Victor Kane
A necessary contractor ally whose private agenda becomes impossible to excuse.
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Colonel Richard Mercer
The custodian
A former F-4 pilot and commander of operations at Grissom. Mercer is not a simple villain: he believes secrecy protects the public because the hidden truth is genuinely not understood.
- Disciplined
- Burdened
- Duty-bound
- Capable of doubt
Don Willis
The local honest broker he approaches when official channels fail.
Daniel Holloway
A man who left the project rather than accept its moral compromises.
Q
The system he inherited, contained, and never fully understood.
Character arc · Spoilers hidden
Mercer’s change is not a rejection of duty but a redefinition of it: containment cannot justify surrendering judgment to men like Kane.