Green World characters

Also known as McGill

Appears from the start

A Legion Varus centurion sent by Galina Turov to investigate missing resettlement cargo at Central's docks. He enters the inquiry as an unmarked civilian, but ignores orders to go visibly unarmed and carries concealed weapons.

Also known as Turov

Appears from the start

James McGill's superior in Legion Varus and the officer directing his covert investigation into cargo losses at Central. She requires him to work without Legion markings and sends him to meet a dockside contact.

First appears in chapter 3

A Sea Empress crewman who agrees to show McGill the concealed operation aboard the ship, becoming his source inside the vessel.

Also known as Claver

First appears in chapter 6

A returning associate of McGill who works at a Green World warehouse filled with stolen equipment. She says she does not lead the operation, rejects his attempt to persuade her to leave it, and shoots him.

First appears in chapter 7

A former provincial enforcer who revives and detains McGill at a remote base in Rigel territory. He predicts that Earth will defeat a growing anti-Earth alliance and seeks McGill's help securing his own eventual revival on Earth.

First appears in chapter 7

An alien revival specialist serving the renegade commander at a remote base in Rigel territory. He helps hold McGill after reviving him there.

First appears in chapter 11

A senior technical-project director at Central with deep feelings for the dead Saurian specialist. When ordinary revival proves impossible, she joins McGill in seeking an illicit method based on a preserved claw and recorded engrams.

Also known as Dustworld investigator, Etta's grandfather

First appears in chapter 13

An experimental biologist on Dustworld who grows comatose bodies of several species as an organic alternative to standard revival printing. He has previously regrown McGill and may be able to create a body for Florimel's companion.

Also known as McGill's daughter

First appears in chapter 17

McGill's daughter and a worker in Florimel's Central laboratory. She notices that the revived Saurian has no official record and quickly suspects that Florimel and McGill are concealing an irregular revival.

First appears in chapter 17

A senior Legion Varus officer who finds McGill alive after he was listed missing in the Harbor District disaster. With the legion mustering during the crisis, Graves orders him to report directly to Galina Turov.

Also known as Natasha, Specialist Elkin

First appears in chapter 19

A technically skilled Legion Varus specialist whom McGill recruits to analyze records from his earlier time on Green World and help locate the planet.

First appears in chapter 23

Earth's imperator and a senior authority briefed on the suspected Green World rebel base. Because the planet lies inside Skae territory, he favors a covert infiltration and sabotage mission over an openly declared attack.

First appears in chapter 27

The sub-tribune commanding the Green World voyage while Galina Turov and Drusus remain absent. He briefs the officers aboard Dominus and must rely on a hostile prisoner-guide to pass the Skae border defenses.

First appears in chapter 28

A member of McGill's unit who encourages rivalry between Sargon and Carlos during the voyage to Green World.

First appears in chapter 31

A Legion Varus trooper in McGill's unit. He voices the rank-and-file fear that the expedition may be a one-way mission, asking McGill directly whether the force has any realistic prospect of returning from Green World.

First appears in chapter 32

The leader of McGill's heavy troops. During an unannounced live-fire exercise aboard Dominus, he spots the first unfamiliar combat drone and helps establish that the apparent threat is armed and genuine.

First appears in chapter 32

The officer commanding the auxiliary rear element of McGill's unit. He takes part in the unit's response when an unannounced shipboard exercise places the soldiers under fire from experimental combat drones.

First appears in chapter 33

One of McGill's ghost specialists. Cooper works with Della beneath the exercise lagoon, using stealth equipment and cables to pull armed combat drones into the water where the rest of the unit can destroy them.

First appears in chapter 33

A ghost specialist in McGill's unit. She works underwater with Cooper during the live-fire exercise, using stealth and a cable to drag combat drones into the lagoon and expose their critical weakness to water.

First appears in chapter 41

A Legion Varus veteran participating in the exploration of a rail-lined route beneath Green World's ocean. He reaches a fallen scout without leaving the narrow corridor that protects the unit from lethal external pressure.

First appears in chapter 52

The captain present with Galina Turov aboard the legion transport as dogmen overrun the trapped island force and alien border ships approach. He cooperates in presenting the transport's bombardment as McGill's unauthorized action.

First appears in chapter 54

A political authority at the center of the escalating border crisis. Drusus convenes a high-level meeting to plan negotiations with her, and McGill supplies possible leverage involving her child and former governor Satikis.