by gerald hall
Colonel Mitchell Beauchamp – Commander of Martian Interplanetary Vessel Excaliber.
Patrick Moorhead – Polymath and Mars Colonist
Brigadier General Dalir Rahimi – Commander: First Persian Armored Division and close military advisor to Persian President Ghorbani
Behnam Ghobani – President of the Republic of Persia and successor to President Sanjar Khadem.
Melanie Knox – Longtime friend of Deborah Marcum and wife to former sheriff Jeffrey Knox
Benjamin and Lisette Barnes – Owners and managers of Barnes Manufacturing
Senator Colin Blackwood - Member of the Black Caucus in the Western Republic’s Senate
Charles Austin – Progressive Party Chairman in the Western Republic
Nathan Marcum – Deborah’s adoptive brother, living in Gastonia, now a lieutenant colonel in the North Carolina Army National Guard
Nancy Marcum – Nathan Marcum’s twin sister.
Doctor Karen Pruitt – NASA administrator after the attack on the Kennedy Space Center
Ryan Adams – Director of Central Intelligence
Lisa Astor – Systems Engineer at Hebes Chasma
Charles Winniford – First Officer of the Martian Colony Ship Courageous
Colonel Hassan al Bari – Miliary Liaison to Mohammad al Hussain Sultani
Kelly Travis – Polymath, Nurse Practitioner and biologist at Hebes Chasma
Vice President Allison Harper – Roger Blackmon’s Vice President and eventually his successor
Cyrus Baraghani – Persian Minister for Space Operations
Behrouz and Elaheh Mahdavi, Farzin and Esther Rajaei, Kaveh and Fairuza Pashaei – Persian candidates to go to the Mars Colony
Colonel Amit Chaudhary – Indian Army officer working in Persia after the Indo-Pakistani nuclear conflict
Doctor Heather Armstrong – Senior NASA civilian on Space Station Freedom
Emerson Thomas – NASA analyst monitoring STEREO II Solar Observation Satellites
Alice Foster – Polymath at Hebes Chasma
Emir Suparman Asegaff – Leader of the Pacific Caliphate
Adi Alatas – Aide de Camp to Pacific Caliphate leader Emir Suparman Asegaff
Julia Cannon – Polymath at Hebes Chasma
Angela Hopkins – Polymath, geneticist, biomechanical engineer and horticultural specialist at Hebes Chasma but originally from Baltimore.
Aaron Marcum: Deborah’s step brother , married Miriam Clark, polymath
Mitchell Beauchamp: Senior Astronaut and pilot of Martian interplanetary transport (wife Elizabeth)
Lieutenant General Hernandez – Alliance Joint Chief of Staff, formerly US Army
Dr. Sherilyn Combs: Polymath
Jeremy Woodward: Polymath
Chad Andrews: Member of the Ashley Militia
Curtis Beauchamp: Polymath
Andrew Sykes: Polymath
Michael Jannison: Polymath