Leopoldovich
Names: LeopoldovichDimitri LeopoldovichDimitriDimitri Leopoldvich
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 22 (TWENTY-ONE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 22Tactical analysis academician from the StPetersburg Institute, pale and podgy; his team named the Prime wormhole Hell's Gateway and advises the executive.
- Ch 22He recommends that the Prime wormhole be attacked and destroyed the instant it opens in Commonwealth space, with maximum force and no rules of engagement.
- Ch 25Dimitri argued that humans must get through the wormholes to the generators, as energy attacks from outside are ineffective.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 8Dimitri argues the Primes wage a fanatical crusade and urges delaying the assault, keeping reserves, and using the Seattle weapon for complete victory.
- Ch 8Dimitri believes the Primes have seen the Desperado's hyperdrive application and will duplicate it and devise countermeasures.
- Ch 9Dimitri correctly argues the wormhole shutdown was a deliberate Prime action and that they repelled the attack; he urges arming starships with quantumbusters.
- Ch 12Dimitri's team decided the distribution of planetary defences and starship allocations, which proved accurate; he deduces the Primes are hiding something behind the interference.
Connections
- ally ofWilson Kimeadviser
- member ofStrategic Studies Institute
- enemy ofRafael Columbianavy officers coldly receive him
Key moments
- 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 25Humans fall back
Wilson, Nigel and the President decide to evacuate all assaulted worlds as Prime wormholes stay open and gateway machinery is landed.
- 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 9Prime wormholes shut and reopen
Before the attack, 772 Prime wormholes shut down, then all reopened five hours later, showing the human strike on Hell's Gateway failed.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Primes launch the second invasion
Prime wormholes open around 48 Commonwealth worlds, including Hanko and Wessex, flooding the systems with ships while Douvoirs fail to catch the shifting wormholes.
- 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.