Alessandra Baron
Names: Alessandra BaronAlessandraBaron
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 7 (SIX)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 11Alessandra Baron is a news presenter in a studio on Augusta, covering the attack and warning nobody would survive if one Avenger got in.
- Ch 11Alessandra Baron narrates the live news broadcast of the attack on the assembly platform.
- Ch 16Alessandra Baron is a reporter who secured an exclusive interview with Nigel Sheldon and pressed him about the mission's disappointing results.
- Ch 22Alessandra hosts a haughty satirical show that criticizes but is constructive about nothing, according to Mark.
- Ch 24Celebrity host who ordered her reporter Mellanie to seduce Campbell Sheldon for information on navy construction and budget.
- Ch 24Baron is a reporter who questioned Oscar about why the Second Chance, with FTL, never circled back to check on its crewmates.
- Ch 25Alessandra wants a follow-up report on whether Randtown residents have renounced their antihuman stance, and is planning further coverage.
- Ch 25Alessandra is a presenter anchoring live coverage of the attacks from Augusta, hiding her unease behind a professional manner.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 2A presenter whose show mocked navy intelligence over the LA Galactic killing and hinted the killer was linked to the Burnelli murder.
- Ch 4Alessandra Baron attended the wedding and kept away from Michelangelo throughout the reception.
- Ch 5Alessandra Baron is a Starflyer agent who covered up irregularities in the Cox Charity, which funded Dudley Bose's observation.
- Ch 5Baron is Mellanie's former boss and the chief cheerleader against the navy; Mellanie believes she is part of the Starflyer's agenda.
- Ch 5Baron has her own team of webheads who altered Earth's official financial records undetected.
- Ch 6Baron sends and receives heavy encrypted traffic protected by a webhead skilled enough to backtrack Paul, suggesting she hides something serious.
- Ch 13Mellanie names Alessandra Baron as a Starflyer agent.
- Ch 13Alessandra Baron's interview show undermines confidence in the navy and authority, in Alic's view.
- Ch 13Isabella remembers Baron as a Starflyer agent who had Isabella hide the New York lawyers when Mellanie's team investigated them.
- Ch 16Alessandra Baron is believed to be a Starflyer agent; her penthouse atop a sixty-five-story Salamanca skyscraper is about to be raided, with two other possible agents inside.
- Ch 17Doi's former rival Alessandra Baron was killed by Senate Security during an attempted arrest over a classified allegation.
Connections
- has memberMellanie Rescoraiaffiliate reporter and lover
- ally ofBunnyproducer of her show
- ally ofStarflyeralleged by Mellanie to work for it
- enemy ofMellanie RescoraiMellanie believes Baron is a Starflyer agent
- member ofStarflyeragent of
- related toMellanie RescoraiMellanie's former boss
- related toMarlon Simmondshired indirectly via her network to kill Paul
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 11Second Chance escapes the platform
The Second Chance opens the platform shell and fires plasma rockets, fleeing as the gateway field ruptures. The spaceplanes then destroy the platform.
- Book 1 · Ch 16Nigel Sheldon's interview
Mark watches Nigel Sheldon defend Captain Kime and the mission and call for a return mission with multiple ships, answering Alessandra Baron's criticisms.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Mark humiliated on Alessandra Baron's show
At the Phoenix bar, Mark discovers the reporter he spoke to was Mellanie Rescorai, whose edited interview portrays him as a backward, antihuman simpleton. Messages of abuse flood in.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Murielle's engagement party
Justine hosts a 1950s-themed engagement party for Murielle and Starral at Tulip Mansion despite Thompson's murder, greeting guests including Estella, Alessandra and Mellanie.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Alessandra assigns Mellanie to Campbell Sheldon
Alessandra instructs Mellanie to seduce Campbell Sheldon for navy information; then they notice Paula Myo at the party and Alessandra grows curious.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Dudley's outburst and Oscar's gaffe
At the welcome-back event Dudley denounces the Second Chance crew for abandoning him. Pressed by Baron, Oscar angrily says Bose screwed up and nobody wanted him aboard, causing a media uproar.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Evacuation order and Prime landing
Simon announces an urgent convoy to the Highmarsh after Mellanie warns the aliens are coming; Prime ships then descend through the clouds over the Trine'ba, and her feed cuts out.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Paris office tensions
A day later, in Paris, Renne and Tarlo discuss Baron's leak and learn that their boss is watching all case data.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Mellanie confronts Paula Myo
Mellanie visits Paula in Paris and tells her about the Starflyer, the fraudulent Cox charity and Baron. Paula is noncommittal, says she'll investigate, and asks Mellanie to come to her, not the media, with proof.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Mellanie recruits Paul
Mellanie persuades the disgraced hacker Paul to run an observation routine on Alessandra Baron by telling him the Starflyer is real and that Baron is involved.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Paula Myo recruits Renne's help
Paula tells Renne that Alessandra Baron is a Starflyer agent and asks her to research Isabella's background, while secretly having Renne monitored to see whom she contacts.