# Kelgarries Ashe — The Defiant Agents character guide

> Kelgarries Ashe in The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ashe, Kelgarries

**First appearance:** 0001-the-defiant-agents

## Snapshot

A colonel commanding one sector of Project Star, he demands hard answers when a thirty-year sleeper betrays the Topaz operation from within.

## Who they are

Kelgarries sits at the table where five snooped tapes mean the enemy has read every secret of the colonization project, and he takes the breach as a personal failure of security. Where Waldour answers with chill precision and Ruthven with ruthless implication, Kelgarries bristles and grasps for any loophole—search points, turned-out quarters, a mistake. His blunt, military urgency sets the stakes of the early arc: the damage is done, and someone must decide how to answer it.

## In the story

### [The Defiant Agents](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_defiant_agents_se/chapters/the-defiant-agents)

Colonel and project leader, oversees the colonization effort on Topaz.

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