Catherine
Names: CatherineCatherine RemillardCatSisAunt Cat
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 54 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 11Cat refused the magnateship because it would force her to abandon the Child Latency Project and her research partnership with Brett.
- Ch 11Cat turned forty-two on 25 August 2051 yet looks twenty, and has long blonde hair that she can move psychically.
- Ch 11Cat wakes at dawn with a splitting headache and finds Brett's burned body in the pilothouse, and screams.
- Ch 18Catherine, widowed by Brett's murder, cut her hair and agrees to abandon her project and accept her seat on the Galactic Concilium.
- Ch 18Catherine declined the magnateship; her husband Brett was killed. Denis notes she could also be a suspect if Victor's influence lies dormant in her.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 8Catherine is a clinical metapsychologist and latency researcher; she is melancholy because her son Gordon McAllister was one of the Hydra who killed her husband.
- Ch 8Catherine, a psychologist, saw the destructive power of creativity kill her husband Brett and believes Fury murdered him to force her into the Concilium.
- Ch 8Catherine knows Marc better than the others and would stake her life that he is not Fury.
- Ch 16Catherine runs a preceptor establishment in New Hampshire and is the most private Remillard; even Adrien and Severin do not know her stance on Unity.
- Ch 17Catherine is a woman of the Remillard Dynasty who runs an operant training institute on Earth, where Dee and Ken will be taken.
- Ch 18Cat Remillard runs the Preceptorial Institute; Dorothée is her star pupil.
- Ch 18Catherine is a psychiatrist at the Institute who reached the same Fury probability conclusions as Dorothée, sharing them only with Denis and Lucille.
Connections
- family ofDenischild
- partner ofBrett Doyle McAllistermarried
- family ofAdrienyounger brother
- family ofGordoson
- family ofBrett Doyle McAllisterwife of the murdered Brett
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- family ofGordon McAllisterCatherine is his mother
- leadsPreceptorial Institute
- family ofLucilledaughter
- family ofPaulsister
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 11Cat and Brett on the trawler
Cat and Brett make love on Doolittle on Cat's birthday, resolving to stay together despite her refusal of the magnateship and expected family opposition.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Murder of Brett
At the yacht club the Hydra, coached by Fury, coerces and sedates Cat, then attacks Brett. At dawn Cat finds his burned body with seven flower-shaped ash marks.
- 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 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 8Luna moths summoned
At the summerhouse Paul mentally summons male luna moths, which circle Catherine before he releases them.
- 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 8Paul's decision on Marc and the Fury hunt
After family debate, Paul rules that Marc's research continues, condemns Fury and the Hydra-units subject to Lylmik approval, and assigns every family member a role in the hunt, coordinating with him.
- 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 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.