Isabella Helena Halgarth
Names: Isabella Helena HalgarthIsabellaIsabelIsabella HalgarthKantil
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 18 (SEVENTEEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 18Isabella is a nineteen-year-old low-status Halgarth, an invitrogestated minor trustbabe not in the direct lineage, and is currently Patricia Kantil's companion.
- Ch 18Isabella is Patricia's young companion and a fame junkie; she is bored by formal dinners.
- Ch 18Isabella is Patricia's aide, resembles Justine slightly, and was sent to seduce Ramon with preauthorized promises to secure his vote.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 5Isabella moved out, blocked her unisphere address and went missing; she was formerly Patricia Kantil's girlfriend.
- Ch 5Halgarth Dynasty young woman and friend of Trisha; discontinued her unisphere address code and credit account the same day, apparently deliberately vanishing.
- Ch 5Told Trisha she was going skiing on Jura with a group of unknown friends; her parents Victor and Bernadette separated eight years ago.
- Ch 6Paula suspects Isabella is a Starflyer agent, possibly the link to the presidency; she is twenty-one and once dated Kantil.
- Ch 6Gore recalls Isabella slept with Ramon DB at the Sorbonne Wood weekend and helped smooth negotiations there.
- Ch 6Isabella is suspected of being a Starflyer agent or courier, possibly corrupted as a child through her father's posting on Far Away.
- Ch 10Isabella Halgarth is extremely dangerous and displays integral arrogance; she kills Renne with a maser, destroying the taxi.
- Ch 11Isabella is a Starflyer agent with an alien intelligence inside her, concealed weapons in her arms and boosted muscles; she attacks Paula's compartment.
- Ch 11Isabella is captured alive in a force-field cage, a dump-web and a nervejam stick, then put into a suspension shell.
- Ch 11Isabella was identified by Paula as a Starflyer agent; her body is in a suspension shell being taken to the Raiel.
- Ch 11Isabella is held in a suspension shell, with power cells removed and weapons neutralized, so Qatux can examine her mind for alien control or conditioning.
- Ch 13Isabella is a confirmed Starflyer agent who helped create the shotgun message naming Doi, which Paula believes was disinformation.
- Ch 13At five or six on Far Away she was given a compulsion overlay that made her act solely in the Starflyer's interests.
- Ch 13She is part of a three-person spy-cell structure of Starflyer agents and does not know where the Starflyer is.
Connections
- partner ofPatricia Kantil
- member ofHalgarth family
- member ofPatricia Doiaide/go-between
- friend ofTrisha Marina Halgarth
- family ofVictorfather
- family ofBernadettemother
- friend ofPatricia Kantil
- member ofStarflyersuspected
- ally ofStarflyeragent of the Starflyer
- related toStarflyercompelled agent controlled by the Starflyer
- family ofJames Timothy Halgarthsurname shared; Isabella's parents were with her on Far Away
- enemy ofStarflyercorrupted her mind in childhood
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 18Justine investigates Isabella
Justine suspects Patricia's companion Isabella might signify Halgarth influence, and asks Estella Fenton. She learns Isabella is unimportant and that the Halgarths back Doi.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Isabella seduces Ramon
Isabella goes to Ramon's lodge and sleeps with him; next morning Ramon proposes parallel development to move the agency to High Angel.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Investigating the Daroca victim
Renne and Tarlo interview Trisha and her flatmates about Howard Liang, a Guardians operative, and arrange forensic sweeps. Renne senses the setup repeats earlier Guardians cases.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Renne seeks warrant for Isabella
Suspicious of the shotgun case, Renne persuades Alic Hogan to approve a warrant for Isabella Halgarth and travels to Solidade.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Renne interviews Christabel Halgarth
In Rialto, Renne asks whether the Halgarths staged the shotgun; Christabel denies it, discusses Isabella's disappearance, and agrees to a parallel investigation and sends Warren with Renne to Solidade.
- 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.
- 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 10Renne killed by Isabella Halgarth
Renne spots Isabella Halgarth and follows her taxi; Isabella detects her and destroys the taxi with a maser, killing Renne, whose memorycell survives.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Isabella ambushed on the express
Isabella Halgarth, a Starflyer agent, attacks the compartment; Paula's team traps her in a cage, disables her with a dump-web and nervejam stick, and captures her alive. Paula reveals it was an entrapment.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Isabella delivered to Qatux
Hoshe Finn brings Isabella Halgarth's suspension shell to Qatux, who will examine her memories to discover how the Starflyer controlled her.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Qatux describes Starflyer's control
Qatux reveals how Isabella was compelled as a child, how the Starflyer adapted its plans, and agrees to help Paula read captured agents' memories in exchange for emotional experience via Mellanie's contact.