Main characters, in order of appearance
- José Alvarez, hombre del espacio, former AWS technician
- Beth Smith
- Marigold
- The Spock, McCoy, etc
- Elron Muskatel, The Steak Prophet and monks
- Grandmother and daughters
- Maintenance Engineer III Chen Stewart
- Chen Le – engineer who helps out
- People from the Dark Section. Not yet defined. Showed their faces to Our Heroes as they rolled back to engineering section in chapter 14
- Chief Engineer Preston Pence
- Princess Side-Boob and Queen Lulu Thunder-Undies, the Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Susan and Gwen
- José has promised them chocolate
- AWIS – Amazon World Information Systems
- Tucker Price, Amazon Factotum
- The Space Marines:
- Lt. John Grader – short fuse, delusions of grandeur and fatalistic
- Specialist Hernandez – smart ass, strong, has tattoos
- Specialist Hwang – not well defined, perhaps she and Beth have to have some “girls time”
- Bippie – android dog, secret agent
- Major Ned Collins (real commander), sometimes referred to as “captain”
- the fifth member who stayed in orbit. mission doctor, nickname “Speedy”, needs to be a man
- Dr. Jebidiah “Speedy” Jones
- Hab Seven:
- Earth:
- Tucker Price – AWIS Factotum and fixer
- Ed Nougat – redneck rock ‘n’ roller and plantation owner in the American Enterprise and Freedom Zone
- Add in Bill Gates & Warren Buffett somewhere
- Hab Seven:
- Dr. Sanjay Banerjee – very friendly, tends to act like Willy Wonka, curses in Hindi
- Dr. Ellen White – blonde, pony tail, quieter, serious
- Tyranno-Chickens
- Bobby, scientist. black man with a goatee
Bit characters
- Master Chief – chapter 3
- Ed Rangle, tried to grope Beth, fight with José. Gets it on with Jenny
- Heinlein, Asimov, Andre Norton
- The ghosts in the tiki bar: Bob, Jing (woman), Mark (first corpse on Mars) and the guy in the corner who never moves or speaks
- Fact Finding Timmy – appears in the Marigold origin story
- Dr. Benway
Other notes:
- HiLOX fuel for bounce bugs & space craft
- Hippie Drum Circle – performed outside
More chapter ideas:
- back to Ed Nougat, a run into/through town via armored convoy
- Tucker Price opening new AWIS housing / warehouse work center in Seattle
- remember the circle of consumerism. things break, humans take them back for recycling
- Tucker buying opium from Afghani’s – at a higher price than the taliban, bringing peace to Afghanistan