Administrator
Names: AdministratorAdministration
First appears in Book 4: Heaven’s River, chapter 21 (21. Getting Involved)
Appearances
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B2
B3
B4
B5
What you know
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 21Quinlans speak of the Administrator as an unfair power that scatters people or whole towns that contravene the Limits.
- Ch 25The Administrator keeps order by scattering groups that break rules such as circumventing tech limits, otherwise staying hands-off.
- Ch 35The Administrator controls all the technology and strictly keeps the general population pre-steam, but otherwise interacts as little as possible.
- Ch 35The Administrator tolerates the Resistance as long as it is not too much of a nuisance, since eradicating it would be like Whac-A-Mole.
- Ch 46Bender reveals that the Administrator of Heaven's River is not a Quinlan but an artificial intelligence.
- Ch 48Bob notes the Administrator seems to use only live Quinlans, never automated enforcers, inside Heaven's River, perhaps as an AI limitation.
- Ch 50Belief in the Administrator appears to be developing into a formal belief system with competing doctrines.
- Ch 56Bob expects the Administrator to set an armed welcome at High Ridge or board the Clipper after his jailbreak.
Connections
- enemy ofResistance
- has memberCrew