Characters in The Last Colony

John Perry

Former Colonial Defense Forces soldier, now village ombudsman on Huckleberry; narrates the novel in the first person and is press-ganged into leading the Roanoke colony.

Also in Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale

Tarsem Gau

General and founder of the Conclave, an alliance of four hundred species; repeatedly offers colonies the chance to withdraw peacefully rather than be destroyed.

Zoe Boutin

Perry and Sagan's adopted teenage daughter, daughter of the traitor Charles Boutin and revered by the Obin for his work in giving them consciousness.

Jane Sagan

Perry's wife, a former Special Forces (Ghost Brigades) soldier who co-leads the Roanoke colony and runs its security.

Also in Zoe's Tale

Hickory (Old Man's War)

One of the two Obin assigned as Zoe's bodyguards, who regard her with near-religious awe.

Dickory (Old Man's War)

The second of Zoe's two Obin bodyguards, constant companion to Hickory.