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Glenlyon
Rob Geary
Robert "Rob" Geary is a former lieutenant of the Alfar Space Navy, who immigrated to Glenlyon and made it his home. He plays a crucial role in defending Glenlyon from external aggression.
- The Captain: Regardless of his actual rank, he spends much of the trilogy in command of a ship (either Squall or Saber).
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite everything he's done for Glenlyon, politics end up screwing him over.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: In Ascendant, Ninja notes that Rob is haunted by the events of Vanguard.
Lyn Geary
Lyn "Ninja" Geary (née Meltzer) is a former petty officer third class of the Alfar Space Navy, who immigrated to Glenlyon and settled down. She runs a consulting firm and is a master hacker. Ninja married Rob Geary, whom she knew at Alfar, and gave birth to two children.
- Love Interest: To Rob Geary. She makes the first move by suggesting they have some fun on her cot before a battle. He's taken aback and initially declines as, at the time, he's her superior officer. After that, though, they start a relationship.
- Playful Hacker: Ninja is the best hacker on Glenlyon and, quite possibly, was one on Alfar before her discharge from the military.
- Virtual Ghost: In Boundless, it turns out that Ninja has programmed the computers in the Geary mansion to glitch at random intervals. Many suspect that she might have programmed a part of her personality into the system. This also serves as a Trust Password between John and Michael, since only a Geary would know about it.
Mele Darcy
Mele Darcy is a former marine from one of the Old Colonies. She ends up on Glenlyon after getting into a fight aboard a transport ship and helps form the colony's first marine unit.
- Space Marine: Since she's the only actual space marine on Glenlyon, she's tasked with forming the first marine units. This results in her frequently butting heads with Colonel Menziwa of Glenlyon's ground forces. Menziwa keeps trying to assert her authority over Mele, even though the marines are supposed to be a completely separate branch.
Leigh Camagan
Leigh Camagan is a member of Glenlyon's council. She is the only councilmember sympathetic to Rob and Mele throughout the trilogy.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She is the only one supporting Rob and Mele since the beginning and opposes their demotions at the end of book 1.
Chisholm
Chisholm is the Council President of Glenlyon throughout the trilogy. She alternates between supporting Rob and Mele and condemning them for some slight or other.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She evolves into a wise and benevolent leader as the trilogy goes on.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In a sense. While she was around from the beginning of the trilogy, it feels largely like she became a Reasonable Authority Figure in order to filll Camagan's role as Rob's ally on the council after Camagan was Put on a Bus by going on a diplomatic mission to Earth.
Council Member Kim
- Bait the Dog: Initially comes across as the Only Sane Man of the council, having been Properly Paranoid about invaders and wanting to spend more money on warships to defend the colony, as well as voting for a lot of stuff that Rob proposed. At the end of the first book though, he's proves to be an Ungrateful Bastard, as mentioned on the main page, and shows no hesitation in sacrificing Rob's career in order to get those new warships, and has become even worse by the third book.
- Expy: By the end of the series, he's being described in almost exactly the same terms as Senator Costa from the original series; as a War Hawk whose support for the military doesn't translate into concern for its people or a willingness to risk his own neck.
- War Hawk: His main characteristic. Initially, it's portrayed as positive and reasonable in the face of the inaction of his peers, but later on, it isn't.
Danielle Martell
- Defector from Decadence: She is a former mercenary attacking Glenylon under false pretenses, then ended up defecting and becoming one of their main defenders.
Glenylon Marines (Duncan, Lamar, Yoshida, Giddings, Buckland, etc.)
- Deadly Deferred Conversation: A variant is used when Lamar gets a dangerous assignment, Yoshida references this by noting that she owes him a twenty he loaned her and he doubts she'll live to pay it back now, although both of them ultimately survive.
- Determinator: They develop a reputation for fighting even through injuries.
- Hidden Depths: Private Penny Lamar likes to build model shuttles as a hobby and is pretty good at it.
- Real Men Love Jesus: Private Buckland is a believer in the living stars and wants to be buried in space if/when he dies.
- Playful Hacker: Giddings is Darcy's "one-man hack-and-crack team".
- Sacrificial Lion: Duncan, the only decent recruit of the initial bunch serves as Mele's righthand man for a while before dying in a boarding party.
Lieutenant Vicki Shen
An officer from Earth who becomes Rob's second-in-command from The Genesis Fleet: Ascendant onward.
- Promotion, Not Punishment: Vicki thinks she's about to get dismissed from her command when Rob talks about her reluctance to adhere to the old Earth Navy checklists. Actually, he views those checklists as bothersome and worthless and is complimenting her initiative in disregarding them before promoting her to be his executive officer.
- Rank Up: She goes from being The Engineer to Rob's executive officer after the officers above her are fired by Rob for their own flaws or are killed due to Commodore Hopkins' incompetence
Council Member Odom
An aggravating and dovish member of the Glenlyon council.
- Straw Civilian: With a dose of Sleazy Politician. He is a suicidally pacifistic politician who obstructs necessary military actions at every turn, is an Ungrateful Bastard whenever Rob does something right, and is also a coward who tries to avoid risking his own career when he's asked to make battlefield decisions.
Commodore Erik Hopkins
The initial commander of Glenlyon's new fleet.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: He's technically a navy commander, but he's a peacetime officer who is obsessed with following regulations even when they clearly make no sense. Following precise, poorly-drafted checklists about what to do in battle is his sole concern and priority even in battle, and it gets a lot of people killed.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies within two or three pages of being introduced.
Kosatka
Lochan Nakamura
Lochan Nakamura is a failed businessman/politician from one of the Old Colonies, who immigrates to Kosatka in hope of starting a new life.
- Failure Hero: Believes himself to be, even after numerous successes on Kosatka. This is largely because he has indeed failed at pretty much everything until his arrival to Kosatka: his marriage, his business, his political career. Fully subverted at the end, as he ends up being a key figure in the formation of The Alliance.
- Our Founder: Zigzagged, in that he was just a trade delegate, but used his proxy votes, and his ability at speechmaking, to get representatives of the six founding Alliance systems to agree to a mutual defense and trade agreement, and send warships to defend Kostaka and Glenlyon from invaders, and is remembered for his deeds many generations later.
Carmen Ochoa
Carmen Ochoa is an expert in conflict resolution from Old Earth, although she is actually originally from Mars, a fact that she usually tries to hide.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: manages to become a key figure in Kostaka's government by falsely implying that she was sent from Earth to help them.
- Guile Hero: She can be manipulative on occasion, particularly when trying to convince Martian mercenaries to make a Heel–Face Turn, or when she manipulates Intelligence Director Redman into revealing that she's been spying on their superiors.
- Maiden Name Debate: She chooses to keep her last name after marrying Dominic Desjani, although they do jokingly argue whose last name their children will have.
- Spicy Latina: Downplayed. While she definitely has some of the traits (and a clearly Hispanic name), they mostly come from her being born on Mars.
Dominic Desjani
Dominic Desjani is an officer in the Kosatka ground forces. He ends up marrying Carmen Ochoa.
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses a part of his leg during the fighting but gets a prosthetic and will likely get his leg regrown.
- Love Interest: He's romantically involved with Carmen Ochoa.
Captain Pyotr Derian
Captain of the Shark, one of Kostaka's warships.
- Bothering by the Book: He makes a show of using Martial Law to draft the Glenlyon marines into the Kostaka militia (with Darcy's secret support) to justify the technically unauthorized presence of foreign soldiers in battle on Kostaka's space station.
- Good Is Not Soft: He is a moral, loyal, genial man who once worries himself with how quick he is to consider the immediate use of lethal weapons against Scatha.
First Minister Hofer
- Big Good: Hw is the supportive superiors of the heroes of the Kostaka plot line.
- Real Men Love Jesus: Hofer talks to his ancestors when he feels he needs guidance.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's happy to have good advisors, listens to them and tends to make decisions that work out better for everyone.
Majority Leader Cleon Ottone
- Nice Guy: He's welcoming and accommodating to Lochan and Carmen.
- Put on a Bus: His term ended at some point during the Time Skip.
- Slave to PR: It never causes him to interfere Carmen's efforts, or make any morally questionable decisions, but he does consider a lot of action from the viewpoint of how the common people will see them.
Safety Coordinator Sazorky
- Noble Bigot: She shares in some of the Fantastic Racism towards Mars (although she isn't outspoken about it), but she gets over it after Carmen proves herself, and is dedicated to the planets safety.
- The Paranoiac: She is a very suspicious and guarded person, which does suit her job as the head of the planets security force.
Jayne Redman
An intelligence officer who is hired by the Kostaka government to run their new security agency.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She does voice some valid suspicions about whether it's Too Good to Be True that the self-centered president of Eire is part of a benevolent new alliance. She's wrong, but it's a less unreasonable belief than most of what comes out of her mouth.
- Token Evil Teammate: She is a bigoted woman who seems to only care about her own power and has little in common with her more heroic fellow Kostaka characters (besides Major Brazos, who's dead by the time she appears).
Lieutenant John Freeman
A Kostaka militia lieutenant who takes part in a space battle in Ascendant.
- The Chains of Commanding: The deaths of many of his men cause him to act like he's "in as much pain as if he'd suffered physical wounds."
- Mr. Exposition: He briefs Mele on a lot on the layout of the battle and the enemy positions.
- Sole Survivor: He's the only one of the four Kostaka military officers to survive the space station battle.
Major Brazos
An ex-cop and the head of the militia on Kostaka's space station.
- Hold the Line: He dies fighting off invaders at the front of his troops, buying time for his men to retreat. This is played less sympathetically than usual though, as the retreat is only necessary due to Brazos's extreme incompetence and Mele suspects that his awareness of his failures caused him to commit Suicide by Cop instead of just admitting that he was in over his head.
- Inter-Service Rivalry: He hates working with Marines due to how they caused trouble on shore leave when he was a cop, and he refuses to change that opinion no matter how much help they provide.
- The Neidermeyer: He's an incompetent and abrasive officer who values his own sense of authority over the welfare of his men.
Catalan
Ross Chen
Catalan' defense Minister
- Accidental Hero: In a sense, if he hadn't sent Freya Morgan to talk to her father then she wouldn't have met Lochan, Lochan might not have gotten an audience from Donal Morgan, and the Alliance would have probably never been formed.
- Head-in-the-Sand Management: Averted. While initially dismissive of his sole warship commander warning him about the threat Scatha and her allies pose, he actually does consider her words, realize she's probably right, and ultimately send Freya Morgan to Eire (although that last decision was helped by an actual blockade being made).
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: He's enchanted with the beauty and potential of Catalan and would rather spend money on developing it into a paradise for the new colonists than on warships and soldiers, but he's realistic enough to recognize that same promise of wealth will also likely attract those who want to Rape, Pillage, and Burn Catalan.
Freya Morgan
Freya Morgan is Catalan's envoy to Eire. Freya is originally from Eire and is the estranged daughter of Eire's Prime Minister Donal Morgan.
- Ambadassador: Freya is sent by her system on a diplomatic mission and quickly proves her resourcefulness and ability to kill aggressors in a conflict with Space Pirates.
- White Sheep: Freya's father, unseen brother, and her brother's possible descendants Colonel Morgan and Colonel Malin are all ruthless and/or selfish people, while Freya has a noble and altruistic personality.
Eire
Brigit Kelly
Brigit Kelly is Eire's official representative on Kosatka. She has indicated her interest in Lochan Nakamura. She is also a close friend to Freya Morgan.
- Love Interest: She becomes Lochan Nakamura's potential life partner as they work together.
Donal Morgan
The prime minster of Eire, and Freya's father.
- It's All About Me: He is very prideful and lets his ego and ambition dominate his decisions. The heroes work around this by letting him see how the villains' actions have already been an attack on his prestige and the sovereignty of his world.
- Minor Major Character: He commands the largest, strongest, and most stable government of the six founding systems of the Alliance and authorizes the first joint mission between warships of different systems, but he only physically appears in one chapter.
