Alaska/Fox Valley Environmental Research Station
VALERIE CONROY—Materials control assistant, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
JENNIFER DEWITT—Assembly specialist, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
TORU KAWABATA—Director, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
LATOYA MONTANA—Chemical engineer, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
PHAT NYANG—Program and system analyst, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
EILENE STROMKI—Sled dog racer and Elizabeth Hawthorne’s guide.
VINCE WALTERS—Assistant Director, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
MARISSA WELLING—Physical chemist, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
LAWRENCE WHITEY—Engineer, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
MARGARET WINGLET (WINGS)—Executive assistant, Fox Valley Environmental Research Station.
Washington, D.C.
JOEL BASS—Secretary of State, former U.N. ambassador, former governor of California.
WILLAMINA (WILLA) BROWN—Vice President, former Ohio State University professor of economics. MASON CLARK—Chief of Staff for President Pearl.
JOHN FLANNERY—Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, general, army, former Green Beret and tank commander.
ELIZABETH HAWTHORNE—Former White House Chief of Staff, defense lobbyist for Grayson, Weinert, and Goldfarb.
MARLIESS KRUPP—Director, Homeland Security, former deputy director of the FBI, attorney general of Idaho.
COURTNEY (COURT) LEFAVRE—Counsel to the president.
CAROLINE MAUCK—Director of the CIA, former ambassador to England, and former U.S. Attorney General under the Pasternak administration.
JARED PEARL—President, former governor of Florida.
HONOR PERKINS—Secretary of Defense, general, former candidate for president.
BILL RAWLINS—Partner at Grayson, Weinert, and Goldfarb, specializing in defense lobbying.
Yucatan Team
MITCH HOPE—Dinosaur ranger, temporarily assigned to the Office of Security Science.
JOSE IBARRA—Dinosaur ranger, former neighbor of Mariel Weatherby, temporarily assigned to the Office of Security Science.
CARROLLEE CHEN-SLATER-PUGLISI—Special investigator, Office of Security Science, married to Emmett.
ROBERT RIPMAN—Dinosaur hunter, guide, poacher, childhood friend of John Roberts.
JOHN ROBERTS—Field investigator, Office of Security Science, childhood friend of Robert Ripman.
NIKKI RYDEN—Friend of Kenny Randall, civilian specialist, Office of Security Science.
MARION WAYNE—Senior dinosaur ranger, temporarily assigned to the Office of Security Science.
Moon Team
REGINA (REGGIE) BATES—Associate Director, Office of Security Science, physician, astrophysicist.
NICK PAULSON—Director, Office of Security Science.
ROSA PEREZ—Experimental air and spacecraft navigator and pilot, assigned to Area 51, Groom Lake, Nevada.
EMMETT PUGLISI—Field investigator, astrophysicist, cocreator of the Randall-Puglisi time quilt model, married to Carrollee.
JONATHAN SMITH—Aurora pilot, operating out of Area 51, Groom Lake, Nevada.
PHIL YAMAMOTO—Senior programming specialist, Office of Security Science.
Eco-terrorists
WINIFRED (CHIPMUNK) JOHNSON—Defender of the environment, shares the temple of her body with the soul of a chipmunk.
RAMONA (STAR) KOSLOWSKI—Environmental activist, tree sitter, follower of Vince Walters.
Space Station
NEV RHYAKOV—Cosmonaut, fond of American rock-and-roll oldies.
Russian Special Forces
ANATOLE (ANDY) BARANOV—Captain, Spetsnaz (Russian Special Forces), Weapons Recovery Unit.
LEONID (LEO) IVANOV—Senior sergeant, Spetsnaz, scout, Weapons Recovery Unit.
IVAN MORTIKOV—Security systems specialist, Spetsnaz, Weapons Recovery Unit.
KARL PETROV—Sergeant, Spetsnaz, Weapons Recovery Unit.
ALEKSANDER PROSOL—Spetsnaz, Weapons Recovery Unit. BORIS SMIRNOV—Spetsnaz, Weapons Recovery Unit.