Anna
Names: AnnaMaryAnna Tarlo
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 11 (TEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 11Anna, with gold OCtattoos, efficiently organizes technicians to seal the emergency airlocks and form damage crews aboard the Second Chance.
- Ch 11Anna works with Wilson at their command post, rerouting power from the ship to reinforce the platform's force field generator.
- Ch 12Anna is a young crew member of the Second Chance with a new job, single, who sleeps with Wilson.
- Ch 12Anna works on the starship project and looked up Wilson's Ulysses history; she was shaken by being attacked the day before.
- Ch 13Anna is Wilson's partner and a crew member; she dislikes Dudley Bose and raises awkward questions about military preparedness at the party.
- Ch 15Anna is Wilson's casual partner, known to the whole crew, and serves as pilot/sensor operator who takes bridge duties very seriously.
- Ch 15Anna is Wilson's partner, who comforts him about his anxiety over the barrier.
- Ch 15Anna pilots the Galileo satellites into the Dark Fortress and is in a relationship with Wilson, sharing his cabin.
- Ch 15Anna runs the sensor department, is in a relationship with Wilson, and suggests simply contacting the aliens.
- Ch 15Anna discovered the rock and named it the Watchtower, imagining it as an ancient imperial garrison fort watching for threats.
- Ch 21Wilson Kime's executive officer, she is a stickler for protocol to prove she earned the post on merit.
- Ch 22Anna is a lieutenant commander and Wilson's chief staff officer, engaged to him; she runs his schedule and filters his visitors.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 3Anna offers to act as buffer, using her authority to press navy intelligence on Mars while Wilson avoids office politics.
- Ch 3Anna is Wilson's partner, a military executive with OCtattoos, who lives with him in Babuyan Atoll on the High Angel.
- Ch 4Anna, a navy officer, marries Wilson in her uniform with classical vows and rejects sung vows.
- Ch 5Anna works in Wilson's office and has recently married; she explains the navy's microsatellite surveillance of the Prime systems.
- Ch 6Anna mediates between Nigel and Wilson and mocks both for failing to collect a souvenir rock on the first Mars trip.
- Ch 8Anna reports ship production: fifteen ready by week's end, twenty-two a week later, over forty after that, then forty-five every fortnight.
- Ch 13Anna supports Wilson, promising to stay with him after he is dismissed.
- Ch 14Anna suggests prime ships stayed silent in flight, so a landed Starflyer would broadcast in all directions.
- Ch 18Anna is Wilson's wife; she volunteers to fly with him and Oscar, saying he still owes her a honeymoon.
- Ch 18Anna has extensive OCtattoos and helps prepare the hypergliders, including connecting them to chargers.
- Ch 19Anna is furious under threat and notes memory implants affect neuron function afterward; she fetched tether cables from a stores building.
- Ch 19Anna handled the sensors on Second Chance, giving her easy access to the satellites and dish, and is revealed as a Starflyer agent.
- Ch 19Anna is Wilson's wife; she flies mechanically and tries to collide with Wilson's hyperglider.
- Ch 19Anna was Wilson Kime's wife and, he says, the Starflyer agent; she never made it out of Stakeout Canyon.
Connections
- ally ofWilson Kime
- related toSecond Chanceworks on the ship project
- partner ofWilson Kimeengaged
- member ofSecond Chance
- related toWilson Kimechief staff officer to
- led byWilson Kime
- family ofWilson KimeAnna is the Admiral's wife
- member ofStarflyeragent of the Starflyer
- related toStarflyeragent of the Starflyer
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 11Wilson secures the Second Chance
Wilson and Anna seal emergency airlocks, organize crews and reconnect to the planetary cybersphere; the SI says reinforcements are twenty-five minutes away.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Spaceplane attack announced
The SI reports two spaceplanes on a collision course; Wilson realizes the kinetic strike is lethal and asks about fuel in the tanks.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Farewell gala at the Regency Palace
On the eve of departure, Wilson, Anna and Oscar attend the First Speaker's gala, where Council members debate the mission, weapons, funding and defense, and the Second Chance is saluted with fireworks.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Second Chance emerges near Dyson Alpha
Wilson's ship exits hyperspace in interstellar space, and sensor modules survey Dyson Alpha's barrier at progressively closer stages, finding no threats and little new information.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Hysradar sweep and approach to the barrier
At one light-month the crew uses hysradar, which is reflected like a mirror, then jumps to one million km above the barrier's equator and learns wormholes cannot penetrate it.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Wilson and Anna view the barrier
Off duty, Wilson and Anna stand in the forward observation gallery, trying to see the barrier as a faint ghostly red haze with natural vision.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Exploring the Dark Fortress
Using Galileo and Armstrong satellites, the crew maps four lattice spheres and the central rings, discovering electro-repulsive and negative mass layers, and finds no hole on the opposite side.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Cautious contact plan and approach
Wilson authorizes a minimum-emission investigation of an abandoned wreck or habitat, with the ship on combat alert. The Second Chance crosses the old barrier line and heads for a chosen rock.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Dysons signal the Second Chance
Laser and microwave beams from Alpha Major's moonlets target the ship. Wilson's crew concludes the Dysons detected them, and hysradar then reveals eight ships approaching.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Alien flotilla fires missiles
Alien ships close at extreme velocity, then launch over a hundred missiles, twenty-four at Second Chance, and battle among themselves.
- Book 1 · Ch 21Scoutships reach Dyson Alpha
After seventy-two days the three scoutships halt half a light-year out, find clear space, and the Conway and StAsaph proceed in while the Langharne waits and gathers data. They detect powerful wormhole activity.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Rules of engagement meeting
Wilson's staff and the oversight committee meet. Dimitri argues for maximum force and destroying any Prime wormhole at once. Patricia is wary, but Wilson agrees to cost out weapons able to break through to the far end.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Prime invasion begins
Forty-eight wormholes open in each of 23 Commonwealth systems, and the Primes bombard planets with nukes and projectiles. Wilson, Rafael and Nigel raise force fields and launch defenses.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Primes begin planetary landings
Wilson's team watches Prime ships enter atmospheres on many planets, immune to aerobot fire and heading for water landings, so reinforcement of cities is planned.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Evacuation and defense of Anshun
Commonwealth forces funnel refugees and aerobots through Wessex; aerobots deploy from Treloar to confront Primes landing at Scraptoft, but are beaten back by Prime fusion exhaust and smog.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Humans use electronic warfare at Scraptoft and Anshun
Wilson's EW aerobots jam Prime communications at Scraptoft, disabling armored soldiers and flyers. Navy warships arrive at Anshun and fight an hour-long battle with the Primes.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Wilson and Anna on the terrace
Wilson and Anna discuss the war plans and Mars; Anna offers to push navy intelligence on the matter, and they spend an intimate evening.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Wilson and Anna's wedding
Wilson and Anna marry in a media-saturated chapel ceremony at High Angel, attended by politicians and navy personnel, then leave for a short honeymoon before returning to work.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Wilson briefs Oscar and Mac
Wilson reveals the Primes are fortifying the Lost23, tasks Oscar with finding Hell's Gateway's destination, assigns Mac to test relativistic missiles, and promises Oscar the assault cruiser project.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Expedition returns to Mars
Wilson, Anna, Nigel and a navy team pass through the old CST gateway to Arabia Terra. Wilson sees the wrecked Eagle II and cargo landers, and searches for the lost flag.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Souvenirs at the Eagle II
On Mars, Nigel, Wilson and Anna argue about the wrecked Eagle II and the old wormhole rivalry before Anna hands them each a pebble.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Navy Strategic Review Council debates the Hell's Gateway assault
Advisors discuss the Hell's Gateway location, Dimitri's call for caution and use of the Seattle weapon, and ship production. They agree to wait a fortnight, keeping reserves for defense and expanding guerrilla warfare.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Wilson orders strike on Hell's Gateway
Wilson commits to acting and sends the Cairo and Baghdad toward Hell's Gateway while quantumbusters are used against flare bombs, irradiating Commonwealth worlds.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Origin of the Starflyer revealed
Dudley explains the Dyson Beta alienPrimes and that the Starflyer is a MorningLightMountain subsidiary that fled to Far Away; the group infers the Starflyer's plan to pit humans against the Primes.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Oscar and Dudley clash
Dudley confronts Oscar over being abandoned; the argument turns into a shoving match before Wilson, Anna and the Bose motile separate them.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Boarding the Carbon Goose
After sensorbot checks find no sabotage, Adam's group loads vehicles aboard the Carbon Goose, and Wilson pilots it out of the hangar toward the sea to chase the Starflyer.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Drop onto Port Evergreen
After launching recon drones and seeing the Starflyer's group stalled, the Carbon Goose is detected when its radar switches on; ten armored figures jump anyway.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Truck breakdown and sabotage
A Volvo engine burns out on the Aldrin Plains. While transferring cargo, Adam finds four crates sabotaged by maser, raising suspicion of a saboteur within the group.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Adam and Oscar weigh suspects
Buying medicine, Adam and Oscar discuss which of Wilson, Anna or Myo could be the Starflyer agent, without conclusion; Adam decides to rely on Paula.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Plan to glide onto Aphrodite's Seat
Because the observation team is delayed, Wilson proposes landing a hyperglider on Mount Herculaneum. Samantha agrees despite sabotage fears; Adam privately plans to ground Wilson and Anna and let only Oscar fly.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Hangar preparations
The group breaks into the Grand Triad Adventures hangar, powers it up, and checks hypergliders, jeeps and files while planning the flight to Aphrodite's Seat.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Adam found murdered
Oscar wakes from a memory implant to find Adam dead in the hangar. The Guardians accuse the others, but Paula's questioning establishes no clear culprit; Wilson insists the mission continue.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Hypergliders tethered in the wet desert
The group tethers three hypergliders along Stakeout Canyon for the morning storm launch. Oscar, Anna and Wilson board; the rest retreat to shelter at Mount Zeus.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Paula exposes Anna
Paula reasons that Oscar is cleared and that only Anna could be the Starflyer agent; Wilson reluctantly accepts it as Anna stays silent.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Oscar rams Anna
Oscar plunges his hyperglider into Anna's as she closes on Wilson; both crash, and Wilson rides the waterfall and a twister toward Aphrodite's Seat.