# Triplanetary — Character guide

> Key figures in Triplanetary by E. E. Smith.

- [Conway Costigan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/conway_costigan.md): A burly Triplanetary first officer whose grim competence hides a soft streak for a golden-haired passenger, and who keeps his head when the air turns to poison.
- [Clio Marsden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/clio_marsden.md): Radiant belle of the liner Hyperion, a ground-gripper dazzled by the void, whose first glimpse of the stars ends in terror and a limp collapse in Costigan's arms.
- [Captain Ralph Kinnison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/captain_ralph_kinnison.md): A Triplanetary captain who fights pirates with layered torpedo tactics, coolly gambling that his second shot will make the target a sitting duck for his gunner.
- [Roger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/roger.md): Gray Roger, cold-blooded pirate chief and rumored former Chief Devil of the Jovian wars, working alone on a stupendous plan no rival has ever glimpsed.
- [Captain Bradley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/captain_bradley.md): The Hyperion's bluff, confident captain, who scoffs at rumors of faster-than-light pirates even as two ships vanish without a trace inside a month.
- [Lyman Cleveland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/lyman_cleveland.md): A modest ultra-wave observer who turns out to be the greatest living expert in beam transmission, jury-rigging miracles out of gunny sacks and haywire.
- [Fred Rodebush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/fred_rodebush.md): Rodebush is the engineering mind behind the Triplanetary Service's experimental vessel, the man who turns abstract theory about ultra-waves and free maneuvering into a machine that actually flies. His partnership with Cl
- [Captain Nerado](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/captain_nerado.md): Nerado runs his vessel with the calm efficiency of an officer who has never needed to explain himself to his specimens, feeding Costigan and Clio from hexagonal tables and watching them the way a naturalist watches somet
- [Eunice Kinnison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/eunice_kinnison.md): Eunice belongs to the domestic world that Triplanetary's officers are fighting to preserve, but she is no ornament; her resourcefulness matches her husband's and her judgment is trusted. The strain of loving a man whose 
- [Virgil Samms](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/virgil_samms.md): Samms is the organizer and conscience of the Service, the man who built the apparatus that Rodebush and Cleveland now push to its limits. His face shows the cost of command, and his clipped, urgent transmissions reveal a
- [Gharlane of Eddore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/gharlane_of_eddore.md): Gharlane is not a villain who schemes in a single lifetime but a presence that wears bodies and eras like clothing, moving pieces on the four planets over centuries. The Eddorians' mechanistic logic and hunger for domina
- [Patroclus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/patroclus.md): Patroclus moves through the gladiatorial world as a man who has already survived everything the arena can throw at him, his calm unshaken even when matched against the Gaul Fermius. Beneath that stillness runs a personal
- [Fermius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/fermius.md): Fermius the Gaul is the Grand Champion of the Roman games, a fighter so feared that his name alone can drain the color from a rival's face. He is the wall against which every gladiator's ambition breaks, a symbol of the 
- [Livius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/livius.md): Livius is a seasoned gladiator whose weary realism masks a deep hunger for vengeance against the emperor who destroyed his family. He listens to Patroclus's conspiracy with the caution of a man who has seen every plot fa
- [Nero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/nero.md): Nero rules Rome with a theatrical cruelty that turns atrocity into spectacle, from burning Christians as party lights to watching gladiators die for his amusement. He is the sun around which the arena's violence orbits, 
- [Theodore K. Kinnison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/theodore_kinnison.md): Theodore K. Kinnison is a young officer aboard the liner Hyperion, coordinating its defenses with a cool precision that belies his age. He faces the terrifying unknown of ships that vanish without a trace, his every orde
- [Kinnexa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/kinnexa.md): Kinnexa is a member of the ancient, enigmatic Arisian race, a being whose intelligence operates on a scale that makes human affairs seem like fleeting sparks. She mentors and manipulates key human agents, her motives as 
- [Captain Phryges](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/captain_phryges.md): Atlantean captain and naval commander during the Atlantis arc.
- [Artomenes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/artomenes.md): Bithynian officer serving under the Roman Empire.
- [Thomas Keller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/thomas_keller.md): Triplanetary officer and pilot, part of the pirate pursuit.
- [Atlantis Ariponides](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/atlantis_ariponides.md): Atlantean ruler during the fall of Atlantis.
- [Enphilistor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/enphilistor.md): Young Arisian entity involved in the cosmic conflict with Eddore.
- [Tigellinus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/tigellinus.md): Roman praetorian prefect and ally of Nero.
- [Psychologist Talmonides](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/psychologist_talmonides.md): Atlantean psychologist and advisor to the ruler.
- [Barton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/barton.md): Triplanetary crewman on the Chicago.
- [Tugwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/tugwell.md): Triplanetary engineer and crewman.
- [Senator Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/senator_morgan.md): Corrupt politician in the World War I era.
- [Major Moulton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/major_moulton.md): Triplanetary officer commanding the planetoid assault.
- [Drounli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/drounli.md): Nevian scientist.
- [Statesman Cleto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/statesman_cleto.md): Atlantean statesman.
- [Cleve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/triplanetary_se/characters/cleve.md): Triplanetary crewman.

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