# Facing the Flag — Character guide

> Key figures in Facing the Flag by Jules Verne.

- [Captain Spade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/captain_spade.md): The Ebba's silent, iron-willed commander, whose unerring seamanship and uncanny signalling apparatus make him Ker Karraje's most trusted hand.
- [Thomas Roch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/thomas_roch.md): A French inventor of a devastating secret weapon, whose brilliance flickers in and out of madness while pirates and governments circle his fulgurator.
- [Engineer Serko](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/engineer_serko.md): Ker Karraje's polished, mocking lieutenant, an engineer whose cool irony and sharp mind make him the most dangerous man in Back Cup.
- [Ker Karraje](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/ker_karraje.md): The legendary pirate who vanished from the Pacific with a fortune in plunder, now ruling a hidden island fortress under a nobleman's false name.
- [Count d'Artigas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/count_dartigas.md): A mysterious nobleman whose yacht Ebba glides on an inexplicable motor, and whose curiosity about Thomas Roch hides a far darker purpose.
- [Simon Hart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/simon_hart.md): A French engineer posing as warder Gaydon at Healthful House, whose quiet vigilance over Roch becomes a desperate fight for survival and escape.
- [Gaydon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/gaydon.md): Gaydon is a warder at the Healthful House who is swept into captivity when Simon Hart is abducted, sharing his cell and his fate aboard the mysterious Ebba. Stripped of any rights by the imperious Captain Spade, he brist
- [Lieutenant Davon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/lieutenant_davon.md): Lieutenant Davon commands the submarine Sword, stationed at the Bermudas, and has spent months experimenting with it for exactly this kind of covert operation. Having found Simon Hart's message in a keg, he penetrates th
- [Ebba](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/ebba.md): The schooner used by Count d'Artigas for kidnapping and piracy.
- [Effrondat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/effrondat.md): A boatswain serving under Lieutenant Davon on the Sword.
- [Gibson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/facing_the_flag_se/characters/gibson.md): A driver at the Healthful House who assists in the kidnapping.

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