Angie Chen

Angie Chen is a commander in NATO's Special Fleet, Agnes Rodriguez's first officer and her companion since 2014. At the beginning of the story, she lives in Brussels with Agnes, in the hours before the global collapse of July 2024.

Where Agnes naturally draws the story's center of gravity, Angie often acts as her tactical counterweight. She observes, reframes, protests, anticipates, and maintains the link between command decisions and the concrete reality on the ground.

Her calm is not an absence of emotion. It is a discipline built through experience, war, loyalty, and constant concern for the people she protects.

Identity Card

Full Name: Angie Chen
Species: Human
Sex: Female
Nationality: Malaysian
Date of Birth: September 10, 1988
Known Rank: Commander in the Special Fleet
Known Affiliation: NATO / Special Fleet
Initial Setting: Brussels, a few hours before the global escalation of July 2024
Main Link: Agnes Rodriguez
First Appearance: Book I - Episode 2, Under Cover

Profile

Angie is first a precision specialist who came through the armed divisions before joining the Special Fleet. She has the reflex for quick diagnosis, a culture of risk, and a very direct way of pointing out when a decision becomes dangerous.

Her place beside Agnes is not limited to emotional support. Angie is her first officer, her frankest interlocutor, and often the person able to turn a dangerous intuition into a workable plan.

She also keeps a deliberately lighter side: dry humor, affectionate barbs, science-fiction references, and a very personal attachment to certain objects, especially Herbie 53. That whimsy does not contradict her seriousness: it lets her remain herself when the rest of the world becomes unlivable.

Reputation And Perception

Angie is perceived as a reliable, direct officer who is hard to impress. She does not need to occupy the center of the bridge to influence a decision: her presence is often enough to recall the technical, human, or moral limits of an order.

For the crew, she embodies an authority quieter than Agnes's, but just as essential. She reassures because she quickly sees what is wrong, and sometimes worries people because she says it without detour.

Life Path

Trained as a fighter pilot before joining NATO's armed divisions.
Former Air Force colonel, specializing in air operations and crisis situations.
Meets Agnes Rodriguez in 2014 during a reconnaissance mission over the Black Sea.
Later becomes Agnes's right hand within NATO's Special Fleet.
Lives in Brussels with Agnes at the beginning of the story.

Initial Circle

Read after Book I - Episode 9.

Agnes Rodriguez: Companion, captain, and command partner. Their relationship blends intimacy, operational trust, and sometimes necessary disagreement.
Crew of the USS Mercator: Angie serves as first officer alongside a crew that notably includes Eric Corda, Emilie Flores, Charlene Savea, and Eros Vitos.
Admiral Jules Hamilton: Direct superior of the Brussels system at the beginning of Book I.

Training And Skills

Fighter, shuttle, and degraded-condition craft piloting.
Second-in-command duties and keeping the bridge functioning in crisis.
Tactical reading, crew coordination, and priority management under pressure.
Ability to challenge a decision without breaking the chain of command.
Emotional composure, even when the mission directly affects Agnes.

After Episode 29 - From Brussels To The Starbase

Read after Book I - Episode 29.

During the evacuation of Brussels, Angie is not only Agnes's right hand on the bridge. She directly intervenes in the Mercator's material survival, especially when module 3 threatens the ship's integrity.

The crisis reveals her essential function: Angie keeps the systems, the teams, and the captain grounded in reality. She can grumble, flare up, or object, but she acts quickly and holds the line when every second counts.

After arrival at the lunar starbase, her history with Admiral Michaux resurfaces. The debriefing also confirms her place beside Agnes: she officially becomes first officer of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701.

After Episode 47 - First Contact With Tarsi

Read after Book I - Episode 47.

On the Moon, Angie is part of the team that discovers the unknown vessel near the Apollo 11 site and establishes first contact with Vexoriana-Lyss'ra Tarsi. This moment moves Angie from the role of ship's second to that of direct witness to a larger temporal reality.

Facing Tarsi, she oscillates between caution, humor, and professional mistrust. She quickly understands that the alien may be a threat, a resource, or both at once.

This first contact sets up one of the important dynamics that follows: Angie is not freely fascinated by the future. She tests it, questions it, and always looks for the hidden risk behind the revelation.

After Episode 59 - Donbas, Agnes And Gomard

Read after Book I - Episode 59.

Angie and Agnes's shared past in the Donbas gives new depth to their relationship. Their reconnaissance mission over the Black Sea in 2014 turns tragic when their aircraft is shot down by Russian forces, triggering one of the first major breaking points between NATO and the Russian Empire.

Angie and Agnes remain trapped in the Donbas for about six months, exposed to violence, captivity, and daily survival. Their extraction by Robert Gomard's troops explains the personal debt that still links the couple to that officer.

For Angie, this period clarifies several already visible traits: her mistrust of abstract political decisions, her psychological resilience, and her way of protecting Agnes without ever reducing her to someone who must be spared.

After Episode 86 - Acting Captain

Read after Book I - Episode 86.

When Agnes is plunged into a coma after Putingrad, Angie takes acting command of the Enterprise. She follows the three words left by Agnes - Angie, Koala, Area 51 - and leads a team including T'Met, Tarsi, Gomard, and Eros to the American complex.

At Area 51, Angie confronts General Clifton, obtains access to the remains of Schak'Irra, and authorizes the recovery of essential components. She then acts as captain in practice: careful with protocols, firm in her requisitions, but guided by the urgent need to equip the Enterprise with components from Schak'Irra.

The return to the starbase then puts her before a brutal failure: the destruction of the base and the Tholian assault. Her anger shows the limits of her composure when the chain of command, her superiors, and her world collapse at the same time.

After Episode 90 - Body And Mind

Read after Book I - Episode 90.

Agnes's unexplained recovery brings Angie back to a more intimate and worried position. She knows what was attempted to save her, especially T'Met's mind meld meant to synchronize Agnes's body and mind.

Angie then becomes one of the few people able to look at Agnes's return without being blinded by the miracle. She wants her captain back, but she also understands that something has changed.

In the wandering that follows, she takes part in repairs, towing the Enterprise with Herbie 53, and the first survival negotiations in an Alpha Quadrant that no longer feels familiar.

After Episode 97 - K'hoka And The Scars

Read after Book I - Episode 97.

On Tellar Prime, the encounter with K'hoka Khol'a reveals a more intimate aspect of Angie's past. The Tellarite epidermer, first presented as a cosmetic extravagance, can also make old scars disappear.

Angie agrees to become the machine's first test subject. The treatment erases the physical marks left by the torture she endured during her past with Agnes in the Donbas, without erasing what those wounds mean.

This scene gives Angie a moment of repair that truly belongs to her. She does not emerge changed because she becomes another person, but because one visible part of the violence she carried finally stops governing her image of herself.

After Episode 115 - From 2024 To 1954

Read after Book I - Episode 115.

During the temporal correction, Angie stays with Agnes to the end. As the crew evacuates the Enterprise, they remain on the bridge to trigger self-destruct, send Emilie's virus, and steer the ship into the Tarantula.

This choice is not only a romantic sacrifice. It is also the decision of two shipboard leaders who accept disappearing with their vessel if doing so can save Schak'Irra and restore a viable timeline.

From that moment on, Angie officially becomes one of the Enterprise dead in the normal course of events. The clandestine operation revealed later does not prevent her from having been lost in 1954: it goes back to the very last minutes before her death to retrieve her with Agnes.

After Episode 136 - Current Situation

Read after Book I - Episode 136.

Angie is extracted with Agnes just before her death during the Enterprise's ramming maneuver against the Tarantula. The operation, launched from 2554, goes back into the last minutes of 1954 to recover them before impact.

At the end of Book I, Angie becomes a citizen of the United Federation of Planets, remains associated with the future crew of the USS Outta Time, and reunites with Herbie 53, saved in extremis from destruction.

Overall Portrait

Read after the end of Book I.

Angie crosses Book I as a survivor turned officer, then as an officer turned survivor again. Her past in air operations, her experience in the Donbas, and her role beside Agnes explain her way of acting: she protects without infantilizing, challenges without betraying, and holds course when known frameworks collapse.

Her path is not only that of an effective second. Angie commands when the situation demands it, especially during Agnes's coma, and then makes decisions that commit the Enterprise, Area 51, and the recovery of components from Schak'Irra. She is not Agnes's shadow: she is one of the few people able to hold the bridge when Agnes is no longer there.

The end of Book I gives her a particular place among the survivors of the Schak'Irra timeline. She accepts dying with Agnes in 1954 to allow the temporal correction, then is extracted just before impact by a clandestine operation from 2554. That survival does not turn her sacrifice into a simple parenthesis: on the contrary, it confirms the weight of what she was prepared to lose.

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