
Valen Moonspire is the combat engineer who serves in Rift Vanguard Six before John Kaiden. Valen is killed during an active mission, leaving a vacancy the squad has little time to mourn during the continuing war.
John joins the SSS Roc as Valen's replacement. Although John has the required engineering role, the squad initially watches him closely because filling Valen's position does not automatically earn the trust built with the person who died.
- U and I — identified as the deceased combat engineer John replaces.
- Rift Vanguard Six — Rift Vanguard Six was a Resistance special-operations squad commanded by Gorvek Thol aboard the SSS Roc.
- John Kaiden — John Gideon Kaiden is a human Resistance leader, combat engineer, military officer, father of Jack and Yvonne Kaiden, partner of Una, and later President of Earth.
- SSS Roc — The SSS Roc was the Resistance vessel assigned to Rift Vanguard Six.
- 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.
- Chimera Kyria Stronghold Near Kreylon — Chimera Kyria Stronghold Near Kreylon returns to Modesto three months later after missing Christmas with his children.
- Artificial John Kaiden — Artificial John Kaiden was a synthetic person created by Tomas Tristar from the personal records of biological John Kaiden.
- Glitch — Glitch, stylized 9L17CH and later designated Z-1408, is one continuing artificial-person history.
- Divine — A Resistance pilot who reports that their squadron cannot hold against Chimera Kyria forces during the Chloinite counterstrike.
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