Acting U.S. President
The unnamed Acting U.S. President is sheltered at Mount Weather during A Dance of Devils after the opening attacks shatter the normal national command structure....
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PERSONNEL / ASSETS / ORGANIZATIONS
WHO AND WHAT MOVES THE WAR
Characters are not limited to people. Important vehicles such as Alice, military units, resistance organizations, and other recurring assets can be linked to books, stories, and events like any other entity.
MM // CONUS + GLOBAL // MULTIPLE FRONTS
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Characters & entities
Alice
Alice is the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank attached to Gunnery Sergeant An Nguyen’s Marine element. She remains operational after the Christmas Eve power failure...
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An unnamed emo kid carrying a Ka-Bar becomes the seventh person crammed into the Spare Parts Club’s escape vehicle when Christmas Day turns into invasion...
OPEN DOSSIERBaltimore Chinese Armored Force
The Baltimore Chinese Armored Force is the formation that rolls out of Baltimore’s ports during A Dance of Devils and drives toward Mount Weather. Its...
OPEN DOSSIERBraxton
Braxton is a teaser-confirmed character in the Raise the Red prologue and part of the social-circle easter-egg network being seeded into Book Three. The early...
OPEN DOSSIERBrigadier General Lance Bear Wolf
Brigadier General Lance Bear Wolf is the central resistance commander of Dances with Arrows and a continuing figure from Steve Stratton’s Shadow Tier continuity. When...
OPEN DOSSIERCASEVAC Pedros
The CASEVAC Pedros are a combat casualty-evacuation/search-and-rescue element fighting in the Pacific theater during Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2. Their file places them in desperate...
OPEN DOSSIERCav
Cav is one of the familiar-name easter-egg characters confirmed for the Raise the Red prologue. The character is seeded early so the story can make...
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Colonel Elle Parker is a Shadow Tier operator, Lance Bear Wolf’s wife, and one of the senior leaders at the center of the Wyoming resistance....
OPEN DOSSIERDemp
Demp is a recurring social-circle easter-egg character used across the expanding Mongol Moon continuity. OFF-BOOK INTEL singles Demp out as someone repeatedly subjected to abuse...
OPEN DOSSIERDetroit Executive Protection Team
The Detroit Executive Protection Team is the protective-services element featured in Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2 when the grid collapses in Detroit. The anthology description...
OPEN DOSSIEREnigmatic Intelligence Operative
An enigmatic intelligence operative shares leadership pressure with Major Alex Frey after U.S. Embassy personnel are forced out of besieged Zambia and into a dangerous...
OPEN DOSSIERGale Washington
Gale Washington begins the war as an intelligence analyst at the Operations Center for Joint Intelligence Command and as the husband of Navy Commander Joey...
OPEN DOSSIERGovernment Driver
The Government Driver is an unnamed federal driver whose final day before retirement becomes a Christmas Eve ambush in Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2. Instead...
OPEN DOSSIERGrimzy
Grimzy is a future Mongol Moon easter-egg character with one unusually specific piece of declassified fate attached to the name: at some point, Grimzy is...
OPEN DOSSIERGunnery Sergeant An Nguyen
Gunnery Sergeant An Nguyen is a U.S. Marine at Fort Knox during pre-deployment workups when the Christmas Eve outage turns lethal. He and his Marines...
OPEN DOSSIERIRGC Kill Team
The IRGC Kill Team is an Iranian Revolutionary Guard pursuit element hunting the Spare Parts Club through South Carolina to settle an old score. Its...
OPEN DOSSIERISS Crew
Joey Washington and two fellow astronauts are aboard the crippled International Space Station when the Christmas Eve assault begins. From orbit they watch North America...
OPEN DOSSIERJavad Shir-Del
Javad Shir-Del is the chief spymaster of Iran’s feared Ministry of Intelligence, a man whose personal losses have poisoned his relationship with the regime he...
OPEN DOSSIERJoey Washington
Joey Washington is a U.S. Navy commander and astronaut aboard the International Space Station when the coordinated Christmas Eve attack begins. From orbit, she and...
OPEN DOSSIERJohn
John is a Book Two easter-egg character who dies in a truck during the fight at Point of Rocks Bridge. OFF-BOOK NAME TRACE // The...
OPEN DOSSIERJulio Rosas
Julio Rosas is a character in Irene who serves as the mission’s Joe Galloway-style embedded observer. The fictional character traces to @Julio_Rosas11 and accompanies the...
OPEN DOSSIERLayla Washington
Layla Washington is Gale and Joey Washington’s daughter and the civilian center of the Washington family’s Northern Virginia survival thread. She is at the neighborhood...
OPEN DOSSIERLoredo
Loredo is a disabled combat veteran in the Spare Parts Club who is missing an arm. He is part of the group that moves out...
OPEN DOSSIERMajor Alex Frey
Major Alex Frey is an experienced U.S. Army officer thrust into fresh command responsibility in Zambia as the global crisis breaks open. When the lights...
OPEN DOSSIERMike Myers
Mike Myers is a Book Two easter-egg character written into the Northern Virginia fighting and ultimately killed when a tank runs him over in a...
OPEN DOSSIERNguyen’s Marine Element
Gunnery Sergeant An Nguyen’s Marines are conducting pre-deployment workups at Fort Knox when the Christmas Eve blackout turns lethal. Cut off from normal command systems,...
OPEN DOSSIERNorthern Virginia Neighborhood Defenders
The Washingtons’ “extremely odd assortment of neighbors” becomes an improvised defense network when the Christmas Eve holiday gathering is swallowed by blackout, infiltration, and war....
OPEN DOSSIEROperation Wŭjù Force
The Operation Wŭjù Force is the Chinese infiltration and occupation element that enters Reno disguised as circus performers. The deception succeeds: the force seizes the...
OPEN DOSSIERPedro
Pedro is a central character in Irene and the viewpoint through which the story’s CASEVAC mission is presented. HANDLE TRACE // @OfAthenry. The identity behind...
OPEN DOSSIERPimpwalk
Pimpwalk is a disabled combat veteran and member of the Spare Parts Club whose nickname was earned 'the hard way.' The exact origin stays inside...
OPEN DOSSIERReaper
Reaper is a character in Remember the Drift, the Richards Bay story within Apocalypse in Pieces. HANDLE TRACE // @K9_Reaper. The South African identity behind...
OPEN DOSSIERRick Pearson
Rick Pearson is the military commander at Richards Bay, South Africa in Remember the Drift. The story frames the defense in the tradition of a...
OPEN DOSSIERRob Province
Rob Province is the antagonist of Battle of Diego Garcia, one of the anthology stories that connects directly into the wider Mongol Moon continuity and...
OPEN DOSSIERRussian Atlantic Warships
Russian warships operating in the Atlantic form one of the overt conventional fronts in A Dance of Devils. Their presence demonstrates that the coalition attack...
OPEN DOSSIERRussian Wyoming Occupation Force
The Russian Wyoming Occupation Force is the principal enemy formation facing Lance Bear Wolf, Elle Parker, and the Wyoming Army of Resistance in Dances with...
OPEN DOSSIERShadow Tier
Shadow Tier is the special mission unit associated with Lance Bear Wolf and Colonel Elle Parker before the Mongol Moon invasion. The broader series describes...
OPEN DOSSIERShadzey
Shadzey is one of the social-circle easter-egg characters confirmed for the Raise the Red prologue. The character is introduced early in the Book Three architecture...
OPEN DOSSIERShir-Del Family in Virginia
What remains of Javad Shir-Del’s family lives in Virginia as his long-planned act of vengeance begins to unfold. Their location turns Javad’s strategic conspiracy into...
OPEN DOSSIERSloth
Sloth is a disabled combat veteran in the Spare Parts Club whose severe burn scars are described as something he wears like armor. He travels...
OPEN DOSSIERSons of Carson
The Sons of Carson are Reno’s home-grown insurgents in Kill Game. After Chinese troops infiltrate the city disguised as circus performers and complete Operation Wŭjù,...
OPEN DOSSIERStripper
Stripper is a disabled combat veteran and member of the Spare Parts Club who lost his legs in Afghanistan. When the Christmas Day invasion reaches...
OPEN DOSSIERStumpy
Stumpy is a disabled combat veteran in the Spare Parts Club who lost both hands and uses hooks. The invasion forces him and the rest...
OPEN DOSSIERSurviving U.S. Military Command
The Surviving U.S. Military Command is the remnant of national military leadership operating from Mount Weather after the Christmas Eve attacks tear apart normal command-and-control...
OPEN DOSSIERTekk
Tekk is a named character in Irene and a member of the mission ensemble surrounding Pedro’s CASEVAC point of view. The character is an explicit...
OPEN DOSSIERThe Spare Parts Club
The Spare Parts Club is a support-group brotherhood of disabled combat veterans that becomes an improvised resistance force when the Christmas Day invasion reaches South...
OPEN DOSSIERThe Warlock
The Warlock is an unseen, anonymous covert operator in charge of a black-budget program designed to disrupt the hostile alliance before it can fully bring...
OPEN DOSSIERTrigger
Trigger is a celebrity veteran influencer caught in South Carolina when the Christmas Day blackout and Chinese airborne invasion begin. He joins the Spare Parts...
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U.S. Transportation Secretary
The unnamed U.S. Transportation Secretary is the protected principal in a Christmas Eve ambush story from Apocalypse in Pieces, Volume 2. A cabinet-level official accustomed...
OPEN DOSSIERWyoming Army of Resistance
The Wyoming Army of Resistance is the organized force built by Lance Bear Wolf, Elle Parker, and a cadre of special-operations veterans after Russian forces...
OPEN DOSSIERZambia Embassy Survivors
A rag-tag group of Americans is forced to abandon a besieged U.S. Embassy in Zambia during the opening phase of World War III. With no...
OPEN DOSSIERZen
Zen is one of the named characters inside Irene, part of the mission group surrounding Pedro’s CASEVAC viewpoint. HANDLE TRACE // @ZenfinityDesign. The easter egg...
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