Kazimir Burnelli
Names: Kazimir BurnelliAdmiralFirst Admiral Kazimir BurnelliKazimirChief Admiral
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 2Kazimir is 1,206 years old, commander of the Commonwealth Navy, and the human link between ANA:Governance and the deterrent fleet.
- Ch 2Kazimir is the child of two important Starflyer War figures and agrees to fast-track Troblum's data to a review committee, but not to start a search.
- Ch 4Admiral who warns the Ocisen the Navy will not allow attacks on humans, but says the Navy exists only for defence against external enemies.
- Ch 4Admiral Kazimir thought enough of Troblum's presentation to order a full review; he is not easily won over and cannot be influenced by Marius's Faction.
- Ch 8Admiral Kazimir called the ExoProtectorate Council and insists the Empire fleet can be neutralized; he refuses to reveal the deterrence fleet's strength.
- Ch 8Kazimir convened the committee because he and Governance will not reveal their true capability unless faced with a genuine, serious threat; he wants the Ocisen warships disabled without loss of life.
- Ch 8Kazimir plans to bring a ship from the Hancher assistance squadron, able to disable a Starslayer without casualties, arriving within ten days; the ultimatum allows one Earth day.
- Ch 12Kazimir says the Navy exists to protect humans from hostile aliens and cannot intervene directly in internal Commonwealth affairs.
- Ch 12Kazimir will remain behind to protect humans if ANA leaves the physical universe, and refuses to break his rules.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 5Kazimir is Admiral of the Commonwealth Navy, has led it for seven centuries and kept Wilson's promise on political pressure, but never redecorated the office.
- Ch 5Kazimir is Gore's grandson-like descendant (Gore calls him son, he calls Gore Grandfather) and Justine is his mother.
- Ch 5Kazimir refused to disable the Ocisen fleet in deep space because the crews would die, intending only a demonstration of technological superiority.
- Ch 8Kazimir leads the Commonwealth fleet response; his mother is in suspension and his grandfather Gore is absent from the Council.
- Ch 11Kazimir has served in the deterrence fleet and tells Paula she has met someone from it: him.
- Ch 11Kazimir will ask the Senate Commission to deploy the deterrent fleet, but only after a final warning to the Ocisen fleet.
- Ch 11Kazimir feels unease about the Accelerator plan that he cannot define.
- Ch 11Kazimir wanted to capture a living Prime to learn their origin, numbers and technology, and suspects Ilanthe has set a trap for the deterrence fleet.
- Ch 11Kazimir agrees to launch the deterrence fleet in compliance with the Senate Executive Security Commission resolution.
- Ch 11Gore is Kazimir's grandfather and a counterweight to Ilanthe on the Council.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Chief Admiral who must take the deterrence fleet against the Ocisen armada, accepting he may not return.
- Ch 1Transforms into a point-like energy signature using 817 functions, including FTL travel at a hundred light-years an hour, and launches toward the Ocisen fleet.
- Ch 1Kazimir intercepted the Ocisen fleet, disabled all 37 Prime ships' drives, links and weapons, and ruined the Ocisen weapons without causing mass casualties.
- Ch 1Kazimir kept only one hyperspace link to ANA to avoid giving Ilanthe information, and returned to Sol to be present at the hearing.
- Ch 2Kazimir was a short-lived being Justine left on the slopes of the ersatz Mount Herculaneum; he now exists only as a pattern in the Void's memory layer.
- Ch 3Kazimir leads the deterrence fleet but cannot analyze the inversion core or breach the Swarm's force fields, and fails to stop the Accelerator ship.
- Ch 5The Admiral says the powerful unknown ship can probably be found but not caught or beaten by navy weapons.
- Ch 8The Admiral says attacking the Pilgrimage ships would destroy much of Greater Makkathran, home to sixteen million people, and navy crews might refuse the order.
- Ch 8The navy is drawing up covert sabotage plans and evacuating its core staff to Kerensk, including the Admiral.
- Ch 21Admiral Kazimir captures Marius, saying none of the Accelerators ever come back for him.
Connections
- leadsCommonwealth Navy
- ally ofJustine Burnelli
- leadsCleric Council
- ally ofPaula Myo
- related toWilson Kimesuccessor as head of the Commonwealth Navy
- family ofJustine Burnelliher son
- family ofGore Burnelligrandson
- leadsdeterrent fleet
- ally ofANA
- member ofdeterrent fleet
- enemy ofIlanthe
- related toAdmiral Juliacadeputy of
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Presentation to the Navy
Troblum presents to Admiral Kazimir Burnelli and captains his theory that the Dyson Pair generators were Raiel systems moved by a wormhole. Kazimir will forward it to a review committee rather than authorize a search; Troblum is frustrated.
- Book 1 · Ch 4Ocisen Ambassador's ultimatum
The Ocisen Ambassador demands the Commonwealth stop the Living Dream Pilgrimage ships, threatening Empire action with new allies. Justine and Kazimir refuse force but promise a Senate motion.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Council meets on Ocisen fleet
Kazimir informs the ExoProtectorate Council that a huge Ocisen fleet is heading for Ellezelin; members debate force, diversion or diplomacy without agreement.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Committee votes to confront the Ocisen fleet
The committee votes by majority for the Navy to warn the Ocisen command ship and disable it if ignored. Justine and Creewan oppose; Justine leaves, and Kazimir will reconvene if the fleet keeps coming.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula consults ANA:Governance
Paula discusses the Pilgrimage dilemma with ANA:Governance, then Kazimir tells her of the Alini docking at the Raiel dome; she sets off for High Angel.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Paula learns Inigo may be on Hanko
Qatux reveals Inigo was born Higher and likely hides on Hanko. Paula discusses the Pilgrimage with Qatux, then asks Kazimir to observe Hanko; he declines to intervene.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Council response
The Council debates, then agrees Kazimir will send four Capital-class ships to scout, with the deterrent fleet to be deployed if they are destroyed.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Lindau lost; Yangtze dispatched
Kazimir reports communications with the Lindau lost, possibly taken by Aaron. He tracks it still on Hanko and sends the River-class Yangtze.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Battle with the Ocisen fleet
Commonwealth stealth ships tear a Starslayer command vessel from its wormhole and destroy two unknown allied ships, losing the Congo. Scans reveal a dead Prime motile aboard.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula and Kazimir discuss the Accelerator plot
Paula briefs Kazimir and ANA, and they reason that the Accelerators want the deterrence fleet to be revealed; Kazimir confirms it is real.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula's plan to test the Primes
Paula and Kazimir deduce the Accelerators want the deterrence fleet weapons to use against the Raiel, and plan to board a Prime ship with Capital-class ships to see if humans drive them.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Prime warship destroyed during capture
Navy ships pull a Prime warship out of hyperspace and disable it, but it explodes before marines board. Kazimir then orders the deterrence fleet launched.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Kazimir launches the deterrence fleet
After the ExoProtectorate Council decision, Kazimir tells Paula, teleports to Proxima Centauri, becomes an energy signature commanding the deterrence fleet, and heads to the Ocisen fleet.
- 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.
- Book 3 · Ch 1ANA moves to suspend the Accelerators
With Kazimir's evidence, ANA:Governance will convene a suspension conclave against the Accelerators, and Kazimir returns to Sol.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Inversion core escapes and the Swarm seals Sol
The inversion core breaks out into spacetime and outruns the warships and Kazimir. The Swarm of 8,001 devices englobes the Sol system, collapsing wormholes while the Accelerator ship picks up the core and flees behind the force field.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Paula and the Admiral discuss the Pilgrimage
They conclude attacking the Pilgrimage ships would devastate Greater Makkathran, plan sabotage, note Qatux's help against the Sol barrier, and agree to wait on intercepting the Lindau until the Spike.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Marius captured
Fleeing near the Leo Twins, Marius's ship is forced out of transdimensional flight and disabled; Admiral Kazimir arrests him.