Homefront: An Expeditionary Force Audio Drama Special characters

Appears from the start

The Elder AI aboard the Flying Dutchman and a central technical partner to its human crew. While the ship undergoes a slow orbital refit, he applies his advanced capabilities to restoring a recovered Kristang troop carrier.

Appears from the start

An AI who assists the Flying Dutchman crew while the ship is being refitted in Earth orbit.

Appears from the start

The leader of a new multinational STAR-team program at Wright-Patterson. He selects elite operators and trains them for powered armor and three-dimensional combat, insisting that preparation for alien battle takes priority over national rivalries.

Also known as Frey

Appears from the start

A STAR-team trainer and operator who works alongside Smythe at Wright-Patterson. She helps prepare multinational candidates to use alien equipment and function effectively in the unfamiliar conditions of space combat.

Appears from the start

A gunnery sergeant and longstanding member of Bishop's crew. Her established service with the Flying Dutchman places her among the experienced personnel connected to the ship while it remains in refit.

Appears from the start

A technical specialist with experience as a test pilot. After averting an unsafe reactor restart, the engineer boards the Flying Dutchman and collaborates with Skippy on returning the recovered Kristang troop carrier to service.

Also known as Bishop

First appears in chapter 2

Commander of the Flying Dutchman and leader of the former renegade crew. He challenges the Army's handling of their rank and compensation, using access to Skippy's technical assistance as leverage while humanity's spacecraft remain under repair.

First appears in chapter 2

An officer serving with the Flying Dutchman during its extended refit in Earth orbit. She departs the ship for Earth, leaving Adams to assume the duties of acting executive officer and help oversee the crew in her absence.

First appears in chapter 2

A STAR trainee whose specialties include electronics, communications, and weapons systems. She participates in the powered-armor program at Wright-Patterson as its multinational candidates learn to operate alien technology in space-combat conditions.