# Plague Ship — Character guide

> Key figures in Plague Ship by Andre Norton.

- [Dane Thorson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/dane_thorson.md): Dane is the junior man in the Queen's cargo section, junior enough to ask no questions and dogged enough to wrestle departure anomalies out of ancient voyage tapes on his own. When the steward Frank collapses into isolat
- [Rip Shannon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/rip_shannon.md): Rip is Dane's closest friend aboard and the crew's steady, usually cheerful presence, until illness and the Patrol's shadow strip that ease away. He shoulders the ugly errands — confessing the ship's outlaw status to a m
- [Ali Kamil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/ali_kamil.md): Ali is the crew's dry, faintly amused edge, the man whose raised eyebrow at a Company officer is itself a small act of war between Free Traders and the big combines. He's reliable when it counts, but his pessimism is ear
- [Captain Jellico](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/captain_jellico.md): Jellico runs a Free Trader crew that answers to no Company, and he wears the rivalry with the Eysies like an old scar. Facing a broken contract and a Patrol posting, he leans hard on Van Rycke's trading cunning rather th
- [Medic Craig Tau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/medic_tau.md): Tau is the Queen's quiet scientific conscience, the man who shuts Frank away and works the problem while the rest of the crew trades rumors in the mess cabin. His shrewd, unhurried competence turns a terrifying mystery i
- [Jasper Weeks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/jasper_weeks.md): Weeks is so self-effacing that even his own mates barely register him as an individual — until he slips out of a strategy meeting and returns hauling a spaceman's treasure chest across the deck. Inside are lacquel-bark f
- [Sinbad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/sinbad.md): Aboard the Queen, Sinbad is the portly, dignified pest-catcher whose dispatch and neatness have never once been a problem — until Sargol's alien smells intoxicate him and shear away his middle-aged dependability. Now he 
- [Frank Mura](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/frank_mura.md): Crew member of the Solar Queen, assists with cargo duties.
- [Groft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/groft.md): Salariki native on Sargol, involved in trade negotiations.
- [Medic Hovan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/medic_hovan.md): Wobbling medic from another ship, reports on plague.
- [Kallee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/kallee.md): Salariki native, assists the crew during their stay.
- [Queex](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/queex.md): Alien creature on Sargol, important to local customs.
- [Steen Wilcox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/plague_ship_se/characters/steen_wilcox.md): Astrogator on another ship, briefly encountered.

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