Uller Uprising · Characters
Character guide
Key figures in Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper.
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General Carlos von Schlichten
major
Also known as von Schlichten, Carlos, General von Schlichten, Authority Carlos von Schlichten
Von Schlichten commands Terra's armed presence on Uller, juggling military defense, Company politics, and native diplomacy while a revolt spreads. He is ruthless in battle — strafing a mob from an airjeep — yet candid enough to admit he is 'too old to play cowboy,' and his real struggle is whether conquest can ever become governance. His decisions in the early fighting shape whether the Terrans hold the planet at all.
Stanley Browne
major
Also known as Stanley - Browne, Browne, Willard Stanley - Browne
Browne covers the Uller conflict for a distant audience, and his reporting is shaped as much by bias and narrative appetite as by events on the ground. His presence raises the question of who controls the story of the uprising — the Company, the rebels, or the man with the transmitter. What he chooses to send home quietly influences how the war is understood far from Uller.
King Kankad
major
Also known as Kankad, The present Kankad
Kankad rules his own people and knows the Terrans well enough to fight them on their terms, borrowing their methods while pursuing Ulleran ends. His rebellion forces von Schlichten to abandon any pretense that the occupation is stable or consensual. As the uprising's political center, he transforms scattered unrest into a coordinated threat.
King Jonkvank
supporting
Also known as Jonkvank
Jonkvank arrives at the Terran Reservation in an ornate launch built for him at Konkrook, a monarch already half-dependent on the power he once rivaled. Von Schlichten intends to hand him the Spear of State as a vassal, not an equal, and Jonkvank's reign will be measured in concessions. His bargain shows how the Company converts defeated kings into instruments of rule.
King Firkked of Skilk
supporting
Also known as Firkked, Skilk
Firkked rules Skilk and throws his weight behind the anti-Terran uprising, making his court a node of resistance. Von Schlichten kills him personally in single combat — a calculated risk that, by local custom, makes the general King of Skilk. Firkked's death is then filmed and screened for other kings, turning his corpse into a tool of nervenkrieg.
Rakkeed
major
Also known as Rakkeed the Prophet, Rakkeed disciples
Rakkeed preaches holy war against the Terrans and their puppet kings, traveling disguised in coolie class on Company ships while nobles quietly host him. Intelligence ties him to money from Gurgurk and to followers like Keeluk, but his real power is the idea he spreads. Blount warns that calling him a barbarian is like calling Hitler a paperhanger — and the uprising proves the point.
Rev. Keeluk Von Schlichten
supporting
Also known as Keeluk, Mr. Keeluk
Keeluk moves between two worlds: the Terran administration that employs his brother and the Ulleran congregations he serves, and the correspondence he passes along becomes intelligence in a war he never chose. His divided loyalties make him a quiet pressure point in the escalating conflict, forcing the reader to ask where faith ends and politics begins. He matters because the letters he hands over help expose the network of anti-Terran agitation before it erupts.
Eric Blount
supporting
Also known as Blount, Lieutenant - Governor Blount
Blount is the political officer who sees what Harrington won't: that every spaceport and power-reactor the Company bestows deepens native hatred rather than gratitude. He needles the governor over the chessboard and the plutonium shipments, tracking Orgzild's ambitions and Rakkeed's reach with the patience of a man who expects the worst. His clear-eyed pessimism drives the early arc, turning scattered warnings into a case for action before the uprising fully ignites.
Sidney Harrington
supporting
Also known as Harrington, Sid, Sid Harrington, Governor Harrington
Harrington presides over the Company's Ulleran holdings with pipe-smoke optimism, dismissing native hatred as the grumbling of a few fanatics and merchants. He spars with Blount over chess and policy, waving away warnings about Orgzild's plutonium purchases and Rakkeed's sermons as burglars under the bed. His complacency is the wall the story's more clear-eyed officers must push against, making him the human face of the colonial blind spot that invites disaster.
Colonel Paula Quinton
supporting
Also known as Paula Quinton, Colonel Quinton, Miss Quinton, Dr. Paula Quinton
Quinton comes to Uller fresh from a near-murder on Seventy-second Street, bandaged and wary, and immediately bristles at the casual contempt in Terran speech. She presses von Schlichten and Blount on the onomatopoeia behind 'geek' and the native word 'suddabit,' refusing the comfortable us-and-them shorthand. Her outsider's conscience gives the early chapters their moral friction, and her intelligence work soon pulls her into the thick of the crisis.
Colonel Hideyoshi O'Leary
supporting
Also known as O'Leary, Hideyoshi, Colonel O'Leary, Hid O'Leary
O'Leary is von Schlichten's comrade-in-arms and the officer who runs the Kragan and native troops, comfortable in the slang and the tactics of the occupation. He leavens the grim briefings with dry asides, explaining the etymology of slurs and the mechanics of nervenkrieg with equal ease. His competence with auxiliary forces makes him a linchpin of the Terran military response once the uprising breaks.
General Themistocles M'zangwe
supporting
Also known as M'zangwe, General M'zangwe, Themistocles M'tzangwe
M'zangwe holds the military line while the civilian leadership debates, the professional counterweight to Harrington's optimism and Blount's warnings. He is the officer whose forces must translate political decisions into firepower once the Skilkan mobs and rebel kings move. His presence in the command structure signals that the Company's response will be organized, ruthless, and total, shaping the middle arc's escalation.
King Orgzild of Keegark
minor
Also known as Orgzild, Keegark, Pappy Orgzild
Ulleran king of Keegark, part of the rebel alliance.
Gurgurk
minor
Ulleran chieftain loyal to the Terran administration.
Kent Pickering
supporting
Also known as Pickering, Dr. Pickering
Pickering belongs to the Company's civilian brain-trust on Uller, the men who can explain why a planet two hundred percent richer still breeds prophets and riots. He sees Rakkeed's following as the human cost of imposed revolution — squeezed merchants, displaced Zirk caravan men — and says so plainly over cocktails. His clear-eyed analysis gives the early unrest its shape, turning a native uprising into a problem of policy and consequence.
Jules Keaveney
minor
Also known as Keaveney, Mrs. Jules Keaveney, Mr. Keaveney
Terran civilian married to a native, caught in the conflict.
Air-Commodore Leslie Hargreaves
supporting
Also known as Hargreaves, Les, Commodore Hargreaves
Hargreaves commands the skies above the Reservation, the officer von Schlichten calls when a geek column comes slogging up the highway. He reads a crowd's stubborn, winded deliberateness with a soldier's cold eye, then lights it up for the gunships without flinching. His readiness — contragravity on instant call, patrols along the Hoork — is what keeps the early violence from overrunning the Terran position.
Dr. Lourenço Gomes
minor
Also known as Gomes, Lourenço, Dr. Gomes
Terran physician and scientist studying Ulleran biology.
Prince Gorkrink
minor
Also known as Gorkrink, The Prince Gorkrink
Ulleran prince, son of a rebel king.
Brigadier-General Barney Mordkovitz
minor
Also known as Mordkovitz, General Mordkovitz, Barney
Terran officer commanding artillery units.
Colonel Jarman
minor
Also known as Jarman
Terran officer, commander of a Kragan rifle battalion.
Morton Buhrmann
minor
Also known as Buhrmann
Terran civilian engineer on Uller.
Colonel Cheng-Li
minor
Terran officer commanding a native regiment.
Major Falkenberg
minor
Also known as Falkenberg
Terran officer, commander of mercenary troops.
King Yoorkerk
minor
Also known as Yoorkerk
Ulleran king, minor rebel leader.
Colonel Robert Grinell
minor
Also known as Grinell, Colonel Grinell
Terran officer, commander of a native regiment.
Commander Dirk Prinsloo
minor
Also known as Prinsloo, Dirk Prinsloo, Commander Prinsloo of the Aldebaran
Terran naval officer commanding the starship Aldebaran.
Sergeant Harry Quong
minor
Also known as Quong, Harry
Terran non-commissioned officer in the colonial forces.
Mohammed Ferriera
minor
Also known as Ferriera, Mr. Ferriera, old Mohammed Ferriera
Terran civilian trader on Uller.
King Jaikark
minor
Also known as Jaikark, Jaikark the Seventeenth
Ulleran king, minor rebel figure.
Emmett Pearson
minor
Also known as Pearson
Terran journalist accompanying Stanley Browne.
Dr. Murillo
minor
Also known as Juan Murillo, Murillo, the Hispano-Indian Martian Murillo
Terran physician and xenologist on Uller.
Captain Pedolsky
minor
Terran officer, commander of a spaceship.
Lieutenant Morrison
minor
Also known as Morrison, Lieutenant (j.g.) Morrison
Terran junior officer in the colonial forces.
Konkrook
minor
Ulleran native, minor character in the uprising.
Corporal Hassan Bogdanoff
minor
Also known as Bogdanoff, Hassan
Terran non-commissioned officer in the colonial forces.
Znidd Suddabit
minor
Also known as Suddabit, znidd suddabit
Ulleran native, minor rebel figure.
Hildegarde Hernandez
minor
Also known as Hildegarde, one Hildegarde Hernandez
Terran woman, love interest of a main character.
Lord Ghroghrank
minor
Also known as Ghroghrank, old Ghroghrank
Ulleran nobleman, minor rebel leader.
Hans Meyerstein
minor
Also known as Meyerstein
Terran civilian, minor character.
Native-Major Kormork
minor
Also known as Kormork
Ulleran officer serving in Terran colonial forces.
Colonel Rodolfo MacKinnon
minor
Also known as MacKinnon, Rodolfo MacKinnon, Colonel MacKinnon
Terran officer, commander of a Kragan regiment.
Captain Inez Malavez
minor
Also known as Malavez, Inez Malavez, Captain Malavez
Terran officer, pilot and intelligence operative.
Prince Jaizerd
minor
Also known as Jaizerd, The Prince
Ulleran prince, minor rebel figure.
Hurkkurk
minor
Ulleran native, minor character.
Ed Wallingsby
minor
Also known as Colonel Wallingsby, Wallingsby
Terran officer, minor character.
Krink
minor
Ulleran native, minor character.
Piet van Reenen
minor
Terran civilian, minor character.
Hendrik Lemoyne
minor
Also known as Hendrik
Terran civilian, minor character.
Laviola
minor
Terran civilian, minor character.