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Jordao

Scar-nosed man · Broken-nosed man · Voltaire guard · Voltaire informant · Demolitions assistant · Traitor

Jordao delivers Naomi and Clarissa into Laconian custody, exposes their traffic card, and dies when Clarissa answers his apology with two gunshots.

Story so far

Jordao infiltrates the sensor team as Katria's demolition assistant while secretly warning Singh that a major operation targets the station's arrays. Overstreet promises an ambush but Singh agrees that even the informant should be arrested and interrogated with his supposed allies. Jordao nevertheless leads Naomi Nagata and Clarissa Mao through the plan, carrying the explosive toolbox and growing visibly more frightened as they near the primary junction.

Five security officers seize the women at the reinforced door. Jordao collapses against the wall in relieved laughter and offers to show them the false device Clarissa installed. His hoped-for Marines are absent because the underground has frozen their armor. When Clarissa activates her modifications and kills the guards, Jordao begs forgiveness. She rejects the apology as useless, shoots him in the belly, then kills him with a shot through the crown of his head.

Appearance

A tall, thin olive-skinned Belter man with close-cropped unruly hair, wide feverish eyes, and a long repeatedly broken nose scarred through one nostril, ashy and sweating in station clothes.

Role

Jordao is the informant whose betrayal nearly preserves Laconian surveillance but instead supplies the final threat Clarissa destroys at the cost of her life.

Relationships

Clarissa Mao — He betrays Clarissa Mao, then dies under her gun after discovering that her failing body still contains one last violent answer.
Naomi Nagata — He leads Naomi Nagata into the prepared arrest and helps place a pistol at her stomach.
Major Overstreet — Major Overstreet uses his intelligence while planning to arrest him, interrogate him, and preserve the network by sacrificing him.
Voltaire Collective — His betrayal of the Voltaire Collective and Saba's operation ends with neither the protection nor freedom he expected.
Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 31
  • A scar-nosed Voltaire insider offers Singh advance intelligence in exchange for freeing his sister, turning family loyalty into collaboration with the occupier.
Chapter 41
  • Still welcomed inside the underground, Jordao is selected by Katria for the breakout's second demolition task and asks Naomi and Clarissa for his part.
Chapter 42
  • Jordao warns Singh that something big targets Medina's sensors, preserving his cover by requesting a secret meeting before Voltaire can discover the betrayal.
Chapter 49
  • Jordao delivers Naomi and Clarissa into Laconian custody, exposes their traffic card, and dies when Clarissa answers his apology with two gunshots.
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