Adrien
Names: AdrienAdrien RemillardAdryushkaUncle AdrienAdreen
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 54 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 13Magnate-Designate suspected by Van Wyk of being a closet rebel; also a suspect in a murder investigation under Magistratum surveillance.
- Ch 25A forty-year-old Grand Master operant, husband and father, working on a revision of his father's textbook; he stayed on Earth with Denis.
- Ch 25He privately fears the Unity might be a subtle tyranny that would transform humans into something non-human, and he is inclined to join Anna's group.
- Ch 25He admits Remillards can resist exotic mind-probes and that family members have privately considered one of them might be a killer.
- Ch 25Adrien agrees to rebel against the Galactic Milieu, putting human welfare before Galactic civilization, and is then treated with a needle-pricking device that renders him unconscious.
- Ch 25Adrien proposes that Paul's son Marc, a child now, could someday lead the human rebellion.
- Ch 34Rogi reasons he cannot be Fury or Hydra because he was on Earth when Margaret died on Orb; Marc doubts the inference.
- Ch 37Adrien's eldest daughter disappeared in the Hydra affair; he is horrified at the possibility that he himself might be part of Hydra.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
Connections
- family ofDenischild
- partner ofCheri Losier-Drakemarried
- family ofCatherineyounger brother
- friend ofAnna
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- family ofPaulbrothers
- family ofAdriennedaughter
- member ofRebellion
- leadsRebellion
- family ofParnellson
- related toAnnaAdrien is Marc's uncle
- family ofCheri Losier-Drakehusband and wife
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 8Remillard siblings enter politics
Paul draws his siblings into Human Polity politics; all seven become Grand Master Intendant Associates, and Paul secures Concord as capital in 2040.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Remillard family conference
The seven siblings and parents learn Teresa and Rogi are alive, Paul decides not to report them, Anne is assigned to take Marc to Orb, and Catherine accepts her Concilium duty.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Discussion of Brett's murder investigation
The family debates theories of the killer, including a Simbiari metaconcert, and resolves to mount its own investigation.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Anna warns Adrien of Davy's suspicions
Anna tells Adrien that Davy believes Margaret and Brett were murdered by a Remillard, and argues Adrien is the only one provably innocent.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Anna invites Adrien into the anti-Milieu conspiracy
In a sigma-shielded lab, Anna reveals the Metapsychic Rebels and invites Adrien to join. He agrees, warning that his family resists mind-probing, and consents to test on the secret mechanical mind-probe.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Adrien joins the conspiracy
After agreeing to rebel against the Milieu and undergoing the device's treatment, Adrien meets the other conspirators, who plan to travel to Orb and campaign for Davy MacGregor as First Magnate.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Adrien nominates Marc
Adrien suggests Paul's young son Marc as the future leader of the human rebellion.
- Book 2 · Ch 37Hydra case debated; exoneration questioned
Adrien recounts the Hydra killings. Jordy and Gerry reveal the machine cannot exclude an unconscious Hydra or Fury persona, shaking Adrien. The Dirigent has taken no action.
- Book 2 · Ch 37Twelfth Fleet news and the Rebels' strategy
Oljanna reveals Owen Blanchard and Ragnar Gathen will lead the Twelfth Fleet; the Rebels see a potential armed force. Anna warns it will take years and gives out Teilhard's book.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Remillard Christmas caroling
Rogi led thirty-four cousins in carols under Teresa's window, then took hay wagons to the hospital to carol for Jack, who gave each child a miniature white rose.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Family council at Paul's home
Paul gathers his six siblings at his Concord cottage to await Denis; amid arguments over Unity between Rebels Severin and Adrien and Anne, he uses coercion to hold the debate until they are in a sigma-shielded summerhouse.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Family conference under sigma shield
Paul tells the Remillard magnates and Denis that Hydra killed three researchers on Islay, that the Lylmik want it kept secret, and that Fury altered vital-statistic databases to hide the fugitives.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Meeting ends
Paul reminds the family of the next day's Magistratum interrogation, turns off the sigma-field and leaves; the family says good night.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Christmas Eve réveillon at the farm
After midnight mass, the family gathers at Marie's farm; Rogi detects a mindscreened cellar while one by one the conspirators slip away.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Integration of Denis and Fury
Rogi lures Denis to the cellar, where eight minds forge a metaconcert, subdue him, and force the fusion of Denis and Fury, leaving an unnamed merged personality that then vanishes.
- Book 4 · Ch 30The Cible exercise
During Diobsud's eclipse of Cible, Marc's metaconcert of ten focus members and many Grand Masters transformed the moon's core, shattering its ice crust and ruining its atmosphere while a mock planetesimal masked the cause.