Donald Chatfield
Names: Donald ChatfieldChatfieldDonald
First appears in Book 2: The Temporal Void, chapter 5 (THREE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 11Retired Navy captain, 350 years old, living on Ganthia in a grown-tree house; he captained the Poix on his third Dyson Alpha mission.
- Ch 11Paula concludes he is an Accelerator because he asked what Vernon's agenda was rather than which faction it served.
- Ch 11His DNA nearly matches his registered navy file and has a twenty-point similarity to Captain Evanston, indicating a resequenced secondary identity.
- Ch 11Ordered by Marius to go to the Frost station for equipment, then stand off Ellezelin until authorized to land.
- Ch 11Chatfield is an Accelerator agent with an ultra-drive ship whose stealth is imperfect; Digby has him under surveillance.
- Ch 11Chatfield's stealthed hyperdrive ship left Ganthia and went to a gas giant's Trojan point in an uninhabited system guarded by a sensor network.
- Ch 11Visited the ice moon base for three hours, then flew toward Ellezelin; the one remaining link in Paula's lead.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1The personality animating the Prime ships derives from Chatfield's mind, stripped of most emotions and devoted to the Accelerators.
- Ch 3Chatfield's starship exploded over Ellezelin, leaving 1,312 critical fragments; Marius had deployed him to Ellezelin because Paula Myo was onto him.
- Ch 3Donald Chatfield is an Accelerator agent in the Greater Commonwealth whose thought routines animated the Primes allied with the Ocisen fleet.
Connections
- related toEvanstonsame person under different identities
- member ofAccelerators
- related toKent Vernoncaptained the Poix with Vernon as a science crew member
- related toDigbykeeps him under surveillance
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula interviews Chatfield
Paula questions retired Captain Chatfield about Kent Vernon and the Poix mission, then secretly samples his DNA and deduces he is an Accelerator agent.
- Book 2 · Ch 11DNA reveals Evanston link
ANA links Chatfield's DNA to Captain Evanston of the Elan monitoring station, suggesting the Accelerators placed an agent near the surviving Primes before the Prime-Ocisen alliance.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Marius sends Chatfield to the next stage
Marius, disguised as a neighbor, meets Chatfield, confirms the cover story fooled Paula, and sends him to Frost station and then toward Ellezelin.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Digby tracks Chatfield
Digby follows Chatfield to an uninhabited system and finds an elaborate sensor network around an ice moon.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Kazimir neutralizes the Ocisen fleet
Kazimir disables the Prime ships and ruins all Ocisen weapons in eleven seconds, discovers the Primes host Chatfield-derived minds, and warns them of navy custody.