Grace Aldridge
Major Character
Born
b. c. 2189
Origin
Manchester (printed as accent — flat Manchester vowels, B1 ch4 and throughout)
About
Lieutenant; Tactical / Security aboard ISV Endurance — the crew's combat competence: boardings, landings, firefights; hard outer shell, pragmatic. Ex-military; took part in suppressing an Anchorage cell earlier in her career, an action she is not proud, which detonates against Marsh's exposure and against a dying world that keeps proving the Anchorage right. At end she doubts her own targeting without language for it (the Ascendant question). Runs the mounts: Ferris's count at the Ilvane fight — "eleven hundred and forty rounds across all mounts, Grace, and not one of them comes off a printer" — then a magazine at zero from until the Ascendant resupply is re-sleeved. Survives
Lieutenant; Tactical / Security aboard ISV Endurance — the crew's combat competence: boardings, landings, firefights; hard outer shell, pragmatic. Ex-military; took part in suppressing an Anchorage cell earlier in her career, an action she is not proud, which detonates against Marsh's exposure and against a dying world that keeps proving the Anchorage right. At Book 1 end she doubts her own targeting without language for it (the Ascendant question). Runs the mounts: Ferris's count at the Ilvane fight — "eleven hundred and forty rounds across all mounts, Grace, and not one of them comes off a printer" (Book 1 chapter 16 — then a maga
Career
Before 2240: military; the Anchorage-cell suppression. - 2240–~2245: Lt, Tactical/Security, ISV Endurance. - 2246: Tactical, ISV Longwake.
Relationships
- theo marsh — His exposure detonates her history.
- dominic ferris — "Grace" in his chapter 16 line; the rounds.
- julian mercer — Her captain from Book 2; follows him to the Longwake.