Marc
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First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 1Marc became the greatest mass murderer in human history through the Rebellion; Rogi loved him like a son and he grew up in Rogi's bookshop.
- Ch 2As an undergraduate, Marc already showed promise of becoming a Paramount Grand Master, and later led the Metapsychic Rebellion.
- Ch 2Marc used to coerce intensive-care nurses and take his dying baby brother Jack to the pine woods by the river to talk and argue.
- Ch 2The rivalry between Marc and Jack, born in their boyhood talks, would bring thousands of inhabited planets to the brink of ruin.
- Ch 54Marc, a grandson of Denis and Lucille, was called the Angel of the Abyss; he felt helpless physical passion for Cyndia Muldowney.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 1Marc Remillard is startled by a stranger who approached without his sensing any aura, and he reinforces his mental screen to the maximum.
- Ch 1Marc can probe minds mentally, and he tried a third-level probe at point-blank range on the stranger.
- Ch 4Marc was fourteen and a Dartmouth student when Jack was born; he wore black turbocycle leathers and wept for the first time at Jack's disincarnation.
- Ch 4Marc later used a cerebroenergetic enhancer, which the Milieu outlawed, and believed Mental Man could be summoned without waiting for evolution.
- Ch 4Marc is shown as a black armored figure leading an armada in the Metapsychic Rebellion.
- Ch 5Marc is a two-year-old, highly precocious and powerfully operant child who can probe adult minds, including Rogi's, and is Paul and Teresa's son.
- Ch 5Marc says he doesn't like his Grandpère Denis.
- Ch 5Marc is the two-year-old son of Paul and Teresa; Rogi calms his screaming through intimate-mode telepathy.
- Ch 6Thirteen-year-old grandmaster-class operant who suppresses emotion, yet feels an irresistible compulsion that his mother is in danger and travels from Okanagon to Earth.
- Ch 6Built the cerebroenergetic guidance helmet of his turbocycle himself and rides it by mind control, speeding at 282 km/h to Hanover.
- Ch 6Hides his return from his father Paul and avoids using the family credit card, since he is a minor and it would alert Paul.
- Ch 6Despite his aloofness, Marc loves his mother with unreasoning ardor, and concludes she unconsciously summoned him.
- Ch 7Marc is a thirteen-year-old masterclass metapsychic whose mind-signature is encrypted to the point of unreadability; he has extremely powerful redactive, telepathic and psychokinetic abilities.
- Ch 7Marc secretly eavesdropped on his mother and grandmother and learned that Teresa is five months pregnant illegally; he believes the unborn child is extraordinary and wants to protect it.
- Ch 7Marc returned early from an Okanagon seminar, finding the planet's large nonoperant mercantile population mentally unsettling.
- Ch 7Marc is emotionally cold, prideful and hidden behind near-perfect mental control, reminding Rogi of Victor Remillard, though his arrogance is not malicious.
- Ch 7Marc is a Brebeuf Academy graduate who will start at Dartmouth in the fall; he questions whether the Milieu's Reproductive Statutes are just.
- Ch 7Marc is a thirteen-year-old with extraordinary superscreening ability that resists mind-reaming; he plans to hide his pregnant mother until the baby is born.
- Ch 7Marc believes his mother's unconscious mind reached him at Okanagon through a metaconcert with the unborn baby, whose mind he thinks is exceptionally powerful.
- Ch 7Marc ordered a Hertz egg to arrive in half an hour to take Teresa away.
- Ch 9Marc is a young, supremely self-confident coercer who plans to hide his mother Teresa in the Megapod Reserve cabin until the baby is born.
- Ch 9Marc decides Rogi must stay in the cabin with Teresa, since Rogi knows wilderness survival.
- Ch 9Marc coerced Hertz agent Siri Olafsdottir, erased her memory of coming to Hanover, and sent her away so he could use her rental egg.
- Ch 9Marc plans to change the egg's transponder code at several airports to cover their tracks and prevent the Magistratum from tracing them.
- Ch 9Marc says nobody messes with his mind and that he will return home unsuspected.
- Ch 9Marc tampers with the egg's transponder so its code no longer matches its external license number, a deception that could get them all killed if discovered.
- Ch 9Marc calmly reassures his mother Teresa, and tells her she must wait rather than use the loo, to avoid a police check.
- Ch 10Marc plans to return home claiming a canoe capsizing in the Hartland rapids drowned Rogi and Teresa, and vows to resist mind-probing redactors.
- Ch 10Marc farsenses the family at home, learning Lucille suspects Teresa's flight and told Paul, and that Denis is dowsing for her in Hanover.
- Ch 10Marc plans to coerce Parmentier to divert to the Ape Lake area, drop Rogi and Teresa, then implant a false memory of Kidney Lake.
- Ch 10Marc will not farspeak Rogi from home, since he is under suspicion and likely under surveillance during the investigation.
- Ch 10Marc promises to return between November 1 and 15 with plenty of food and other supplies to last until Teresa's baby is born.
- Ch 10Marc uses his coercion to take control of Bill Parmentier's mind, starting the final leg of the journey.
- Ch 14Marc and four Remillards are suspected by investigators in a murder committed by a Grand Master operant.
- Ch 15Marc is a teenage prodigy metapsychic who disappeared overnight and is in custody as witness-defendant over the drowning of his mother and Uncle Rogi.
- Ch 15Marc's mind has impregnable deep levels that even Paul's coercive probing could not penetrate; he blocks instinctively.
- Ch 15Marc graduated from Brebeuf Academy in March and is about to start college; he privately fears the interrogation.
- Ch 15Marc implied he loved his mother more than Paul did, and showed no grief over her presumed death.
- Ch 15Marc is a mentally gifted boy with a perfect conscious barrier; Throma'eloo calls him an egocentrist imperfectly adherent to Milieu ethics.
- Ch 15Marc was acquitted as 'not proven' and resents the vehemence of the probing, which he finds a violation of the individual will.
- Ch 16Marc Remillard is suspected of murdering his mother and great-granduncle and of resisting mind-probes, but Unifex dismisses the suspicion.
- Ch 18Marc, Paul's son, is believed to have planned and executed the disappearance and the staged canoe accident, and resisted the Magistratum's mind-probing.
- Ch 18Marc was two years old at Victor's death, was in the building across the hall, and is considered a possible suspect.
- Ch 19Adolescent superior meta, resentful at being sent off-Earth; he put up no resistance at embarkation but warned his father he might regret it.
- Ch 19Suspects Anne, Cat, Adrien and his own father in Brett McAllister's murder, and suspects Victor or an agent of his was involved.
- Ch 19Feigned grudging resignation to Anne to get time alone, then planned to hijack a small ship at the spaceport to return to Earth.
- Ch 19Marc is a boy, helpless against the metacoercive power of his captor, and his telepathic cries reach no further than his own skull.
- Ch 19Marc suspects his captor might be Victor Remillard, and notes the man seems to know about his mother and Uncle Rogi.
- Ch 20Marc is Rogi's nephew who will bring additional food supplies to the cabin in an antique Beaver aeroplane.
- Ch 21Paul Remillard's son, a Dartmouth freshman who was acquitted of something and sent to Orb; he wants to race ice-cycles.
- Ch 22Marc promised to bring Bill Parmentier with more food to Ape Lake in early November but never came.
- Ch 23Marc secretly resents his father Paul for chasing votes and Laura Tremblay while his wife Teresa is missing, and he wants to know what the family plans about her.
- Ch 23Marc attempted a coercive mind-ream on Anne in a tube bar, but she repelled him with a stunning mental riposte.
- Ch 23Marc learned of the attack on Margaret Strayhorn because his grandmother leaked it on arrival; he suspects one of the family, possibly Paul, is responsible.
- Ch 23Marc finds human sexuality irrational and repellent, and was aroused by the aura of the lovers in the vat.
- Ch 23Marc overhears his father telling Lucille of Margaret's death while pretending to be nearly asleep.
- Ch 23Marc uses coercion to turn his cousins and sister away from a window onto the Krondaku.
- Ch 25Marc is Paul's young son, described by Adrien as prohuman to the core, with a mind better than Davy's or Paul's.
- Ch 26Takes pity on his grieving siblings and tells them their mother is alive and pregnant, then places a mental block to protect the secret.
- Ch 27Marc is Jack's big brother, whom Teresa suggests will explain chaos theory to him.
- Ch 28Marc loves dancing and is very good at it, but dislikes romantic overtones from partners; dancing lets him safely relinquish control.
- Ch 29Marc was to wear his first white tie to the inaugural ball.
- Ch 31Marc is a fourteen-year-old metapsychic prodigy who has just begun his first full day at Dartmouth after missing two terms and returning from Concilium Orb.
- Ch 31Marc built his own cerebroenergetic guidance helmet to drive his BMW turbocycle.
- Ch 31Marc secretly engineered a hoax that his mother and Uncle Rogi were dead, hiding them in the Canadian bush so his mother's baby could live.
- Ch 31Marc has not seen or farspoken his mother, Rogi or baby Jack since last August; he was sent to Orb to keep him out of the way.
- Ch 31Marc is worried whether his baby brother carries lethal 'snuff genes', answering 'I just don't know'.
- Ch 31Marc is a college student living in a fraternity house; he distrusts others, guards his mind, and rides a turbocycle.
- Ch 31Marc agrees to mentor baby Jack and spend time with him and Teresa, while hiding his anger at his father.
- Ch 31Marc says he has received instructions from the Lylmik about his filial responsibilities.
- Ch 31Marc promises to explain lethal genes to Jack after Jack forces the issue.
- Ch 32Marc, fourteen, is angry at his father Paul for not vindicating Jack and visits Jack almost daily despite college courses.
- Ch 33Marc cynically dismisses love and sex as mere biology and a waste of time, yet kisses Adrienne and gives away no inner feeling.
- Ch 33Marc mind-zaps the lobsters and crabs before they go into the cooking pit so they do not suffer.
- Ch 33Marc is Jack's adolescent older brother. He is furious at being spied on, then horrified to learn Adrienne is dead.
- Ch 33Marc runs up the beach carrying Jack and mind-screams to his father, Paul, to come out of the water.
- Ch 34A boy and uncertified Grand Master of coercion and redaction, deeper and darker in mind than Paul or Denis.
- Ch 34He edited the memory he passed to Paul and Denis, withholding Jack's remark about the controlling mind Fury, because Fury could be his own father.
- Ch 34He coerced Rogi to stop his drinking and nearly erased his alcoholism by redaction, but relented and apologised.
- Ch 35Marc Remillard, a juvenile, helped Teresa flee and hide, and was one of the persons who compelled Rogi to help.
- Ch 38Marc generously fosters his baby brother Jack, building him a pod for his turbocycle and taking him everywhere around Dartmouth and New England.
- Ch 38Marc is on an accelerated honors course at Dartmouth, with dual majors in metapsychology and theoretical physics, and has deepsight strong enough to magnify and examine tiny lesions.
- Ch 38Marc identifies the lesion on Jack's toe as a cancer and takes Jack to Hitchcock Hospital to see Nana Colette.
- Ch 39Marc secretly took Jack out of Hitchcock Hospital in a high-tech backpack life-support cradle, using invisibility and hypnotic suggestion on the nurses.
- Ch 39Marc was sexually repressed, arguing that human sex hindered metapsychic advancement, and was close to earning his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth.
- Ch 39Marc came to share Jack's view that pain may be an educative path to higher consciousness.
- Ch 39Marc speaks about Jack's likely death without emotion and considers his mother's way of coping sensible.
- Ch 39Marc's mother imagines Jack dead as the only way she can keep her sanity.
- Ch 40Marc is Jack's older brother, a Dartmouth student who coordinated the visit and knows Jack's favorite carols.
- Ch 41Marc turned sixteen on 4 February 2054, borrowed Paul's silver Maserati and flew Rogi to Kauai for Teresa's ashes.
- Ch 42Marc is sixteen, newly eligible for the Junior Open ice-cycle race, and had avoided visiting Jack out of fear; he weeps for the first time seeing him.
- Ch 42Marc rides a CE-controlled bike; operants are monitored and cannot use metafaculties in the race or be disqualified.
- Ch 42Marc nearly crashed his turbocycle into a bridge pier when the CE system stopped responding. He saved himself by tearing off the helmet and wrenching the bike aside.
- Ch 42Marc names his dream image of a superhuman being 'Mental Man' and refuses the voice's offer to become one, calling it a liar.
- Ch 42Marc plans to drive tomorrow's race in manual mode and still win. He will not use the CE helmet again until the whole brainboard is replaced.
- Ch 42Marc has a one-sided smile and can use psychokinesis and psychocreativity, such as steadying the bike and making a bubble of warmth around his head.
- Ch 43Marc raced as a rookie in the Junior Division and escaped the crash with scorched leathers after Jack warned him to brake.
- Ch 43Marc was too stunned to know who hit him.
- Ch 44Marc wins the ice-cycle race but is hospitalized with burns, a sprained wrist and a subdural hematoma after Gordo's attack and crash.
- Ch 44Marc is repeatedly haunted by a nightmare of the race in which he runs down an unrecognized rider, who is actually Gordo.
- Ch 44Marc loops his monitor bugs with his creative metafunction, wakes from the sedative, and tries to leave the hospital to check on Jack.
- Ch 44Marc suspected Jack was in danger and arrives at the hospital by car just as Rogi does.
- Ch 45Marc saw the flames with his farsight from three blocks away, called the fire department from a stolen car's phone, and arrived with a sprained wrist.
- Ch 47Marc earned a B.S. and M.S. in metapsychology on 14 June 2054; his thesis concerned bypassing Grandmasterclass mental shielding, using himself as subject.
- Ch 47Marc will join the Rebels as Adrien predicted, take leadership, and broaden the agenda until it threatens the Galactic Milieu itself.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1Marc never returned to Kauai after scattering his mother's ashes in 2054.
- Ch 3Marc is 24, very tall and powerfully built, holds the Marie-Madeleine Fabré Chair of Cerebroenergetic Research, and is nominated Grand Master and Magnate of the Galactic Concilium.
- Ch 3Marc is conditionally acknowledged to have the most powerful farsensory, metacoercive and metacreative faculties in the Human Polity; his acceptance and mental-status affirmation are pending.
- Ch 3Marc plans to build and test the new SIE design on himself within about seven months, and refuses to let Jack test it.
- Ch 3Marc envies Jack's freedom from bodily needs, which has begun to undermine his compassion for Jack's condition.
- Ch 3Marc is a young Dartmouth professor who believes creativity enhancement is practicable and pursues it despite colleagues' ethical objections and accusations of arrogance.
- Ch 3Marc holds that only stable grandmasterclass operants should use creativity enhancement and that ethical guidelines can be written once E15 is operable.
- Ch 8Marc is a Grand Master at Dartmouth researching E15 mind-boosting; Severin argues he is the likeliest Fury suspect, since he was near Victor's deathbed.
- Ch 8Marc has Paramount Grand Master mental potential and is researching creativity enhancement; Catherine insists he is not Fury, since Fury twice tried to kill him.
- Ch 11Marc became a magnate in 2063 and later led the Rebellion, causing four billion deaths and becoming Rogi's Family Ghost.
- Ch 11At twenty-five Marc was a virgin by choice, regarding sex as a waste of time and energy that dulls the mind.
- Ch 11Marc is a magnate-nominee at the Concilium, and is preparing a working model of his creativity-enhancement device E15 to demonstrate to the Science Directorate.
- Ch 11Marc's accommodation in Alpenland was botched by a secretary; Lynelle's suggestion got his friends housed with Fred in the Poltroyan enclave.
- Ch 11Marc has a cosmic mental assay and, in Rogi's view, is above politics and interested only in his CE project.
- Ch 11Marc despises his father Paul because of Paul's sexual games, and is now closest to his little brother Jack.
- Ch 12Marc is a newly confirmed magnate and the only Paramount Grand Master metapsychic in the Human Polity.
- Ch 12Marc defied Paul in his maiden Concilium speech, opposing Paul's motion to outlaw the anti-Unity faction; Paul lost.
- Ch 12Marc plans to leave Dartmouth and set up a private CE laboratory near Seattle, moving the E15 project there.
- Ch 13Marc was named the first Paramount Grand Master of the Human Polity by the Lylmik, and his speech helped defeat the bill of attainder against Rebels.
- Ch 13Marc is resigning his Dartmouth professorship, as trustees fear his work, and will head a new independent research institute funded partly by the Remillard Foundation.
- Ch 13Marc declines Lynelle's sexual advances, saying his different needs make sex a diversion of vital energies, though he might welcome it someday.
- Ch 13Marc considers the Milieu stodgy and the Lylmik a senile race of mystics, possibly needing humanity for a shot of vitality.
- Ch 13Using the E15, Marc turns a burning ember into a tiny octahedral diamond-like crystal, with a fire manikin made of flame.
- Ch 13Marc created a large diamond with a strange internal structure and gave it to Lynelle to analyze, suggesting she leave out the fiery sorcerer's apprentice part.
- Ch 13Marc's head wounds from the helmet electrodes fade quickly because his redaction heals him.
- Ch 13Marc withheld critical technical details but let Lynelle see mental diagrams showing how the CE rig operates.
- Ch 13Marc could have broken Lynelle's hold with his coercion but held back because she posed no threat and he was drawn to her erotic images.
- Ch 13After the episode Marc wakes with no memory, aching and self-loathing, and deduces he must have used the CE rig.
- Ch 14Marc left New Hampshire for a new CE laboratory in the Pacific Northwest, barring all family but Jack, and kept his research secret.
- Ch 14Marc's seismic work on Okanagon allegedly staved off a large earthquake; he trained Okanagon's Grand Master Creators in CE techniques.
- Ch 14Marc's growing obsession with the Mental Man concept caused a tragic rift between him and his brother Jack.
- Ch 16A Paramount Grand Master with three top metafaculties; suspected of possibly having a multiple-personality disorder and of being Fury.
- Ch 18Marc ignored Dorothée completely and stayed out of reach of her probing.
- Ch 18Marc is the top Fury suspect at 74 percent in Dorothée's calculation, a brilliant leader of young grandmasterclass operants.
- Ch 18Marc and Jack are on Satsuma using dual metaconcert CE equipment to avert crustal movements.
- Ch 18Marc is hosting a Halloween masquerade at his Orcas Island home to celebrate the Satsuma success.
- Ch 19Marc hosted a Halloween party on Orcas Island for about two hundred metas celebrating his and Jack's triumph on Satsuma, wearing an E16 helmet costume.
- Ch 19Marc narrowly escaped serious injury in the untested metaconcert configuration used on Satsuma when he surged unexpectedly.
- Ch 19Marc wears an E16 helmet that enhances only one metafaculty at a time; it was set for coercion, and he says a different brainboard switches it.
- Ch 19Marc and Jack nearly died in a metaconcert dysergistic failure while working on the Satsuma seismic problem; Jack's psychocreative shield saved Marc.
- Ch 20Dee considers Marc sardonic; he outwitted her on the dance floor at the party, and she won't trust him.
- Ch 23A paramount who supports the Milieu, mocks Rebel magnates as cocktail-party mutineers, and later leads the Rebel movement after something personal happens to him.
- Ch 23Marc refuses to take part in a geozap on Caledonia, citing past near-death in experimental CE and risk to CEREM's reputation.
- Ch 23Marc leads the E18 project at CEREM, which aims to raise innate creativity enhancement to nearly three hundred percent.
- Ch 24Jack's brother Marc reluctantly agreed to lend the new CE equipment from CEREM.
- Ch 24Nearly got himself killed doing focus in a metaconcert because his mind was not accurately calibrated for the dual configuration.
- Ch 26Marc took Dorothea Macdonald's place in Jack's metaconcert, letting the separation of volatile gases from the reservoir succeed.
- Ch 26Marc commandeered a Krondak research ship to travel from Earth to Caledonia after hearing the telepathic scream.
- Ch 26Marc declined the honorary Caledonian offer, returned to Earth at once, and agreed to come back in autumn to fish.
- Ch 26Marc uses a coercive-redactive probe on Rogi, finding only drunkenness.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 1Marc is revealed as the Lylmik Atoning Unifex, head of the Milieu's Supervisory Body, having survived six million years after being trapped in the past.
- Ch 1Marc's Rebel followers called him Abaddon, the Angel of the Abyss; most repudiated him and his Mental Man plan by the end.
- Ch 1Marc led the Rebellion into violent conflict, which caused the deaths of many people.
- Ch 1Marc believed the war against the Galactic Milieu and its Unity was justified, as his followers did.
- Ch 1Marc knew the Mental Man project was wrong but could not resist its elegance and the chance to engineer a leap in human evolution.
- Ch 1Malama refers to Marc as Unifex, who remains ashamed of the Mental Man project even now.
- Ch 4Marc is an exhausted, immortal grandmasterclass metapsychic who worked over eighty hours on the compatibility analysis for a full-body CE rig, which he desperately wants to build.
- Ch 4Marc resents his brother Jack for abandoning cerebroenergetic research, and envies Jack's bodiless existence, wishing it had been him.
- Ch 4Marc has suppressed his sexual urges, yet still has erotic dreams about a woman who attracts him subconsciously.
- Ch 4Marc is 196 cm tall and over a hundred kilos, with a massive frame inherited from French-Canadian ancestors; he lives on Orcas Island.
- Ch 4Marc keeps mental and physical safeguards in place while sleeping, and does not remember the dream voice when awake.
- Ch 4Marc is resolved to build the full-body rig despite opposition from Jack, the First Magnate, the Science Directorate and the Milieu.
- Ch 8Marc is Rogatien's great-grandnephew, an expert flyfisherman and powerful operant who flies a black CEREM performance egg.
- Ch 8Marc is best man at Jack and Dorothée's wedding and invited Rogatien fishing at White Moose Lodge the week before.
- Ch 8Marc did not hear Rogi's mental call; he arrived after Rogi was out of the water and helped with mental first aid.
- Ch 8Marc has the Remillard look: deep-set eyes, winged brows, aquiline nose, cleft chin, lopsided smile. He owns a big black egg aircraft.
- Ch 9Marc is Paul's eldest child, a self-centered genius researching cerebroenergetic brain enhancement who neglects Magnate duties; he tried to talk Jack out of becoming sexual.
- Ch 9Marc used coercion to freeze the fleeing Rogi and sober him with coffee and emetic therapy.
- Ch 9Marc offered to open his sexual memories to Jack but admitted his libido is anomalous.
- Ch 10Marc is skeptical of Rogatien's story about Hydra, and blocks Rogatien's farspeech with paramount coercion during the wedding.
- Ch 10Marc is Jack's brother and best man at the wedding.
- Ch 10Marc scanned the hotel grounds for the Hydra and found nothing, though he does not know Parnell's adult mental signature.
- Ch 10Marc is called the Human Polity's most eligible bachelor; maid of honor Ellen Gunn clings to him.
- Ch 13Marc was unable to penetrate Rogi's mind with his paramount redaction; Jack and Dorothée say his inhibition may stem from loving Rogi as a quasi-parental figure.
- Ch 14Marc owns CEREM as a private fief, independent of the Remco conglomerate for over five years, and has tightened its security.
- Ch 14Marc is tall, muscular, black-haired and gray-eyed; his mental voice projects warmth and seraphic authority, and he is a Paramount Grand Master in metacoercion.
- Ch 14Marc survived a Concilium attempt at a moratorium on his research and invited the Rebel leaders to CEREM to make their pitch.
- Ch 14Marc is a paramount coercer who persuaded the Concilium to vote down a moratorium on his metacreative CE research, though it was returned to committee.
- Ch 14Marc had served fifteen years as an unobtrusive magnate-at-large before his surprise rebuttal speech to the Concilium.
- Ch 14Marc personally tests every CE device CEREM produces; his paramount faculties give him a safety edge over other subjects.
- Ch 14In the test Marc defied the schedule, energizing himself to level six hundred and levitating the clamshell with his mind through a breached sigma shield.
- Ch 14Marc told the Rebel visitors the answer to their question is yes, but only if they do it his way; they agreed.
- Ch 15Marc is preparing to announce his affiliation with the Rebels at the next Concilium Plenary Session; the Rebels chose him as new leader.
- Ch 16Marc has become a leader of the Rebels; Lucille says his actions are rooted in ego-need and hatred of Paul.
- Ch 18Marc Remillard has become spokesman for the Rebels; Dorothea fears him though he helped save her life in the diatreme.
- Ch 18Marc Remillard is the new leader of the Rebels and has secretly built a new full-body rig; he is a paramount-level mind.
- Ch 18Marc has forgotten Fury, Hydra, Parnell and Uncle Rogi's ordeal; the family never told him details of the previous Christmas.
- Ch 18Marc moderated his Concilium message, reassuring exotics, and decided against attacking Unity directly until Alex Manion's research is complete and he presents it at the next session.
- Ch 18Marc needs Mental Man and more powerful operant minds to prevail in the planned Great Divorce from the Milieu.
- Ch 19Orchestrates the Rebel game; Fury fears Marc may recognize him from childhood and might attempt an aggressive mind probe.
- Ch 20Generalissimo of the Rebellion with final say over the Council; insists on delaying the arming of the Russian-built starships until confrontation is imminent.
- Ch 20Secretly pursues the Mental Man project, planning to create paramount-class children, as the only means for the Rebellion to defeat the Milieu's coadunate minds.
- Ch 20Marc insisted starship shipframes be modified with hidden weapons-control hardware only, with actual armament plug-in delayed, fearing Ed Chung's Fourteenth would discover it and the Russians might seize the ships.
- Ch 20Marc is the paramount leader of the Metapsychic Rebellion and the Rebel Party's charismatic spokesman, and he is handsome and charming.
- Ch 20Marc felt a strange compulsion and déjà vu from Lyudmila Arsanova's probing, but it came from his own unconscious.
- Ch 20On meeting Cyndia he flared with a blinding metapsychic aura, recognised her instantly, and left hand in hand with her.
- Ch 21Marc married Cyndia Muldowney in a small evening ceremony at the Lady Chapel of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Hibernia in 2080, less than four weeks after meeting her.
- Ch 21Marc's personal charm won over the Hibernians, who had resented how his father had dishonored their Dirigent.
- Ch 21During the first months of marriage Marc was besotted with Cyndia, abandoning his CEREM work and skipping the Concilium.
- Ch 21Marc became preoccupied with Mental Man after learning Cyndia was pregnant, and stopped touching her, leaving her hurt and worried.
- Ch 21Marc publicly unveiled Mental Man on 10 September 2080 at a CEREM media tour, a calculated ploy to win ordinary humans' approval.
- Ch 21Marc says Mental Man will create paramount humans so Humanity can never be forced into Unity against its will.
- Ch 21Marc leads the Rebel Party and is regarded by Rogi as an emotionally crippled yet magnificent man.
- Ch 21Marc fathered many children: six by his late wife Teresa Kendall and thirty-eight acknowledged natural offspring.
- Ch 21Marc used his own sperm to engender Mental Man embryos; Paul privately suggested he was unconsciously trying to outdo his father.
- Ch 22Marc is the supradominant metapsychic whose sperm is used for Mental Man; Fury intends to contact and manipulate him while he sleeps.
- Ch 22Marc receives telepathic communications from an unseen voice urging him to pursue Mental Man; he is tempted but doubts it is real, calling it a dream.
- Ch 22Marc has a contingency plan to move to Okanagon if the Concilium decides negatively on Mental Man.
- Ch 22Marc envies Jack, wishing he himself had been the one to carry the mutation, and is told he is the true father of Mental Man.
- Ch 22Marc dislikes Wotan in the Wagner opera, calling him a talkative manipulator, and finds the plot too evocative.
- Ch 23Marc leads the Rebel Party and is publicly charming, defending human liberty on Tri-D while evading questions about Mental Man; Jack believes he is laying groundwork for war.
- Ch 23Marc publicly insists Unity must not be imposed on humanity and blames exotic refusal to compromise for the threat to the Milieu.
- Ch 23Marc anticipated the Concilium ban on Mental Man and arranged for 114 paramount embryos to be smuggled out before the raid.
- Ch 24Marc, a paramount Rebel leader, was absent at Cloud's birth and secretly suppressed or delayed testing of her mind during Cyndia's pregnancy.
- Ch 24Marc believes Mental Man, led in metaconcert by Rebel Grand Masters with 600X CE equipment, can win human independence without fighting.
- Ch 24Marc orders weapons shipped to Astrakhan to arm the colonial warships and plans to move CEREM's main CE manufacturing to Okanagon.
- Ch 25Paul's eldest son and leader of the Rebel Party; nicknamed the Destroying Angel and suspected of encouraging weapons collection.
- Ch 25Paul believes Marc is deliberately inflaming the situation.
- Ch 25Paul's oldest son leads the Rebel Party, and people either adore him or fear him; he made the Milieu's ending of Mental Man seem xenophobic.
- Ch 26Marc plans to destroy Molakar, a world of two billion with Krondak fleets, as a demonstration of resolve, depending on Mental Man's readiness.
- Ch 26Marc roars with grief and rage at the sight of his dead Mental Man children.
- Ch 26Marc enters his 600X CE rig, a three-ton coffin-like full-body device that replaces his body with enhanced ultrasenses and one enhanced metafaculty.
- Ch 26Marc, in creativity mode, destroys Madeleine's cerebral cortex with a mental laser, leaving her body vegetative.
- Ch 28Marc held that extraordinary mental expansion inevitably involves suffering, and he erred in thinking Mental Man would be spared Jack's ordeal.
- Ch 29Marc refused to meet Jack and Rogi at his house, meeting Jack at CEREM instead; he had been moody for a week.
- Ch 29Marc secretly kept over a hundred paramount Mental Man embryos and intends to restart the project for Mental Man's own sake, not for the Rebellion.
- Ch 30Marc leads the Rebel psychocreative metaconcert as its Conductor and commands the Rebel fleet of 156 commandeered starships.
- Ch 30The Cible exercise was staged to look like a planetesimal impact, hiding it from Rebel-friendly astronomers' observers on Okanagon during Diobsud's four-minute eclipse.
- Ch 30Marc says the exercise worked but the design is limited because Mental Man's paramount minds are unavailable; he must design a new, stronger but clumsier configuration.
- Ch 30Marc's first choice for the demonstration against the Milieu is destroying Molakar, the enforcers' world, to shock the Milieu into letting humanity go.
- Ch 30Marc secretly knows that he and Cyndia are consanguineous, though he has never asked whether she knows.
- Ch 30Marc believes the Milieu's exotics, especially the Lylmik, would not believe he would act violently, and sees demonstration of willingness to destroy as the only way to compel them.
- Ch 30Marc killed his sister Madeleine, destroying her cerebrum, after she admitted the ova for Mental Man were hers and that she had turned the project into a new Hydra.
- Ch 30Marc has kept Madeleine's vegetative body in cryogenic storage at CEREM, hoping to use her remaining ovary's germ plasm to engender Mental Man.
- Ch 30Marc planned for Cyndia to bear Mental Man, and then for their children Hagen and Cloud to be the parents of the next generation of paramounts.
- Ch 30After Cyndia's act, Marc planned to disguise her death as a psychocreative accident, trusting Pat to arrange it, then sent his children and servants to the Old World.
- Ch 30Marc felt grief for himself and for Mental Man but no tears for Cyndia; he discarded his wedding ring and withdrew his mind to the void beyond the Local Group.
- Ch 31Marc delivered an ultimatum, calling it a compromise: the Milieu must let the Rebel humans remain unUnified, or he will fight.
- Ch 31Marc briefly showed Davy his mind, revealing he has conventional weaponry and metaconcerted CE weapons; he vows to say no more in the Concilium.
- Ch 31Marc is a widower; he approached Davy only to fulfill a promise made to his late wife Cyndia.
- Ch 32As Rebel Party Chairman he led the expelled Rebels to Okanagon and announced a tangible declaration of independence in which he personally participated.
- Ch 32He argued the Milieu has restrained human evolution and fears Mental Man, and that humans have a right to fight for freedom.
- Ch 33Marc is the leader of the Rebellion; his ultimatum may have been too rigid, and he commands a CE metaconcert.
- Ch 34Marc leads the Rebellion and ordered antimatter bombs fired at Scurra, which instead destroyed Okanagon and killed two billion people.
- Ch 34Marc redesigned the Rebel metaconcert into a tripartite structure with 1900 600X operators and a reserve of 5110 Grand Masters.
- Ch 34Marc and his nine-member executive focus team were badly brain-injured by dysergistic flashover at the phase change, collapsing the Rebel metaconcert; his redaction and creativity began repairing him.
- Ch 34Marc quoted Giambattista Marino on fighting heaven and losing nobly, identifying himself with the defeated rebel angels.
- Ch 34Marc and one hundred others escaped unnoticed as the Rebel fleet reached Earth, then went through the time-gate to the Pliocene Exile.
- Ch 34Marc took his children Hagen and Cloud into exile, still refusing to give up his dream of Mental Man.
Connections
- family ofJackbrothers
- family ofTeresason
- family ofHagenchild
- family ofCloudchild
- partner ofCyndia Muldowneymarried on Hibernia in 2080
- family ofPaulson
- family ofLucillegrandson
- family ofMarie-Madeleine Fabrebrother
- family ofRogi Remillardgreat-grandnephew
- createdBMW T99RT turbocyclebuilt its cerebroenergetic guidance system
- ally ofUnborn childvows to help save his unborn brother
- friend ofAlexisbest friend, former roommate
- ally ofRogi Remillard
- related toBill ParmentierMarc takes control of Bill's mind through coercion
- family ofAnneaunt and nephew
- enemy ofAtoning UnifexCoerces and expels Marc from the terminal, though does not harm him
- family ofMadeleinebrother and sister
- family ofLucyounger brother
- family ofAdriennecousins
- family ofMatthieutwin who died in utero
- family ofDenisgrandson
- member ofMu Psi Omega
- createdGuidance helmet
- ally ofJackmentor
- friend ofPete Dalembert
- family ofGordo McAllistercousin
- friend ofGordo McAllister
- enemy ofDenisseeks to recruit him
- enemy ofHydra
- family ofCecilia Asheaunt by marriage
- ally ofDavid
- member ofHanover
- createdE15
- friend ofBoom-Boom Laroche
- friend ofShig Morita
- enemy ofPaulopposed him in the Concilium
- enemy ofMadeleineseeks to ensnare him on Fury's behalf
- createdCreativity
- partner ofMadeleineMental union forced by Lynelle; Marc's repressed desire surfaces
- ally ofPete Dalembertassociate
- family ofGordocousin
- leadsCEREMowner
- member ofLylmikbecame Lylmik Unifex
- leadsRebellion
- createdMental Man
- enemy ofGalactic Milieu
- related toThierry Lachinehouseman employed by
- ally ofJordan Kramer
- ally ofGerrit Van Wyk
- friend ofArkady Petrovich O'Malley
- friend ofRogi Remillard
- member ofRemillard Dynasty
- leadsRebel Council
- family ofCyndia Muldowneyhusband and wife
- family ofHydrafull sister (Madeleine)
- ally ofJeffrey Steinbrenner
- ally ofCyndia Muldowney
- ally ofDenisFury needs Marc's Rebellion
- ally ofPatricia Castellane
- ally ofDierdre Keogh
- ally ofDiarmid Keogh
- leadsRebel fleet
- ally ofOwen Blanchard
- enemy ofDavid
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Rogatien's walk along the frozen river
Rogatien snowshoes up the icebound Connecticut at dawn, recalls Marc and Jack's boyhood talks in the pine woods, reflects on pattern in the cosmos, and resolves to write the Remillard chronicle.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Marc and Jack's rivalry begins
In the woods near the Gilman center, Marc and the dying Jack argued, giving rise to a rivalry that would nearly ruin the Milieu.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Marc meets a mysterious stranger
Marc is startled by a tall, elderly man who approached undetected. Marc's probe finds no mental signature, so he suspects the man is a non-human exotic. The man laughs and ignores his question.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Rogi's recurring nightmare
Rogi recounts his nightmare: Jack's birth, his body's disintegration, his brain surviving, Marc's turn to enhancement, and the Metapsychic Rebellion ending in a planet's destruction.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Rogi drives Teresa and Marc to Berlin
Rogi drives Teresa and Marc to Berlin for the Good Friday ritual; Marc probes Rogi's mind and Teresa explains death and heaven to him.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Deaths in the hall
After the metaconcert Victor appears to have died, and Yvonne, Louis and Leon are found dead in the hall; Rogi calms Marc and carries him downstairs.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc rushes home
Compelled by a premonition, Marc takes the CSS Funakoshi Maru to Earth, then speeds by turbocycle from Anticosti to Hanover, concealing his arrival from his father.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc spies on Lucille and Teresa
Marc secretly scans his mother and grandmother, learning Teresa is five months pregnant illegally and that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion the next morning.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc offers to save the child
After Lucille leaves, Marc contacts Teresa, shows her a plan, and touches her belly to sense the unborn child, who seems to have expected him.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc recruits Rogi
Marc returns to Hanover, wakes Rogi from a drunken doze with his redactive power and secretly tells him of Teresa's illegal pregnancy, asking for help and the car and camping gear.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc reveals the pregnancy
On the drive, Marc explains that Teresa is five months pregnant, that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion, and that he finds the fetus extraordinary and opposes aborting it; Rogi is unconvinced.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc enlists Rogi to hide Teresa
Outside Marc's home, Marc tells Rogi he plans to hide his illegally pregnant mother until the baby is born, and asks for Rogi's help.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Lylmik compels Rogi
After Rogi considers refusing, a Lylmik speaks mentally to him, insisting he help. The door nudges him inside and he goes upstairs.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Marc enlists Rogi to stay with Teresa
Teresa's packing proves hopelessly unsuitable; Marc decides Rogi must stay with her in the Reserve cabin and Rogi reluctantly agrees.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Coercing the Hertz agent
Marc paralyzes Siri Olafsdottir, wipes her memory, falsifies Hertz computer records and sends her away so the red rental egg can be used.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Flight to Boston to cover tracks
Marc disguises the egg, files a false flight plan and flies to Logan Airport to plant a false trail, before a multi-city route to British Columbia.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Escape from the airport gate in a disguised egg
Marc alters the egg's transponder during the five-minute parking limit, then orders the egg to exit. They re-enter controlled airspace at Cambridge under a new registration and head for Montréal at 2000 kph.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Supply shopping across the continent
En route west, Rogi, Teresa and Marc shop at Denver and Williams Lake for tools, clothing, and food for four months in the wilderness; Rogi also buys a rifle.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Departure into the Megapod Reserve
At Nimpo Lake, Parmentier loads the party onto his Beaver, unaware that Marc will coerce him to fly deeper into the Reserve.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Marc's farewell and coercion of Bill
Marc promises to bring supplies in early-to-mid November, says he cannot farspeak while under suspicion, thanks Rogi, then coerces Bill Parmentier to begin the last leg of the journey to Ape Lake.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Paul confronts Marc before the interrogation
Walking to the Proctorship, Paul begs Marc to open his mind about whether Teresa and Rogi are alive, then coerces him; Marc resists and Paul declares his love.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Marc interrogated by the Magistratum
Marc is taken by Simbiari enforcers for coercive-redactive interrogation by Malatarsiss and Throma'eloo Lek, who afterward conclude he unconsciously caused the drownings but not McAllister's murder.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Acquittal of Paul and Marc Remillard
The Chief and Throma'eloo issue a pro tempore not-proven acquittal of Paul and Marc, continue the investigations, and Marc is released to an escort.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Marc discusses his probing with Throma'eloo
Marc says the probing was too vehement; Throma'eloo explains Unity and notes Marc's perfect mental shield.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Unifex's judgment on the Remillards and the Proctorship
Unifex rules that Teresa and Rogi are alive but that the Magistratum won't be told, dismisses suspicion of Marc, and decides the Proctorship ends, with a one-year probation and colonization moratorium to be announced tactfully to Earth.
- 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 19Marc plans to hijack a ship
Marc scouts the spaceport and selects the CSS Roderick Dhu to hijack for a return to Earth, but is intercepted by a disguised exotic who knows his plan.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Marc expelled from the terminal
Unifex coerces Marc to the tube platform, threatens him with illness if he returns, and forces him into a capsule bound for Carioca Enclave, then lingers for a Pepsi.
- 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 23Krondak enclave tour
Marc takes seven young cousins to Lurakal, where Loga'etoo Tilk'ai hosts them and shows them the connubial vat's viewing chamber.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Adults seen in the connubial vat
Through the viewing window, Marc sees Ilya Gawrys, Katy MacGregor, Davy MacGregor, Margaret Strayhorn, his father Paul and Laura Tremblay in the vat.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Paul reports Margaret's death
Paul tells Lucille that Margaret is dead, apparently a suicide, while Marc listens by farsense.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Adrien nominates Marc
Adrien suggests Paul's young son Marc as the future leader of the human rebellion.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Marc reveals secret to siblings
Marc tells Marie, Maddy and Luc that their mother is alive and pregnant, then blocks their minds to prevent leaks.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc tells Alex the hoax
While Alex tests the helmet, Marc telepathically reveals that his mother and Rogi are alive, hidden to save the baby Jack, and that the family is working to change the law.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Helmet test and twin revelation
Alex finds the chip fine and speculates about interference by another mind; Marc mentions his dead twin Matthieu.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc reunites with his mother
Mama farspeaks that she and Jack are back; Marc rides through the sleet to his grandfather's farm and finds her with the baby, under house arrest pending arraignment.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc meets baby Jack
Marc sees Jack's healthy body, bonds mentally with him, and clashes when Jack coerces him. Marc agrees to mentor Jack and promises to explain lethal genes.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc and Rogi argue about Paul
Marc resents Paul's coolness toward Teresa, but Rogi persuades him to accept it; Rogi shares news of Jack's pending genetic assay.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Hostile mind and Fury discuss Marc
A hostile mind boasts of deflecting Marc's will through the CE helmet and asks to kill him; Fury refuses, and they discuss energizing it secretly.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Family reacts at Teresa's house
Rogi, Marc and the children gather with Teresa. She explains the pardon options; Marc angrily criticizes Paul, and Rogi sends him away.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Beach cookout and the kiss
After the cooks bury the food in the seaweed pit, Adrienne tricks Marc into kissing her, and she confesses her love; they agree to stay platonic cousins.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Jack reveals Adrienne's death
Jack admits spying on Marc's kiss with Adrienne, then tells Marc she was killed minutes earlier by a Hydra controlled by Fury. Marc cannot find her aura.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Marc runs to alert Paul
Horrified, Marc grabs Jack's cradleboard and runs down the beach, mind-screaming to his father to leave the water. Paul swims back to shore.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Paul and Denis learn of Hydra
Marc transmits Jack's memory of Adrienne's killing, the seven drained chakras and the fivefold Hydra image to Paul and Denis, who urge secrecy.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Marc tells Rogi about Fury
Marc reveals to Rogi the hidden controller Fury; Rogi recalls meeting Fury on Good Friday and at Jack's birth, and Marc proves by mind-contact that he himself is not Fury.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Marc threatens to erase Rogi's alcoholism
Marc coerces Rogi and prepares to redact his drinking, but desists after Rogi's plea. They agree to do nothing for now, and Rogi offers to share his ghost story.
- Book 2 · Ch 36Teresa's Turandot triumph
Teresa's opening night as Turandot in New York is a triumph; Paul reconciles with her backstage and moves back home to Hanover the next day.
- Book 2 · Ch 38Jack reveals his creativity
In the frat house game room Jack gives Alex and Pete a Ping-Pong ball whose polymers he psychocreatively altered, then admits to Marc he has secretly practiced creativity, taught by the kahuna Malama.
- Book 2 · Ch 38Cancer discovered on Jack's toe
Jack shows a lesion on his toe that resists self-redaction; Marc diagnoses cancer, signalling rejection of the gene therapy, and rushes him to Hitchcock Hospital.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Marc's secret outings with Jack
In autumn Marc steals the amputee Jack from the hospital in a life-support backpack to Pine Park, where they debate death, sex, God, the Milieu, and Fury and Hydra.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Jack's cancers return
Marc tells Rogatien that Jack's bone cancers have returned and are attacking his spine and skull. Marc's mother copes by imagining Jack already dead, and Marc thinks this is sensible.
- 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 2 · Ch 41Teresa's ashes taken to Keaku Cave
After a service at Saint Raphael's, Rogi, Marc and Malama took Teresa's ashes to Keaku Cave, where Malama and Marc placed them with leis.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Marc visits Jack
Marc overcomes his fear and visits Jack, who warns that Hydra has resumed killing and has matured, and asks Marc to warn Rogi and boost security.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Marc warns Rogi
At the bookshop Marc warns Rogi to avoid the Dynasty and lock up while sleeping; Rogi dismisses the danger but becomes anxious about Jack.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Fury contacts Marc on the river
While practicing on the frozen river, Marc is pulled into a real mental contact with Fury, who tries to recruit him; Marc resists but feels he almost recognizes Fury.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Near crash on the frozen river
After a nightmare about a voice demanding he join it, Marc wakes aboard his turbocycle speeding toward a bridge pier. The CE system fails, he rips off the helmet, breaks the interface, and skids to a stop within 20 cm of the pier.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Marc returns toward Hanover
Marc retrieves the helmet, vows not to use it again, and rides back to the frat house, planning to race in manual mode.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Hydra plots to kill Marc
The five heads of Hydra argue and agree on Gordo's plan to T-bone Marc during the ice-cycle race, burn his fuel and drown him, against Fury's wishes.
- Book 2 · Ch 43Ice-cycle race crash
At the loop, an out-of-control bike strikes Marc's Honda and explodes. Marc, warned by Jack, survives; the other rider, Gordon McAllister, dies.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc wakes in hospital
Marc wakes after the race crash, learns his injuries and that his attacker was his cousin Gordo, who died. Family visits and advises him to tell police only facts.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc reveals Hydra theory to Rogi
Marc farspeaks Rogi, explaining Gordo was Hydra, that Hydra is five prenatally touched children, and that an adult Fury is behind it. He asks Rogi to guard Jack.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc sedated and escapes monitoring
Cecilia sedates Marc to stop his agitation. He recovers, loops his monitor bugs, fails to reach MacGregor, and begins to leave the hospital to protect Jack.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Rogi reaches the burning hospital
After hearing a rhocraft take off with a sonic boom, Rogi drives to the hospital and sees a red-orange window. Marc arrives and urges him into his car as fire engines approach.
- Book 2 · Ch 45Fire in Jack's hospital room
An intruder coerces the guard, enters Jack's locked room and starts a fire, feeding it with the oxygen line. Firefighters, Marc and Rogi break through the sigma-field and door.
- Book 2 · Ch 45Jack emerges alive and bodiless
In the ruined room Marc and Rogi find Jack, who shifts from a young man to a brain to a small boy. Rogi carries him out, to the firefighters' astonishment.
- 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 2 · Ch 47Human enfranchisement and Teresa's ashes
On 3 October 2054 humanity becomes a full Milieu member; afterward Marc, Rogatien and Jack scatter Teresa's ashes over Kauai.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury induces Marc to let Jack work
After Marc's modified ECI fails in simulation, Fury coerces him to hand Jack the comset. Jack disincarnates and quickly redesigns the ECI.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Simulation of the redesigned SIE succeeds
Jack's redesign passes the helmet simulation with a large creativity boost. Marc says he will build and test it on himself and forbids Jack to take part.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Fury plans to eliminate the Edinburgh researchers
After witnessing Marc and Jack's E15 breakthrough, Fury decides the three Scottish researchers threatening the project must be killed by Hydra, lured out of the university and eliminated without trace.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Family agrees to hunt Fury and Hydra
After debating Fury's identity, motives and Rebel politics, the siblings reluctantly agree they must kill Fury and Hydra themselves; Denis then raises that Marc might be Fury.
- 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 11Voyage to Orb aboard the Skykomish River
In 2063 Rogi and Marc's four friends travel to Orb for Marc's accession; Rogi overhears their conversations and learns Marc is a self-imposed virgin.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Arrival at Orb and meeting Lynelle
Rogi and Marc's four friends arrive at Orb; Marc introduces Lynelle Rogers, whose beauty and unreadable mind unsettle Rogi, and explains the lodging mix-up.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Sleigh ride to Fred's tree-house
Lynelle drives the group by robotic yingi sleigh to Fred's tree-home in Biriton Enclave, where he welcomes them; Marc declines to stay.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Rogi and Fred discuss Marc
Over drinks, Fred tells Rogi about the Concilium's debate on E15; Rogi voices his worries about Marc and Lynelle, and Marc later tells him to mind his own business.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Jack learns of Marc's plan
Jack, after winning at the races, reveals he overheard Marc planning to leave Dartmouth and open a private lab near Seattle; Luc warns him to keep quiet.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Seduction and compulsion
Lynelle visits Marc, offers him Okanagon funding, tries to seduce him, and is refused. She then mentally compels him to demonstrate the E15.
- Book 3 · Ch 13E15 demonstration
Marc dons the E15 helmet and creates a flame manikin that compresses a piece of charcoal into a tiny crystal octahedron, astonishing Lynelle.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Lynelle dons the helmet
While Marc tends the fire under the Hydra's coercion, Lynelle puts on the CE helmet and uses the diamond to overpower him mentally, drawing him into an intense erotic and painful union that she says will teach him who he is.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Marc wakes with no memory
Marc wakes alone on the hearthrug in a cold cabin, with the fire dead and the CE rig out of its pod. He remembers nothing, assumes he used it himself, and goes to shower in self-loathing.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Five years of relative peace
After Lucille's 2063 wish, the Polity stays peaceful; Marc works in seclusion on CE, Jack grows up, and Paul recovers from the Muldowney incident.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Fury-Hydra suspicion about Marc revealed
Hiroshi reveals Hydra has killed again and Marc Remillard is a suspect for Fury, so the Rebels will use his research but keep him out of their inner circle.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi enlists Ti-Jean and lures Dorothée to the masquerade
From Kauai, Rogi calls Ti-Jean, who proposes Marc's Halloween party on Orcas Island. Rogi persuades Dorothée to attend, introduced as his girlfriend Surya, before they leave for Okanagon.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Halloween party on Orcas Island
Marc hosts a masquerade for metas at his house. Satsuma visitors, Dynasty members and friends mingle in costume.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Dorothea dances with Marc
Dorothea dances with Marc, who probes her mind and fails; he asks for an alliance against their common enemy and explains the Satsuma metaconcert accident.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Dorothée asks the Remillards for help
At a wedding, Dorothée explains Caledonia's seismic threat and hopes Marc and Jack will test CEREM equipment there. Rogi's joke about her three grandmasters embarrasses her, and she leaves.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Marc refuses and Jack's feelings revealed
Marc refuses the geozap, accusing Jack of being in love with Dorothée, then storms off. Jack deflects with sarcasm while Rogi tears up.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Marc confronts drunken Rogi
Marc arrives furious at the bunker after a telepathic cry for help, finds Rogi drunk, and is persuaded to drive a drill-rig below to watch over Jack and Dorothée.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Diatreme eruption
With Marc replacing Dorothea in Jack's metaconcert, the gas separation succeeded. The diatreme erupted at Loch Windlestrow, sparing Caledonia and ejecting ice and diamonds. The drillers returned safely.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Meeting with Cloud and Hagen
At Malama's house Rogi meets Cloud and Hagen, sent by Lylmik Unifex to discuss their Pliocene exile. They reveal Unifex is their father Marc, and Rogi asks them to tell the Mental Man story.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Malama reveals Marc's worst sin
Malama tells her silent grandchildren that Marc's worst sin was the Mental Man project, which he knew was wrong, and that Unifex is still too ashamed to speak of it.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Marc abandons the analysis and goes home
Exhausted after over eighty hours on the full-body CE rig compatibility analysis, Marc leaves CEREM and flies home to Orcas Island through a storm, reflecting on the moratorium fight.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Dream visitation
While Marc sleeps, a voice urges him to sire Mental Man with an ideal mate, shows a genetic diagram, and gives him the brainstem compatibility solution as a gesture of goodwill.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Fishing at White Moose Lodge
Rogatien arrives at the lodge on June 11, finds Marc, and they fish the lake at dusk while waiting for friends.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Rogi's rescue from the springhole
After nearly drowning and a near-death experience, Rogi is revived on shore by Denis and Marc using redaction, and accuses Parnell of the attempt on his life.
- Book 4 · Ch 8Flight to Colebrook
Marc and Denis load Rogi into Marc's egg at the lodge and fly him to the hospital in Colebrook; Rogi discovers Denis was his rescuer.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Drunk Rogi subdued
Rogi, drunk on champagne Jack coerced him to drink, tries to flee redaction; Marc freezes him with coercion and takes him to sober up.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Wedding of Jack and Dorothée
Jack and Dorothée marry in a nuptial mass. Rogatien spots Hydra among the waiters, but Marc cannot see him and blocks Rogatien's farspeech. After the kiss, Dorothée's diamond mask vanishes briefly.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Fury and Hydra confer
Hydra wants to attack the newlyweds but Fury forbids it, planning to draw Marc into its New Ones scheme and sending Hydra to Astrakhan after seducing Marc in dreams.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Interrogation over the Hydra's death
Marc and Laroche press hungover Rogi until he admits killing Parnell Remillard, a Hydra, in self-defense; Paul accepts the story and Parnell is listed as probably deceased.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Shell test observed
Peter Dalembert leads the delegation to an observation chamber to watch a test of the new CE rig shell. Marc appears in a monitoring suit, greeting them with overwhelming coercive charm.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Clamshell test exceeds its schedule
Marc Remillard, in the clamshell for a refrigeration-armor test, energizes his brain to level six hundred against orders, levitates the rig through the sigma shield, and tells the Rebel visitors they may proceed only his way.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Concilium vote on the moratorium
Months earlier, Marc's mesmerizing address led the Concilium to vote down the moratorium on metacreative CE research and return it to committee.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Marc's Rebel strategy and the voice
After a successful Concilium session, Marc rests in Alpenland Enclave, having decided to delay a direct attack on Unity. A voice in his mind compels him to accept that he must find a consanguineous mate to conceive Mental Man.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Marc reveals the Mental Man plan
Flying to Inisfáil, Marc tells Alex about the Mental Man project and asks his support to delay arming the Russian-built starships, while keeping the project secret.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Council rejects armed starships
Rory's plan for armed starships is rejected; Marc insists on hidden hardware only, no weapons plug-in yet, fearing discovery by the Fourteenth and Russian seizure.
- Book 4 · Ch 20Marc meets Cyndia in the armlann
Rory leads the Council on a tour; when Marc takes Cyndia's hand a flare of his aura erupts. They recognise each other and leave together, shocking Rory.
- 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.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Cyndia confides in Rogi, and Rogi confronts Marc
Cyndia tells Rogi she is pregnant and that Marc has withdrawn, fixated on Mental Man. Rogi explains the project, then tells Marc to attend to his wife and eventually tell her.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Marc unveils Mental Man
On 10 September 2080 Marc brings media into CEREM and publicly reveals the Mental Man project and embryonic assay, triggering controversy and deepening the pro- and anti-Milieu polarization.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Milieu injunction against Mental Man
After a month of silence, Davy MacGregor and the Planetary Dirigents referred Mental Man to the Concilium and forbade CEREM and Marc to publicize it or nurture embryos beyond seven weeks; many humans defied the dictum, starting the Rebellion's final act.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Birth and christening of Hagen
Hagen was born on 21 November 2080; Marc missed the birth but attended the christening at Emmanuel Church. Assay revealed only latent paramount potential, disappointing Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Mental Man embryos fail
After over a year, Steinbrenner's team found no embryo with paramount potential among thousands produced.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Marc is urged to Jackform Mental Man
A telepathic voice tells Marc of Steinbrenner's coming breakthrough and urges him to force Mental Man's maturation through Jackforming, overriding his moral doubts; Marc accepts it will work yet calls it a dream.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Rogi's ream and argument
Dorothée reams Rogi's memory of seeing Denis's spectre; the result is inconclusive. Rogi argues with Jack and Dorothée over Marc, whom they fear is preparing for war.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Public campaign over Mental Man and Unity
Through 2081 loyalists and Poltroyan advocates push Unity while Marc wins public sympathy on Tri-D, defending human independence and justifying Mental Man.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Mental Man project terminated
On 6 January 2082 Krondak agents shut down the project at CEREM and confiscated embryos, but Cyndia had already hidden 114 paramount embryos on Orcas Island.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Marc reveals Molakar mobilization
Marc tells Cyndia of Milieu starships massing at Molakar; the Rebels will arm Astrakhan's colonial ships, and he expects two to three years before crisis.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Revised Mental Man plan
Marc announces encephalization of the fetuses within two weeks, then transfer to a secret Okanagon facility; Cyndia hides her dismay and agrees to supervise.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Terekev's warning and disappearance
Terekev tells Marc that Lyudmila is Madeleine and that Mental Man has been turned into Hydras. Marc refuses to probe the children and vanishes after Terekev escapes.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Marc confronts Madeleine
Marc, in his CE rig, summons Madeleine, who admits Mental Man was theirs; he refuses to listen and destroys her cerebral cortex.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Cyndia reveals the Mental Man secret
On Okanagon, Cyndia admits Marc kept the Mental Man embryos, that Denis killed the babies, and that Marc will restart the project. She refuses help and makes Rogi promise silence.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Jack meets Marc at CEREM
Jack confronts Marc at CEREM; the meeting goes badly and the brothers become adversaries.
- 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.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Marc and Cyndia discuss Molakar
Back home, Marc explains the exercise's limits and his plan to destroy Molakar; Cyndia begs him to ask Davy MacGregor for a compromise, and he reluctantly appears to agree.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Marc reveals his plan for Mental Man
In bed on New Year 2083, Marc tells Cyndia of his dilemma over Madeleine's ova and that their own children could parent Mental Man, convincing Cyndia she must stop him.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Cyndia's sacrifice
At the climax of lovemaking Cyndia activates the hidden device, killing herself and damaging Marc. He farsees it and, in reflex, strikes back, causing her death.
- Book 4 · Ch 30Marc's aftermath
Marc wakes beside her body, resolves to cover it up, discards his ring, and retreats in his CE rig into the void beyond the Local Group.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Marc's ultimatum
After the Concilium's opening meeting, Marc corners Davy and demands he pass to the Lylmik a compromise: the Rebels may stay unUnified, or he will fight, showing weapons in his mind.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Rebel expulsion from the Concilium
After the loyalty oath was ratified, the 128 Rebel magnates refused it, were expelled, and sailed to Okanagon on the Tyndareus.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Rebel ultimatum
Anna Gawrys broadcast a demand that the Milieu rescind the Unity Protocol within fifty days, threatening retaliation for any action against Okanagon or Earth.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Destruction of Okanagon
As a bubble of coadunate energy expands from the Carbuncle, Marc fires antimatter bombs; they pass through and strike Okanagon, killing two billion people.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Confrontation ends
Humanity, including many Rebels, joins the Song of Unity. Marc's blast destroys Scurra and Paul, but the Mind of Humanity crystallizes in the Carbuncle.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Flashover collapses the Rebel metaconcert
At the phase change, dysergistic flashover injured Marc's focus team, collapsed the Rebel metaconcert, killed El8 helmet operators and damaged ships.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Unifex offers Marc a conditional freedom
In the stopped conveyor, Unifex tells Marc of the Quincunx reprieve and sends him with a hundred Rebels to France to take supplies and leave.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Abaddon's band escapes into the Pliocene
One hundred and one Rebels, including Marc, slip away, collect survival gear near Lyon and pass through the time-gate at L'Auberge du Portail.