Renne Kempasa
Names: Renne KempasaRenneReneeRenne KampasaLieutenant Kampasa
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 3 (TWO)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 3Renne sat in a booth shielded by an e-seal and ran the spindlefly's processor.
- Ch 7Renne is a Directorate Investigator who partners with Tarlo and lets him handle local police.
- Ch 7An SCD Investigator leading the Nzega investigation; she keeps Tarlo professional and dismisses his suspicions as paranoia.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 1Renne is a navy intelligence lieutenant who feels uneasy that the Guardians' latest operation repeats earlier crime scenes, calling it 'too neat'.
- Ch 2Renne arrives by VTOL at a high-altitude observatory in the Andes, north of Sandia, struggling with thin air.
- Ch 2A navy intelligence lieutenant, a great-great-grandmother, who flies to Antina Station to collect prisoner Cufflin and suffers badly from the altitude.
- Ch 2Plans to have Cufflin's memories read at a navy biomedical facility in Paris, but offers to skip it if he cooperates.
- Ch 2Renne believes the assassin comes from Far Away, because McFoster was overjoyed to see him.
- Ch 2Renne drinks heavily caffeinated coffee and thinks chasing the Mars data is a waste of resources.
- Ch 4Renne dislikes Hogan's leadership and distrusts his theory that the Guardians are behind the killings, sensing something is wrong with it.
- Ch 5Renne, a navy intelligence investigator, distrusts the Halgarth shotgun case because the victims were not surprised, and no one asked why they were chosen.
- Ch 6Renne skipped office duty after a long trip and has a drink in a restaurant; Hogan questions her about leaving the office and leads.
- Ch 10Renne is following Bernadette Halgarth to Tridelta with Vic Russell and Matthew Oldfield, having not dropped the Isabella investigation.
- Ch 10Renne is assigned perimeter duty, which she resents, and is shocked she was once on Paula's suspect list.
- Ch 10Renne has known Tarlo for nearly fifteen years and is still reeling from his treachery.
- Ch 10Renne spots Isabella Halgarth by her arrogant walk and follows her in a taxi; she is killed by a maser attack, but her memorycell survives.
- Ch 13Renne cannot be re-lifed for about seven years due to clinic backlogs.
- Ch 14Renne Kampasa, who suffered bodyloss on Illuminatus, alerted Paula about the Starflyer infiltration.
Connections
- member ofIntersolar Serious Crimes Directorate
- ally ofTarloDirectorate partners
- member ofPaula Myoworks on her team
- ally ofPhil Mandiafellow navy intelligence officer
- member ofAlic Hogansenior lieutenant in his Paris office
- ally ofEdmund Li
- led byAlic HoganHogan is commander over her team
- ally ofVic Russell
- ally ofMatthew Oldfield
- ally ofChristabel Agatha Halgarth
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 3Paula briefs Tokat police
Paula Myo arrives on Velaines and sets up surveillance on Murphy and Elvin with Tokat detectives, aiming to catch the arms exchange.
- Book 1 · Ch 3Meeting at the Scarred Suit
Elvin meets Lancier at the club and hands her a memory crystal supposedly with additions to the order. Police spy through a spindlefly; Paula suspects it holds instructions and that Elvin is onto them.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Investigators reach Port Launay
Tarlo and Renne travel with a forensics team to Nzega after a case breaks, drive to Port Launay, and Tarlo talks the local police into letting them through past reporters.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Interview with April Halgarth
Renne and Tarlo interview April at the beach cottage on Nzega, learning how Alberto Rasanto seduced and drugged her and how the Guardians used a memory edit and hack to steal her certificate.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Tarlo voices doubts about the Guardians case
Outside, Tarlo suggests the Guardians' long luck is unnatural and may involve memory edits used on the Directorate; Renne dismisses it, and they bet ten dollars on whether forensics will find a clue.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Paula's team tracks Stig to Del Rey Marina
Paula arrives at LA Galactic and coordinates a CST, navy and LAPD team following Stig through LA to the Del Rey Marina, while Senator Burnelli calls with news.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Target escapes through Venice marina
Paula's target jumps into the water at the marina; the police launch a large search, but Stig later reaches Kazimir's house exhausted.
- 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 1Paula Myo removed
Back at the Paris office, Admiral Columbia dismisses Paula Myo, who leaves with her belongings while staff look on stunned. Columbia then calls in Commander Hogan.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Assassin escapes the Carralvo junction
After killing Kazimir, the force-field-suited assassin flees, aided by a kaos attack that cripples the network. Navy squads and CST teams chase him onto the tracks but cannot find him after a two-hour search.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Renne questions the observatory Director
At Antina Station Renne learns from Seitz that Mars data has been received for twenty years for the Lambeth Association, with no one at the observatory knowing what it contains.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Cufflin questioned on the flight
Renne takes Cufflin aboard a VTOL to Rio and Paris. He explains he was recruited through Robin Beard's contact to monitor and erase Martian data in exchange for seeing his grandson.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Paris office tensions
A day later, in Paris, Renne and Tarlo discuss Baron's leak and learn that their boss is watching all case data.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Progress meeting on the Guardians case
Alic chairs a meeting where his team reports on the unidentified assassin, the Mars data, Cufflin and McFoster's finances; he promises a warrant and asks the observatory to contact the Mars station.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Mars lead revealed
Renne reports that the data McFoster collected came from a Guardians-linked remote station on Mars, active for twenty years, whose purpose remains unknown.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Suspicious shipment found on Boongate
Renne and Tarlo visit the Boongate freight warehouse and find crates of farm machinery with heavy-duty superconductors, some records missing; Tarlo stays to investigate while Renne returns to Paris.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Hogan presents Rowden theory
Hogan, citing Cortese's facial match, declares the assassin Francis Rowden a Guardian enforcer; Renne privately doubts it.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Force field equipment puzzle and Beard hunt
King reports smuggled equipment is high-power force field devices with no power source on Far Away; Vic reports Robin Beard has fled Cagayn in his van.
- 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 10Paula's team detects Tarlo's warning
Hoshe reports that Tarlo sent an encrypted warning to Bernadette after Renne's call; Paula decides to monitor both and arrest Tarlo later.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Paula briefs Alic
Paula tells Alic that Tarlo is a Starflyer traitor, that the Halgarths are suspected agents, and that Tarlo's cases must be reviewed.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Plan to let Bernadette run
Paula persuades the group to delay arresting Bernadette, keep multiple teams on her, and prioritize taking the Agent in custody at tonight's meeting.
- 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.