Norfolk

  Grant Kavanagh Owner of Cricklade estate

  Marjorie Kavanagh Grant’s wife

  Genevieve Kavanagh Marjorie and Grant’s daughter

  Luca Comar Grant Kavanagh’s possessor

  Susannah Marjorie Kavanagh’s possessor

  Mrs. Charlsworth Kavanagh sisters’ nanny

  Mr. Butterworth Cricklade estate manager

  Carmitha Romany

  William Elphinstone Trainee farm manager, Cricklade

  Fletcher Christian Possessor

  Marcella Rye Possessor, Colsterworth council officer

  Johan Mr. Butterworth’s possessor

  Celina Hewson Louise’s aunt

  Roberto Hewson Louise’s cousin

  Bruce Spanton Marauder

  Véronique Olive Fenchurch’s possessor

  Kenneth Kavanagh Merchant

  Lalonde

  Powel Manani IVET supervisor

  Lawrence Dillon IVET

  Jackson Geal IVET

  Ann IVET

  Scott Williams IVET

  Loren Skibbow Colonist

  Marie Skibbow Colonist, Gerald’s daughter

  Paula Kava Colonist, Gerald’s daughter

  Ruth Hilton Colonist, didactic imprint specialist

  Jay Hilton Colonist, Ruth’s daughter

  Father Horst Elwes Colonist, priest

  Colin Rexrew Governor

  Terrance Smith Governor’s executive aide

  Candace Elford Chief Sheriff

  Lieutenant Commander Kelven Solanki Confederation Navy

  Lori Edenist Intelligence agent

  Darcy Edenist Intelligence agent

  Maki Grutter Lalonde Development Company employee

  Jenny Harris ESA lieutenant

  Rai Molvi Colonist, Aberdale council leader

  Rosemary Lambourne Captain of the Swithland

  Karl Lambourne Rosemary’s son, crew-member of the Swithland

  Len Buchannan Captain of the Coogan

  Gail Buchannan Len’s wife

  Laton Serpent, in exile on Lalonde

  Camilla Laton’s daughter

  Yuri Wilkin Deputy

  Mansing Sheriff

  Graeme Nicholson Rover reporter

  Lieutenant Murphy Hewlett Confederation Navy Marine

  Reza Malin Mercenary, team leader

  Pat Halahan Mercenary

  Sewell Mercenary

  Jalal Mercenary

  Theo Connal Mercenary, scout

  Sal Young Mercenary

  Ariadne Mercenary

  Shaun Wallace Possessor

  Chas Paske Mercenary

  Atlantis

  Eysk Fishing family chief

  Mosul Eysk’s son

  Ombey

  Ralph Hiltch ESA Head of Station, Lalonde, and General of the Liberation army

  Cathal Fitzgerald Ralph’s deputy

  Dean Folan ESA G66 division

  Will Danza ESA G66 division

  Kirsten Saldana Princess of Ombey

  Roche Skark ESA Director

  Jannike Dermot ISA Director

  Landon McCullock Police commissioner

  Diana Tiernan Police Technology Division chief

  Admiral Farquar Commander, Royal Navy, Ombey

  Captain Nelson Akroid Armed Tactical Squad

  Finnuala O’Meara Rover reporter, based in Exnall

  Hugh Rosler DataAxis technician, Kiint observer

  Tim Beard Rover reporter

  Neville Latham Exnall’s chief inspector

  Colonel Janne Palmer Royal Marine

  Annette Ekelund Possessor, Mortonridge defender

  Hoi Son Possessor, Mortonridge defender

  Devlin Possessor, Mortonridge defender

  Milne Possessor, Mortonridge defender

  Sinon Liberation army sergeant

  Choma Liberation army sergeant

  Elena Duncan Liberation army mercenary, boosted

  Dr. Riley Dobbs Royal Navy personality debrief psychology expert

  Jansen Kovak Royal Navy Medical Institute nurse

  Moyo Possessor

  Stephanie Ash Possessor

  Cochrane Possessor

  Rana Possessor

  Tina Sudol Possessor

  McPhee Possessor

  Franklin Possessor

  Mixi Penrice Petty criminal

  New California

  Jezzibella Mood Fantasy artist Leroy OctaviusJezzibella’s manager

  Libby Jezzibella’s dermal technology expert

  Al Capone Brad Lovegrove’s possessor

  Avram Harwood III Mayor of San Angeles

  Emmet Mordden Organization lieutenant

  Silvano Richmann Organization lieutenant

  Mickey Pileggi Organization lieutenant

  Patricia Mangano Organization lieutenant

  Gus Remar Rover reporter

  Lieutenant Commander Kingsley Pryor Confederation Navy

  Webster Pryor Kingsley’s son, hostage

  Luigi Balsamo Commander, Organization fleet

  Cameron Leung Possessor of the blackhawk

  Zahan Oscar Kearn Captain of the Organization frigate Urschel

  Bernhard Allsop Possessor

  Kulu

  Alastair II The King

  Simon Blake, Duke of Salion Chairman, Security Commission

  Lord Kelman Mountjoy Foreign Office Minister

  Lady Phillipa Oshin Prime Minister

  Admiral Lavaquar Defense Chief

  Prince Howard President of the Kulu Corporation

  Prince Noton Ex-President of the Kulu Corporation

  Nyvan

  Gelai Possessor, Garissa genocide victim

  Ngong Possessor, Garissa genocide victim

  Omain Possessor, Garissa genocide victim

  Richard Keaton Data security expert and Kiint observer

  Baranovich Possessor, Organization sympathizer

  Adrian Redway ESA Head of Station

  Earth

  Banneth Light Bringer in the sect of the High Magus of Edmonton

  Andy Behoo Sellrat, Jude’s eworld, London

  Ivanov Robson Private detective, London

  Brent Roi Detective, Halo police

  Courtney Edmonton sect acolyte

  Billy-Joe Edmonton sect acolyte

  Charles Filton-Asquith West Europe supervisor, B7

  Others

  The Confederation

  Olton Haaker Assembly President

  Jeeta Anwar Chief presidential aide

  Mae Ortlieb Presidential science aide

  Cayeaux Edenist Ambassador

  Sir Maurice Hall Kulu Kingdom Ambassador

  Rittagu-FHU Tyrathca Ambassador

  The Kiint Home System

  Tracy Dean Observer

  The Edenists

  Wing-Tsit Chong Edenism’s Founder

  Athene Syrinx’s mother

  Astor Ambassador to the Kulu Kingdom

  Sinon Syrinx’s father

  The Mosdva

  Quantook-LOU Distributor of resources, dominion of Anthi-CL

  The Tyrathca

  Baulona-PWM Breeder, electronics regulator

  Waboto-YAU Breeder, mediator for Coastuc-RT Seven

  Seven: Timeline

  2020 Clavius base established. Mining of Lunar subcrustal resources starts.

  2037 Beginning of large-scale geneering on humans; improvement to immunology system, eradication of appendix, organ efficiency increased.

  2041 First deuterium-fueled fusion stations built, inefficient and expensive.

  2044 Christian reunification.

  2047 First asteroid capture mission. Beginning of Earth’s O’Neill Halo.

  2049 Quasi-sentient bitek animals employed as servitors.

  2055 Jupiter mission.

  2055 Lunar cities granted independence from founding companies.

  2057 Ceres asteroid settlement founded.

  2058 Affinity symbiont neurons developed by Wing-Tsit Chong, providing control over anim
als and bitek constructs.

  2064 Multinational industrial consortium JSKP (Jovian Sky Power Corporation) begins mining Jupiter’s atmosphere for He3 using aerostat factories.

  2064 Islamic secular unification.

  2067 Fusion stations begin to use He3 as fuel.

  2069 Affinity bond gene spliced into human DNA.

  2075 JSKP germinates Eden, a bitek habitat in orbit around Jupiter, with UN protectorate status.

  2077 New Kong asteroid begins FTL stardrive research project.

  2085 Eden opened for habitation.

  2086 Habitat Pallas germinated in Jupiter orbit.

  2090 Wing-Tsit Chong dies, and transfers his memories to Eden’s neural strata. Start of Edenist culture. Eden and Pallas declare independence from UN. Launch buy-out of JSKP shares. Pope Eleanor excommunicates all Christians with affinity gene. Exodus of affinity-capable humans to Eden. Effective end of bitek industry on Earth.

  2091 Lunar referendum to terraform Mars.

  2094 Edenists begin exowomb breeding program coupled with extensive geneering improvement to embryos, tripling their population over a decade.

  2103 Earth’s national governments consolidate into Govcentral.

  2103 Thoth base established on Mars.

  2107 Govcentral jurisdiction extended to cover O’Neill Halo.

  2115 First instantaneous translation by New Kong spaceship, Earth to Mars.

  2118 Mission to Proxima Centauri.

  2123 Terracompatible planet found at Ross 154.

  2125 Ross 154 planet named Felicity, first multiethnic colonists arrive.

  2125–2130 Four new terracompatible planets discovered. Multiethnic colonies founded.

  2131 Edenists germinate Perseus in orbit around Ross 154 gas giant, begin He3 mining.

  2131–2205 One hundred and thirty terracompatible planets discovered. Massive starship-building program initiated in O’Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2,000,000 a week in 2160: Great Dispersal. Civil conflict on some early multiethnic colonies. Individual Govcentral states sponsor ethnic-streaming colonies. Edenists expand their He3 mining enterprise to every inhabited star system with a gas giant.

  2139 Asteroid Braun impacts on Mars.

  2180 First orbital tower built on Earth.

  2205 Antimatter production station built in orbit around sun by Govcentral in an attempt to break the Edenist energy monopoly.

  2208 First antimatter drive starships operational.

  2210 Richard Saldana transports all of New Kong’s industrial facilities from the O’Neill Halo to an asteroid orbiting Kulu. He claims independence for the Kulu star system, founds Christian-only colony, and begins to mine He3 from the system’s gas giant.

  2218 First voidhawk gestated, a bitek starship designed by Edenists.

  2225 Establishment of one hundred voidhawk families. Habitats Romulus and Remus germinated in Saturn orbit to serve as voidhawk bases.

  2232 Conflict at Jupiter’s trailing Trojan asteroid cluster between Belt Alliance ships and an O’Neill Halo company hydrocarbon refinery. Antimatter used as a weapon; 27,000 people killed.

  2238 Treaty of Deimos, outlawing production and use of antimatter in the Sol system, signed by Govcentral, Lunar nation, asteroid alliance, and Edenists. Antimatter stations abandoned and dismantled.

  2240 Coronation of Gerrald Saldana as King of Kulu. Foundation of Saldana dynasty.

  2267–2270 Eight separate skirmishes involving use of antimatter among colony worlds. 13,000,000 killed.

  2271 Avon summit between all planetary leaders. Treaty of Avon, banning the manufacture and use of antimatter throughout inhabited space. Formation of Human Confederation to police agreement. Construction of Confederation Navy begins.

  2300 Confederation expanded to include Edenists.

  2301 First Contact. Jiciro race discovered, a pre-technology civilization. System quarantined by Confederation to avoid cultural contamination.

  2310 First ice asteroid impact on Mars.

  2330 First blackhawks gestated at Valisk, independent habitat.

  2350 War between Novska and Hilversum. Novska bombed with antimatter. Confederation Navy prevents retaliatory strike against Hilversum.

  2356 Kiint homeworld discovered.

  2357 Kiint join Confederation as “observers.”

  2360 A voidhawk scout discovers Atlantis.

  2371 Edenists colonize Atlantis.

  2395 Tyrathca colony world discovered.

  2402 Tyrathca join Confederation.

  2420 Kulu scoutship discovers Ruin Ring.

  2428 Bitek habitat Tranquillity germinated by Crown Prince Michael Saldana, orbiting above Ruin Ring.

  2432 Prince Michael’s son, Maurice, geneered with affinity. Kulu abdication crisis. Coronation of Lukas Saldana. Prince Michael exiled.

  2550 Mars declared habitable by Terraforming office.

  2580 Dorado asteroids discovered around Tunja, claimed by both Garissa and Omuta.

  2581 Omuta mercenary fleet drops twelve antimatter planet-busters on Garissa, planet rendered uninhabitable. Confederation imposes thirty-year sanction against Omuta, prohibiting any interstellar trade or transport. Blockage enforced by Confederation Navy.

  2582 Colony established on Lalonde.

  About the Author

  PETER F. HAMILTON was born in Rutland, England, in 1960 and still lives near Rutland Water. He began writing in 1987 and has published short stories in a number of magazines and anthologies. His books include Fallen Dragon, the Greg Mandel novels: Mindstar Rising, A Quantum Murder, and The Nano Flower; A Second Chance at Eden (a collection of short stories set in the universe of The Reality Dysfunction) and the epic Night’s Dawn trilogy, which includes The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. Hamilton is working on his next novel.

  This ePub editon v1.0 by Dead^Man Nov, 2010.

 


 

  Peter F. Hamilton, The Confederation Handbook

 


 

 
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