# Star Born — Character guide

> Key figures in Star Born by Andre Norton.

- [Raf Kurbi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/raf_kurbi.md): Raf Kurbi is crew on the Spacer RS 10, restless under Captain Hobart's discipline and hungry for a world he can explore on his own terms. Waking blind and immobilized after the Center is invaded, he must trust the merman
- [Dalgard Nordis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/dalgard_nordis.md): Dalgard Nordis belongs to the second generation born on Astra, descended from outlaws who fled Terra and now answer to the Council of Free Men. His wordless rapport with Sssuri crosses species lines, but the question of 
- [Sssuri](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/sssuri.md): Sssuri moves between the merpeople's underwater world and Dalgard's land-bound colony, bound to the human by a rapport that needs no speech. His rainbow-tipped pelt and barbed bone blade mark him as alien, yet his loyalt
- [Captain Hobart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/captain_hobart.md): Captain Hobart runs the Terran survey of Astra with the automatic recorder always running and the com always open to the ship. He is the authority that keeps Raf's reckless curiosity in check, the one who decides what th
- [Soriki](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/soriki.md): Soriki rides behind Raf with the com clamped to his skull, the expedition's lifeline to the silver pencil of the RS 10 receding behind them. He is the quiet professional whose constant chatter of coordinates and check-in
- [Lablet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/lablet.md): Lablet is the expedition's observer, the one whose records and readings are meant to make sense of a planet that feels impossibly new. He moves through the survey with equipment hung about him, part of the small team tha
- [Wonstead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/wonstead.md): A Terran crew member involved in the expedition.
- [Pax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/pax.md): A native creature or entity encountered on the planet.
- [Forken Kordov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/star_born_se/characters/forken_kordov.md): A minor character from the native human settlement.

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