Natasha Kersley
Names: Natasha KersleyNatashaDoc
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 18 (SEVENTEEN)
Appearances
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B2
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 18Natasha is chief executive of the Commonwealth Special Science Supervisory Directorate, which studies exotic weapons theory. Larry Halgarth insisted on bringing her.
- Ch 18Natasha's Directorate estimates the Second Chance would have been destroyed within a minute if Kime hadn't escaped by FTL; Dyson fusion and force fields exceed human ones.
- Ch 22Her Seattle project's systems will be carried by starships; Wilson overruled Columbia and kept it under Base One, with Sheldon's backing.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 7Natasha launches the prototype quantumbuster warhead in a test against an uninhabited moon, and warns of a small chance that quantum disruption could propagate across the universe.
Connections
- leadsCommonwealth Special Science Supervisory Directorate
- ally ofHalgarth family
- ally ofMcClain Gilbert
- createdSeattle quantumbusters
- member ofSeattle Project
Key moments
- 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 2 · Ch 7Quantumbuster test
The Moscow launches satellites and a prototype quantumbuster at a barren moon; it disintegrates the whole moon in a blaze of light.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Prime flare bomb strikes Hanko's star
Dublin observes a Prime device plunge into the corona and become a flare bomb; Seattle Project scientists identify it, warning the biosphere of Hanko is threatened.