# Kent Pickering — Uller Uprising character guide

> Kent Pickering in Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pickering, Dr. Pickering

**First appearance:** 0005-i-commander-in-chief-front-and-center

## Snapshot

Terran scientist and advisor to von Schlichten, he reads Uller's upheaval through economics and culture, not just gun sights.

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [XIII: A Bag of Tricks We Don't Have](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/chapters/xiii-a-bag-of-tricks-we-don-t-have)

Discusses the technical challenges of building an A-bomb and is identified by von Schlichten as the key to saving them.

### [XIV: The Reviewers Panned Hell Out of It](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/chapters/xiv-the-reviewers-panned-hell-out-of-it)

Discovers atomic bomb data in Hildegarde Hernandez's novel and leads the bomb construction effort.

### [A Place in My Heart for Hildegarde](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uller_uprising_se/chapters/xv-a-place-in-my-heart-for-hildegarde)

Inventor of the bomb, accompanies the mission to oversee its use.

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