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Characters, locations, and events featured in The Mote in God’s Eye are Copyright © 1974 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, used by permission.

Characters, locations, and events featured in The Gripping Hand are Copyright © 1993 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, used by permission.

Musical score for “The Gathering Hymn” Copyright © 2009 J. Daniel Jenkins, used by permission.

Illustrations © 2010 Jennifer R. Pournelle.

 

 

 

For my father.

It’s his world, we just try our best to live in it…

Cast of Characters

Imperial Autonetics Majority Shareholders

Sir Kevin Renner

Owner and pilot,

Sinbad

; five percent plus one share.

Robert Peele Bury

Oldest grandson of Horace Bury, twenty percent less one share.

Ali Baba

Mediator, fifteen percent.

Eudoxus

Mediator, representative, Medina Traders, fifteen percent.

Omar

Mediator, representative, East India Company, ten percent.

Victoria

Mediator, representative, Crimean Tartars, 2.5 percent.

Other Humans

Citizens of the Second Empire of Man

Amari Selkirk Alidade Clarke Hathaway (Asach) Quinn

Analyst and Advisor.

Sandra (Sally) Liddel Leonovna Fowler, Lady Blaine,

Co-Director, the Blaine Institute, New Caledonia.

Roderick Harold, Lord Blaine,

Earl of Acrux, Co-Director, the Blaine Institute, New Caledonia.

Commissioner (Dr.) Anthony Horvath,

Minister of Science, Sparta.

HG

Horvath’s delegate and representative on New Utah.

Colchis Barthes

Curator of American Collections, Imperial Library, Sparta. Information delegate to New Utah.

Sir Lawrence Jackson

Governor, Maxroy’s Purchase.

Saint George, New Utah, and Environs

Zia (Umm Hugo) Azhad

Procurement Agent, Orcutt Land and Mining.

Ollie (Abu Hugo) Azhad

Chief of Security, Orcutt Land and Mining, Zia’s husband.

Hugo Azhad

Son of Zia and Ollie.

Deela Azhad

Daughter of Zia and Ollie.

Marul

Zia’s niece.

Lady Lillith Van Zandt

Margravine Batavia, Entrepreneur.

Harlan Clegg

Security Contractor.

Aloysius Geery

Dean, Zion University College of Technical Science, Engineering, and Urban Planning.

Saint George True Church Militant Security Zone

Captain Jeri Legrange

Zone Operations Security Officer.

Sergeant Sheila Thompson

Medic, Zone Operations Support Company.

Private Swanson

Legrange’s driver, Zone Operations Support Company.

Private Theo Parker

Zone Operations Support Company.

Major Johannes Trippe

Executive Officer, TCM Saints (“Mormon”) Battalion.

Linda Libiziewsky

Zone Operations Administrator.

Bonneville and The Barrens, New Utah

Collier (Collie) Orcutt

Rancher.

Laurel Courter

Rancher, Orcutt’s niece.

Michael Van Zandt

Opal meerschaum broker, Lillith Van Zandt’s son.

Nejme Silelyan

Major Domo to Michael Van Zandt.

Lena Silelyan

Nejme’s daughter.

Mena Silelyan

Nejme’s wife.

John David Swenson

New Utah Founder’s Era surveyor, provisioner and naturalist.

Other Moties

John

Farmer. Agricultural concession-holder.

Longshanks

Runners. Post-Watchers in the employ of Farmer John.

Leica

Runners. Offspring of Longshanks.

Sargon

Master. Procurator, Northern Protectorate, Mesolimeris.

Lagash

Keeper, Northern Protectorate, Mesolimeris.

Enheduanna

Master, Side Captain, House of Sargon.

Alhacen

Miner.

Lord Cornwallis

Master, East India Group. Associate Master of Inner Base Six; presumptive parent of Ali Baba.

Other Species

Agamemnon

A horse.

Chronology (Standard Years)

Events preceding the opening of this story…

2450

Jasper Murcheson explores region beyond the Coal Sack.

2452

In New Caledonia system, domed colonies established on New Scotland and New Ireland, following terraforming.

2456

Maxroy’s Purchase settled by dissident Mormons.

  

Domes removed, New Scotland and New Ireland colonies.

2552

Mountain Mover asteroid mining registered, Purchase system.

2553

100,000+ transportees settled on Maxroy’s Purchase.

2567

Temple of the True Church moved to Glacier Valley, Maxroy’s Purchase. True Church colony sent to New Utah. Founder’s Report to the Elders of Maxroy’s Purchase filed.

2600

Imperial Navy Initial Assessment Report (IAR), New Utah, filed.

2603

Secession Wars begin. New Scotland loyalist; New Ireland secessionist. Maxroy’s Purchase and New Utah are distant and largely neutral.