The masked, all-powerful ruler of the Syndicate, who reveals she owns Ephraim's very ship and seizes it by remote to reclaim the children.
The Queen, supreme ruler of the Syndicate that governs Luna's underworld, makes her first direct appearance to Ephraim—a disembodied head of swirling facial-scrambler pixels, like marauding locusts, crowned with the twirling black tips of a ghost crown. Rumored variously to be an Obsidian warlord from Earth or (by Republic Intelligence) a Red, she remains hidden behind her mask. She demands the return of the children, and when Ephraim mocks and defies her, reveals her reach: she gave the Duke his ship, so she owns it—and him.
She seizes the Hornet by remote, turning it back toward the Syndicate, promising to see Ephraim 'in the flesh—while you still have it.' Her plan for the stolen heirs, and her true face, remain unknown.
Seen only as a masked hologram—a noseless head of swirling scrambler pixels resembling a swarm of locusts, with gaps for mouth and eyes and the twirling black tips of a ghost crown; her true form hidden.
The hidden ruler of the Syndicate; the ultimate power behind the kidnapping, who seizes Ephraim's ship to reclaim her prizes.