Gallica is Elect of the Divine Present, a signatory of the Pact of Necessary Venture, and Anodyne of all Divinity. She is the Chief Emissary of Stel Nideo and a Verse (missionary) in the Holy Church of Received Asterism. She was elected just before the Farmer's rebellion.
History and Involvement
Gallica has spent the years since the Farmer's rebellion in 1418 PM living, in effect, as a double agent. Her role as a Verse of Received Asterism and Nidean Emissary is to ensure unity among the Stels and repair the harm done to Stel Nideo’s reputation by the Farmer. But she simultaneously has sown discord against the Princepts, aided in the creation of the Pact’s shadow fleets, and made herself a great deal of profit in the process. Because of Present’s unique abilities, she is the most traveled mortal being in the Divine Principality.[1]
Gallica and Present attempt to recruit Veronique and Fealty when they defect from the Curtain, though they ultimately fail.[2] Gallica also escorts Kalvin Brnine to a fateful meeting with Dahlia when Brnine is a prisoner aboard a Pact ship.[3]
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When Coriolis Sunset and Elle Evensong decide to leave the Twilight Mirage during the PALISADE finale, Gallica is forced, by a contract she at some point signed with Arbitrage, to transport them out of the Mirage on Present. She engages in malicious compliance during this transport, attempting to harm them while fulfilling the letter of her contract with Arbitrage, but she is ultimately shot and killed by Coriolis.[4]
Appears in
The Road to PARTIZAN
PARTIZAN
- PARTIZAN 24: Millennium Break: The First and Second Arrests of Clementine Kesh
- PARTIZAN 25: Millennium Break: Courage in the Shadow of Opportunity
- PARTIZAN 28: Millennium Break: The Storm Over Cruciat (outro)
- PARTIZAN 32: GLORY Arrives
- PARTIZAN 35: The Witch in the Glass Pt. 1
- PARTIZAN 36: The Witch in the Glass Pt. 2