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: At the end, they were patchwork, fifteen carriers out of the once proud fifty, cobbled together at the stations still open to them. Mazian's Fleet, they called it, in the tradition of the Beyond, where ships were so few at first that enemies knew each other by name and reputation ... a recognition less common now, but some names were known. Conrad Mazian of ''Europe'' was a name Union knew to its regret; and Tom Edger of ''Australia'' was another; and Mika Kreshov of ''Atlantic'', and Signy Mallory of ''Norway''; and all the rest of the Company captains, down to those of the rider-ships. They still served Earth and the Company, with less and less love for either. None of this generation was Earthborn .... | : At the end, they were patchwork, fifteen carriers out of the once proud fifty, cobbled together at the stations still open to them. Mazian's Fleet, they called it, in the tradition of the Beyond, where ships were so few at first that enemies knew each other by name and reputation ... a recognition less common now, but some names were known. Conrad Mazian of ''Europe'' was a name Union knew to its regret; and Tom Edger of ''Australia'' was another; and Mika Kreshov of ''Atlantic'', and Signy Mallory of ''Norway''; and all the rest of the Company captains, down to those of the rider-ships. They still served Earth and the Company, with less and less love for either. None of this generation was Earthborn .... <ref>''Downbelow Station'', Book 1, Chapter 1, pp.13-14.</ref> | ||
: She held command over this flock, third captain in seniority of the fifteen of Mazian's Fleet. She was forty-nine. The Beyonder Rebellion was far older than that; and she had been freighter pilot, rider captain, the whole gamut, all in the Earth Company's service. Her face was still young. Her hair was silver gray. The rejuv treatments which caused the gray kept the rest of her at somewhere near biological thirty-six; and considering what she shepherded in and what it portended, she felt aged beyond the forty-nine.<ref>''Downbelow Station'', Chapter 2, p.15</ref> | : She held command over this flock, third captain in seniority of the fifteen of Mazian's Fleet. She was forty-nine. The Beyonder Rebellion was far older than that; and she had been freighter pilot, rider captain, the whole gamut, all in the Earth Company's service. Her face was still young. Her hair was silver gray. The rejuv treatments which caused the gray kept the rest of her at somewhere near biological thirty-six; and considering what she shepherded in and what it portended, she felt aged beyond the forty-nine.<ref>''Downbelow Station'', Book 1, Chapter 2, p.15</ref> | ||
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Signy Mallory is the captain of the Norway in C. J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station.
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- At the end, they were patchwork, fifteen carriers out of the once proud fifty, cobbled together at the stations still open to them. Mazian's Fleet, they called it, in the tradition of the Beyond, where ships were so few at first that enemies knew each other by name and reputation ... a recognition less common now, but some names were known. Conrad Mazian of Europe was a name Union knew to its regret; and Tom Edger of Australia was another; and Mika Kreshov of Atlantic, and Signy Mallory of Norway; and all the rest of the Company captains, down to those of the rider-ships. They still served Earth and the Company, with less and less love for either. None of this generation was Earthborn .... [1]
- She held command over this flock, third captain in seniority of the fifteen of Mazian's Fleet. She was forty-nine. The Beyonder Rebellion was far older than that; and she had been freighter pilot, rider captain, the whole gamut, all in the Earth Company's service. Her face was still young. Her hair was silver gray. The rejuv treatments which caused the gray kept the rest of her at somewhere near biological thirty-six; and considering what she shepherded in and what it portended, she felt aged beyond the forty-nine.[2]