General Lagan - The ruthless dictator of the Prodromik Meta-Nation who holds all women in contempt. After winning the highest bid for her, he keeps Anna Mante masked and imprisoned on his space ship, The KIHRIN, knowing that she may be the only person alive who knows how to fight the plague. He is confounded by her silent resistance despite the efforts of his subortinate "doctors" and their use of mind altering drugs and other methods of psychological coersion, just short of torturing her bodily.