# Captain Volmar — Short Fiction character guide

> Captain Volmar in Short Fiction by Clark Ashton Smith.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Volmar

**First appearance:** 0025-vii-volmar-again

## Snapshot

A space-flier's captain whose icy calm while marooning mutineers is more frightening than any rage.

## Who they are

Captain Volmar commands the vessel from which three mutineers are to be deposited on the first world the ship encounters, and his cold deliberation — sapphire-sharp eyes, tightened lips — makes the sentence feel less like justice than fate. He is not a ranting tyrant but something more unsettling: a man utterly decided, whose stillness strips the condemned of any appeal. His presence frames the marooning as an act of almost geological inevitability, setting the tone for everything the castaways endure.

## Relationships

### [James Roverton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_9_se/characters/james_roverton)

_professional_

Captain Volmar commands the merchant ship that transports James Roverton's goods across the Indian Ocean.

### [James Roverton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_9_se/characters/james_roverton)

_professional_

Captain Volmar commands the merchant ship that transports James Roverton's goods across the Indian Ocean.

## In the story

### [Marooned in Andromeda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_9_se/chapters/marooned-in-andromeda)

Leader of the mutineers, marooned on the alien world.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_9_se/chapters/i)

The austere captain of the space-flier; coldly sentences the mutineers to exile on an alien world.

### [Volmar Again!](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_9_se/chapters/vii-volmar-again)

Returns unexpectedly in the space-flier, apologizes, and rescues the two men.

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