Robert Gomard

Robert Gomard is a French colonel in the French Army, involved in NATO operations during the war against Russia. He belongs to a generation of officers shaped by prolonged conflicts, unstable zones, and decisions made far from offices.

When the Enterprise receives orders to conduct a special operation toward Moscow, the ground mission is entrusted to him. His commando must strike at the heart of Russian power, while Agnes Rodriguez's vessel provides transport, cover, and logistics. Gomard thus becomes the junction point between the ground war and the wider crisis catching up with the crew.

Identity Card

Name: Robert Gomard
Species: Human
Nationality: French
Known Rank: Colonel
Known Affiliation: NATO / French Army
Associated Vessel: USS Enterprise NCC-1701
First Significant Appearance: Book I, Episode 60 - The Trust Sensor

Profile

Gomard is direct, blunt when necessary, sometimes provocative, but rarely gratuitous. His humor often acts as a pressure valve: it defuses tension, tests his interlocutors, and masks what he keeps to himself.

He does not need to take up the whole room to exist. His presence rests on restraint, observation, and a form of loyalty proven through action rather than grand declarations.

Reputation and Perception

Within the military chain of command, Gomard is seen as a reliable officer. Difficult missions are entrusted to him because he can absorb pressure, keep his men together, and remain readable when the situation deteriorates.

For Agnes, he is not merely a colonel assigned to an operation. He is a man she respects, sometimes provokes, and whose presence reactivates an old debt even before their collaboration becomes official.

Life Story

Born on April 10, 1979, Robert Gomard graduates from Saint-Cyr in 2003 and enters the French Army. His early years place him on peacekeeping missions, unit supervision, and international field assignments.

Between 2008 and 2012, he serves as a defense attache on the South American continent. This period takes him beyond a purely operational framework and exposes him to cooperation with allied forces outside NATO.

From 2013 onward, his career focuses on the Ukraine area. There, he commands units, participates in reconnaissance and rescue missions, and establishes himself as one of the officers capable of leading a very high-risk ground operation against Russian power.

Training and Skills

His training combines Saint-Cyr, the War College, and political science studies at the University of Paris. It gives him a classic military foundation, supplemented by an understanding of geopolitical and diplomatic stakes.

His skills are most visible in the way he works: preparing a mission, organizing a group, keeping a clear chain of action, and dealing with allies who do not always share the same codes. His decorations, including the Cross for Military Valor and the National Defense Medal, confirm this path without summarizing it.

After Episode 58 - Special Operation

Read after Episode 58.

The Russian mission is entrusted to Colonel Gomard. His commando of fifty soldiers must be transported to Moscow to storm the Kremlin bunker and dismantle its network.

In this setup, the Enterprise is not the unit commanding the ground operation. Agnes's vessel handles transport, zone security, and logistics. Agnes, then Eros and Tarsi, eventually accompany Gomard because the mission quickly exceeds the military framework planned by Michaux.

After Episode 59 - Donbass, Agnes and Angie

Read after Episode 59.

The bond between Gomard, Agnes, and Angie does not begin in 2024 on the starbase. It goes back to 2014, after the reconnaissance flight over the Black Sea during which Agnes and Angie's aircraft is shot down by Russian forces.

The two officers then spend about six months caught in the hell of Donbass, trying to survive and reach allied lines. Gomard's troops eventually extract them from that situation, creating a personal and military debt between them that explains the particular trust visible ten years later.

After Episode 60 - The Trust Sensor

Read after Episode 60.

Gomard's first real scene with Agnes immediately reveals their dynamic: suspicion, frankness, dry humor, and trust tested in a rather unorthodox way. The colonel is not merely briefed on the mission: he becomes someone Agnes chooses to involve in her doubts and secrets.

This scene also sets the character's tone. Gomard can take provocation, answer without losing composure, and understand that an unofficial alliance is sometimes stronger than an order from the hierarchy. It is the starting point of his operational relationship with the Enterprise crew.

After Episode 65 - Moscow

Read after Episode 65.

The Russian mission places Gomard at the center of the action. At the head of his men, he leads the assault toward Moscow, accompanied by Agnes, Tarsi, and Eros Vitos, whose skills become indispensable as soon as the ruins of the capital and the Kremlin's underground networks reveal a threat beyond the initial objective.

In this arc, Gomard ceases to be only the colonel assigned to a mission. He becomes one of the survivors of a descent into hell: soldier losses, Tholian attack, mass grave, forced alliance with Yevgeny Prigozhin, and progress toward Putingrad. His authority rests as much on his orders as on his ability to continue when every known military framework collapses.

After Episode 77 - Putingrad

Read after Episode 77.

In Putingrad, Gomard witnesses the discovery of prisoners connected to Schak'Irra, including T'Met. The mission, first conceived as a military operation against Russian power, then reveals a much older temporal and extraterrestrial dimension.

Agnes's serious injury also transforms his place within the group. Gomard remains one of the team's operational anchors at the moment when command weakens and the Enterprise must continue without being able to rely on her captain.

After Episode 83 - Area 51

Read after Episode 83.

After Putingrad, Gomard accompanies the search for traces left by Schak'Irra at Area 51. The site remains under the command of General Clifton, in another branch of NATO, but Gomard's presence gives the group a military relay capable of understanding the stakes without hiding behind denial.

His presence during this phase helps maintain a bridge between the ground experience of 2024 and realities from the 26th century: T'Met, Lingua, Tarsi, and the technologies recovered from the wreck.

After Episode 115 - Return to 1954

Read after Episode 115.

During the return to 1954, Gomard commands his men and the Class F shuttles in a battle beyond anything he had been trained for. He does not understand every temporal mechanism at work, but he understands the most important thing: protect the Enterprise, support Agnes, and prevent the catastrophe from closing around them.

This sequence definitively turns Gomard into a temporal survivor. He is no longer only a NATO colonel thrown into an extraordinary mission: he becomes a man torn from his century.

After Episode 126 - Tarsi's Defense

Read after Episode 126.

In the 26th century, Gomard participates in the clandestine efforts around Tarsi's defense. He is not the group's temporal expert, but he brings what he knows how to do: secure a perimeter, hold a position, and protect those acting at the heart of the operation.

This phase also reveals his gradual adaptation to a world where the rules, uniforms, and institutions are no longer his. Gomard remains Gomard, but he learns to survive in an era that was not built for him.

Overall Portrait

Read after the end of Book I.

Robert Gomard crosses Book I as a man whose world expands brutally without ever asking his opinion. He enters the story through a ground mission, with his orders, his men, and his methods, then gradually discovers that the war he knows is only one layer of a much older problem.

His history with Agnes and Angie gives that shift an intimate dimension. He already helped them survive in Donbass in 2014, and that silent debt weighs on the way they speak to each other, test each other, and trust each other. The mission to Moscow does not create their bond: it sets it in motion again.

Facing the revelations tied to Schak'Irra, Area 51, 1954, and then the 26th century, Gomard does not become another man. He remains the one who holds the perimeter, forces a door if necessary, protects those who act, and keeps a form of authority even when the institutions that carried it have disappeared.

His future then takes shape in a century that is not his own. He does not arrive there as a legendary hero, but as an experienced survivor, displaced, still useful, and lucid enough to understand that continuing to serve no longer necessarily means serving the same world.

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