Throne World characters

Also known as McGill

Appears from the start

A Legion Varus centurion and Etta's father. He distrusts her new husband's connection to the Hegemony, but stops two guests from attacking the groom and supports Etta through her public wedding.

Appears from the start

McGill's daughter, celebrating her public marriage to Derek in Georgia after the couple had already married privately. McGill sets aside his concerns and escorts her at the ceremony.

Appears from the start

Etta's husband and a Hegemony security specialist. His affiliation alarms Carlos and Della at the wedding, but McGill prevents either objection from turning into an attack.

Appears from the start

A guest at Etta's wedding who recognizes Derek as a Hegemony security specialist. He offers to eliminate the perceived threat, then obeys McGill's order to stand down.

Appears from the start

A Third Unit scout who strongly opposes Etta's marriage to a Hegemony member. She brings a blade to the ceremony, but McGill breaks it before she can attack Derek.

Also known as Galina

First appears in chapter 2

An imperator and McGill's clandestine patron. She asks him to determine whether Drusus can be recovered from official erasure, presenting the inquiry as politically valuable while withholding her full reason.

First appears in chapter 2

A purged former Earth leader officially reduced to a non-person. His preserved intellect is believed to be confined in the Vault of the Forgotten, prompting Galina to send McGill on a discreet inquiry.

Also known as Tribune Winslade

First appears in chapter 3

McGill's tribune in Legion Varus. Suspicious that the Turovs use McGill as a private operative, he demands that McGill put the legion ahead of outside patrons and draws him into a sensitive contract meeting.

Also known as Consul Wurtenberger

First appears in chapter 4

The Earth consul who presides as Legion Varus, Germanica, and a third legion compete for a lucrative but distant alien protection contract.

First appears in chapter 4

Earth's Galactic representative at the contract meeting. He presents the proposed Mid-Zone assignment to three competing legions and oversees the bidding process.

Also known as Satikis

First appears in chapter 5

A Magwa grand admiral seeking human troops for a newly conquered world. He chooses Legion Varus after McGill reacts decisively when two attendants turn the bidding meeting deadly.

First appears in chapter 6

A Legion Varus primus responsible for organizing a rapid departure. She is concerned that the legion won its long-distance Magwa contract by accepting a substantial discount.

First appears in chapter 6

A senior intelligence officer whose clearance can open the route to the Vault of the Forgotten. McGill pressures him into accompanying an unauthorized search for Drusus.

First appears in chapter 8

The officer who took command of Third Unit during McGill's unexplained absence. Winslade restores McGill as centurion and reassigns Lisa as his adjunct, leaving her openly unhappy with the demotion.

First appears in chapter 8

A Third Unit organizer who declined the temporary centurion post while McGill was absent. He remains part of the unit after McGill unexpectedly returns to command.

First appears in chapter 8

A veteran member of Third Unit who is still serving when McGill returns after a long absence and reclaims command.

First appears in chapter 9

A Blue Deck revival specialist whose former lunar base was destroyed. She and McGill renew an earlier intimate relationship during Legion Varus's long voyage.

First appears in chapter 9

A Third Unit soldier who helps McGill mobilize the unit when a shipboard robot exercise appears to threaten nearby troops.

Also known as Primus Graves

First appears in chapter 10

A Legion Varus primus who halts Third Unit's unauthorized attack during a robot exercise. He holds McGill responsible for ignoring the rules and oversees a proposed rematch.

First appears in chapter 10

The director of a redesigned military robot program. McGill previously helped cut his funding, and Cunningham returns with improved machines whose first exercise against Third Unit ends in a dispute.

First appears in chapter 11

A Third Unit technical specialist who helps map the robot force surrounding McGill's troops and confirms that it is closing in a crescent formation.

First appears in chapter 13

A Saurian investigator aboard Scorpio who confronts McGill over complaints from the robot program. He claims to be auditing officials on Gold Deck, but does not identify his employer or full purpose.

First appears in chapter 15

Galina's father and a powerful member of Earth's ruling council. Galina learns that he privately took custody of Drusus and fears that his increasingly direct exercise of power may place her at risk as well.

First appears in chapter 11

A Third Unit technical specialist who works with Kivi to map the robot formation closing around their unit during a training battle.

First appears in chapter 20

A Third Unit scout who discovers that scattered pickets are falling asleep and reports their condition to McGill.

First appears in chapter 22

A recently promoted veteran assigned as the chief non-commissioned officer of McGill's guard detail.

Also known as Satikis's consort

First appears in chapter 22

Satikis's political partner and the mother of his children. She arrives for the formal city tour already distrustful of McGill because of his involvement in an earlier loss suffered by the coalition.

First appears in chapter 23

Satikis's heir, kept on a dangerous public tour so he can observe the exercise of power. His mother objects to the risk, while he shows interest in witnessing violence.

First appears in chapter 27

The leader of resistance to Magwa occupation. He offers McGill a pact in which the local population will stop attacking humans and help Legion Varus leave if the legion destroys the Magwa.

Appears from the start

A returning power on Dust World whose expanding brood of clones has established substantial local influence.

First appears in chapter 42

A clandestine revival operator on Dust World. He reconnects Drusus's failing life-support tank, agrees to conceal him without asking his identity, and considers growing him a replacement body.