History Characters / TheLostFleetOtherAllianceSoldiersAndCivilians

!!Black Ops spies
[[folder:Maxwell Kaliphur]]
A waiter onboard the diplomatic vessel '''Boundless'' who turns out to be a spy and assassin loyal to sinister elements of the Alliance.

* BeneathNotice: It's only described secondhand, since he serves on a different ship than the POV character, but his job as a waiter keeps people from paying attention to him and lets him disappear for long periods of time while he's supposedly delivering food to cabins. This helps his spying efforts a great deal.
* TheSpook: He's a creepy and efficient special ops soldier who takes extremely morally ambiguous jobs on behalf of unknown parties.
* StealthClothes: He wears a suit of armor which makes him appear invisible and uses it for sinister activities like trying to kill Geary.
* TheStoic: He doesn't betray emotion, even when he's being held prisoner for committing treason and attempted murder.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:General Arnold Julian]]
An infamous Ground Forces commander in charge of a horrific PyrrhicVictory that would have been less Pyrrhic without his incompetence. He seeks to expand the Alliance's influence in ways that put him into conflict with Geary.
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!!Scientists and Other Academics


[[folder: Doctor Setin]]
An expert on the study of extraterrestrials, who is sent with the fleet in ''Beyond the Frontier''.

* CynicismCatalyst: It's not too overt, but he grows a bit more withdrawn after Geary's battle with the Kicks at Honor, and when the Dancers choose to communicate with Charban instead of him.
* MeaningfulName: Setin, as in [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI_Institute SETI, the scientific organization dedicated to seeking out the origins of life in the universe, and which is an acronym for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence".]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Hopeful of peaceful contact with the aliens.

[[folder: Dr. Shwartz]]
One of Setin's team.

* HypercompetentSidekick: More insightful than Setin, and communicates more easily with the military.
* OneSteveLimit: Geary meets a General Shwartz in Adriana Star System. She doesn't believe they're related.
* ShoutOut: She works at the [[Franchise/StarTrek University of Vulcan]].

[[folder: Dr. Jasmine Cresida]]
Commander Cresida's estranged sister and a scientist specializing in hypernet technology.

* BeautifulSingingVoice: Jasmine sings a powerful and moving aria to communicate physics terms to the Dancers. As a result, they consider her an "elder" (they associate complexity of rhythm and pattern with maturity).
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Jasmine is initially rude, aloof, and disrespectful of her sister's memory (feeling she wasted her potential by joining the military and betrayed their ethics by studying the military potential of the gates). She gradually warms up, especially after finding out Jaylen’s actions were meant to save people from being killed by nova explosions.
* ScienceHero: She is sent to get around Syndic efforts to block the hypernet gates. She succeeds, and also thwarts an attempt to blow up Midway's hypernet gate and kill everyone in the system.

[[folder:Dr. Kottur]]

The head of the scientific mission into Dancer space, and a hypernet expert.

* AffablyEvil: Kottur is a remarkably pleasant man with a monstrous agenda. He's a closet xenophobe who is utterly convinced that the Dancers must be evil aliens plotting against humanity, causing him to attempt to destroy the Midway hypernet gate and kill everyone in the star system to stop an expedition into Dancer territory. While preparing for this, he tries to avoid meeting the people he plans to kill. Right after triggering his (unsuccessful) plan, Kottur tries to poison himself and leaves behind a recording laying out his motives and apologizing for their deaths. He also begins his recording with a line out of a detective novel, and pauses to add that he always wanted to say that.
* TheAllegedExpert: Dr. Kottur is the head of a high-profile mission to link the Alliance and Phoenix Stars Hypernet gates, but he knows more about the big picture principles than the technical workings of the devices.
--> '''Jasmine Cressida:''' Kottur wasn't that good at coding. His scientific skills were mostly in the area of academic politics.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kottur wholeheartedly (yet incorrectly) believes that killing a couple of billion people is the only way to prevent a genocidal alien invasion.

[[folder:Dr. Ken Bron]]
A member of Dr. Kottur's science team.

* IgnoranceIsBliss: When Dr. Bron realizes that any warnings about the potential hypernet gate collapse won't give the people of Midway or the Alliance fleet time to evacuate, he despairingly wonders if they should even bother broadcasting a warning and filling everyone's last few minutes with terror.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Normally, kicking a longtime colleague who's just poisoned himself and opposing resuscitating him would be pretty cold. However, said colleague has just attempted to commit an act of mass murder out of xenophobia. He'd also left behind a recorded confession so he could feel better about himself that would have made Bron and several others spend the last minutes of their lives in desperate fear if the plan had succeeded. 
* OhCrap: Bron is terrified by Kotter's recording describing his plan to destroy the Midway system.
--> '''Dr. Bron:''' Oh my ancestors, we're doomed.

[[folder:Dr. Macadams]]
A scientist sent to accompany a mission to Dancer space.

!!Scientists and Other Academics


[[folder: Doctor Setin]]
An expert on the study of extraterrestrials, who is sent with the fleet in ''Beyond the Frontier''.

* TheRedBaron: Night Witch.

* BeautifulSingingVoice: Jasmine sings a powerful and moving aria to communicate physics terms to the Dancers.

%%[[folder:Captain Holmes]]
%%A Marine captain stationed at Unity.
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%%* ConsummateProfessional: He saves Geary’s life during an attack by xenophobic terrorists and then bothers to apologize (with a comically straight face_ for yelling "Get down, you fool!" at a superior officer.
%%[[/folder]]

[[folder:Colonel Webb]]
The commander of a ceremonial honor guard (really disguised special forces bodyguards) assigned to a diplomatic mission in ''Outlands.''

%%* ConsummateProfessional: He saves Geary’s life during an attack by xenophobic terrorists and then bothers to apologize for yelling "Get down, you fool!" at a superior officer.

%%[[folder:General Wallach]]
%%A ground force general stationed at Unity.
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%%* InterServiceRivalry: Wallach discusses the traditional army-navy rivalry and amusedly notes that it kept the ground forces from getting involved in the dark fleet fiasco that got many naval officers arrested.
%%[[/folder]]

!!Scientists and Other Academics


[[folder: Doctor Setin]]
An expert on the study of extraterrestrials, who is sent with the fleet in ''Beyond the Frontier''.

* CynicismCatalyst: It's not too overt, but he grows a bit more withdrawn after Geary's battle with the Kicks at Honor, and when the Dancers choose to communicate with Charban instead of him.
* MeaningfulName: Setin, as in [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI_Institute SETI, the scientific organization dedicated to seeking out the origins of life in the universe, and which is an acronym for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence".]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Hopeful of peaceful contact with the aliens.

[[folder: Dr. Shwartz]]
One of Setin's team.

* HypercompetentSidekick: More insightful than Setin, and communicates more easily with the military.
* OneSteveLimit: Geary meets a General Shwartz in Adriana Star System. She doesn't believe they're related.
* ShoutOut: She works at the [[Franchise/StarTrek University of Vulcan]].

[[folder: Dr. Jasmine Cresida]]
Commander Cresida's estranged sister and a scientist specializing in hypernet technology.

* BeautifulSingingVoice: Jasmine sings a powerful and moving aria to communicate physics terms to the Dancers.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Jasmine is initially rude, aloof, and disrespectful of her sister's memory (feeling she wasted her potential by joining the military and betrayed their ethics by studying the military potential of the gates). She gradually warms up, especially after finding out Jaylen’s actions were meant to save people from being killed by nova explosions.
* ScienceHero: She is sent to get around Syndic efforts to block the hypernet gates. She succeeds, and also thwarts an attempt to blow up Midway's hypernet gate and kill everyone in the system.

[[folder:Dr. Kottur]]

The head of the scientific mission into Dancer space, and a hypernet expert.

* AffablyEvil: Kottur is a remarkably pleasant man with a monstrous agenda. He's a closet xenophobe who is utterly convinced that the Dancers must be evil aliens plotting against humanity, causing him to attempt to destroy the Midway hypernet gate and kill everyone in the star system to stop an expedition into Dancer territory. While preparing for this, he tries to avoid meeting the people he plans to kill. Right after triggering his (unsuccessful) plan, Kottur tries to poison himself and leaves behind a recording laying out his motives and apologizing for their deaths. He also begins his recording with a line out of a detective novel, and pauses to add that he always wanted to say that.
* TheAllegedExpert: Dr. Kottur is the head of a high-profile mission to link the Alliance and Phoenix Stars Hypernet gates, but he knows more about the big picture principles than the technical workings of the devices.
--> '''Jasmine Cressida:''' Kottur wasn't that good at coding. His scientific skills were mostly in the area of academic politics.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kottur wholeheartedly (yet incorrectly) believes that killing a couple of billion people is the only way to prevent a genocidal alien invasion.

[[folder:Dr. Ken Bron]]
A member of Dr. Kottur's science team.

* IgnoranceIsBliss: When Dr. Bron realizes that any warnings about the potential hypernet gate collapse won't give the people of Midway or the Alliance fleet time to evacuate, he despairingly wonders if they should even bother broadcasting a warning and filling everyone's last few minutes with terror.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Normally, kicking a longtime colleague who's just poisoned himself and opposing resuscitating him would be pretty cold. However, said colleague has just attempted to commit an act of mass murder out of xenophobia. He'd also left behind a recorded confession so he could feel better about himself that would have made Bron and several others spend the last minutes of their lives in desperate fear if the plan had succeeded. 
* OhCrap: Bron is terrified by Kotter's recording describing his plan to destroy the Midway system.
--> '''Dr. Bron:''' Oh my ancestors, we're doomed.

[[folder:Dr. Macadams]]
A scientist sent to accompany a mission to Dancer space.

* TheAllegedExpert: Dr. Macadams presents himself as the galaxy's leading expert on extraterrestrial studies, but has a horrible case of ConfirmationBias and ignores any contributions (no matter how valuable) from people he considers to be his intellectual inferiors. He only got his current job due to his [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections high-level connections]] and his HatesEveryoneEqually attitude making him appear unbiased.
* HatedByAll: Macadams constantly throws his weight around even after the limits of his authority are spelled out to him. He also uses condescending InsistentTerminology, insults the suggestions of his more competent subordinates, and falsely accuses Geary and his men of making stupid mistakes. Everyone in the fleet hates him, and Geary expresses hope that he'll eventually be able to put Macadams in the brig on bread and water rations.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Macadams gets his position largely because most of the other candidates are too heavily biased toward or against the Dancers.
--> '''Ambassador Rycerz:''' Macadams, on the other hand, is hostile to every form of life in the universe, so he couldn't be accused of being particularly biased against the Dancers one way or the other.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:John Senn]]
A historian who specializes in researching possible alien visits to human star systems and accompanies the fleet in the third series.

[[folder: Doctor Setin]]
An expert on the study of extraterrestrials, who is sent with the fleet in ''Beyond the Frontier''.

* CynicismCatalyst: It's not too overt, but he grows a bit more withdrawn after Geary's battle with the Kicks at Honor, and when the Dancers choose to communicate with Charban instead of him.
* MeaningfulName: Setin, as in [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI_Institute SETI, the scientific organization dedicated to seeking out the origins of life in the universe, and which is an acronym for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence".]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Hopeful of peaceful contact with the aliens.

[[folder: Dr. Shwartz]]
One of Setin's team.

* HypercompetentSidekick: More insightful than Setin, and communicates more easily with the military.
* OneSteveLimit: Geary meets a General Shwartz in Adriana Star System. She doesn't believe they're related.
* ShoutOut: She works at the [[Franchise/StarTrek University of Vulcan]].

[[folder: Colonel Galland]]
The aerospace forces commander for the Adriana Star System.
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* AcePilot: Commands the local star fighters.
* DeterminedDefeatist: She says that her fighters could take on a battleship, but that it would be a SuicideMission with low odds of success. She also adds that she is fully prepared to engage the battleship if there's no other way.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Galland is quick to help Geary and advise the best official way to communicate with the local authorities.
* ShoutOut: She is named for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Galland Adolf Galland]], a Luftwaffe fighter ace from WWII.

[[folder: Lieutenant Nadia "Night Witch" Popova]]
One of Galland's pilots.
* AcePilot: She's a formidable aerial combatant and doesn't mind showing off fancy maneuvers.
* TheRedBaron: Night Witch.
* ShoutOut: Her name and callsign are references to the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches 588th Night Bomber Regiment]], an all-female unit of the Red Army during WWII. Her namesake, Nadezhda Popova, was named a Hero of the Soviet Union for flying over 700 sorties during the war.

[[folder: General Sissons]]
Commander of Adriana's ground forces.
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* TheNeidermeyer: He communicates with his subordinates exclusively by yelling and threatening, and he even tries to push Geary around.
* NeverMyFault: Stubbornly refuses to admit having made any mistakes in weakening the system's defenses and not telling the civil authorities.
* SkewedPriorities: He cares more about keeping his career intact and ducking official blame than helping with Adriana's defenses or solving the refugee crisis.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He's the only Adriana leader to obstruct Geary and show more concern for saving his own skin than the system, even deliberately assigning Geary a unit that is suffering from high rates of PTSD for the mission.

[[folder: Major Problem]]
An Alliance officer stationed at Ambaru station.
* UnfortunateName: Unsurprisingly. Her subordinates comment that she should really try to get promoted or demoted to colonel or captain.

[[folder: Colonel Kim]]
The commander of the Adriana System's garrison.
* MilitaryBrat: Her mother was a military logistics officer.
* PerpetualSmiler: Always cheerful, even in cramped and stressful conditions.
* SoldiersAtTheRear: While relatively senior, she hasn't seen much combat, openly acknowledges this and does her best to observe and learn.

[[folder: Colonel Voston]]
One of Sissons's subordinates.
* CannonFodder: Sissons views him and the men assigned to help Geary with him as doomed and worthless. Voston is determined to prove him wrong.
* ShellShockedVeteran: He was on the frontlines of some costly, and failed, attempts to push into Syndicate space and has the look of a man who has seen too much war.
* SpannerInTheWorks: He tells Geary that he believes this is why General Sissons selected his unit to accompany Geary's task force on the repatriation mission. He explains that his troops have been pushed too hard for too long, and some of them are marginal enough that they might start shooting with little to no provocation. This would reflect badly on Geary and ruin his goal of a peaceful repatriation. Fortunately for everyone involved, this doesn't happen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Dr. Jasmine Cresida]]
Commander Cresida's estranged sister and a scientist specializing in hypernet technology.

* BeautifulSingingVoice: Jasmine sings a powerful and moving aria to communicate physics terms to the Dancers.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Jasmine is initially rude, aloof, and disrespectful of her sister's memory (feeling she wasted her potential by joining the military and betrayed their ethics by studying the military potential of the gates). She gradually warms up, especially after finding out Jaylen’s actions were meant to save people from being killed by nova explosions.
* ScienceHero: She is sent to get around Syndic efforts to block the hypernet gates. She succeeds, and also thwarts an attempt to blow up Midway's hypernet gate and kill everyone in the system.

[[folder:Dr. Kottur]]

The head of the scientific mission into Dancer space, and a hypernet expert.

* AffablyEvil: Kottur is a remarkably pleasant man with a monstrous agenda. He's a closet xenophobe who is utterly convinced that the Dancers must be evil aliens plotting against humanity, causing him to attempt to destroy the Midway hypernet gate and kill everyone in the star system to stop an expedition into Dancer territory. While preparing for this, he tries to avoid meeting the people he plans to kill. Right after triggering his (unsuccessful) plan, Kottur tries to poison himself and leaves behind a recording laying out his motives and apologizing for their deaths. He also begins his recording with a line out of a detective novel, and pauses to add that he always wanted to say that.
* TheAllegedExpert: Dr. Kottur is the head of a high-profile mission to link the Alliance and Phoenix Stars Hypernet gates, but he knows more about the big picture principles than the technical workings of the devices.
--> '''Jasmine Cressida:''' Kottur wasn't that good at coding. His scientific skills were mostly in the area of academic politics.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kottur wholeheartedly (yet incorrectly) believes that killing a couple of billion people is the only way to prevent a genocidal alien invasion.

[[folder:Dr. Ken Bron]]
A member of Dr. Kottur's science team.

* IgnoranceIsBliss: When Dr. Bron realizes that any warnings about the potential hypernet gate collapse won't give the people of Midway or the Alliance fleet time to evacuate, he despairingly wonders if they should even bother broadcasting a warning and filling everyone's last few minutes with terror.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Normally, kicking a longtime colleague who's just poisoned himself and opposing resuscitating him would be pretty cold. However, said colleague has just attempted to commit an act of mass murder out of xenophobia. He'd also left behind a recorded confession so he could feel better about himself that would have made Bron and several others spend the last minutes of their lives in desperate fear if the plan had succeeded. 
* OhCrap: Bron is terrified by Kotter's recording describing his plan to destroy the Midway system.
--> '''Dr. Bron:''' Oh my ancestors, we're doomed.

%%[[folder:Captain Holmes]]
%%A Marine captain stationed at Unity.
%%----
%%* ConsummateProfessional: He saves Geary’s life during an attack by xenophobic terrorists and then bothers to apologize for yelling "Get down, you fool!" at a superior officer.
%%[[/folder]]

[[folder:Colonel Webb]]
The commander of a ceremonial honor guard (really disguised special forces bodyguards) assigned to a diplomatic mission in ''Outlands.''

* ColonelBadass: Colonel Webb is a stern, confident veteran of close quarters special forces missions.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Webb is rumored to have been involved in some very high risk and shady covert operations.
* KnightInSourArmor: Webb virulently dislikes the Syndics, hates the idea of peacefully retiring, views Geary through cynical lenses, and shows some distaste for the Alliance’s alien allies. However, he does show respect for a comrade who wants to retire peacefully, and genuinely cares about keeping everyone on the mission safe.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Webb tells Geary that he dislikes people doing serious and dangerous actions without proper orders because a friend of his got brought on a SuicideMission that his friend's overconfident commander never got proper authorization for. Webb doesn't hesitate to insult the late commander's intelligence and morals, saying there was a good reason the plan didn't get official authorization.
* WakeUpFighting: A sailor who goes to wake Webb up by shaking his shoulder is briefly manhandled.

[[folder:Dr. Macadams]]
A scientist sent to accompany a mission to Dancer space.

* TheAllegedExpert: Dr. Macadams presents himself as the galaxy's leading expert on extraterrestrial studies, but has a horrible case of ConfirmationBias and ignores any contributions (no matter how valuable) from people he considers to be his intellectual inferiors. He only got his current job due to his [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections high-level connections]] and his HatesEveryoneEqually attitude making him appear unbiased.
* HatedByAll: Macadams constantly throws his weight around even after the limits of his authority are spelled out to him. He also uses condescending InsistentTerminology, insults the suggestions of his more competent subordinates, and falsely accuses Geary and his men of making stupid mistakes. Everyone in the fleet hates him, and Geary expresses hope that he'll eventually be able to put Macadams in the brig on bread and water rations.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Macadams gets his position largely because most of the other candidates are too heavily biased toward or against the Dancers.
--> '''Ambassador Rycerz:''' Macadams, on the other hand, is hostile to every form of life in the universe, so he couldn't be accused of being particularly biased against the Dancers one way or the other.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Colonel Duncan]]
A veteran on Glenlyon.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Duncan shares a surname with one of the Glenlyon Marines from ''Literature/TheGenesisFleet.''
* CoolOldGuy: Duncan is a RetiredBadass who is charming and friendly when he meets Geary at a banquet, while also expressing appreciation about how his home world's greatest hero resisted the temptation to become a dictator.
--> '''Duncan:''' The military has enough trouble trying to march and talk at the same time. It'd make an awful mess of trying to run the Alliance, wouldn't it?
* RuggedScar: Duncan has a battle scar on his neck that not even futuristic cosmetic surgery has been able to fix.

%%[[folder:General Wallach]]
%%A ground force general stationed at Unity.
%%----
%%* InterServiceRivalry: Wallach discusses the traditional army-navy rivalry and amusedly notes that it kept the ground forces from getting involved in the dark fleet fiasco that got many naval officers arrested.
%%[[/folder]]

[[folder:John Senn]]
A historian who specializes in researching possible alien visits to human star systems and accompanies the fleet in the third series.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Christopher George]]
An old friend of Iger's who is stationed on the ''Boundless'' in an undercover role to monitor the diplomatic mission.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: He tries to deny his true identity even after being directly confronted and identified.
* TwoFirstNames: Christopher and George are both first names.
* UnwittingPawn: Geary suspects that the politicians who want the mission to fail put George on the ''Boundless'' just to get him caught spying (since Iger can recognize him) and cause disruption and paranoia.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: He comes across as a skilled academic, but he has trouble deciphering a drink menu.

[[folder:Dr. John Senn]]