Anne
Names: AnneAnne RemillardAnnieAunt Annema petiteDirector Anne RemillardInspector GeneralSister Anne
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 54 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 5Anne is the only unmarried Remillard sibling and an Intendant Associate with ice-blue eyes.
- Ch 18Anne, a legal scholar and coercer, is unmarried; the family assigns her to accompany Marc off-world as his minder.
- Ch 18Anne plans to take young Marc to Kourou Starport the next day and off-world, keeping the trip secret from him until the boarding gate.
- Ch 19Tall, blonde, icy intellectual and Denis's favorite; keeps a statue of Pallas Athene on her desk as a symbol of the victorious mind.
- Ch 19Chose never to marry or have children, putting work for the Milieu above private gratification; she was Paul's political mentor and wants to be Planetary Diligent of Earth.
- Ch 19Brought Marc to Orb against his will; wants him to stay until January's inauguration and help in the family offices.
- Ch 19Marc's Aunt Anne will be displeased if he is late for dinner.
- Ch 23Anne orders Marc, her page, to give small groups of his cousins five-day tours of Concilium Orb's human and exotic enclaves.
- Ch 23Anne warns Marc to stay out of the Strayhorn attack investigation, saying the adults will handle it and it is not certain a Remillard is responsible.
- Ch 23Anne tells Marc the whole Orb is supposedly bugged by Lylmik surveillance machinery, so questions must be asked adroitly.
- Ch 23Anne says the family knows what Marc did with Teresa and Rogi, except where he hid them, and warns him to stay out of the matter.
- Ch 33Anne voted against the pardon despite earlier promising support, after concluding pardon supporters were the least committed to Human Milieu solidarity.
- Ch 34She had gone to Orb ahead of the family when Margaret was attacked, so Rogi thinks she may be cleared.
- Ch 47Anne's red rhocraft (egg) was stolen from the farmhouse backyard and never recovered; she and the other Remillard magnates had alibis during the arson.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 8Anne is a Jesuit priest and legal scholar who supports Unity and dislikes clerical dress; she appears to have halted aging in her early forties.
- Ch 8Anne dislikes the cover-up as despicable but accepts a moral obligation to hunt the Hydra-children.
- Ch 18Anne is the First Magnate and a Milieu champion, rated 68 percent Fury suspect by Dorothée, partly due to emotional warpage.
- Ch 21Anne is Paul's oldest sister and a priest; Paul finds her weeping prostrate in penitential posture in a church in Rive Gauche.
- Ch 21Anne lives in a studio loft with a small altar and reserved host, and is painting a double portrait of Denis and Lucille.
- Ch 21Anne has become skeletally thin through fasting, prayer and physical discipline, praying at a church late at night for someone else's sake.
- Ch 21A Grand Master coercer as strong as Paul, she became a Jesuit priest, Anne Remillard S.J., after her ordeal.
- Ch 21Anne suspects who Fury is but refuses to tell Paul, since the core persona is innocent and acting could cause greater evil.
- Ch 21Anne believes she has no obligation to protect Dorothea, calling her a moral adult who deliberately lured Hydras to trap them.
- Ch 26Anne Remillard came to Rogi's bookshop and told him Denis was Fury, spoiling his good mood.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 3A Jesuit priest and member of the Remillard family, a loyalist; secretly returned to Earth from Concilium Orb to speak to Rogi alone.
- Ch 5Anne, a Jesuit priest, tells Rogi she is morally certain her father Denis is Fury, though she admits she has only circumstantial evidence.
- Ch 5Anne reasons that every sibling except herself had an alibi; Denis went home alone after dropping Lucille off, and Anne knows she herself is innocent.
- Ch 5In late 2054 Fury tempted Anne in dreams as the goddess Athene, offering her a 'Second Galactic Milieu' as a mind-slave; she rejected it and nearly lost her mind.
- Ch 5Anne has long seen herself as an Athene-figure with Denis as her Zeus; Rogi hints she might be lying.
- Ch 5Anne wants to mind-ream Rogi for Fury's metapsychic profile, hoping to help the Dynasty heal Denis in metaconcert by integrating Fury with his core self.
- Ch 5Anne believes she and her siblings cannot overcome a paramount Fury through coercive redaction alone, even with a good program.
- Ch 5Anne distrusts Marc, calling him an arrogant egotist with deficient affect who will cause the Milieu trouble, and refuses to include him in treating Denis.
- Ch 5Anne says that if no other course exists, the Dynasty could execute Denis, with the First Magnate's deputization, to be rid of Fury.
- Ch 5Anne will stay away from Earth, working from Concilium Orb, so Fury cannot probe her, and will keep the plan from the rest of the family.
- Ch 5Anne fears an alerted Fury might permanently take over Denis's body and hide, as the two surviving Hydra-units have evaded tracing.
- Ch 6Anne Remillard, head of the Unity Directorate, survived the deliberate crash of her courier and was placed in a regen-tank.
- Ch 6Before losing consciousness, Anne telepathically sent a single word to her rescuers: Hydra.
- Ch 6Anne was coming to Okanagon to inquire into Fleet disloyalty and Rebel sympathies.
- Ch 7Jack's aunt, a Panpolity Directorate for Unity member, was badly hurt when her starship crashed on Okanagon; her three exotic companions and the pilot died, and the crash is suspected sabotage.
- Ch 7Anne's courier ship crashed on Okanagon the morning the first conference with Blanchard was scheduled; she survived by weaving a crude metacreative cocoon and will spend a year in a regen-tank.
- Ch 7Anne was the prime mover of the Unity Directorate and is the First Magnate's sister; before losing consciousness she bespoke the word 'Hydra'.
- Ch 9Paul's sister Anne is recovering at the Polity Genetic Research Institute in Concord and will be out of action nearly a year.
- Ch 10Anne is in a regen-tank in Concord after a starship crash, guarded by operant security arranged by Paul.
- Ch 10Rogatien theorizes Anne's Fury persona may be part of her and that the crash was arranged to avoid detection.
- Ch 11Anne is in a regeneration tank for about a year; she may be Fury and would be unsuited to the metaconcert.
- Ch 15Anne nearly died in a starship crash on Okanagon, which would have prevented her taking part in Denis's metaconcert.
- Ch 16Anne is ill but expected to recover within months.
- Ch 16Anne is in a tank recovering, and would need checking to ensure she is not Fury herself before joining the metaconcert.
- Ch 18Anne is a Jesuit priest, recovering from a long stay in a regeneration tank, with short hair and regrown legs not yet fully functional.
- Ch 18Anne was unanimously reelected chairman of the Panpolity Directorate for Unity and plans to stay in Orb through the next Concilium session.
- Ch 18Anne wants the Directorate to counter normal humans' fear of Unity, since normals outnumber metas about fifteen to one and Rebels need their support.
- Ch 25Paul's sister, leader of the Unity Directorate, focuses on discrediting Unity's enemies rather than winning them over.
Connections
- family ofDenischild
- family ofMarcaunt and nephew
- family ofPaulsister and brother; she mentored him politically
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- member ofDirectorate of the Human Polity
- family ofLucilledaughter
- member ofConciliumMagnate
- related toDenisAnne tells Rogi that Denis is Fury
- ally ofRogi Remillard
- leadsPanpolity Directorate for Unity
- related toCourier HU 0-652Anne was its passenger
- family ofJackaunt
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 19Breakfast truce
At a Rive Gauche restaurant Anne asks Marc for a truce and his help; he feigns resignation while privately suspecting his family in Brett's death.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Anne assigns Marc as tour guide
Anne orders Marc to guide cousins around Orb; in a tube bar he tries to mind-ream her about Teresa, Rogi and Strayhorn, and she repels him and warns him off.
- Book 2 · Ch 47Aftermath of the fire and the stolen egg
Marc and Rogatien take Jack from the hospital; Anne's egg is found stolen untraceably, the four Hydra children vanish, and the Magistratum searches in secret without success.
- 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 3 · Ch 21Paul finds Anne in church
Paul tracks Anne to the church of St. Julian the Poor in Rive Gauche, waits while she prays tearfully, and she invites him to her apartment.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Paul reports on the Supervisory Body meeting
Paul tells Anne the Supervisors dropped the loyalty-oath inquisition of the Rebels, and that the Lylmik warn the family to stop Fury infiltrating the Rebels.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Anne's account of Fury's temptation
Anne recounts dreams of Pallas Athene from 2054–2058 offering a Second Milieu, her realization that Athene was Fury, her breakdown, recovery with her parents and entry into the Jesuits.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Anne refuses to name Fury
Paul begs, probes and orders Anne to reveal her suspicions of Fury's identity; she blocks him and refuses, citing Milieu law and possible greater evil.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Wedding of Kenneth and Luc
In 2076, Kenneth Macdonald and Luc Remillard marry in Hanover; Dorothée and Rogi renew their friendship at the reception.
- Book 4 · Ch 3Anne reveals Denis is Fury
Anne Remillard arrives unexpectedly in the snowstorm and tells Rogi she suspects her father Denis has a split personality and is Fury.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Anne names Denis as Fury
Over an omelet in Rogi's kitchen, Anne lays out evidence, the 2054 hospital fire timing, her dream-temptation and Denis's psychology, that her father Denis is Fury. Rogi, after initial denial, nearly accepts it.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Anne asks to mind-ream Rogi
Anne proposes probing Rogi's memory of Fury's birth to help treat Denis. Rogi, suspicious she might be Fury, noncommittally says he will consider it.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Plan to cure Denis agreed
Anne and Rogi plan a secret CE-enhanced coercive-redactive metaconcert to cure Denis and destroy Fury, with Jack building equipment and Dorothée probing Rogi's memories; the plan is kept from the rest of the family.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Hydra sabotages Anne Remillard's courier
From a docked maintenance craft, Hydra coerces the courier's pilot into a suicidal full-power descent onto the Okanagon Sector Base. Anne survives the crash badly burned.
- Book 4 · Ch 6Owen and Patricia rescue Anne
Owen and Patricia fly to the crash site, find Anne alive, sustain her in metaconcert until medics arrive, and hear her send the word Hydra before she loses consciousness.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Jack reports Anne's crash
Jack telepathically tells Dorothea that his Aunt Anne's starship crashed on Okanagon, probably sabotage, during a visit to investigate Rebel influence in the Twelfth Fleet.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Anne's courier ship crash
Anne's express courier was deliberately crashed on Okanagon, possibly by a coerced pilot. She survived and said 'Hydra', raising fears of a hidden Hydra on Okanagon; the case is kept quiet.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Rogatien's depression and dread
After recovering over the summer, Rogatien grows depressed in autumn 2078, rejecting that Denis is Fury yet knowing the metaconcert redaction of Denis will proceed at Christmas with his own participation.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Jack tells Anne of the bootleg CE factory
Walking through Rive Gauche, Jack tells Anne about the Caledonian mental-laser helmet factory, suspicion of Ian Macdonald, and possible Rebel militancy; they also discuss Denis's vanishing.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Wedding of Marc and Cyndia
Marc and Cyndia wed in a small evening ceremony at Saint Patrick's Cathedral's Lady Chapel on Hibernia. Hibernian reservations dissolved in joy, and the couple exchanged Claddagh rings.