Short Fiction · Character
Svan
Svan is the conspirator who marks his own slip in secret and volunteers to plant the bomb, gambling everything on a bluff that fails.
supporting
First appearance: asteroid of the damned
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Leader of the Venusian conspirators; secretly marks his own slip to plant the bomb, kills a guard, and distrusts his own group.
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Svan moves among six wavering conspirators in a ground car, reading their fear and deciding, in fractions of a second, that unmasking the coward would only fracture them further. He takes the fatal task himself, then…
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