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The extremist Renegade Splinter faction of the Outer Planets Alliance, led by Marco Inaros.
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- Renegade Splinter Faction: Although the OPA is more of a loose coalition, so calling any of them "splinter" might be inaccurate, Marco's "Free Navy" is so ruthless compared to the rest of the OPA that it counts. After the Free Navy's sneak attack against Earth, Mars, and Fred Johnson's OPA, they promptly bully all the other OPA factions into falling in line under their control — even the ones that loathe Marco — through sheer brutality and a calculated program of keeping political hostages.
Marco Inaros
Marco Inaros
Played by: Keon Alexander
The leader of a small OPA faction who strongly opposes peace with the inner worlds. He is also Naomi's former lover and the father of her son Filip.
- Abusive Parents: He's emotionally abusive towards Filip. Aside from raising him to be a child soldier, Marco also constantly mocks Filip's unwillingness to admit that he wants to reconcile with his mother, and any chance Filip is given to be his own man in any way, Marco instantly shuts down. Even Marco, who is a narcissist of staggering proportions, is willing to admit in an honest moment that he hasn't been a very good father to Filip. When talking to Rosenfeld, Marco says that he never knew his own father. When Rosenfeld responds by saying that simply by being in Filip's life he's been a better father, in a rare moment of self-reflection Marco bitterly responds that he hasn't been nearly as good a father as he had hoped to be.
- Arch-Enemy: He tends to collect enemies-for-life like stamps. There's Naomi, who hates him for tricking her into mass murder and stealing her son, and then there's Drummer, who hates him because he had two of her closest friends and mentors murdered. That's to say nothing of Earth itself, due to his genocidal actions.
- Asshole Victim: His fate in the series finale sees him destroyed by the Entities. Nobody misses the man who carpet-bombed Earth and Mars with asteroids and started a war all to feed his own ego.
- Ax-Crazy: He usually tends to hide it under a veil of calm and charisma, but the man is ultimately a narcissistic psychopath who would kill billions just to feed his own ego. And damaging that ego is a really good way to make him personally murderous, as showcased with Serge.
- Berserk Button: Threatening his authority or more importantly his ego is a very good way to get on his bad side, permanently.
- Big Bad: Of the non-Ilus plot arcs in Season 4, and of Season 5 and Season 6 as a whole.
- The Chessmaster: He successfully arranges a simultaneously implemented, three-pronged attack against all major political factions in the Sol system: a genocidal asteroid attack on Earth, a simultaneous decapitation bombing against the Martian Parliament, and the assassination of his ideological and political rival within the OPA, Fred Johnson. He'd have succeeded in destroying Tycho station itself had it not been for Naomi.
- Cool Ship: His flagship is the Pella, a Martian light cruiser that's been outfitted with stolen stealth tech. Named after the capital of ancient Macedonia, birthplace of Alexander the Great.
- Colony Drop: Masterminds a devastating cloaked-asteroid attack against Earth, killing millions. Three asteroids manage to make planetfall: near Dakar (North Africa), Pennsylvania (North American Atlantic coast), and South Asia. Far more damage is done by the resulting tsunamis, given that global warming meant most coastal cities needed seawalls to prevent flooding. Earth was already just teetering on the edge of functionality due to climate change and overpopulation, meaning that the societal disruption caused by the attacks was orders of magnitude worse than the asteroid drops themselves. He continues launching smaller asteroids on a regular basis to keep Earth locked down, as Earth still needs to shoot them down even if they aren't using stealth tech.
- Combat Pragmatist: Even with stolen Martian technology, his rag-tag fleet is no match for the military might of Earth and Mars, so he has no problem fighting dirty. In the season 5 finale, he uses a stealthed meteoroid barrage to severely weaken the three battleships guarding the Sol Ring, which Avasarala had previously estimated would easily squash his fleet even if they had triple the numbers. At the end of season 6, when Marco's run out of tricks and his only option is a hard burn to make it to the ring space, the Earth/Mars alliance crushes his fleet, leaving him with a mere eight ships including his own.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: His ship, the Pella is disintegrated by the Ring entities, a process that is depicted as an utterly, terrifyingly alien way to go.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- Marco has talent on the war side of conflict, but clearly none when it comes to what comes after. His machinations against Earth and Mars end in almost a complete victory for him, but six months later things are starting to fall apart because he never cared to really consider the logistics of an independent Belt.
- Marco may be a brilliant strategist when he has time to prepare, but that same brilliance doesn't translate to standard fleet combat. When he goes for the Rocinante as a target of opportunity, he loses a battle he had both numerical and armament superiority in because the crew of the Rocinante (including Bobbie, at the time) are better at thinking on their feet.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Not in person, but text-based via a Freeze-Frame Bonus. During Lopez's interrogation of Holden onboard the Donnager, when Lopez reveals Naomi's past as an OPA agent, Inaros' name can be briefly seen in her profile, long before he makes a physical appearance.
- Expy: He shares many a similarty with CCA-era Char Aznable, both being Visionary Villains born in space with an ideological opposition to those born on Earth responsible for dropping asteroids on the planet. His outfit even resembles a blue version of Char's Neo Zeon attire.
- Fatal Flaw: His pride. Had he not chosen to waste time going after the Rocinante, he and his fleet would have been able to slip back to the Ring just before the allied fleet and remained safe under the protection of the rail guns.
- Faux Affably Evil: Marco is handsome, affable and so charismatic that he has no problem whatsoever gaining followers who are perfectly willing to kill or die for him (including people who should know better), but the cold hard reality is that he's an unhinged sociopath who views people as tools to be used, then discarded.
- Final Solution: After he acquires the last protomolecule sample, he threatens to exterminate both Earth and Mars if they try to retaliate against his attacks. Ultimately subverted, as Marco never intended to use the protomolecule against the inner planets; it (along with Laconia) was actually payment to Admiral Duarte in exchange for MCRN warships and stealth technology.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: While Inaros is infamous among the OPA for his radical views before the Ring opened, his actions were mostly restricted to small-time piracy and neither Mars nor Earth thought much of him. After the Ring opens, he preys on Inner colony ships, gaining their attention. After he uses Martian stealth tech to plot an asteroid strike against Earth, he becomes perhaps the most famous terrorist in human history.
- Guyliner: To go along with his
Fashion-Victim Villain sense of style, Marco wears enough eyeliner to go toe-to-toe with Drummer. It only serves to accentuate his craziness any time his eyes widen. - Greater-Scope Villain: Of Season 4. Outside of Ilus, every subplot ends up connecting back to Marco and his scheme, which is only revealed in the finale as a setup for Season 5, where he steps in full-time as the Big Bad. The Season 5 finale reveals him to actually be only a Disc-One Final Boss, with Admiral Duarte being his enabler. Marco at best is only The Dragon, and completely disposable to Laconia.
- Hypocrite: Marco despises Inners, seeing them as the worst of humanity... because he believes that Inners are hopelessly hateful and prejudiced.
- It's All About Me: To a staggering degree. His revolution is an extension of his own ego. He only cares that people know he is the man behind it all, and tells Filip he will only let him have the spotlight as his heir, not as his own man. Whenever any Belter does not do his express bidding he interprets it as a betrayal, even if said Belter is Naomi and the "betrayal" involves her saving her friends' lives from an assassination attempt he has engineered. To Marco, every single Belter exists to serve the glorious cause of making him the leader of the new free Belter nation.
- Manipulative Bastard: He is very skilled with words, even managing to convince representatives from all of the OPA's major factions to let him go when they were seconds away from tossing him out the airlock.
- Narcissist: See It's All About Me. Marco sees even those close to him only as an extension of himself, and will lash out viciously if their desires don't correspond with his.Marco: Belters everywhere are chanting my name. Not yours. You are nothing without me.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: While Marco certainly claims to want what's best for the Belt and stand against the oppression of the Inners, he will not hesitate to silence, manipulate, and murder fellow Belters if their goals and ideas do not align with his. Ultimately, Marco is a dangerous and narcissistic psychopath more concerned with his own power than helping anyone else.
- Pretty Boy: Both Ashford and Walker both comment on Marco's "pretty face" or "pretty eyes".
- Smug Snake: Marco is an egomaniac who is convinced he's a military genius, even naming his ship Pella after Alexander the Great's birthplace...but he's really just a Blood Knight terrorist, capable of staging a few clever ambushes — that result in the death of billions — but with inept long-term strategy and logistical skills. At the beginning of Season 6, he gives grandiose speeches that Ceres will be the new Belter capital, even as his advisors tell him they can't possibly hold it. They ultimately have to abandon it and leave it bereft of resources to screw over the Inners, causing much of the Belt to turn on him. After his cloaked asteroid attacks are compromised, he eagerly insists that this is good news because he's "always" been able to defeat the Inner fleets before, even though all his past battles relied on ambushes and his fleet is hopelessly outgunned by their fleets individually, much less aligned against him. The reality is he was always just the pawn of the rogue MCRN faction that settled on Laconia, who provided him ships and other resources to stir up trouble and keep eyes off them. This culminates in the Season 6 finale when Marco, on the edge of defeat, sends a message pleading for Laconia to send help, only for their leader Duarte to flat out tell him "You have been a useful distraction". At the same time a strike team manages to take out the Ring station's railgun defenses, and while he could still retake the station from the small strike team composed of our main protagonists, he no longer has any realistic hope of holding the station against the combined Earth/Mars/Belter fleet that's fast on his heels...at which point he gives a true I Reject Your Reality Hitler-in-his-bunker style speech ranting about how invincible he is and victory is assured.
- The Sociopath: Beneath his charming exterior lies a very callous manipulator who has no problem with ruining other people's lives to achieve his goals.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: In a very dark way. He switches from warm and affectionate to cold, cruel and critical at the drop of a hat in order to manipulate his family and subordinates. He does this especially often with Naomi (who has learned to see through it) and with Filip (who clearly lives to be on his father's good side and dreads his dark side).
- Unwitting Pawn: He freely works with Martian defectors, trading them the protomolecule and one of the worlds beyond the Ring in exchange for Martian military technology that will give his Free Navy the firepower they need to stand against the Inners. Little does he realize that his benefactor, Winston Duarte and his defectors, are using the protomolecule to reactivate alien structures orbiting Laconia, giving them access to tech that makes all sides look like gnats in comparison. When Duarte abruptly cuts off his support for Marco immediately after mastering the alien technology in Laconia's orbit, Marco is flabbergasted, never having expected that Laconia would so quickly abandon him after having provided so much aid.
- Vehicular Turnabout: He makes extensive use of stolen MCRN warships in his Free Navy, including his flagship, the light cruiser Pella.
- Villain Has a Point: This is arguably his most dangerous trait, and what makes it so easy for him to convince others to do horrible things on his behalf or to get other factions to join up in his cause. For example, he makes a number of very valid points when he talks himself out of a death sentence in Season 4, and, technically speaking, nothing that he says in his message when he establishes the Free Navy was a lie. The entire foundation of his armada was based on Earth and Mars treating Belters as less than human for centuries, and for all his numerous war crimes, far more crimes against humanity have been committed towards his people — in his own lifetime alone, no less. After his defeat even Holden comments that Marco had valid points about the treatment of and attitudes towards the Belt. Holden pointedly reminds Chrisjen and other leaders that Marco tapped into a frustration and rage that existed because of actual problems with how the Inner Planets treated the Belt, and unless they take real steps towards change it may spawn another Marco in the future.Marco: The rings did not change the Inners. A ring appears, so we hunt down our own kind, while ships built from ore we mined fly to planets we can't even live on? A ring appears, and makes the Inners kind and just? After all their broken promises what makes you think they will honor them now? Their hearts haven't changed. They give us a seat at the table because they are weak and we are strong, and they want to keep us talking until they find enough strength to ignore us again.
- Villainous Breakdown: Marco's delusional rant in the series finale that he will still achieve victory, even though the vast majority of his Free Navy forces have been defeated in the Sol system and a strike team has managed to take out the Ring station's railgun defenses, so while he could retake the station even with the meager force he has left, he has no hope of repairing the railguns before reinforcements arrive and crush him into dust. Even his own son abandons him after this, now able to see that Marco will sacrifice everything and everyone just to feed his own ego. This culminates in him desperately screaming for his ship to veer off, as he realizes too late that the Entities within the Ring are disintegrating his ships as they pass through.
- Villainous Valour: Marco isn't the least bit afraid to give his life for his cause. He shows no fear when he is captured by Drummer and Ashford and threatened with execution, nor when the Rocinante has him dead to rights and he's a torpedo away from oblivion. Both times he faces imminent death with dignity and survives only because his enemies unexpectedly show mercy. The only time he truly shows fear is when he realizes that the Ring is devouring his fleet.
- Visionary Villain: He sees the current weakness of Earth and Mars as the perfect opportunity to turn the Belt into the new dominant power.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: On the receiving end of this in the series finale. With much of his forces destroyed, he sends a message to Laconia asking for more support. The response is a blunt and smug statement that he's just been Laconia's pawn, and now that they have what they wanted with the protomolecule, they will no longer provide aid.
Filip
Filip Inaros
Played by: Jasai Chase Owens
The son of Naomi and Marco, now a soldier in his father's faction.
- Being Evil Sucks: He seems to know this on some level, as his father's desire to put his name on a pedestal and treat his own son like crap left the boy with doubts about himself, but he can't bring himself to leave Marco and make his own path. Season 6 abandons that notion for good when he finally sees Marco at his worst and leaves.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: A gender-flipped version, and one that was enforced on him. When his parents were younger, they were both fighting in the OPA to stick it to the Inners for years of abuse. But Marco's ambitions get the better of him, and he uses a code Naomi made to blow up a ship full of innocent people. Naomi starts protesting against this extremism, and Marco responds by snatching Filip and taking him as far away as possible. Though Naomi tried searching valiantly for her son, she nearly commits suicide after months of dead-ends before accepting he's gone and isn't coming back.
- Heel Realization: After learning that Marco had Tadeo set the bombs that killed his brother and seeing Marco's lack of reaction to the deaths of supposedly invaluable Free Navy members like Rosenfeld, Filip realizes that Marco is using the cause of the Belter revolution to take power for himself and deserts.
- Ignored Epiphany: Almost to a level that could give Demona a run for her money, he seems to know on some level that his father is an egotistical scumbag who does not give a shit about anybody but himself, and that he's just trying to please a man who will never accept him unless he's loyally by his side and under his thumb. Yet no matter what, he always goes back to kissing Marco's ass when things get rough. It finally occurs to him in the finale after he learns about Tadeo killing his own brother on Ceres and seeing his father not care about a bunch of slaughtered Belters that perished in the heat of battle.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: Deep down, this is what Filip truly wants, and it drives Marco insane. All Filip really desires is to have his family be whole again, to be appreciated and loved by his father, and to reconcile with his mother. All Marco wants is for everyone to chant his name.
- Karma Houdini: Despite his active participation in a genocide that costs possibly billions their lives, he nevertheless rides off into the sunset on his own ship in the finale of the show.
- Love Cannot Overcome: Despite her best efforts, Naomi isn't able to reach his better nature in the face of Marco's manipulations, and Filip ultimately turns his back on her. Her words ultimately do reach him when he realizes Marco's true nature and Filip is last seen changing the registration of his repairship to show its owner as "Filip Nagata".
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His spur-of-the-moment decision to abduct Naomi and bring her aboard the Pella results in her managing to send a warning to Holden about the Roci's sabotaged reactor, saving the ship and Tycho Station from blowing themselves up.
- Nom de Mom: After deserting the Free Navy, he changes his surname to Nagata.
- Rank Up: Inverted. When he tells off Marco for foolishly trying to go after the Rocinante when he didn't need to, he pushes his father's Berserk Button and gets relived of bridge command. After that, he gets put down in maintenance as punishment.
- A Real Man Is a Killer: Marco seems to have really nailed this in his head. Much to is mother's horror, Filip is a stone-cold murderer who won't hesitate to kill someone at the drop of a hat.
- Redemption Earns Life: He deserts the Free Navy shortly before Marco and the rest of the Pella's crew are killed by the Ring Entities.
- Trapped in Villainy: Thanks to Marco's manipulations, Filip finds himself unable to escape from being a member of the Free Navy, always getting dragged back to Daddy's side so he can earn his approval. Season 6 ends this when he has enough of Marco's actions.
- Tyke Bomb: Marco raised him to be a soldier for his revolution.
- Unwitting Pawn: Technically, everyone is a pawn of Marco's in his game, but he seems to take an almost special pleasure in manipulating Filip, especially against Naomi. The poor kid can only go along with it since worshipping his father is literally the only thing he was raised on.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: He craves Marco's approval and Marco knows how to exploit this to make Filip do whatever he wants.
Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld Guoliang
Portrayed by: Kathleen Robertson
Inaros's right-hand advisor in the Free Navy, and second in command on his flagship.
- Abusive Parents: Her uncle once tried to drown her in a recycling tank to discipline her and she tries to get Marco to take simliar measures to keep Filip in line.
- Brutal Honesty: Almost all of her lines are this. She reminds Marco that he needs someone who will speak frankly to him, since everyone else who did it is dead or demoted. She also performs a similar role for Filip.
- Gender Flip: Rosenfeld is a man in the books and a woman in the show.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: While Marco only cares for military action, Rosenfeld appears to genuinely be trying to establish a sustainable state for the Belters. She also expresses concern over the power of the joint UN-MCRN Fleet, which Marco dismisses, stating that his guerilla tactics will win the day.
- Nerves of Steel: Marco comments that she's the only person unafraid to call him out on his bullshit. When Filip criticizes Marco for his failings and is relieved of duty, Rosenfeld stares down Marco with a look that tells him that Filip is correct.
- Not So Stoic: Rosenfeld is mortally injured by Liang Walker's suicide-ramming of the Pella, and as Filip desperately calls for medical aid, she shows genuine fear and says that she "doesn't want to go" before expiring.
- Number Two: She is Marco's right-hand woman in season 6.
- Only Sane Woman: She's far more pragmatic and reasonable than Marco, who after his major victory against the Inners has become more reckless.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: The only person in the Free Navy who even remotely qualifies.
Cyn
Cyn
Played by: Brent Sexton
An older member of the Inaros faction. He and Naomi were once close friends.
- Adaptational Attractiveness/Adaptational Ugliness (depending on personal preferences): In the source material, belters tend to be unusually tall and slender for humans due to a life in a low gravity environment. The TV show has very few of these characters (for practical purposes), but the actors are generally on the slimmer side or at best normal-built as a rule. Cyn is an exception to this rule.
- Affably Evil: Cyn is a genial, cheerful bear of a man who misses Naomi fiercely and cares deeply about his fellow crew members and the Belt in general. He's also an important member of a violent terrorist organization and is personally responsible for taking part in a genocidal attack on a scale unlike anything seen before in human history, for which he has zero regrets.
- The Atoner: Part of the reason why Cyn is so disgusted with Marco's mistreatment of Naomi is that he helped Marco hide Filip from Naomi when she left the OPA.
- Big Brother Instinct: He's a self appointed big brother to Marco, Naomi, and Karal, and was for a long time. Sadly, this instinct has led him to make tragic mistakes.
- First, in the backstory, Marco got Cyn to help him hide Filip from Naomi because he convinced Cyn that it would keep their "family" together; Naomi was ready to leave Marco and the movement forever, but Cyn believed she would not leave without Filip, and if she could be kept in Pallas long enough she would eventually reconcile with the group. Instead Naomi barely avoided killing herself out of guilt and depression and eventually left when she had an opportunity.
- Second, during Season 5, Cyn becomes convinced Naomi is about to commit suicide by throwing herself into space and desperately tries to stop her, not aware she was actually planning on crossing a short distance to another ship. Cyn, who hadn't put on a vac suit in his rush to try to talk her down, winds up being accidentally killed when she opens the airlock.
- Boisterous Bruiser: He's a very large and cheerful man who knows how to use his brute strength to aid Marco.
- Dirty Business: How he seems to view Marco's terrorist attack on Earth. He doesn't like such a course of action, but he does believe it's necessary to the goal of freeing the Belt from the oppression of the Inners.
- Everyone Has Standards: He's outraged when Marco orders him and Filip to space Naomi for betraying them, standing up to Marco and telling him to do it himself unless he thinks he has what it takes to make Cyn do it. After Filip likewise stands up for Naomi, Marco backs off.
- My Greatest Failure: Betraying Naomi by helping Marco hide an infant Filip from her. He believed it would keep Naomi on Pallas long enough to stop being angry with Marco and reconcile with him and the rest of their group, allowing them to remain a happy family. Instead it nearly drove her to suicide and broke their group forever. When he finally tearfully admits it and his shame to Naomi, it's clear that the guilt has eaten away at him ever since.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He tries to stop Naomi from throwing herself out an airlock after Marco turns Filip against her. He realizes too late that Naomi is actually trying to jump across the vacuum to reach the Chetzemoka rather than kill herself. This ends with Cyn dying when Naomi opens the airlock while he's trying to talk to her.
- Old Soldier: A lot of OPA members are angry twenty somethings, Cyn is a balding middle-aged man with white hair who has been in the game for decades.
- Older Sidekick: Cyn knew Marco, Naomi, and Karal when they were just teens who talked big in between work shifts and Cyn was their older co-worker who looked after them. Despite being older, he became Marco's follower, recognizing Marco's charisma and vision.
- Team Dad: Pretty much said that he was this to the old companions during their younger days, and he apparently still plays out this role in Marco's faction. He's definitely seen having a fatherly influence/interest in Filip.
- Token Good Teammate: Downplayed because he does go along with Marco's plans of terrorism and mass murder without any protest that the audience sees, but during Season 5 he was the only member of Marco's inner circle who wasn't an irredeemable prick. Naomi notes that she hoped that Cyn's goodness and decency would protect Filip from the effects of growing up under his father's twisted influence and becoming like Marco.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He views Marco's terrorist actions as an unfortunate necessity required to free the Belters. Unlike Marco, Cyn understands how horrific the Free Navy's actions are, but he still believes they are the only way.
- Won't Do Your Dirty Work: One of the few times he ever truly stands up to Marco or refuses to carry out an order is when Marco orders him and Filip to kill Naomi. Cyn becomes so enraged he not only defies Marco, he also just barely stops short of getting in a fistfight with Marco then and there.Marco: You will do what I tell you to!
Cyn: DO IT YOURSELF! If it has to be done you can do it. I'm not going to let Filip be part of this. Unless you think you can make me, hmm? Maybe I finally got old enough, eh?
Karal
Karal
Portrayed By: Oluniké Adeliyi
A hardcore and ruthless henchwoman in the Inaros faction. Like Cyn and Naomi, she traces her roots back to Pallas and knew Marco, Naomi, and Cyn when they were all young.
- Blind Obedience: Any order that Marco gives, no matter how immoral or repugnant it might be, she will carry out, no questions asked. She even makes note of it in the aftermath of Cyn furiously refusing to follow Marco's order to kill Naomi, saying that if Marco truly wants Naomi dead, all he'd have to do is give that order to Karal instead.
- Bullying a Dragon: She seems to get a rise out of antagonising Drummer after she is assigned to the latter's faction, just to see that "famous temper" of hers. Naturally, it bites her in the ass in Nemesis Games.
- Death by Falling Over: During Drummer's rebellion, Karal tries to shoot her, but is struck from behind by Michio, hitting her head on a railing and dying instantly.
- Death Glare: Her default expression.
- Dies Wide Open: After her aforementioned death.
- Evil Gloating: She loves taunting Drummer, especially in the wake of Naomi's apparent death.
- Gender Flip: Karal is a man in the books and a woman in the show.
- General Ripper: A high ranking member of Marco's "Free Navy", she has an incredibly intense and bitter hatred of the Inner Planets and anybody who would side with them. And she basically sees anyone that is not willing to fight a terrorist campaign against the Inners as siding with them.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: She removes her helmet's visor during Drummer's mutiny despite the fact that they're on a spaceship that may have make intense maneuvers or take battle damage at any moment... and is killed seconds later when she hits her head on a railing.
- It's Personal: In a rare moment of openness, she admits that her hatred for Naomi isn't just about Naomi abandoning the cause, but because she saw their old group as a Family of Choice, and views Naomi leaving as abandoning said family. Since it's hinted that Karal was an orphan (and possibly others from the group were as well), that sort of "abandonment" cut deep.
- Jerkass: She's a bitter, humorless asshole to just about everyone, but especially Naomi, whom she considers a Category Traitor for leaving the OPA.
- Perpetual Frowner: She is constantly scowling. However, when Drummer betrays the Free Navy, Karal's expression changes from general contempt to obvious disgust.
- The Political Officer: Her function aboard the Tynan, after transferring there as part of a crew exchange with the Free Navy, is to relay Marco's orders to Drummer and make sure she carries them out.
- Undying Loyalty: To Marco, whom she idolizes.
Tadeo
Tadeo
Portrayed by: Joe Perry
An experienced repair technician originally from Ceres, he is part of the Free Navy and stationed aboard the Pella. When Filip falls out of favor with his father, Marco assigns Filip to the repair crews, where he winds up becoming Tadeo's assistant.
- Affably Evil: He's an outgoing, humorous, and friendly member of a deadly terrorist organization.
- Benevolent Boss: As a boss and teacher he is kind and patient. Filip, who is used to the harsh narcissism of his father, is obviously thrown by this at first.
- Big Brother Mentor: He takes this approach to teaching and training Filip, often joking around or being conversational instead of abusing authority or using reprimands.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He helped Marco's forces plant bombs on Ceres. His own brother, whom Tadeo clearly loves and admires, was among about a thousand Belters killed by those bombs. One gets the feeling he would have been plagued by guilt with any Belters dying (he specifically says he was told that no Belter would be there to be injured by the bombs), but learning about his brother absolutely crushes Tadeo... and that combined with the knowledge that Marco was behind the bombing finally gives Filip the perspective to see what his father truly is.
- Promotion to Parent: In his youth, Tadeo's older brother was promoted to this over Tadeo. He always went to great pains to look out for and provide for Tadeo (something Tadeo notes the brother wasn't so good at doing for himself), which is part of why Tadeo loves him, and is so worried that he hasn't heard from his brother after the bombing on Ceres.
- Villainous BSoD: The last scene where we see Tadeo he completely breaks down at getting confirmation that his brother is dead. Because Tadeo himself planted or helped plant the bombs, it's a devastating blow to his psyche.
