Characters
- Antor Trelig, a corrupt human politician, now a frog-like Makiem
- Serge Ortega, a former freighter captain reborn as an Ulik, a six-armed being that is half-man, half-snake
- Torshind, a Yugash fanatic on the side of Ben Yulin and the Yaxa
- Mavra Chang, at one time a freighter pilot, transformed into a half-donkey, half-human beast in Olborn
- Joshi, a native Glathrielite (Well human), underwent the same transformation as Mavra after being maimed in a fire
- Ben Yulin, formerly Gil Zinder's assistant and Antor Trelig's agent, now a minotaur-like Dasheen and a capable pilot
- Wooley, a butterfly-like Yaxa who was formerly an Entry (Kally Tonge, née Wu Julee) on the side of Mavra Chang
- Renard, at one time the librarian on New Pompeii, now a satyr-like Agitar
- Ghiskind, a Yugash on the side of Mavra Chang and Antor Trelig
- Vistaru, a pixie-like Lata who was formerly an Entry (Star Tonge, née Vardia Diplo 1261)
- Obie, the sentient computer built by Yulin and Zinder to manipulate the basic fabric of the universe
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