Leary

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Interim captain of the UAV Stardancer.

Physical Characteristics

A dude.

Recent History

Leary was a Fleet captain nearing retirement when Captain Metricia Heartfoot of the UAV Stardancer went on indefinite maternity leave. As he was on the shortlist for retirement, Fleet sought a short-term assignment for him, and settled on the Stardancer even though it was a feminic ship and therefore not usually an option for a male commanding officer.

Leary made the best of an odd situation, being both interim captain and the only man on a ship full of women. When Darya Darteriov and other members of the lower bridge crew were late to their shifts due to too much partying the night before, he assigned them to wear pajamas to the next shift. (Most of them chose to show up in granny nightgowns, though of course the Harat-Shar Darya wore something risqué.) Despite his irregular methods, however, he did not fraternize and was generally well-liked.

Trivia

• Alternately known in the text as Leary, Levy, and Lery; he gets mail addressed to all these names and is frustrated that the Alliance can build portable wormhole generators but not figure out how to sanitize a database. Receiving Levy's mail has led him to strike up a correspondence (necessarily) with Admiral Alon Levy.

Story Appearances

Sword of the Alliance (Fiction)