Agnes Rodriguez

Captain Agnes Valentine Rodriguez in 2024 - NATO - Special Fleet

Agnes Valentine Rodriguez is a captain in NATO's Special Fleet, a division responsible for sensitive space, logistics, and strategic operations for the Alliance. In July 2024, she lives in Brussels with Angie Chen, who is at once her trusted partner, professional right hand, and companion.

Determined, direct, and deeply loyal, Agnes exercises a human kind of command before anything spectacular. She can be sharp, sarcastic, or reckless, but her decisions remain guided by a very concrete sense of responsibility toward her crew.

Identity Card

Full Name: Agnes Valentine Rodriguez
Species: Human
Sex: Female
Nationality: Belgian
Date of Birth: July 5, 1985
Known Rank: Captain in the Special Fleet
Known Affiliation: NATO / Special Fleet
Initial Setting: Brussels, a few hours before the global escalation of July 2024
Main Link: Angie Chen
First Appearance: Book I - Episode 2, Under Cover

Profile

Agnes is a field captain before she is an institutional figure. Her authority comes less from rank than from her ability to make decisions when the situation escapes the expected framework. She likes order, but only as long as it remains useful.

Her personality combines discipline, biting humor, protective instinct, and an unapologetic taste for speed. She can be sharp or reckless, but rarely indifferent: behind the provocation, there is almost always a concrete concern for someone.

At the beginning of the story, Agnes is also a voice narrating from after the fact. That position gives her humor a particular color: she jokes, reframes, comments, but already carries the memory of a world about to collapse.

Reputation And Perception

For her crew, Agnes is first and foremost a close captain, sometimes disorienting, but deeply committed. She uses first names, provokes, improvises, and disrupts habits, while giving the people around her the feeling that she will not abandon them.

For her hierarchy, she is harder to classify. Her results speak for themselves, but her way of working around protocols, questioning orders, and taking initiative makes her authority as valuable as it is uncomfortable.

Life Path

Agnes trains at the University of Brussels, then in NATO's armed divisions. Before the Special Fleet, she serves in the Air Force and builds herself as a fighter pilot, with a culture of risk, precision, and rapid reaction.

She then joins NATO's Special Fleet, a division responsible for sensitive space, logistics, and strategic operations. Her path therefore places her at the edge of two worlds: classic military experience and an organization not designed for combat.

At the beginning of Book I, Agnes lives in Brussels with Angie Chen and commands the USS Mercator. Her life still seems to fit inside an identifiable frame: an apartment, a motorcycle, a crew, a chain of command, and a day of service that will tip much faster than expected.

Initial Circle

Read after Book I - Episode 9.

Angie Chen: Companion, first officer, and tactical partner. Their relationship is intimate, professional, and central to Agnes's balance.
Admiral Jules Hamilton: Direct superior at NATO Bunker #1 in Brussels at the beginning of Book I.
Crew of the USS Mercator: Agnes commands a crew that notably includes Angie Chen, Eric Corda, Emilie Flores, Charlene Savea, and Eros Vitos.

Training And Skills

Agnes has a dual culture: that of the Air Force, where she learns piloting, tactical reading, and rapid decision-making, and that of the Special Fleet, where command operates inside an officially non-combat framework.

Her most visible skills are piloting in extreme conditions, handling a starship in crisis, improvising outside protocol, and keeping a collective standing when the chain of command is no longer enough.

Her MI6-customized Ducati Diavel 1260S sums up part of her temperament: a personal, dangerous, tinkered-with, sentimental object that is far too effective to remain reasonable.

After Episode 14 - Evacuation Order

Read after Book I - Episode 14.

The evacuation order turns the Mercator into a public actor in the crisis. The starship finally leaves its hangar with the Manneken and the Charlemagne to evacuate the leaders present at the NATO summit and as many civilians as possible in Brussels.

For Agnes, this is the first major shift in her command. The Mercator is no longer just a transport ship kept ready in a bunker: it becomes a tool for mass rescue, exposed to the eyes of the world and engaged in a mission whose scale already exceeds its usual use.

After Episode 19 - Evacuation Under Attack

Read after Book I - Episode 19.

Between takeoff and impact, Agnes has to manage an evacuation that deteriorates by the hour: saturated transport modules, Alliance leaders aboard, civilians massed in Brussels, transporters prepared despite their ban on humans, DEFCON 1, and the first Russian strikes.

She chooses to continue boarding beyond the ship's comfortable limits and accepts the political, legal, and human risk of her decisions. At this stage, her command is no longer only about applying a plan: it is about deciding how many lives can still be torn away from disaster before it is too late.

After Episode 20 - Impact And Mushroom Cloud

Read after Book I - Episode 20.

The crisis tips over with the appearance of an unknown vessel above Brussels and the nuclear impact that strikes the city. The Mercator survives the shock wave, but is pulled into the mushroom cloud, with shields falling and engines unstable.

Agnes then takes the controls again with Eric Corda and turns an almost fatal fall into a survival maneuver. The aft torpedo proposed by Eros gives the Mercator the impulse it needs to escape the radioactive cloud and painfully reach low orbit.

After Episode 21 - Module 3

Read after Book I - Episode 21.

Once in orbit, Agnes realizes that Angie is still isolated in module 3, whose docking and life-support systems have become critical. She leaves the bridge, finds Manu on the lower decks, and forces access to the module to reach the survivors.

Angie's rescue gives this phase an intimate dimension. Agnes restarts life support, revives Angie, and discovers how much the Mercator disaster is not only playing out on the bridge: it is also unfolding in locked modules, devastated corridors, and refugees running out of air.

After Episode 28 - Orbit And Earth-Moon Crossing

Read after Book I - Episode 28.

The Earth-Moon crossing prolongs the ordeal instead of solving it. The damaged, overloaded, almost powerless Mercator must reach NATO's lunar starbase with a lost port nacelle, failing sectors, and thousands of passengers to keep alive. Agnes imposes apnea mode, cuts nonessential systems, reduces artificial gravity, accepts humanly brutal choices, and holds the bridge until the towing shuttles arrive.

Upon arrival in lunar orbit, Agnes is not only the captain who saved the Mercator. She is also a legally exposed, exhausted, morally marked officer who knows the Special Fleet has been dragged into a crisis where its usual tools are no longer enough. After the debriefing, Admiral Michaux gives her command of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. The Mercator, too damaged, is dismantled, but the experience of Brussels and the Earth-Moon crossing becomes the foundation for everything Agnes does next.

After Episode 50 - Tarsi And The Schak'Irra Timeline

Read after Book I - Episode 50.

The encounter with Vexoriana-Lyss'ra Tarsi overturns Agnes's reading of her own world. Tarsi is not only a castaway from the future: she brings proof that Agnes's reality is a contaminated timeline, born from an event that occurred in 1954 around the VSS Schak'Irra.

Agnes first reacts with anger. Restoring the original timeline could mean erasing everything she knows: her world, her crew, her history with Angie. And yet, she gradually chooses to treat Tarsi as an ally, not as a threat.

This part of her arc shows one of her most important traits: Agnes does not become calmer when the truth becomes unbearable, but she remains able to revise her judgment when someone proves that another path exists.

After Episode 59 - Donbas, Angie And Gomard

Read after Book I - Episode 59.

Over a Martian beer, Agnes and Angie discuss their shared past in the Donbas in 2014. This period begins after their reconnaissance flight over the Black Sea, when their aircraft is shot down by Russian forces. The incident becomes one of the first major breaking points between NATO and the Russian Empire.

Agnes and Angie then remain trapped for about six months in the hell of the Donbas, trying to survive and reach allied lines. Robert Gomard appears there as the man whose troops eventually get them out of that situation, giving his presence on the starbase an intimate and strategic weight that military rank alone cannot explain.

This memory also clarifies the nature of the Agnes/Angie couple. Their relationship was not born out of sentimental comfort, but out of shared survival, mutual vigilance, and common trauma. The bond between them is therefore romantic, military, protective, and deeply marked by war.

For Agnes, this past explains why she refuses to let Gomard leave for Moscow as a mere pawn sent to slaughter. She already understands that the station may split into factions and that she will have to choose her allies before official orders become insufficient.

After Episode 87 - Putingrad, Area 51 And Warp Escape

Read after Book I - Episode 87.

The Russian mission begins as a ground operation entrusted to Gomard, but it draws Agnes into the heart of the Schak'Irra crisis. Moscow reveals the Tholian presence, then Putingrad uncovers Putin, the prisoners of Schak'Irra, and T'Met, reduced to slavery.

In Putingrad, Agnes protects Macron and is gravely wounded. During her coma, Q appears in a mental space and links her awakening to three markers: Angie, Koala, Area 51. These clues guide the immediate next step: Angie leads a team toward the wreck of Schak'Irra, where Lingua and essential equipment are recovered.

When the Enterprise returns toward the starbase, the Tholian attack destroys NATO's last space command center. Agnes wakes at the worst possible moment, retakes the bridge, and triggers a warp escape the ship should not be able to accomplish.

After episode 87, Agnes is therefore not merely back on her feet: she becomes an unknown quantity to her own crew. Calpel cannot explain her recovery, T'Met can only frame the hypotheses, and the scene with Q leaves behind a mystery Agnes herself does not yet understand.

After Episode 115 - From Tellar Prime To 1954

Read after Book I - Episode 115.

Lost with the Enterprise in the Alpha Quadrant, Agnes turns her crew into a survival community. She integrates Tarsi, T'Met, and the survivors of Schak'Irra, then accepts the installation of Lingua as the ship's central consciousness.

On Tellar Prime, she negotiates, improvises, protects K'hoka, deals with Gornok, and faces the Orion pirates. Survival then depends on unlikely alliances, barter, useful lies, and an ethic that becomes harder and harder to keep intact.

When the crew votes for the 1954 correction, Agnes agrees to lead the Enterprise into a mission that can save the Prime Timeline while condemning her own reality. She does not do it because it is simple, but because the alternative would let the contamination devour more than a single world.

After Episode 136 - Current Situation

Read after Book I - Episode 136.

Agnes and Angie remain aboard the Enterprise during the ramming maneuver against the Tarantula and trigger the ship's self-destruct to save Schak'Irra. In the normal course of events, they die in 1954 with the Enterprise.

In 2554, a clandestine operation goes back to the very last minutes before their death in order to extract them from the bridge before impact. For the survivors, they were therefore truly lost in 1954 before reappearing thanks to that temporal intervention.

Their testimony at the San Francisco tribunal helps establish the reality of the contaminated timeline, Tarsi's role, and Quihoui's manipulations. At the end of Book I, Agnes becomes a citizen of the United Federation of Planets and is recruited by Starfleet's Temporal Division.

Her immediate future is tied to the USS Outta Time, a ship still under construction. She must prepare there for a shared command with T'Met, alongside Angie, Tarsi, Lingua, and the survivors of the Enterprise, to investigate the persistence of the Schak'Irra timeline and find Quihoui.

Overall Portrait

Read after the end of Book I.

Agnes crosses Book I as a captain whose world expands with every catastrophe. Brussels, the Mercator, the Enterprise, Tarsi, Schak'Irra, 1954, and then the 26th century constantly move the boundary of what she feels responsible for.

Her path rests on a constant tension between obeying and acting. Agnes respects structures when they make progress possible, but works around them as soon as they become a trap. That is what makes her valuable, dangerous, sometimes impossible to manage, and deeply loyal to those she commands.

Her relationship with Angie is the emotional center of this trajectory. Born in shared survival in the Donbas, it gives Agnes an intimate anchor amid successive collapses. Even when the story shifts toward temporal realities, Agnes remains attached to people before abstractions.

At the end of Book I, Agnes is no longer only the captain from NATO's Special Fleet. She becomes a survivor extracted from her own death, a Federation citizen, and a future figure of the Temporal Division, while remaining the same woman who refuses to treat human lives as mission variables.

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