Falling Free characters

Also known as Leo, Graf

Appears from the start

A veteran GalacTech testing engineer and free-fall construction instructor sent to Rodeo to train the Cay Project workforce. He has extensive experience in safety and quality control, works comfortably without gravity, and once supervised Bruce Van Atta.

Appears from the start

A quaddie hydroponics worker and colleague of Claire. Bruce Van Atta gives her conspicuous attention.

Also known as TY776424XG

Appears from the start

A four-armed quaddie and second-grade welder assigned to Leo's training. He is Claire's partner and the father of their infant son, Andy.

Appears from the start

A quaddie who is Tony's partner and Andy's mother. Formerly assigned to welding and joining, she has been moved into hydroponics and domestic work after being selected for early motherhood.

Appears from the start

Tony and Claire's infant son, a four-armed quaddie child living with his parents in Cay Habitat.

Also known as Van Atta

Appears from the start

The Cay Project manager and Leo's new supervisor. Once Leo's engineering subordinate, he now approaches the bioengineering project chiefly in terms of productivity and profit.

Also known as Yei

First appears in chapter 2

Cay Habitat's psychologist and training chief. She directs quaddie socialization, controls which material they may study, and requires visiting instructors to follow her behavioral rules.

First appears in chapter 2

A quaddie air-systems worker who helps Silver conceal unauthorized entertainment by disabling monitoring equipment.

First appears in chapter 2

A downsider creche worker who supervises the youngest quaddies and serves as one of their familiar adult caregivers.

First appears in chapter 2

A technically capable quaddie welding student in Leo's first quality-control class. He quickly demonstrates a strong grasp of inspection methods.

First appears in chapter 3

A freight-shuttle co-pilot who secretly supplies Silver with prohibited outside fiction. He is unaware that Tony, Claire, and Andy have hidden aboard his shuttle when it departs Cay Habitat.

First appears in chapter 3

The captain of the supply shuttle carrying Tony's concealed family. His unexpected order to descend to Rodeo disrupts their intended route toward Orient.

First appears in chapter 3

A quaddie welder assigned to Leo's exterior training crew during a hazardous beam-welding exercise.

Also known as Bannerji

First appears in chapter 4

The security captain at Shuttleport 3. Van Atta gives him a misleading account of three fugitives and demands a discreet capture, while Bannerji carries an unauthorized pistol as well as standard stunners.

Also known as Apmad

First appears in chapter 4

A GalacTech operations vice president whose unannounced inspection of the Cay Project puts added pressure on Van Atta while the missing quaddie family is being sought.

Also known as Minchenko

First appears in chapter 5

Cay Habitat's chief medical officer, temporarily on leave downside. Leo calls for him to take charge of Tony's treatment after the shuttleport shooting.

Also known as Chalopin

First appears in chapter 6

The administrator responsible for Shuttleport 3. She objects when Van Atta bypasses her authority while directing the response to the escaped quaddies.

First appears in chapter 6

Vice President Apmad's chief accountant. His calculations show how a new tax at Orient makes the already costly Cay Project financially untenable for GalacTech.

First appears in chapter 9

A highly rated teenage quaddie pusher pilot selected for Silver's cargo-jumper mission. Curious and independent, she explores the transfer station during the effort to recruit a jump pilot.

First appears in chapter 9

A particularly strong quaddie pusher-crew member chosen to join Silver, Zara, Siggy, and Ti Gulik on the cargo-jumper capture mission.

First appears in chapter 10

A Cay doctor assigned to carry out sterilizations after Warren Minchenko withdraws. He confronts Claire in the infirmary when she refuses the procedure.

First appears in chapter 11

A pregnant quaddie who hides with Claire and Patty while medical staff search for expectant mothers to receive abortifacient injections.

First appears in chapter 11

A pregnant quaddie who takes refuge with Claire and Emma as the Cay medical staff attempt to end the current pregnancies.

First appears in chapter 11

An infirmary aide who helps conceal Claire, Emma, and Patty from the staff seeking pregnant quaddies for abortifacient treatment.

Also known as Ivy

First appears in chapter 12

Warren Minchenko's wife, who remains on Rodeo after he chooses to accompany the quaddies. Her safe retrieval is his condition for joining their flight permanently.

First appears in chapter 12

A young air-systems supervisor who chooses to remain with the escaping quaddies because he loves one of them.

Also known as Fors

First appears in chapter 14

A Rodeo security sergeant who leads two guards in an attempt to cut into Silver's freight shuttle at its concealed landing site.