Heather Antonia Halgarth
Names: Heather Antonia HalgarthHeatherHeather Halgarth
First appears in Book 2: Judas Unchained, chapter 3 (Chapter 3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 3Only female head of a Big15 Intersolar Dynasty; ruthless, politically sharp, and worried about realigning manufacturing capacity.
- Ch 3Heather advocates using the Seattle Project to genocide the Primes and doubts the new navy's capability.
- Ch 3Heather wants a united front for the War Cabinet and Senate, and threatens to eject Wilson and shift the navy to her control if he fails again.
- Ch 4She chose to use the largest aircraft ever built to link the two Half Way islands, out of dynastic pride.
- Ch 5Chose EdenBurg as her family's Big15 world for its oceans, building huge hydropower dams on Sybraska instead of fission plants.
Connections
- ally ofNigel Sheldonfellow Dynasty leaders, disagreeing
- member ofHalgarth family
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 3First War Cabinet meeting
Meeting in Washington's Senate Hall, the War Cabinet hears Kime's assessment of the Prime assault and unanimously approves his three-stage strategy, with the Seattle Project noted as stage four.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Dynasty leaders confer at Narrabri
Nigel, Alan and Heather watch Doi tour refugees, argue over refugee distribution, genocide of the Primes via the Seattle Project, and escape ships; Nigel agrees to sell wormhole generators.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Cabinet infighting over Wilson
Heather, Nigel and Alan discuss presenting a united front and whether to replace Wilson after the Prime invasion, with Heather threatening to shift the navy to her control.
- Book 2 · Ch 13War Cabinet votes to exterminate Primes
The War Cabinet unanimously approves using every means, up to extermination, against the Primes, and debates evacuating the New48 worlds.