Conservative Faction
Names: Conservative Factionhis FactionConservativesTrue Conservativesthe executive
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 2This broad alliance wants things to keep running as they are and has an ultradrive starship, which ANA never released to the Central Worlds.
- Ch 2It informs the Delivery Man that Marius has been seen on Ellezelin.
- Ch 6The Conservative Faction chooses passive observation of Troblum's hangar and notes Troblum is a physicist obsessed with Starflyer War artefacts and with Navy contacts.
- Ch 10It ordered the machine and smartcore destroyed with unlimited technology allowed, insisting nobody, especially Highers, must know it existed.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 8The Conservative Faction asks the Delivery Man to deliver a starship to Pulap, saying a more active operative will now monitor Marius.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Believes the Accelerators orchestrated the deterrence fleet deployment in order to learn its nature.
- Ch 5A self-described 'executive' portion of the Conservative Faction, outside ANA on a 'sabbatical', contacts the Delivery Man, speaks crudely and tells him to take over a ship and return to Purlap.
- Ch 5The executive says the Delivery Man is only a courier with low-level covert work and urges him to earn his 'double-O status'.
Connections
- has memberDelivery Manunofficial representative to the physical Commonwealth
- ally ofDelivery Manacts on its orders
- led byGore Burnellichairman of the board per Accelerator files
- related toAaronruns covert missions for it
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Warning about Marius
On landing at Riasi, the Conservative Faction calls to tell the Delivery Man that Marius has been seen on Ellezelin, unsettling him.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Delivery Man observes the hangar
The Delivery Man watches Marius leave and reports to the Conservative Faction, which decides to research Troblum further using passive observation.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Delivery Man breaches Troblum's hangar
The Delivery Man breaks in to Troblum's hangar on Daroca and, with the Conservative Faction's help, discovers a planet-transporting ftl engine design and a machine that built it.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Delivery Man agrees to one more delivery
After an evening with his family, the Delivery Man is asked by the Conservative Faction to deliver a starship to Pulap and agrees on condition of three days' notice for future jobs.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Delivery Man leaves Fanallisto
Having set up a hotel room decoy with defended cases, he is told the deterrence fleet is deploying and hurries to leave for Earth.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Conservative executive recruits the Delivery Man
A Conservative Faction executive contacts him from outside the barrier and tells him to commandeer a ship and return to Purlap to collect a starship.