# Uller Uprising — Character guide

> Key figures in Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper.

- [General Carlos von Schlichten](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/carlos_von_schlichten.md): 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 en
- [Stanley Browne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/stanley_browne.md): 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 up
- [King Kankad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/king_kankad.md): 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 occupa
- [King Jonkvank](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/king_jonkvank.md): 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, 
- [King Firkked of Skilk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/king_firkked.md): 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 
- [Rakkeed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/rakkeed.md): 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 
- [Rev. Keeluk Von Schlichten](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/rev_keeluk.md): 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 divide
- [Eric Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/eric_blount.md): 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 
- [Sidney Harrington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/sidney_harrington.md): 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 warning
- [Colonel Paula Quinton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/paula_quinton.md): 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 beh
- [Colonel Hideyoshi O'Leary](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/hideyoshi_oleary.md): 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
- [General Themistocles M'zangwe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/themistocles_mzangwe.md): 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 int
- [King Orgzild of Keegark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/king_orgzild.md): Ulleran king of Keegark, part of the rebel alliance.
- [Gurgurk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/gurgurk.md): Ulleran chieftain loyal to the Terran administration.
- [Kent Pickering](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/kent_pickering.md): 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 
- [Jules Keaveney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/jules_keaveney.md): Terran civilian married to a native, caught in the conflict.
- [Air-Commodore Leslie Hargreaves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/leslie_hargreaves.md): 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 l
- [Dr. Lourenço Gomes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/lourenco_gomes.md): Terran physician and scientist studying Ulleran biology.
- [Prince Gorkrink](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/prince_gorkrink.md): Ulleran prince, son of a rebel king.
- [Brigadier-General Barney Mordkovitz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/barney_mordkovitz.md): Terran officer commanding artillery units.
- [Colonel Jarman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/colonel_jarman.md): Terran officer, commander of a Kragan rifle battalion.
- [Morton Buhrmann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/morton_buhrmann.md): Terran civilian engineer on Uller.
- [Colonel Cheng-Li](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/colonel_cheng_li.md): Terran officer commanding a native regiment.
- [Major Falkenberg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/characters/major_falkenberg.md): Terran officer, commander of mercenary troops.

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