Paula Myo
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First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 6 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 6Paula Myo caught Jollian, who tried to escape his crime through a memory wipe and migration, and had his biononics removed so he could face trial.
- Ch 10Paula Myo is a fourteen-hundred-year-old living legend, ANA:Governance's agent for seven hundred years; her biononics are so advanced that Halran's scans cannot detect her.
- Ch 10Paula was born on Huxley's Haven, engineered to be a psychoneurally profiled, obsessive police officer, but was stolen by radical liberals and raised in the wider Commonwealth.
- Ch 10Paula's task is preventing ANA Factions from illegally interfering with External Worlds; she spots two shielded Faction agents among the contractors and deliberately lets them think she hasn't.
- Ch 10Paula decides to find the Second Dreamer before Living Dream does, stays visible on the Telfer case as a distraction, and has an unlikely person track the Second Dreamer.
- Ch 10Paula led an undercover team to Iaioud three hundred years ago and corrupted its rejuvenation clinics, helping spark a revolution against the Halgarth collective.
- Ch 10Paula gradually modified her genetically hardwired psychoneural profile over three centuries, keeping her core sense of right and wrong.
- Ch 10Paula cannot decide whether Living Dream should be allowed to make Pilgrimage, since evidence the Void will devour the galaxy comes only from the Raiel.
- Ch 10She wants ANA:Governance to protect the Second Dreamer so no one can pressure him over the Pilgrimage.
- Ch 12Paula Myo is a very long-lived investigator who knows Qatux from the Far Away mission; she tracks Aaron and Corrie-Lyn.
- Ch 12Paula believes Inigo's memorycell was stolen from a clinic on Anagaska and suspects someone aware of Qatux's weakness joined a Faction.
- Ch 12Paula doubts the Raiel's claim that the Void will respond catastrophically, and is troubled the Pilgrimage may be a folly ANA:Governance cannot control.
- Ch 12Paula plays guitar and enjoys music, a taste acquired late as her genetically ordained compulsions faded.
- Ch 12Paula Myo is an old acquaintance of Oscar who recovered his memorycell; she now works for ANA.
- Ch 12Paula resequenced her DNA after Far Away to remove her compulsive-behaviour trait, claiming she has changed.
- Ch 12Paula needs to find the Second Dreamer without alerting the Factions, who watch her, so she asks Oscar to do it.
- Ch 12Paula believes the Pilgrimage is a battle between the Factions for humanity's destiny, with the Void only a peripheral event.
- Ch 12Paula Myo recruited Oscar to find the Second Dreamer and seems able to track his ship; she gave him a credit coin.
- Ch 14Paula Myo is the only person Troblum still trusts; she agreed to come to Sholapur in five days, in space and not stealthed.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 1Paula says Living Dream's annexation of Viotia is triggered by the Second Dreamer, whose location in Colwyn City was confirmed by the dream.
- Ch 1Paula Myo arrived a day early on the Alexis Denken, hid underwater near Florac's villa and practiced 'Für Elise' on her handcrafted fiwood piano.
- Ch 1Paula attacked Florac's villa in armor with three combatbots, destroying its force field with energy dumps, lightning and proton lasers.
- Ch 1Paula suspected Ilanthe would send a representative, possibly Marius, to intercept Troblum, and would enjoy arresting Marius.
- Ch 1Paula holds that she has no right to endanger civilians, even repugnant ones like Florac, because her place is to uphold the law.
- Ch 1Paula acts as ANA's representative and fought at Florac's villa using armor, combatbots and the starship Alexis Denken.
- Ch 1Paula suspects the white figure's mocking wiggle belongs to someone who has supposedly been in suspension for over nine hundred years.
- Ch 1Paula ejected the contaminated medical chamber into space and destroyed it, then sterilized the villa site with gamma lasers.
- Ch 1Paula concludes the exotic matter cage was an elaborate trap using Troblum as bait to capture her, built with a faction's backing.
- Ch 3Paula investigates Troblum's vanished life in his Daroca penthouse and believes he left the Commonwealth after collecting Starflyer War items.
- Ch 3Paula recalls a slight, contemptuous figure ascending into a ship amid the ruins of Florac's villa, and has a bad feeling she keeps secret.
- Ch 8Paula warns Oscar that the factions are desperate and that Araminta must be acquired carefully.
- Ch 8Paula suspects the agent who tried to kill her was the Cat, probably a clone, and warns Oscar before she possibly vanishes.
- Ch 8Paula offers to come to Viotia if Oscar genuinely needs backup, but prefers not to unless there is no alternative.
- Ch 11Paula theorizes the Accelerators want the fleet weapons to attack the Raiel ships guarding the Void boundary.
- Ch 11Paula suspects the Ocisen Prime warships are Prime bodies animated by human minds, created by loading human memories into empty newborn motiles.
- Ch 11Paula suspects the Accelerators' scheme to force deployment of the deterrent fleet hides a further goal beyond studying or removing the Raiel, and cannot identify it.
- Ch 11Paula is fourteen hundred years old and an agent for ANA: Governance, which will never tell her the nature of the deterrence fleet.
- Ch 11Paula visits Kingsville aboard the Alexis Denken and inspects the vault with forensic remotes and sensorbots.
- Ch 11Paula confirms with ANA that a memorycell in the Kingsville vault was secretly copied; it holds an early Cat personality, and she destroys it.
- Ch 11After seeing the Pantar Cathedral massacre, Paula resolved the Cat had to be stopped, and later underwent radical genetic reconfiguration removing deep psychoneural profiling.
- Ch 11Paula decides to concentrate on Chatfield, the only link between the Accelerators and the Prime, and heads to the unregistered system.
- Ch 11Infiltrated the Accelerator ice moon base by teleporting ice away, tapping its data cables and subverting its sensors with her u-shadow.
- Ch 11Blames herself for destroying their one tangible lead, saying she acted on obsession instead of first examining the base's main chambers.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1Investigator who declines to chase the Lindau, prioritizing securing the Second Dreamer.
- Ch 1Paula says finding Araminta has become imperative and announces she is heading to Viotia, ending her low-profile approach.
- Ch 3Paula tells Oscar the Accelerators will face a trial within an hour for being behind the Oscean Empire invasion, which should ease pressure if they are found guilty.
- Ch 5Paula Myo was badly shocked by the Sol barrier, partly blaming ANA's intelligence failure, for which she feels responsible.
- Ch 5Paula is ordered by the President to take Araminta into custody, or to ensure no one else captures her.
- Ch 5Paula works out that Araminta is a descendant of Mellanie Rescorai, a Silfen Friend, which may explain why she is a Dreamer.
- Ch 5Paula keeps an encrypted memory kube of dangerous last-resort programs gathered over fifteen hundred years, and uses a non-lethal one to reach Araminta.
- Ch 5Paula deduces Araminta travelled to Chobamba by Silfen path, not with any faction, so she is unprotected and unaware Living Dream has found her.
- Ch 5Believes Accelerators will snatch Araminta's ex-husband Laril on Oaktier and pressure him; she is Digby's great-grandmother.
- Ch 6Paula Myo is an investigator who knows Paul Cramley of old and wants Laril kept from the Accelerators.
- Ch 6Paula believes the Pilgrimage and Ilanthe must be stopped from entering the Void, which means getting hold of Araminta.
- Ch 6Paula suggests Araminta could hide on Earth, and that ANA might send a message via the Silfen path near Oxford.
- Ch 6Paula told Oscar she had spoken to the SI, which has removed Araminta's last Commonwealth contacts, leaving the navy and Oscar as her likely recourse.
- Ch 6Paula asked Oscar to take Troblum into custody if he makes contact, as he may know how to pass the Sol barrier.
- Ch 8Paula, exhausted and bitter, tells Oscar to continue trying to contact Araminta; she aims to follow up leads.
- Ch 8Paula advises against intercepting the Lindau until it reaches the Spike, fearing Aaron might kill Inigo if threatened; she has a fast ship ready to reach the Spike.
- Ch 14Paula tells Oscar to take Araminta to Ozzie at the Spike, and secretly follows with the Alexis Denken, asking Qatux for a big favor.
- Ch 18Paula arrives in the Alexis Denken, covers Mellanie's Redemption's escape and fights the Cat, using quantumbusters to destroy gas giant moons.
- Ch 18Paula's leg is injured in the high-gee chase down into the gas giant's atmosphere.
- Ch 18Paula dives her ship into a dense hydrocarbon ocean to evade the Cat's missiles, suffering severe internal injuries and bleeding.
- Ch 18Paula survives with biononic repair nodules and a warming sheath, and wants the Cat permanently terminated.
- Ch 18Paula watches the Raiel attack and containment activation from Qatux's chamber, angry that Ilanthe was not found.
- Ch 20Paula experiences Gore's dream and honours him as the first of humanity to achieve transcendence.
- Ch 21Paula requires Neskia to give up combat biononics, forgo weapons enrichment and report contact with criminal groups; Neskia keeps no ship.
- Ch 21Paula visits Makkathran with Qatux, admiring the city, and offers the Raiel a welcome in the Commonwealth.
- Ch 21Paula briefly thinks the Lady's statue grins like Tiger Pansy, but dismisses it as a trick of the light.
Connections
- ally ofVic Russellworked together
- member ofANAworks for ANA
- ally ofJustine Burnelli
- ally ofANA
- related toAlexis Denkenowns and pilots
- ally ofKazimir Burnelli
- friend ofQatux
- enemy ofthe LadyPaula Myo killed/caught her in the Cat's role; passage says Tiger Pansy was killed by the Cat
- related toOscar Monroerecovered his memorycellconnected during the war
- ally ofOscar Monroe
- ally ofTroblumtrusts her
- enemy ofthe Cat
- family ofDigbydescendant four generations removed
- ally ofGore Burnelliuneasy; shares information
- ally ofDigby
- has memberOscar Monroeworks under her
- ally ofPresident Alcamo
- friend ofPaulold acquaintances
- leadsAlexis Denken
- ally ofQatux
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula takes over the clinic investigation
Paula Myo arrives at the ransacked vault, demands first access to all forensic data for ANA:Governance, and learns from Darval that Telfer was after Inigo's memorycell.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Paula briefs Justine
Paula tells Justine the raid was Faction-organized, identifies Corrie-Lyn and Aaron/Telfer fleeing on the Artful Dodger, and plans to stay visible while someone unexpected finds the Second Dreamer.
- 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 10Justine plans Centurion trip
Justine and Paula discover the hangar was cleared and learn Living Dream is preparing for martial law and possible invasion of Viotia. Justine decides to go to Centurion Station to seek traces of the Second Dreamer.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Paula questions Qatux
Paula Myo visits Qatux, learns Aaron and Corrie-Lyn were there, and that Qatux reviewed Inigo's memories and guessed Hanko.
- 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 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 14Troblum calls ANA
The Advancers detect Troblum's secure call to ANA:Governance; Troblum demands Paula Myo and she agrees to meet him at Sholapur in five days.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Paula assaults the villa
Paula arrives in armor with combatbots, breaks the boundary posts, and destroys the villa's force field to reach Troblum and Florac.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Battle at Florac's villa
Paula fights Amazon bodyguards and a hidden exotic-matter trap, then faces a glowing white figure whose starship flees. Troblum escapes in his own ship.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Florac killed by gray viral
A gray biononic viral consumes Florac aboard Paula's ship. She ejects and destroys the medical chamber and sterilizes the villa site.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Paula searches Troblum's apartments
Paula finds Troblum's files wiped and a lab apartment emptied, deduces he took Starflyer War items to Florac, and plans a last trip to confirm a suspicion.
- 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 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 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 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 11Gore's warning about Troblum
Gore tells Paula that Troblum built a planet-moving FTL drive and must be found before the Accelerators find him.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula examines the Cat's memorycell
Paula descends into Kingsville's vault and opens the Cat's storage box. Forensic analysis confirms the memorycell holds Catherine Stewart's memories, and she then calls ANA.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Paula destroys the Cat's memorycell
After ANA confirms the memorycell was copied, Paula crushes it in the Kingsville vault, then departs to follow Chatfield.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Raid on the ice moon base
Paula infiltrated the Accelerator base, found multiple Cats in suspension, and fought them. Sentries attacked, and a quantumbuster destroyed the moon and the evidence.
- 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 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 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 5Paula Myo confers with Navy and President
Paula, Juliaca and President Alcamo discuss the barrier, the missing deterrence fleet, and Araminta's importance.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Paula deduces Araminta's secret
Paula realises Araminta walked to Chobamba via a Silfen path, and that Araminta's descent from Mellanie Rescorai may explain her Dreamer ability. She sends a shotgun warning message to Chobamba's cybersphere.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Araminta refuses the Void and learns Earth is lost
Araminta rejects Living Dream's offer after understanding its cost, then learns Earth is imprisoned and ANA gone. She calls Laril until Paula's message interrupts.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Digby tracks Valean to Oaktier
Digby follows Valean's ship to Darklake City, with Paula ordering him to keep her from Laril and prevent anyone else getting Araminta.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Laril teleported to Paul Cramley's home
A hidden T-sphere centered on Paul's bungalow teleports Laril away just as Digby prepares to fire. Paul tells Laril he is safe but cannot leave, and Paula Myo calls.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Paula consults the SI and Qatux
Paula learns of Troblum, the Silfen path idea and that the Raiel built the Dark Fortress; Qatux says the High Angel will try the Sol barrier.
- 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 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 14Ships follow Oscar
Troblum's Mellanie's Redemption and Paula's Alexis Denken follow Oscar's stealthed ship toward the Spike.
- 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 18Paula and the Cat battle at the gas giant
Paula and the Cat fight with quantumbusters and Hawking M-sinks, destroying moons. Paula's ship is damaged as she dives into the gas giant's atmosphere, pursued by the Cat.
- Book 3 · Ch 18High Angel destroys the Cat
After the Cat's quantumbusters seem to bury Paula, High Angel rises from the hydrocarbon ocean and Qatux destroys the Cat's ship with a spacetime-warping energy pulse.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Raiel attack on the Pilgrimage fleet fails
The warrior Raiel destroy relay stations and eighteen gas giants against the Pilgrimage fleet but cannot breach its force fields, then withdraw.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Containment activated
The Raiel activate the DF spheres, brightening Wall stars to build the containment around the Gulf, as a last-resort measure.
- Book 3 · Ch 20The Firstlife rejects Ilanthe
The Firstlife chooses evolution rather than inversion; the humans decline to join the Heart, and the Void transcends, leaving a bare Gulf with one star.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Neskia surrenders the barrier code
Paula Myo bargains with the captured Accelerator agent Neskia aboard the Raiel warship; Neskia gives up the Sol barrier deactivation code in return for immunity.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Qatux says goodbye to the Lady
Paula accompanies Qatux through Makkathran to the Lady's church, where he strokes her statue's cheek and bids farewell.