Short Fiction · Character
Lieutenant John Laird
A lone Imperial Solar Navy lieutenant who lands on a dead world and finds something in its buried vault that could doom Earth.
supporting
Also known as Laird, John Laird
First appearance: star ship
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Narrator and protagonist; a haunted Solar Survey officer possessed by the Vwyrddan Daryesh, struggling to maintain his identity and save Earth.
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Laird works alone, buried in the ruins of a ghost city on a bleak, moonlit planet, sifting through a labyrinth for a prize he barely understands. When a ship's hum returns to the sky, he faces the terror that his weeks…
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- Imperial and alien fighters
- Feudal lords and agents
- Protagonist
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