Gore Burnelli
Names: Gore BurnelliGoreDadFather
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 18 (SEVENTEEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 18Gore is the patriarch of the Burnelli family, recently rejuvenated, with a face completely covered by golden OCtattoos. He is obsessively focused on business and family finances.
- Ch 18Gore carries his memories in high-density inserts and loads them into local arrays, so he has actual past deals available. His OCtattoos present data to him as scent.
- Ch 18Gore has about fifty children after Justine and her brother, and is accompanied by bodyguards, aides and twin girls slotted into his schedule.
- Ch 18Gore has a golden, expressionless face and bodyguards, and orchestrates the weekend's deal-making to position the Burnelli family for starflight agency and navy spending.
- Ch 18Gore wants the agency based at High Angel instead of Anshun, and wants the family to profit from navy procurement and planetary defense contracts.
- Ch 18Gore believes the Dyson aliens shoot first and ask questions later, so the Commonwealth will need warships.
- Ch 18Gore has a gold face and heightened senses, smelling people across the estate, and sleeps at most three hours a day thanks to modifications.
- Ch 18Gore senses something is wrong with how easily the starflight agency is coming together, suspecting the manipulators may themselves be manipulated.
- Ch 24Justine's father; has a gold face and hands that look inhuman. He is convinced the Starflyer exists and manipulated the navy project.
- Ch 24Appoints Paula Myo to Senate Security with department head status and plans to send covert family agents to investigate both factions on Far Away.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 2Gore is Justine's father, heavily modified with a golden metallic face; he is ruthless and scornful of her sentimentality.
- Ch 2Gore plans to build a political resistance network against the Starflyer's influence.
- Ch 6Gore is Justine's father, lives in the apartment above hers and suspects the Mars weather data is Guardian misdirection.
- Ch 6Gore doubts Doi's original backing of the Starflight agency, seeing it as an uncharacteristic risk that suggests someone pushed her.
- Ch 6Gore agrees to run a forensic financial analysis of Bromley, Waterford, and Granku using his family's resources and his own skills.
- Ch 8Gore, Justine's father, uncovered financial irregularities at Bromley, Waterford, and Granku and at Denman Manhattan, and will inform the Financial Regulation Directorate.
- Ch 11Gore has a golden metallic body, a strong force field, accelerated reflexes and disruptor weapons, and saves Justine, his daughter, by killing the assassin Bruce.
- Ch 11Gore killed an assassin who attacked Justine in her home; the footage of him naked on Park Avenue is on every news show.
- Ch 11Gore is Justine's father, who says the Starflyer has already killed his son.
- Ch 11Gore will reinforce the observation team on Boongate and suggests shutting the wormhole down himself if the Commonwealth will not act.
Connections
- family ofJustine Burnellifather and daughter
- family ofThompsonson
- ally ofPaula Myo
- related toTulip Mansionbought and completed the estate
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 18Guests arrive at Sorbonne Wood
Justine greets arriving guests for a discreet weekend of political horse trading over the new starflight agency and the upcoming Doi campaign, including Gore, Campbell, Patricia, Gerhard, Larry, Goldreich and Ramon.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Family meeting before the evening
Gore, Justine and Thompson meet in the library before the evening's negotiations. Gore tasks them with anticipating problems among the guests.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Sheldon agrees to back Doi
Gore tells Patricia the key is Sheldon money, and Campbell later confirms Sheldon backing for Doi in exchange for billions for the agency's first budget. Burnellis then plan to move the agency base to High Angel.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Halgarths push offensive navy and merge Directorates
At the review meeting Larry argues for offensive capability; Natasha urges new weapons, and Rafael's Directorate absorbs other security Directorates, with the Burnellis reluctantly accepting.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Paula appointed to Senate Security
Gore and Paula tell Justine that Thompson's murder links to the Starflyer and Far Away inspections. Gore appoints Paula to Senate Security; Justine agrees to clear it.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Suspicion of Nigel Sheldon
Paula tells Justine and Gore that Thompson learned Nigel Sheldon blocked cargo inspections. They resolve that Justine will find Thompson's source and Gore will build a resistance network.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Meeting at Justine's apartment
Paula, Justine and Gore share findings on the Mars data and Isabella Halgarth, and discuss approaching Ramon DB as an ally.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Link between Isabella and Far Away discovered
Justine finds that Isabella's father directed a research institute on Far Away fifteen years ago, suggesting how the child Isabella was reached by the Starflyer. Gore agrees to investigate the law firm's finances.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Assassin attacks Justine's apartment
Bruce McFoster kills Hector Del and attacks Justine in her Park Avenue apartment; Gore Burnelli crashes in, fights him, chases him off the balcony, and kills him on the street.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Planning at Tulip Mansion
Justine, Gore and Paula discuss the failed assassination, the need for Nigel Sheldon's support, and plans to approach him through Campbell and watch Boongate.