Oscar Monroe
Names: Oscar MonroeOscarYaohuiOscar the Martyr
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 12 (6)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 12Former Navy pilot who died colliding with Anna Kime's hyperglider; recovered by Paula Myo and sentenced to 1,100 years' suspension for the Abadan Station terrorist deaths.
- Ch 12Re-lifed after the war, he now flies commercial starships for Orakum SolarStar and has lived nineteen years in a house on Orakum.
- Ch 12Oscar is an ex-Navy captain and pilot, re-lifed after being tried and put in suspension; he now has an Advancer body and lives with three life partners on Orakum.
- Ch 12Oscar is secretly bored with his comfortable, monotonous life, and admits this to himself when Paula says it.
- Ch 12Oscar agrees, reluctantly, to take on Paula's job and accepts the offered ultradrive starship.
- Ch 12Oscar's pension fund was paid into a trust by Wilson after his trial, and interest over 1,100 years paid for his luxurious house.
- Ch 12Oscar flew a hyperglider and caused victims at Abadan; he was put on trial for it, and still carries guilt.
- Ch 12Oscar sacrificed himself so the human race could survive, and helped save people from the Starflyer.
- Ch 12Oscar died on Far Away in a hyperglider crash, and was later revived; he returns eighty-six years after leaving the re-life clinic.
- Ch 12Oscar named his new ANA-provided starship Elvin's Payback and feels Paula overestimates him, saying he is only a pilot.
- Ch 12Oscar seeks the Knights Guardian's help, hiding his contact's identity from Paula.
- Ch 12Oscar arrives on Far Away seeking the Knights Guardians' help; he was once in the Navy and helped kill the Starflyer.
- Ch 12Oscar wants to find the Second Dreamer and offer protection so he can freely choose whether to emerge, since many want to influence him.
- Ch 14Oscar leads a mission aboard an ultradrive ship with four Knights Guardians; he plans to follow the Factions and Living Dream and snatch the Second Dreamer when located.
- Ch 14Oscar is famous from the Starflyer War era, but the Knights Guardians say his name is not as revered as others; he dislikes their admiration of the Cat.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 1Oscar Monroe pilots Elvin's Payback and remembers watching submarine war films in his first life.
- Ch 1Oscar the Martyr is the one person Troblum trusts implicitly, once connected to Paula during the war.
- Ch 3Oscar, wearing a paramilitary armor suit in a hijacked police capsule, is alarmed that the welcome team has Knights Guardian-level firepower and says they must be quick.
- Ch 3Oscar once captained the Dublin during the fight for Hanko against Morning Light Mountain's ships.
- Ch 3Oscar is part of an infiltration team embedded with Living Dream's occupation forces, using armor suits while hiding his biononic abilities.
- Ch 5Oscar guesses that Araminta is the Second Dreamer, reasoning that he knows from his own past what hiding one's real self is like.
- Ch 5Oscar once worked for Nigel Sheldon and built up the navy alongside Wilson; he lived a double life for decades.
- Ch 5Oscar doubts the Second Dreamer is a supersmart operative; he thinks him an ordinary person reacting to events.
- Ch 8Oscar is troubled by guilt over the innocent woman hurt in the false Araminta capture, since he agreed to help Paula and has led the operation.
- Ch 8Oscar once captained the Dublin in the defence of Hanko during the Prime attack and is shaken by its destruction.
- Ch 8Oscar's team uses the Ellezelin invasion's chaos while Phelim's talks with the Senate delegation buy the welcome team time.
- Ch 8Oscar is terrified of the Cat and resents Paula for dragging him into events, but declines her offer of backup on Viotia.
- Ch 11Oscar Monroe, an ancient-seeming but youthful-looking man working for ANA, rescues Araminta and says ANA wants her free to make her own choice.
- Ch 11Oscar's team kills every sensor within five kilometers so Living Dream cannot follow Araminta, and he fights pursuers while she flees.
- Ch 11Oscar Monroe was re-lifed some time ago and had lived quietly since; he is apparently running low-visibility operations for Paula.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Oscar killed two agents protecting Araminta in the Bodant Park fight and now feels guilt over his ruthlessness.
- Ch 1Oscar leads a team including Tomansio, Beckia and Liatris searching for Araminta, who vanished from Bodant Park; no hunting team has found her.
- Ch 1Oscar had a sexual encounter with the Cat on the plane to Far Away and claims she later bore his child after the Starflyer crash.
- Ch 1Oscar warns Tandra and Martyn to leave their home because more people hunting Araminta will come, and says he has met Ozzie, who is nothing like his reputation.
- Ch 1Oscar hopes Araminta might call him, and plans to visit a Mr. Bovey whom Liatris has linked to her.
- Ch 3Oscar once martyred himself so the human species could survive; he joined the Socialist Party in college and was led into radical groups, ending in the Aberdan station tragedy.
- Ch 3Oscar works for ANA and wears an Ellezelin forces uniform, which feels like the repressive authority he once opposed.
- Ch 3Oscar says he and his team covered for Araminta at Bodant Park so she could escape.
- Ch 3Oscar works with Paula Myo and a team; Paula warns he may have to follow Araminta to Chobamba, and he doubts the job but his team will stay.
- Ch 5Oscar claimed to work for ANA and helped Araminta escape Bodant Park.
- Ch 6Oscar claims to work for ANA and helped Araminta at Bodant Park, but Laril distrusts the code she gave him.
- Ch 6Oscar leads a team watching Francola Wood from a ground-floor apartment, hoping Araminta returns via the Silfen path; he doubts she will.
- Ch 6Oscar can faintly sense the alien path in the gaiafield, feeling age and great distance, though it slips away when he concentrates.
- Ch 8Oscar watches the events on unisphere feeds from the starship Elvin's Payback, hidden in a warehouse near the wormhole.
- Ch 8Oscar believes Araminta is genuinely herself and has a plan, and persuades his team to stay on in Greater Makkathran.
- Ch 8Oscar notes Araminta wears something around her neck and knew about Ilanthe, suggesting she has her own information source.
- Ch 14Oscar privately admits that his mission is over and plans to flee the galaxy in an ultradrive starship, though he is unsure how his life partners would react.
- Ch 14Oscar is a lecherous, self-deprecating man who is distracted by Liatris and is alone in the sense of having no close family; Paula Myo is his closest living connection.
- Ch 14Oscar had been certain from a brief face-to-face meeting in Bodant Park that Araminta was somehow playing Living Dream.
- Ch 14Oscar leads a team formerly backed by ANA and now acting alone, trying to help Araminta; he fought with Bradley in the Starflyer War.
- Ch 16Oscar Monroe, known as Oscar the Martyr, sacrificed himself so Wilson Kime could steer the Planet's Revenge and save humanity; he is now out of prison.
- Ch 16Oscar Monroe was aboard the Elvin's Payback, knew of Troblum from Paula Myo, and brought him to meet Ozzie.
- Ch 16Oscar fights the Chikoya alongside the Knights Guardian, fitting into the team automatically.
- Ch 16Oscar suspects the Chikoya deliberately targeted Cheriton and senses he is missing something.
- Ch 18Oscar realises Mellanie's Redemption cannot survive the Cat's weapons and decides to call someone who might help, hoping she is still alive.
- Ch 18Oscar asks Paula to have Qatux intercede with the warrior Raiel, who could destroy the Mellanie's Redemption.
- Ch 18Oscar cannot fully shield his thoughts, which he jokes is like Edeard in his group.
- Ch 20Oscar wakes from suspension and is pulled into Aaron's nightmare of being tortured by the Cat, leaving real burn-like marks on his wrists.
- Ch 21Oscar returns home to his life partners Jesaral, Dushiku and Anja, feels unexpected homesickness, and brags of his role in the Void.
- Ch 21Oscar and Troblum are partners planning to explore the far side of the galaxy and learn what happened to lost colony ships.
Connections
- member ofOrakum SolarStar
- partner ofJesarallife partners
- friend ofWilson Kime
- related toPaula Myorecovered his memorycellconnected during the war
- partner ofAnjalife partners
- partner ofDushikulife partners
- ally ofPaula Myo
- related toElvin's Paybackpilots and named itOscar pilots the ship
- ally ofTomansio McFoster Stewart
- ally ofLiatris McPeierl
- ally ofBeckia McKratz
- ally ofCheriton McOnna
- member ofANA
- ally ofSecond Dreamer
- friend ofTroblum
- related toANAAraminta associates him with ANA
- enemy ofthe Cat
- friend ofTomansio McFoster Stewart
- member ofPaula Myoworks under her
- friend ofBradley Johansson
- ally ofBradley Johanssonfought together in the Starflyer War
- friend ofQatux
- ally ofTroblumbusiness partners exploring
- ally ofKnights Guardian
- member ofKnights Guardian
- ally ofInigo
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 12Oscar's history and return home
Oscar recalls his death, trial and re-life after a 1,100-year suspension, then comes home to Orakum, where Jesaral greets him upset about the others.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Paula Myo recruits Oscar
Paula surprises Oscar at his home, asks him to secretly find the Second Dreamer, and persuades him by exposing his boredom; he reluctantly accepts a waiting ultradrive ship.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Oscar returns to Far Away
Oscar lands at Armstrong City, visits the Kime Sanctuary at Mount Herculaneum where he died, and is met by Tomansio of the Knights Guardian.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Journey to Knights Guardian lands
Tomansio navigates Oscar's capsule to the Knights Guardian's valley, which appears via the T-sphere teleport.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Oscar welcomed on Far Away
Oscar is greeted with ceremony by the Knights Guardians, sees the Cat's shrine, and asks Tomansio to help find and protect the Second Dreamer; Tomansio agrees and will lead a team.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Oscar briefs the Knights Guardians
Aboard the ship, Oscar argues history with the Knights Guardians and outlines a plan to infiltrate Living Dream's search on Viotia and seize the Second Dreamer.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Elvin's Payback sneaks into Colwyn docks
Using stealth and hacked networks, Oscar's crew lands the ship unseen in a barge repair bay at the docks in the rainy night.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Troblum plans escape and warning
After surviving the Cat's attack, Troblum decides to build an ultradrive from stolen parts and contact Paula via Oscar the Martyr.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Oscar's team prepares to intercept
Oscar, Beckia and Tomansio ride in a captured police capsule, learning that Living Dream's welcome team is heavily armed and discussing whether biononics work in the Void.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Raid on Danal's apartment block
Welcome team and support troops, including Oscar's covert team, seal the building and round up thirty-three residents, but the Second Dreamer has already escaped.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Search of apartment four
Oscar and Tomansio find signs of recent habitation in Araminta's half-refurbished apartment and plan to trace her.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Oscar deduces Araminta is the Second Dreamer
Over breakfast Oscar's team reviews Liatris's findings and Oscar concludes Araminta, who vanished, is the Second Dreamer. They decide to mislead Honilar and return to the apartment.
- Book 2 · Ch 8False Araminta seized in Colwyn City
Honilar's welcome team violently captures an innocent lookalike on Daryad Avenue. Oscar's team watches, and Oscar feels guilt. The team then meets Cheriton, who reports on Living Dream.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Hanko destroyed
Paula tells Oscar that a faction agent fired a black hole weapon into Hanko, which is imploding, with Inigo possibly on it.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Paula warns Oscar about the Cat
Paula tells Oscar she suspects a Cat clone is the agent who tried to kill her and may turn up on Viotia, possibly luring the Knights Guardian away. Oscar refuses backup.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Oscar Monroe rescues Araminta
After a voice warns her, Araminta is chased by a man with a force field. Oscar Monroe and his team fight Living Dream agents while she escapes by cab toward Francola district.
- Book 2 · Ch 11The SI contacts Troblum
The SI takes over Trisha's tattoos and speaks to Troblum, learns he wants Paula, and directs him to Oscar Monroe.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Confrontation with the Cat at Tandra's house
Oscar's team finds the Cat already at Tandra's home holding the twins hostage. Oscar bluffs and threatens, forcing a shared-information truce, and learns Araminta slept there the night before the Bodant Park fight.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Confrontation with the Cat at Tandra's home
Oscar, Tomansio and Beckia watch the Cat question Tandra about Araminta. She leaves after learning little, Oscar warns the family to flee, and he reports to Paula.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Oscar's team confronts Mr. Bovey
Oscar, Beckia and Tomansio press Mr. Bovey to reveal Araminta's whereabouts, warning others will come. Cheriton and Liatris then report Living Dream has located her after she shared Inigo's Eighth Dream.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Araminta found on Chobamba
Oscar's team and Living Dream both learn Araminta is on Chobamba sharing Inigo's dreams. Both sides plan to reach her; Oscar's team consults Paula.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Path stirs at Francola Wood
Oscar senses the Silfen path changing; Welcome Team members rush toward the woods and Oscar and Beckia arm up, calling Tomansio. A disrupter pulse shatters their window and they run out.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Oscar's group reacts
Watching the news, Oscar, Tomansio, Beckia and Liatris debate whether the woman is truly Araminta and what it means.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Watchers debate Araminta's motives
Oscar's team and Paula, with Admiral Juliaca, discuss whether Araminta is a puppet or has a plan; Oscar is told to keep seeking contact.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Araminta calls Oscar
Oscar and his team, preparing to give up and flee, receive a call using his onetime code from someone claiming to be Araminta, who asks to meet.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Oscar meets Araminta-two
Oscar's team meets Araminta-two in a Viotia restaurant and whisks her aboard Elvin's Payback. Tomansio verifies her; she asks for Ozzie's help and the ship heads to the Spike.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Troblum reaches the Spike
Troblum, in his new armor, flies Mellanie's Redemption to the Spike, lands near Oscar's ship and contacts Oscar, offering his Swarm knowledge.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Troblum offers wormhole transport
Troblum reveals his ship's Anomine-derived novabomb-powered wormhole engine that could reach the galactic core ahead of the Pilgrimage fleet. The group agrees to go, with extra suspension chambers being built for Void time.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Chikoya attack Ozzie's house
Forty armored Chikoya teleport in, surrounding the house; Ozzie vanishes, and Oscar and the Knights Guardian fight them back while Aaron guards the Dreamers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Myraian slaughters the Chikoya
Myraian dances untouched through Chikoya fire and kills one with a kiss. The Knights' combatbots arrive and the Chikoya flee or teleport out.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Cheriton teleported away
Chikoya establish a T-sphere around Cheriton, who cannot counterprogram it, and teleport him to the Farloy compartment. Tomansio forbids pursuit and the team evacuates the Dreamers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16The Cat tortures Cheriton by gifting
Cheriton contacts the team via gaiafield. The Cat, having mutilated him, rewrites his memories to torment him. The team flees FTL as he is forced to relive shooting his family.
- Book 3 · Ch 18The Cat ambushes Mellanie's Redemption
The Cat catches Mellanie's Redemption as Troblum prepares the FTL device. Paula intervenes, the ship flees, then launches the device into the star while Paula draws the Cat away.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Wormhole crossing
The planetary FTL device opens a wormhole through the star, and the Mellanie's Redemption crosses 28,000 light-years to emerge near the Void.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Arrival at Makkathran
After Oscar suffers Aaron's nightmare, the crew lands near the Silverbird; Justine greets them, and Aaron says Inigo must bring forth the Waterwalker.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Plan to reach the Heart
Gore tells the group to engage the Heart and persuade it to stop; Skylord-guided Edeard is the way in, and the group will use Makkathran as their ship.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Makkathran launches
Edeard persuades Makkathran, which encases itself in a crystal dome, shatters the land and sea, and lifts into space as a warship.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Homecomings after the Void's elevation
Oscar, Justine, Araminta and the Delivery Man return to loved ones; Araminta brings Aaron to the Silfen, where she meets Mellanie.