Centrocor

One of the bigger multi-planetary commercial/development monopolies and the first introduced in the story.

In General

Ashlay Bullam

Catchphrase: Like a good corporate executive, she regularly uses their catchphrase: “We’re all in this together.”
Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Corrupter: Shows up Auster Maggs in this department, being able to successfully win over many of Lanoe's crew and an engineer.
Distaff Counterpart: Can come off as this to Maggs.
Even Evil Has Standards: She is pretty shaken up at having to kill someone with her own hands and is appalled by Shulkin's ease with sacrificing people.
Every Man Has His Price: A firm believer of this trope.
Handicapped Badass: She won’t let her condition get in the way of her career or business.
Hiding the Handicap
Ignore the Disability: She claims that it doesn’t affect her most of the time.
Shown Their Work: Type IV (Vascular) Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, aka EDS, is a real rare medical condition.
- For explanation, it’s an inherited connective tissue disorder that makes your joints bend farther than they should, have extremely stretchy and fragile skin, and and weakens blood vessels and makes your organs more likely to tear. All symptoms that Bullam describes as having.
Manipulative Bastard

Director Dariau Cygnet

The director of Centrocor.

Affably Evil: He's a Corrupt Corporate Executive for sure, with all of his company's and employee's actions as proof, but he's also a Reasonable Authority Figure who gives Bullam a second chance despite royally screwing up in his eyes.
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Big Fancy House: Owns one on top of The Mountain on Irkalla.
Greed
Infinite Supplies: He's in charge of the company that built The Hexus. He's able to give Bullam an illegally acquired former Navy carrier and two destroyers to help her out in her mission. The cost of the first one is an amount of money even Cygnet and Bullam can't seem to sum up but illustrate that it was astronomical, taking about a decade and a half to complete.
Mean Boss: While he does give Bullam a second chance, he doesn't do it until after he embarasses her in front of a group of Centrocor employees, and he reveals that was just for the entertainment of a Sector Warden's son.
Precision F-Strike: Delivers one in Forgotten Worlds to Bullam.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite Bullam's failure to capture Lanoe, he gives her a second chance.
Cygnet: Don't be fucking stupid. If I fired everyone who ever made a mistake, I wouldn't have any employees left.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: It is highly illegal to refurbish Navy equipment, let alone an entire Navy carrier, but Cygnet doesn't care about that and he doesn't care that it took 16 long years and money ranging in the billions, he wanted a carrier.

Ulliam

The son of a Sector Warden.

Evil Redhead: He’s very uncaring of the fact that he could cost Ashlay Bullam her position and job, something she’s spent a life time trying to achieve.

Captain Shulkin

A former Captain in the Navy, who was discharged for medical reasons.

Attempted Suicide: He tried to kill him and his entire crew by flying into the sun at some point before he's introduced.
Brainwashed and Crazy: He has shades of this in Forgotten Worlds, but he definitely reaches this in "Forbidden Suns".
Blood Knight: The most notable example in the series. The only time he seems to come to life is when there's a battle to be fought.
Colonel Kilgore: To the point that he skirts the line of General Ripper territory.
The Unfettered: There is nothing he will let get in the way of him finding, capturing, and possibly killing Lanoe.
- Except, as Maggs takes advantage of, his Undying Loyalty to the Navy.
Mental Handicap, Moral Deficiency: The Navy did something to him that pretty much made him a zombie unless he's fighting, but more than that, the procedure seemed to also create a sort of moral decay as he's just find with sacrificing troops in order to complete his mission (even though it's a simple capture mission).
Undying Loyalty: To the Navy. To the point that he violently turns on a bunch of mutineers (his fellow crewmen) who were sponsored by the people that hired him to hunt down Lanoe simply because Lanoe had captured the carrier and Lanoe was Navy.

Major Yael

The Batygin Twins

Rhys & Oritt Batygin, the twin leaders of the Centrocor destroyers.

Angsty Surviving Twin: Oritt and his destroyer are killed by the Blue-Blue-White's forces and all Rhys can think about is killing as many as he can.
Coordinated Clothes
Defiant to the End: Rhys.
Identical Twin ID Tag: There's not much difference between them in their physical appearance, except for a slight change in hair.
Identical Twin Mistake: Happens to them more than once. Doesn't help that they look and act identically.
Single-Minded Twins: Can come off this way because they say the same exact thing when talking.
Tag Team Twins: In a space battle kind of way.
Twin Banter: They both say the same exact sentence but sometimes one of them will use a different inflection.
Killed Off for Real: Oritt is killed first and Rhys follows not that long behind him.

Engineer Hollander

Character Death: It's never shown, but Ehta reports that he was one of the casualties in the attempted mutiny.
Killed Offscreen: During the mutiny.
The Mole: Turns out Bullam brought him over to Centrocor's side.
Mauve Shirt: He gets a bit of characterization thoughout the book before being Killed Offscreen in the mutiny.
Pet the Dog: He really does care about Paniet and goes out of his way to make sure he's not caught in the cross fire of the mutiny. Unfortunately, this doesn't save Hollander from dying in said mutiny.
Whatthe Hellisthat Accent

Thiess-Gruppe

One of the bigger multi-planetary commercial/development monopolies and the second introduced in the story.

In General