List of characters for the novel Brute Force.
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Humans
Cross Agarwal
The son of a cobra rancher, who reluctantly takes up the mantle of the leader of the humans taken to the alien ship.
Una Scanlan
The perpetual second-in-command, who often seeks the safest place while retaining some measure of authority.
Meat Machine
The leader of the Famished tribe with a reputation for cannibalism.
The Madre
The religious leader of her own tribe, who believes she's doing the Lord's work.
Kid-Stretcher Kyle
The warlord in charge of Kylestown, who is old enough to have lived through the Bad Week.
Steven Best
The leader of the Rovers, a powerful traveling tribe frequently at war against the Famished.
Rashid Agarwal
Cross's father and cobra rancher.
Shifty
Kid-Stretcher Kyle's trusted soldier.
Herk
A Kylestown soldier who is also very good with machines.
Taylor
A muscular young woman who is very excited about going to space and exploring new planets, coming up with elegant names for them.
Buttstock
A tall thin guy who figured out the Builder's limitation on constructing machines for humans due to their limited understanding and improve their result by adding favorable parameters.
Aliens
Dora
The Explorer who interacts with the humans most often.
Bob
The Builder who interacts with the humans most often.
The Pile
The hive-minded pile of bluish rocks that makes up the third alliance species and helps to coordinate the entire alliance by providing instantaneous communication across light years.
The Coward
One of the weakest members of the Killers/Enemy, who prefers to use his brains to survive.
