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A Ceres detective whose cynical fluency in station life masks a growing unease about a missing heiress.

The idealistic executive officer of the Canterbury, torn between duty and a desire to do the right thing.

The Canterbury's brilliant Belter chief engineer, practical in a crisis and respected by her crew.

Naomi Nagata's earthborn, muscular engineering assistant aboard the Canterbury.

A former UN colonel remade as an OPA statesman, who warns Holden that the Canterbury attack may be designed to start a war.

A cheerful former Martian navy pilot who flies the Knight through the Canterbury's destruction.

A ready Martian torpedo bomber renamed Rocinante, the sole refuge of Holden’s four surviving crew members after the Donnager’s fall.

A major Belt asteroid station named as the Rocinante's next destination and Miller's new lead in the search for Julie Mao.

Miller's capable but isolated Earth-born police partner, struggling to belong on Ceres.

A resourceful wealthy young pilot trapped alone aboard the captured [[Scopuli]].

Outer Planets Alliance

A Belt political movement and militant network feared by Ceres security and associated with Julie Mao's activism.

The hard-eyed Star Helix captain who directs Miller and quietly delivers the Mao contract.

The polished Protogen presenter who urges his board to seize the alien protomolecule through rapid, exclusive, large-scale human testing.

An ominous third phase begun after a sample is recovered from Julie Mao's body, marked by an explosion and Eros's station-wide radiological lockdown.

The polished, acne-scarred OPA liaison on Ceres, who wants Miller away from Julie Mao's disappearance.

A hardened Ceres detective assigned as Miller's new partner as political murders begin replacing ordinary crime.

The Canterbury medic, left grieving and shaken after its destruction strands him on the Knight.

An unregistered moving Belt laboratory that receives Protogen's recovery traffic and appears to be the nearby control center for the Eros experiment.

A crowded spinning asteroid station, commercial crossroads of the Belt and home to Miller's police work.

A young, eager Belter militia fighter who befriends Miller during the Thoth breach and survives a crowd-suppression hit with exuberant defiance.

The immense Martian flagship ordered to retrieve the Knight crew and investigate the Canterbury's destruction.

Lieutenant Kelly

A practical Donnager marine officer who leads Holden's survivors through a losing boarding action toward a corvette escape.

Martian Congressional Republic Navy

Mars's powerful navy, now taking custody of Canterbury survivors amid accusations that its equipment enabled the attack.

An immense Mormon generation ship under construction at Tycho for a century-long journey toward Tau Ceti.

The former inner-planets security contractor on Eros, whose personnel trained CPM and secretly installed the technical infrastructure now being used in Stage Three.

An alien adaptive instruction system from Phoebe that hijacks carbon- and silicon-based matter, reshaping human bodies into something unrecognizable.

A Martian-registered light freighter found abandoned after a violent, inexplicable seizure.

An Eros inspector and Miller's former cross-station partner, alarmed by the political trouble Miller brings to an already decaying station.

Star Helix Security

The corporate security force that polices and garrisons Ceres Station.

Stealth Ship Safe

A heavily secured wall safe cut from the contaminated stealth ship, likely holding Protogen's research materials and intended for delivery to Thoth Station.

The severe Martian captain who orders the Knight onto the Donnager's pickup course.

A colossal mobile construction station and Fred Johnson's safe harbor, where the newly disguised Rocinante finally docks.

The cloud-shrouded second planet chosen as Eros's destination, where the station disperses into the atmosphere after sparing Earth.

The Canterbury navigator and Holden's independent-minded lover, killed while counting down the ship's final seconds.

The black Protogen missile ship that carried the protomolecule, captured the Scopuli crew, lost control of its infection, and was later destroyed by the Rocinante.

An aging water-hauler whose routine rescue duty pulls its crew toward the derelict Scopuli.

Captain Mcbride

The UNN Ravi captain who nearly attacks the Rocinante to recover Earth's diverted missiles, then stands down when Eros turns away from Earth.

Captain Mcdowell

The elderly Belter captain who orders Holden away and dies trying to save the Canterbury.

Carne Por La Machina

Eros's new corporate security contractor, revealed to be staffed by Ceres thugs using stolen Star Helix equipment during the station's emergency lockdown.

Corporacao Do Gato Preto

A Ceres import-export concern and suspected criminal front implicated in moving stolen Star Helix riot gear off station.

Destruction of the Canterbury

The nuclear destruction of an unarmed water-hauler after it answers the Scopuli's distress call.

Destruction of the Donnager

The deliberate loss of Mars's flagship after enemy boarders force its defenders into a final self-destruct choice.

Donnager Data Cube

The dead Donnager crew's electromagnetic battle record, meant to identify the attackers' engines without asserting a conclusion on their behalf.

The OPA cargo ship that arrives at Tycho loaded with soldiers and becomes the transport for Fred Johnson's assault on Thoth Station.

The Canterbury's small shuttle, sent under Holden to investigate the silent Scopuli.

Lieutenant Lopez

A controlled Martian naval-intelligence officer who begins extracting Holden's history and testimony before battle interrupts him.

Lionel Polanski

A paper-only identity tied to Tycho's hidden assets, reportedly checked into an Eros flophouse and possibly seeking clandestine rescue.

Mao Kwikowski Mercantile

A wealthy Luna-based transport corporation whose founders want their errant daughter retrieved.

Massacre of Anderson Station

The televised Coalition assault that made Fred Johnson infamous and exposed the lethal politics of air and water in the Belt.

Saturn's anomalous moon, revealed by Protogen to be an ancient extraterrestrial weapon carrying the protomolecule payload.

The unnamed biological horror recorded by Julie Mao as a Phoebe-derived infection that spreads through dark fluid, feeds on radiation, and reshapes its host.

Purnkleen Water Company

The water-hauling company that owns the Canterbury and now orders its surviving employees toward Martian custody.

An Earth naval corvette escorting a science ship toward Eros, checked by the Rocinante's credible threat to destroy its unarmed charge.

Julie Mao's private racing pinnace, once famous for a record-breaking run.

A cramped improvised OPA demolition vessel carrying nuclear mines and Miller's small security team toward Eros.

Tycho Manufacturing and Engineering Concern

The Belt's premier heavy-engineering corporation, capable of moving asteroids, building stations, and constructing interstellar ships.

United Nations Navy

Earth's powerful naval force, newly and uncertainly implicated by the Donnager attackers' Earth-built engine signatures.