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Captain of the [[Rocinante]], haunted by the [[Miller]] ghost, drafted by Fred and Avasarala to mediate the [[Ilus]] crisis.

RCE exobiologist thrilled to study the first alien biosphere, who survives the shuttle crash to find herself among the very squatters blamed for it.

Adolphus Murtry

RCE's hard, laconic security chief who inherits command after the governor's death and means to make the squatters pay 'by the book.'

Gentle Ganymede refugee turned reluctant bomber, whose sabotage of [[Ilus]]'s landing pad kills as a shuttle drops early.

Left in command of the [[Edward Israel]], Havelock talks a terrified colleague through the siege and, on Murtry's order, quietly turns a shuttle into a bomb.

The protomolecule's self-aware construct of the dead detective — 'the Investigator' — reaching out forever, and haunting [[Holden]] toward the gates.

The [[Rocinante]]'s engineer and Holden's partner, who reads him instantly and tells him he'll take the Ilus mediation.

The [[Rocinante]]'s blunt mechanic and enforcer, angling for shore leave and never forgetting that the money's good.

Basia's wife and mother of his children, pleading against a sabotage she cannot stop, grieving their lost son.

Mars-raised geologist and hydrologist, [[Elvi Okoye]]'s sardonic friend, who survives the crash and expects the worst.

The [[Rocinante]]'s Martian pilot, threading the ship through the gates and musing on how a ship's changing names remake what it is.

Red-haired British-accented Earther captain of the [[Edward Israel]], demanding Holden enforce RCE's blockade of the [[Barbapiccola]].

The Israel's gruff, planet-born chief engineer, who eagerly raises the scientist militia at Havelock's request — and gladly excludes Belters.

RCE information specialist on Murtry's security team, cold-humored and quick to reach for hard options against the squatters.

Basia and Lucia's teenage daughter, aching to leave [[Ilus]] for a real off-world university against her father's will.

The first settled world beyond the gates — the colonists' 'Ilus,' the corporation's 'New Terra' — a heavy, dark planet strewn with alien ruins.

First Landing's respected coordinator (not 'mayor'), a shrewd Martian woman keeping the colony running and its secrets buried.

Cold, thin-faced old-school Belter who conceived the landing-pad sabotage and refuses to abort when people are aboard the falling shuttle.

Murtry's politically-minded second, sent down to the surface to handle the squatters with a careful, newsfeed-conscious show of force.

UN power broker who picks [[Holden]] to mediate on [[Ilus]] precisely because everyone hates him equally, warning him not to make it worse.

The Belter ship that carried the Ganymede refugees to [[Ilus]] and whose sensor maps chose the [[First Landing]] site.

Rawboned, soldierly member of [[Coop]]'s cell, coldly deadly in the ruins massacre of [[Reeve]]'s team.

Ex-soldier of the settler cell whose quiet authority tips the group toward Basia's plan to wait for Holden.

Martian Marine veteran turned outreach worker, watching her homeworld hollow out as humanity floods toward a thousand new worlds.

The ramshackle squatter township on [[Ilus]] — two rows of prefab buildings the Ganymede refugees built and never bothered to rename.

Aging OPA statesman running [[Medina Station]] as the choke point to the new worlds, who recruits Holden to mediate the Ilus crisis.

Basia and Lucia's grieving young son, who armed himself and steeled to kill Holden for taking his father — until Elvi gently defused him.

Holden's Martian-built gunship — the crew's home — now carrying a hidden protomolecule node that anchors the [[Miller]] ghost.

An RCE science-team member who works the makeshift ruins lab and joined the storm search party, quietly part of Elvi's crew hunting the blindness cure.

The cell's hottest head, spoiling for revenge after Coop's death — a Ganymede brawler with a wife and an ailing son.

RCE's lead counsel, whose lawyerly voice message to Holden refuses to free Naomi, hiding behind 'murky' legalities and the on-site security team's advice.

RCE security-systems consultant, no shooter, left alone guarding [[Elvi]] in the besieged surface office and convinced she's about to die.

A colonist caught in town when the warning came, Clay Dahlke rushed off to fetch his wife and daughter from the farthest farm — and never made it back to the shelter.

Dimitri Havelock

Earth-born RCE security officer and Miller's old Ceres partner, a self-aware man who reflects whatever mood his team's leader sets.

[[Royal Charter Energy]]'s ship, arriving in orbit over [[Ilus]] to land its governor and staff — its shuttle crippled by the settlers' bomb.

Eric Vanderwert

RCE scientist who spent six months flirting with [[Elvi Okoye]] and died in the shuttle crash minutes after annoying her.

Governor Trying

RCE's kindly provisional governor of New Terra, killed in the sabotaged shuttle's crash before he could take office.

The Israel's lone Belter analyst, tracking the planet's ominous new heat upwellings while being singled out for anti-Belter harassment aboard ship.

A six-year-old colonist going blind from an alien rainwater organism in his eye — the first human casualty of Ilus's biome.

OPA captain of the lithium freighter [[Barbapiccola]], blockaded in orbit, who all but orders Holden to break the siege.

The great generation ship — once Nauvoo, then Behemoth — now parked at the Ring as humanity's gateway and choke point to the thousand new worlds.

A Belter environmental tech aboard the Israel who trades easy creole banter with the captive Naomi in the gym line.

An RCE driver on Ilus killed by a death-slug that crawled into his boot unseen — another victim of the blinding colony's deadliest hazard.

Royal Charter Energy

The UN-chartered corporation ('RCE') holding legal title to New Terra, arriving to claim the world the squatters call [[Ilus]].

Oily-haired, pipe-smoking member of the settler sabotage cell, easygoing until the bombs actually go off.

A member of the science team who runs ocular assessments of the whole camp, her data confirming the blindness plague spares no one — RCE or settler alike.