his life as the war begins.

An elderly former CMTU scientist who recognizes Mei's abductor from the broadcast and reveals his true name and Protogen-bound past.

Bobbie's blunt, fiercely protective military doctor, who battles Thorsson over her patient's recovery.

Bobbie's father, a legendary Martian Marine sergeant major revered as 'a god' by recruits.

Holden's Earthbound mother, one of his many parents on the Montana farm — loving, aging, and quietly prejudiced against Belters until she meets Naomi.

The Martian Marine lieutenant commanding Bobbie's platoon on Ganymede when the monster struck.

Gloria Tannenbaum

A brittle, discreet informant in Avasarala's network who feeds her intelligence on fleet movements.

A green Martian Marine private with a Mariner Valley drawl, beheaded by the monster at the dome door.

Harman Dae Jung

The Donnager-class Martian dreadnought carrying Bobbie and Mars's diplomats to Earth for the summit.

A practical Martian Marine private in Bobbie Draper's squad, killed in the Ganymede massacre.

A Jovian moon deduced as the enemy's true protomolecule lab — the Rocinante's next destination in the hunt for Mei.

Avasarala's sharp, watchful eight-year-old granddaughter, the quiet clever one.

A trapped UN sailor who guides Holden through the plague-ship, then — secretly infected — sacrifices himself to trigger the self-destruct.

A vast mercantile corporation, controlled by Jules-Pierre Mao, that supplied Protogen's Eros atrocity.

A friendly Martian Marine corporal guarding the conference room aboard the Dae-Jung.

A warm, shrewd elderly missionary who co-runs Ganymede's relief depot with her fierce husband.

The dead detective Miller — lost with Eros — reappears in the Roci's galley as a protomolecule apparition, trailing a blue firefly: 'We gotta talk.'

Martian Admiral Muhan answers Nguyen's bio-weapon threat with cold fury: fire anything bigger than a bottle rocket and she'll glass the whole moon.

A dry, hawk-leaning UN general urging a show of force against Mars over Ganymede.

A capable Pinkwater mercenary on Holden's raid, posted to hold an intersection.

A private security firm that abandoned its personnel on Ganymede, leaving a stranded merc squad to hire on with Holden.

The boastful Martian Marine who piloted the Yojimbo combat mech on Ganymede.

Tycho's ace engineer and the Roci's usual repair lead — a red-haired pixie who's now sheltering the departed Naomi.

Sandro Ventisiete

An older child, nearly five, abducted with Mei and glimpsed in the hidden Ganymede facility.

A tiny, fierce elderly Earther missionary running Ganymede's relief depot with dictatorial efficiency.

A Navy electrician's-mate tech whose decoding of Bobbie's old suit video vindicates her monster account.

Avasarala's exuberant young granddaughter, delighted by earthworms and mud.

A Martian Marine corporal in Bobbie Draper's Ganymede squad.

A pretty, cold-voiced, skinny-fingered woman aiding Strickland's abduction of Ganymede's children.

A grifting fake customs inspector shaking down relief ships on ruined Ganymede, run off at gunpoint by Holden.

Weeping Somnambulist

A century-old food freighter used as the crew's throwaway disguise to slip onto Ganymede.

A four-meter Martian combat mech, torn apart by the monster during the Ganymede massacre.