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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In her first scene, she shows exactly why she's the leader of the Navy. Lanoe flashes back to a time when the ship around them was exploding and she was laughing and telling her troops that they'd win (and they did), then (back to the present) she chastises ''[[TheProtagonist Aleister]] [[AcePilot Lanoe]]'' for even daring to not follow proper protocol, taking no nonsense whatsoever from him and seeing right through [[TheStoic his facade]]. After that, she tells him she's already making preparations to face the [[spoiler: ensuing drone fleet]] and sends Lanoe on a covert op to recruit mysterious allies, with a cruiser filled with SpaceMarines and [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]], because she's not taking any chances. Fleet Admiral, indeed.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In her first scene, she shows exactly why she's the leader of the Navy. Lanoe flashes back to a time when the ship around them was exploding and she was laughing and telling her troops that they'd win (and they did), then (back to the present) she chastises ''[[TheProtagonist Aleister]] [[AcePilot Lanoe]]'' AcePilot Aleister Lanoe for even daring to not follow proper protocol, taking no nonsense whatsoever from him and seeing right through [[TheStoic his facade]]. After that, she tells him she's already making preparations to face the [[spoiler: ensuing drone fleet]] and sends Lanoe on a covert op to recruit mysterious allies, with a cruiser filled with SpaceMarines and [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]], because she's not taking any chances. Fleet Admiral, indeed.
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* OneSceneWonder: She is mentioned a few times and shows up again at the end of ''Forbidden Suns'', but her introductory/only scene in ''Forgotten Worlds'' leaves a lasting impression of the woman.
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[[Characters/TheSilenceTrilogy The Silence Trilogy Character Index]] > The Navy
[[note]]All character appear in their sections in order of appearance.[[/note]]
!The Navy
The mightiest force in the galaxy.
[[folder:In General]]
* CurbStompBattle: Multiple characters go on to state that, whenever there's a war between the Polys, any side the Navy takes a part of is going to win.
* SigilSpam: The three-headed eagle. Blazon on nearly everything the Navy owns.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Admiral Wallys]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: He, his fleet, and Maggs come in at the last moment to help Niraya fend off the last of the drones and help the colony recover]].
* CloudCuckoolander: He's seen as this by many members of the Navy due to his obsession with finding anything related to the existence of aliens. [[spoiler: It's this obsession that makes him the perfect person for Maggs to ask for help in defending Niraya as he's the only one likely to believe him]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's the only Maggs believes would even dare listen to him about [[spoiler: an invading alien force]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cadet Marris]]
* AnArmAndALeg: While holding a gun to Lanoe, Maggs blasts her hand off with a cataphract’s gun.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Lanoe feels like this was done to her as she was only aiming a gun at him because her family was being threatened; Maggs didn’t have to go and shoot her whole hand off.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fleet Admiral Varma]]
* BigGood: While not as “good” as one might agree to say, she’s technically in charge of Earth's Navy, the single most powerful force in the series, so this pretty much makes her this for the series’ setting.
* CommandingCoolness: She’s technically the leader of the entire Navy.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In her first scene, she shows exactly why she's the leader of the Navy. Lanoe flashes back to a time when the ship around them was exploding and she was laughing and telling her troops that they'd win (and they did), then (back to the present) she chastises ''[[TheProtagonist Aleister]] [[AcePilot Lanoe]]'' for even daring to not follow proper protocol, taking no nonsense whatsoever from him and seeing right through [[TheStoic his facade]]. After that, she tells him she's already making preparations to face the [[spoiler: ensuing drone fleet]] and sends Lanoe on a covert op to recruit mysterious allies, with a cruiser filled with SpaceMarines and [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]], because she's not taking any chances. Fleet Admiral, indeed.
* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: Against Valk, although it comes off more as JustDoingMyJob than anything else]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While she doesn't agree with Lanoe's reasoning, she does recognize the [[spoiler: Blue-Blue-White drone fleet]] as a problem and makes preparations to face, even sending Lanoe on a mission to recruit mysterious new allies to help.
* SergeantRock: Does not take Lanoe's actions lightly nor does she put up with his bull.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: She underwent a process that rejuvenated her body’s youth.
** It's never said how old she is, but the dynamic between her and Lanoe implies that she's roughly the same age as him or possibly even older.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lieutenant Harbin]]
A veteran pilot Fleet Admiral Varma assigns to the Hopilite for Lanoe's mission in ''Forgotten Worlds''.
* AcePilot: Maggs implies to Lanoe that she is one after fighting in a battle at some planet called Tlaloc.
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Turns out Lanoe's ProperlyParanoid tendencies were right: Harbin was a Centrocor mole on the ship]]
[[/folder]]
!The Planetary Brigade Marines
The Navy's planetside fighting force.
[[folder:In General]]
* ActionGirl: All female Marines.
* ActionSurvivor: Any Marine that doesn't have connections and lives long enough to be promoted.
* BloodKnight: Every single one of them can come off as this.
* BigEater: If Ehta's comments in ''Forgotten Worlds'' is anything to go by.
* CasualDangerDialogue: A standard.
* CoolHelmet: They were a silver one.
* InterserviceRivalry: Oh, you can bet it’s there between the Navy's pilots and marines and neither seems to have much respect for the other.
* InUniverseNickname: PBM s, or '''P'''oor '''B'''loody '''M'''arines.
* MadeOfIron: You kind have to be in order to survive long in the marines.
* ProudWarriorRace: At least, of the Navy.
* SemperFi: They are marines, after all.
* SigilSpam: The three-headed eagle. Blazon on nearly everything the Navy owns.
* SlobsVsSnobs: The series, from viewpoints of both sides, seems to describe Navy Marines vs. Navy Pilots as this, respectively.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Forster]]
* BoomHeadshot: Courtesy of a "lucky particle shot".
* RedShirt: Dies right in front of Ehta in Chapter 12 of ''The Forgotten Worlds''.
* YourHeadAsplode: He's shot in the head with a particle shot which leaves only a "dead man's skull burning".
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Mestlez]]
* JumpScare: She suffers one when something white and the size of human head pops out from the rubble in the skirmish on Tuonela. Turns out, it was a concierge drone. Binah finds this to be ActuallyPrettyFunny.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Binah]]
* FireForgedFriends: He became this with Ehta on Tuonela.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Anselm]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There’s not much in the description of what an “earworm” does exactly, but the fact that the Navy is more than willing to discharge a willing and competent soldier from service that ''survived'' an “earworm” implies the potential horror of what it does. Made all the more chilling by the fact that Anselm went from a screaming mess to abruptly stopping.
* HellIsThatNoise: The "earworm", an audio-based brain-scrambling weapon that is described as normally a fatal ForegoneConclusion for anyone unfortunate enough to hear it. While Ehta survives it, he doesn't.
* RedShirt
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He is killed in the chapter he’s introduced in.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Rudoff, Banks, and Hutchens]]
* [[RedShirt Red Shirts]]
* KilledOffscreen: While never seeing what actually happens to them, Ehta assumes that Rudoff and Banks died before getting over the top of a trench. Hutchens may have survived, given that the marines' suits are prone to technological fault, but Ehta also assumes he could've been "so utterly removed from existence that his transponders didn't even register".
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Corporal Guiterrez]]
Ehta's second-in-command.
* TheLancer: She's this for Ehta's contingent of marines.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Major Sorensen]]
[[/folder]]
!The Navy Engineering Division
ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
[[folder:In General]]
* InUniverseNickname: Engineering from this division are called "Neddies".
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Paniet certainly seems to thinks so. [[spoiler: Hollander proves him wrong'']].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Engineer Derrow]]
* TheEngineer
[[/folder]]
[[note]]All character appear in their sections in order of appearance.[[/note]]
!The Navy
The mightiest force in the galaxy.
[[folder:In General]]
* CurbStompBattle: Multiple characters go on to state that, whenever there's a war between the Polys, any side the Navy takes a part of is going to win.
* SigilSpam: The three-headed eagle. Blazon on nearly everything the Navy owns.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Admiral Wallys]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: He, his fleet, and Maggs come in at the last moment to help Niraya fend off the last of the drones and help the colony recover]].
* CloudCuckoolander: He's seen as this by many members of the Navy due to his obsession with finding anything related to the existence of aliens. [[spoiler: It's this obsession that makes him the perfect person for Maggs to ask for help in defending Niraya as he's the only one likely to believe him]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's the only Maggs believes would even dare listen to him about [[spoiler: an invading alien force]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cadet Marris]]
* AnArmAndALeg: While holding a gun to Lanoe, Maggs blasts her hand off with a cataphract’s gun.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Lanoe feels like this was done to her as she was only aiming a gun at him because her family was being threatened; Maggs didn’t have to go and shoot her whole hand off.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fleet Admiral Varma]]
* BigGood: While not as “good” as one might agree to say, she’s technically in charge of Earth's Navy, the single most powerful force in the series, so this pretty much makes her this for the series’ setting.
* CommandingCoolness: She’s technically the leader of the entire Navy.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In her first scene, she shows exactly why she's the leader of the Navy. Lanoe flashes back to a time when the ship around them was exploding and she was laughing and telling her troops that they'd win (and they did), then (back to the present) she chastises ''[[TheProtagonist Aleister]] [[AcePilot Lanoe]]'' for even daring to not follow proper protocol, taking no nonsense whatsoever from him and seeing right through [[TheStoic his facade]]. After that, she tells him she's already making preparations to face the [[spoiler: ensuing drone fleet]] and sends Lanoe on a covert op to recruit mysterious allies, with a cruiser filled with SpaceMarines and [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]], because she's not taking any chances. Fleet Admiral, indeed.
* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler: Against Valk, although it comes off more as JustDoingMyJob than anything else]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While she doesn't agree with Lanoe's reasoning, she does recognize the [[spoiler: Blue-Blue-White drone fleet]] as a problem and makes preparations to face, even sending Lanoe on a mission to recruit mysterious new allies to help.
* SergeantRock: Does not take Lanoe's actions lightly nor does she put up with his bull.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: She underwent a process that rejuvenated her body’s youth.
** It's never said how old she is, but the dynamic between her and Lanoe implies that she's roughly the same age as him or possibly even older.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lieutenant Harbin]]
A veteran pilot Fleet Admiral Varma assigns to the Hopilite for Lanoe's mission in ''Forgotten Worlds''.
* AcePilot: Maggs implies to Lanoe that she is one after fighting in a battle at some planet called Tlaloc.
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Turns out Lanoe's ProperlyParanoid tendencies were right: Harbin was a Centrocor mole on the ship]]
[[/folder]]
!The Planetary Brigade Marines
The Navy's planetside fighting force.
[[folder:In General]]
* ActionGirl: All female Marines.
* ActionSurvivor: Any Marine that doesn't have connections and lives long enough to be promoted.
* BloodKnight: Every single one of them can come off as this.
* BigEater: If Ehta's comments in ''Forgotten Worlds'' is anything to go by.
* CasualDangerDialogue: A standard.
* CoolHelmet: They were a silver one.
* InterserviceRivalry: Oh, you can bet it’s there between the Navy's pilots and marines and neither seems to have much respect for the other.
* InUniverseNickname: PBM s, or '''P'''oor '''B'''loody '''M'''arines.
* MadeOfIron: You kind have to be in order to survive long in the marines.
* ProudWarriorRace: At least, of the Navy.
* SemperFi: They are marines, after all.
* SigilSpam: The three-headed eagle. Blazon on nearly everything the Navy owns.
* SlobsVsSnobs: The series, from viewpoints of both sides, seems to describe Navy Marines vs. Navy Pilots as this, respectively.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Forster]]
* BoomHeadshot: Courtesy of a "lucky particle shot".
* RedShirt: Dies right in front of Ehta in Chapter 12 of ''The Forgotten Worlds''.
* YourHeadAsplode: He's shot in the head with a particle shot which leaves only a "dead man's skull burning".
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Mestlez]]
* JumpScare: She suffers one when something white and the size of human head pops out from the rubble in the skirmish on Tuonela. Turns out, it was a concierge drone. Binah finds this to be ActuallyPrettyFunny.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Binah]]
* FireForgedFriends: He became this with Ehta on Tuonela.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Anselm]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There’s not much in the description of what an “earworm” does exactly, but the fact that the Navy is more than willing to discharge a willing and competent soldier from service that ''survived'' an “earworm” implies the potential horror of what it does. Made all the more chilling by the fact that Anselm went from a screaming mess to abruptly stopping.
* HellIsThatNoise: The "earworm", an audio-based brain-scrambling weapon that is described as normally a fatal ForegoneConclusion for anyone unfortunate enough to hear it. While Ehta survives it, he doesn't.
* RedShirt
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He is killed in the chapter he’s introduced in.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Rudoff, Banks, and Hutchens]]
* [[RedShirt Red Shirts]]
* KilledOffscreen: While never seeing what actually happens to them, Ehta assumes that Rudoff and Banks died before getting over the top of a trench. Hutchens may have survived, given that the marines' suits are prone to technological fault, but Ehta also assumes he could've been "so utterly removed from existence that his transponders didn't even register".
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Corporal Guiterrez]]
Ehta's second-in-command.
* TheLancer: She's this for Ehta's contingent of marines.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Major Sorensen]]
[[/folder]]
!The Navy Engineering Division
ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
[[folder:In General]]
* InUniverseNickname: Engineering from this division are called "Neddies".
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Paniet certainly seems to thinks so. [[spoiler: Hollander proves him wrong'']].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Engineer Derrow]]
* TheEngineer
[[/folder]]
