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Dahl

Major Character

About

Chief executive of the Sundgren Combine (Frontier bloc) in The Reach — the Marit Engström of his era, two generations on and far more powerful. Charismatic and persuasive; frames extraction as liberation; the expansionist argument in a likeable, legitimate suit. Not a cartoon: he wins real arguments and delivers real prosperity to the settlements that depend on the Combine's lanes. His flaw is the expansionist's — no concept of enough.

Chief executive of the Sundgren Combine (Frontier bloc) in The Reach — the Marit Engström of his era, two generations on and far more powerful. Charismatic and persuasive; frames extraction as liberation; the expansionist argument in a likeable, legitimate suit. Not a cartoon: he wins real arguments and delivers real prosperity to the settlements that depend on the Combine's lanes. His flaw is the expansionist's — no concept of enough. He is never in the room: his factors carry his appetite "in a quieter coat" at the Far Concord (Book 3), his people move the moment the Accord table convulses, and the emergency-security instrument that sei

Career

By the 2240s: chief executive, Sundgren Combine.

Relationships

  • vossberg — Sundgren Reach Logistics, Office of the Director: the corridor office whose seal sits on the Combine's Book 1 orders. Answers up to Dahl's bloc.
  • marius strand — A corridor director in the bloc.