[This is a reference list. Please skip to chapter 4 if not required. You will always be able to view this list within the index.]
Atwell, Gillian –white Marine – communications specialist
Baker, Doug – Marine colonel – tall, red-haired Caucasian – the senior military commander of the Marines, forty, well built
Carter, Mary – infected during Moonscape. Brilliant astrophysicist who was deputy commander of Moonbase – a forty-year-old woman of Pakistani extraction
Deskov, Mikhail – white Russian Marine sergeant
Dyson, John – white British Cockney commando, short and well built
Flowers, Darren – Afro-Caribbean Marine
Gilby, General – senior US general
Hazel, Pete – Moonbase once – mixed race Dragonstar pilot
Heston, Penny – ISS once. Dragonstar pilot – had an affair with Mark, long before Moonscape – platinum blonde
Huang, Chan – Ming and Dragonstar Pilot, thirty-four
Hudson, Jenny – infected during Moonscape – a diminutive, early-thirties, Korean – in a relationship with Crystal Mitumba
Indlikova, Zoya – white Russian Marine – very athletic
Jones, Vicky – white Marine
Kane, Jack – black operating theatre nurse, jovial nature
Krupin, Andrei – Uspekh and Dragonstar pilot
Li, Lucy – Chinese Marine/commando
Liu, Lien – head of CNSA
MacIntosh, John (Tosh) – infected during Moonscape – senior Moonbase doctor with a background as a surgeon and in general practice. Swarthy, white, about fifty, argumentative
Mackay, Danny – white Marine, hefty
Melopov, Nicholas – head of Roscosmos
Michaels, Dr Bob – head of NASA
Mitumba, Crystal – infected during Moonscape – slim, tall, jet-black woman of Ghanaian origin – geologist – in a relationship with Jenny Hudson
Mesolvic, Vlad – white Russian Marine, hefty with red hair
Mills, Diana – white operating theatre nurse
Mishra, Krishna – Indian descent – brain surgeon – small build – head of the four strong medical team
Mirislov, Alexei – anaesthetist
Morgan, Dave – experienced astronaut who had had two stints at the ISS – white with sandy hair
Noble, Linda nee Fuller – Caucasian, golden blonde hair – fashion model figure – escaped with Mark Noble at the end of Moonscape – now married to him – grounded as expecting a child
Noble, Mark – tall, mid-thirties, medium build with dark wavy hair – senior geologist and now Moonbase commander – escaped with Linda Fuller at the end of Moonscape – married to her. This novel series is his story.
Olsson, Ludvic – white Russian Uspekh and Dragonstar pilot, athletic
Robertson, Mike – white Marine captain, deputy to Doug Baker
Smith, Blake – infected during Moonscape – he had been Moonbase commander – white, bad tempered
Stott, Jimmy – white Marine good-looking, tall and fit.
Stanbury, Anna – short white brunette with huge blue eyes. Had been at Moonbase prior to the Moonscape novel and had also had a short period as commander – senior Orion and Dragonstar pilot
Volkov, Ivan – white Russian Marine
Wang, Chi – experienced astronaut and both Ming and Dragonstar pilot – senior Chinese astronaut
Weston, Neil – mission director at NASA
Williams, Roy – the first infected astronaut during Moonscape – geologist – best friend and colleague of Mark Noble – white
Wright, Bill – crew Dragon pilot – heavily built, British commando, Afro-Caribbean black man designated military advisor to Mark
Zhao, Ai – Chinese Marine
Buggy one computer: Selena
Buggy two computer: Bedford
Buggy three computer: Cavor