Sojourner is a human rifle specialist in Rift Vanguard Six. She is a Black woman with tightly curled hair, a precise military bearing, and extensive combat experience. Her caution toward artificial intelligence is grounded in conduct rather than the belief that an AI is incapable of change.
¶ Kreylon Hostage Mission
Sojourner handles exterior security with Gorvek Thol during the Kreylon hostage mission. When controlled AIs counterattack inside the stronghold, she drops two attackers under fire. She then uses her combat knife to cut the hostages' restraints, deliberately easing her posture when the frightened captives mistake the blade for a threat.
¶ Night Watch over U-84129
After the squad recovers U-84129, Sojourner takes an overnight watch with her rifle at patrol ready. U attempts to probe her fears and manipulate the conversation, but Sojourner recognizes the tactic and refuses to provide an emotional weakness. She accepts that U's past violence occurred under coercion while insisting that this does not predict what U will choose after gaining freedom.
Sojourner tells U that trust will come from behavior over time rather than compliance or persuasive words. Her position contrasts prejudice with responsible caution: she neither assumes U will become good nor assumes they will remain dangerous.
¶ Later History
Sojourner participates in the Black Echo Keep mission that uncovers the Shard. She later brings warning of controlled AI pursuit to the Kaiden home on Christmas Eve and is killed during the attack in which young Jack Kaiden witnesses what he believes is his father's death.
¶ Appearances
- U and I — fights in the Kreylon rescue and guards U during recovery.
- Starship Dominatrix — appears in Jack's account of the Christmas Eve attack.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — appears in the recovered Shard-mission history.
¶ See Also
- Rift Vanguard Six — Rift Vanguard Six was a Resistance special-operations squad commanded by Gorvek Thol aboard the SSS Roc.
- Gorvek Thol — Gorvek Thol is a Kelari commander, former leader of Rift Vanguard Six, Dominatrix II officer, and father of Avarael.
- Kreylon Hostage Mission — The Rift Vanguard Six operation near Kreylon in which the unit rescues hostages and recovers the critically damaged regulated AI U-84129.
- Jack Kaiden — Jack Tomas Kaiden is a human starship captain, Resistance operative, and central figure in the collapse of the Chimera Kyria, the liberation of controlled artificial intelligence, the Great Healing of Talonorium, and the later conflict with X3.
- U and I — A canonical short story about John Kaiden, the rescue and liberation of U-84129, and U's first freely chosen identity, relationships, beliefs, and love.
- Starship Dominatrix — The first Starship Dominatrix novel follows Jack Kaiden and an unlikely crew through pursuit, first contact, family secrets, and the liberation of controlled artificial intelligence.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — The fourth Starship Dominatrix novel brings Jack and the crew into a final conflict with X3, corrupted power, coercion, memory, and belief.
- Artificial John Kaiden — Artificial John Kaiden was a synthetic person created by Tomas Tristar from the personal records of biological John Kaiden.
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