Giselle Swinsol
Names: Giselle SwinsolGiselle
First appears in Book 2: Judas Unchained, chapter 5 (Chapter 5)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 5Giselle Swinsol, an arrogant Sheldon Dynasty representative, recruits Mark for a secret project on Cressat, offering to pay off all his debts.
- Ch 7Giselle confirms Mark's family may have berths on the lifeboats and promotes him to starship assembly work at a classified location.
- Ch 7Giselle is a former director of the gigalife research office who collects the Vernon family and explains the planet's gigalife.
- Ch 11Giselle helps oversee the Speedwell construction and frigate assembly; she is told to coordinate evacuation planning with Campbell.
- Ch 17Giselle is Ozzie's wife, who lives in Illanum on Cressat; she slaps him on arrival and is working long hours.
- Ch 17Giselle is Ozzie's ex-lover, holds a senior post in the Dynasty starship project and heads research into the Planters; she is bitter toward him.
- Ch 17Giselle reluctantly agrees to help Ozzie, updating personnel records so they can pass the perimeter security into the starship complex.
Connections
- member ofSheldon familyworks for
- has memberMark Vernonworks under Dynasty project she oversees
- partner ofOzzie Fernandez Isaacmarried
- ally ofOzzie Fernandez Isaacreluctantly helps him despite past betrayal
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 5Giselle Swinsol recruits Mark
Giselle visits unannounced, offers Mark a secret, well-paid job on Cressat that clears his Elan debts; after pressure, Mark and Liz accept and must leave next morning.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Randtown destroyed; Mark reassigned
Mark and Liz watch Randtown's nuclear destruction on Michelangelo's show. Giselle then visits, grants them lifeboat berths and orders them to move to starship assembly.
- Book 2 · Ch 7The Vernons see the gigalife
Giselle takes the Vernons through a gateway to the new world, showing groundplant gigalife and a spaceflower moon, and explaining the Planters.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Nigel accelerates the frigate program
Nigel tours the Speedwell and frigate bay, then orders Mark Vernon to attach the assembly bay to the lifeboat Searcher and finish the Charybdis en route to Wessex within thirty hours, with the weapon section moved too.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Ozzie visits Giselle
Ozzie and Mellanie arrive unannounced at the Illanum home of Ozzie's wife Giselle, who slaps him.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Infiltrating the starship complex
Giselle drives Ozzie and Mellanie through security to the assembly platforms and the frigate dock, where Ozzie charms Mark into letting him aboard the Charybdis.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Mellanie shot
Armored security squad arrives; Mellanie tries to deflect their sensors and is gravely wounded, with Nigel appearing as she blacks out.