Clone World characters

Appears from the start

A Legion Varus centurion and Etta's father. While away from active service, financial pressure leads him to accept a hazardous experimental assignment at Central.

Appears from the start

McGill's daughter, who works at Central as Florimel's assistant. She understands the experimental rift's dangers and is alarmed when her father joins the project.

First appears in chapter 2

The leader of Central's dangerous experimental rift team, which is testing an unstable method of transmitting matter without fixed gateway posts.

Also known as Praetor Drusus

First appears in chapter 3

An Earth defense leader directing the clandestine investigation of Rigel. He assigns McGill to gather intelligence through Central's unstable rift.

First appears in chapter 3

A Legion Varus commander who supports Drusus's covert mission to Rigel. He briefs McGill on the assignment and the revival conditions that make the one-way insertion survivable.

First appears in chapter 5

A previous rift subject declared permanently lost after Central's link ended without providing evidence of his death.

First appears in chapter 6

Rigel's human representative. He threatens Etta to pressure McGill into ending Earth's operations against Rigel, while a subordinate agent carries out the attack.

Also known as Galina, Turov, Tribune Turov

First appears in chapter 7

A senior Legion Varus officer with a personal history with McGill. After reviving him, she backs another mission to Rigel and treats the enemy's indirect threats as evidence that Earth has gained leverage.

First appears in chapter 8

A figure with authority over the guards at a Rigelian installation. He orders them to keep McGill alive and takes custody of him after the orbital reactor is sabotaged.

First appears in chapter 10

The Rigelian High Lord who negotiates after the loss of the orbital city. He offers peace only if Earth delivers McGill for permanent death and proves that no revival remains possible.

First appears in chapter 10

An Earth official who rejects McGill's account of Claver activity at Rigel and presses for his surrender under the proposed peace settlement.

First appears in chapter 13

An officer who unexpectedly assumes command of the near-human legion during the expedition against Claver. His new authority and guarded motives immediately concern McGill's comrades.

First appears in chapter 13

A Legion Varus soldier who warns McGill that Winslade's sudden command appointment may conceal another purpose.

First appears in chapter 13

A Legion Varus weapons specialist who shares Carlos's concern about Winslade and urges McGill to investigate the officer's motives.

Also known as Evelyn

First appears in chapter 16

A bio specialist aboard Leggett who has prior ties to both McGill and Galina Turov. She secretly creates a physical backup of McGill's body scan and memories when he fears sabotage of his revival record.

First appears in chapter 17

A cephalopod commander leading the force opposed to McGill's unit in a hard-vacuum training exercise.

Also known as Barton

First appears in chapter 17

McGill's adjunct during the hard-vacuum exercise. She explains the conditions that restrict the weapons and equipment available to his unit.

First appears in chapter 18

A stealth-equipped scout in McGill's unit. He is found and killed during the opening cephalopod ambush despite the concealment provided by his equipment.

Also known as Captain Merton

First appears in chapter 26

Leggett's captain and an officer responsible for the transport's defense as Claver's fighter force closes on the ship.

First appears in chapter 19

A cephalopod sub-veteran who takes command of the surviving exercise force after Bubbles is killed and ends the contest under its command-loss rule.

First appears in chapter 18

A member of McGill's unit who fails to answer during the post-battle count after the opening hard-vacuum engagement.

First appears in chapter 18

A Legion Varus officer in McGill’s cohort who is unaccounted for after the opening hard-vacuum engagement.

First appears in chapter 25

Leggett's lieutenant commander and helmsman. She agrees to a date with McGill on the condition that the ship survives the approaching attack.

First appears in chapter 28

An officer serving Claver on Clone World.

First appears in chapter 36

A Legion Varus centurion commanding another unit inside Clone World's defensive dome. McGill reaches him while seeking contact with friendly forces during the advance.

First appears in chapter 36

A former Legion Germanica centurion commanding Claver troops inside the defensive dome. She surrenders after McGill's unit destroys her formation.

First appears in chapter 39

McGill's former partner and Etta's mother. Serving as a ghost scout during the fortress approach, she infiltrates an enemy position to destroy a turret blocking the advance.

First appears in chapter 40

A distinct Claver Prime who surrenders after the fortress falls. Unlike the other Clavers, he shows concern for Abigail and offers to guide McGill through the last functioning gateway.

First appears in chapter 40

A female clone created by Claver X. At this point she is absent, and his effort to learn what happened to her shapes his cooperation with McGill.

First appears in chapter 41

A Legion Varus technician who analyzes the DNA sample recovered while Claver X searches for Abigail.

First appears in chapter 43

An Earth officer who joins Galina Turov in advising withdrawal from Clone World as Skay and Mogwa forces approach.

First appears in chapter 45

The largest of three arriving Skay spheres and the leader of the group. It demands that McGill answer for Earth's destruction of Clone World.

First appears in chapter 50

A Mogwa commander who reports that his fleet has been defeated while McGill remains inside a Skay structure.

First appears in chapter 21

A newly appointed Sub-Tribune who replaces Winslade in command of the near-human legion. He previously served with the Iron Eagles and under Armel.