The Authorized Ender Companion (36 page)

Ouanda and Miro took Ender to speak to the piggies. She treated the Speaker with great hostility and condescension. As she listened to his conversation with the piggies, Ouanda learned that the pequeninos longed to experience space travel, and that they believed Ender Wiggin, the Speaker, held the
key to their doing so—the Hive Queen. She doubted everything the Speaker discussed with the piggies, and even argued with him about it. But she was glad to have been invited to witness the pequeninos’ ritual sacrifice of a tree to make houses and arrows from its wood.

She attended the Speaking for Miro’s father, Marcão, there learning of his true parentage. They were siblings, and the news was hard to bear.

Ouanda learned of the arrest warrant against her when Miro tried to gain access to the fence that surrounded the piggies, but was denied. He was critically injured after climbing the fence. Mandachuva, one of the piggies, climbed over the fence, too, and found Ouanda, desperate to help Miro. Ouanda and Mandachuva found the leaders of the Lusitania colony, including Speaker Ender, and took them back to Miro.

She went with Ender and Ela to speak with the piggies’ female leaders, the “wives.” In the meeting between Ender and the chief wife, Shouter, Ouanda was tense. She had grown close to the piggies, and as she learned about their cannibalistic mating rituals, she had difficulty accepting them. Ender rebuked her for studying the piggies while he was negotiating a treaty.

Ultimately, Ouanda accepted the treaty Ender and the piggies had signed, and agreed to abide by its precepts. She was still close to them and wanted to continue to study them.

Ouanda did, in fact, continue to study the piggies, but she did so without Miro, who was crippled and who then left the planet to dilate time in order to help when the time was right. She worked with Quim and Ela, Miro’s siblings, to learn as much as she could about them, and about the Descolada virus. With Ela, she discovered properties of daisies that could be used by the newly reborn Hive Queen to inoculate herself against the virus.

After Miro left for space, where he brought Valentine Wiggin back to Lusitania, Ouanda married and had four children. Though it had only seemed like a month gone to Miro, because of the relativistic space travel, nearly thirty years had passed.

Ouanda did not go to greet Miro’s ship when it returned, but she found him at mass the next day. She spoke to him briefly, accusing him of having avoided her. He denied it and didn’t want to speak to her. She had aged, and it bothered Miro too much. He ran from the cathedral to avoid her further.

She attended the meeting held by the planetary leaders to discuss what should be done about the pequeninos’ plans to escape the potential xenocide, as well as what to do about the Descolada virus. She did not contribute much to the contentious meeting, despite being a well-respected scientist.

Following the riot that destroyed much of the piggies’ land, Ouanda rejoined
Miro to study the pequeninos’ rebuilding process. It is unknown what happened to her afterward.

San Angelo (SD)

Citizen of the planet Moctezuma, San Angelo’s death was Spoken by Ender Wiggin. He was the founder of the Catholic order called the Children of the Mind of Christ, and was later canonized by the Catholic Church.

Santangelo, Isabella (YM, EE)

Isabella Santangelo lived in Polignano a Mare, Italy, and was the mother of Dorabella Toscano and grandmother of Alessandra Toscano. She and Dorabella had a volatile relationship stemming from disagreements over money and Dorabella’s choice of husband. When Dorabella was accepted to be a colonist with the Dispersal Project, Alessandra approached Isabella, hoping to live with her. This encounter caused further problems between Isabella and Dorabella, with Dorabella giving the last of her money to Isabella and saying good-bye with a slap in the face.

Santangelo, Leopoldo (YM, EE)

Leopoldo Santangelo was the father of Dorabella Toscano, grandfather of Alessandra Toscano, and husband to Isabella Santangelo. Not much is known of him beyond the fact that he lived in Polignano a Mare, Italy.

Sasar, Hadrubet “Thorn” (SG)

Thorn, whose real name was Hadrubet Sasar, was an adviser to the Muslim Caliph, Alai, and his Hindu wife, Virlomi. He was sarcastic and blunt in his assessment of world politics and wanted to ensure that Armenia remained loyal to the Muslim world and not join the ever-growing world government, the Free People of Earth led by Peter Wiggin.

Saturn (EG)

Saturn was a planet in Earth’s solar system and was recorded as the site of a human victory against the Formics. The human fleet was led by Mazer Rackham, who became a world hero through his victory here.

Sayagi (SH, SG)

Sayagi was a soldier in the Indian military who worked on computer research and military planning. Fellow soldier Virlomi offered to help him with his work in order to post a message on the computer forums that said
that Petra Arkanian was alive and being forced against her will to aid in the evil schemes of Achilles Flandres, the Battle School dropout and serial killer who was plotting world domination in a post–Formic War world.

Sayagi was among the rebellious Indian soldiers (along with Petra Arkanian) who determined that in order to survive, the Indian army had to ignore Achilles’s orders and withdraw from Burma. He posted this on the Locke computer forum. Achilles killed him for the act.

Virlomi built a memorial to him in India.

He appeared to Virlomi in a dream years later, chastening her for becoming someone different than she’d been when he was alive. She had manipulated her way to divine status in India and was not true to herself. Sayagi hated her for it in the vision or dream.

Scathing of China ([EG])

The “Scathing of China” was the name given to the destructive attack on China by the Formics during the aliens’ first invasion.

Seamus “Shame” ([EG], ES)

Seamus, or “Shame” as he’d been nicknamed, was a contemporary of Ender Wiggin’s at Battle School. He was talented but inexperienced when Bean, under orders from the Battle School officers, assigned him to Ender’s newly formed Dragon Army. Seamus was the first and only soldier willing to speak up when Ender asked a question related to gravity and physical orientation. Though he got the answer to his commander’s question wrong, Seamus showed courage and commitment by speaking up when no one else would.

Second Xenocide (CM)

“Second Xenocide” was the nickname given to the order to destroy the planet Lusitania and all its life. It referenced the War of Xenocide, which was the name given to the Formic War when it was learned Ender Wiggin had destroyed the entire Formic species.

Secretary to Amaro de Madrid (PB)

Amaro de Madrid’s secretary was a loyal, helpful woman. She often took Bonzo Madrid home when he’d visit his father at work. Talented, she was a tremendous asset to Amaro, allowing him the ability and opportunity to have an affair with a woman not his wife. Whether she was the woman or simply an accomplice to the affair is unknown.

Selvagem (SD)

Selvagem was a pequenino (or piggie), the native sentient animal life on the planet Lusitania.

Semadores (SD)

“Semadores” was a term used by members of the religious order, Children of the Mind of Christ, to refer to the monks who taught in the order’s school.

Semantics: Notes on the Pequenino Language and Nomenclature
(SD)

Written by noted Luistanian scientist, Libo,
Semantics: Notes on the Pequenino Language and Nomenclature
became the handbook for xenological study throughout the Hundred Worlds.

“Separation” (XN)

“Separation” was a poem written by Li Qing-jao on the planet Path. It formed the foundation of Han Qing-jao’s rituals performed as one of the godspoken.

Sergeant (ES)

A member of Poke’s “crew”—the group of children who lived together on the streets of Rotterdam in the Netherlands—Sergeant was apparently the second in command to Poke. He helped find food for the crew, and was partly responsible for giving Bean his name.

When Achilles took over the crew, he used Sergeant, or “Sarge” as he was otherwise known, as the main figure in his plan to get the group food. Sarge picked a fight with a bully named Ulysses who was in line at the local soup kitchen. Achilles stepped in and, with Sarge and the other members of the crew, severely beat Ulysses. The fight resulted in the crew getting food from the kitchen before the other bullies.

A short time later, when Sister Carlotta began teaching the crew how to read, Sarge and the others discovered that Bean already knew how to read. This led to Sarge and Achilles angrily accusing Bean of holding out on them and threatening to hurt him for doing so.

Sarge was the first member of the crew to learn of Poke’s murder. He knew that although Achilles claimed Ulysses had killed Poke, it was really Achilles who commited the murder. Sarge never told anyone this, though, knowing that he needed to stand by Achilles to be safe.

Shafts (EG)

Shafts was a colleague of Ender Wiggin’s at Battle School. As children, Ender and Shafts were in the same launch group—they joined Battle School in the same year/class.

Shakespeare Colony (
See
Hundred Worlds)

Shen (EG, ES, SH, SG)

Shen was one of Ender’s fellow soldiers at Battle School. He was small, and walked in large steps that caused his buttocks to wriggle. He was given the nickname “Worm” by fellow soldier Bernard because of his wriggling walking style. Ender helped Shen by sending humiliating messages about Bernard throughout the school computer system. As a result, Shen was loyal to Ender during their stay at Battle School.

Shen teamed up with Ender and their new ally, Alai, in their first practice in the Battle Room, successfully freezing all the other students. When Ender put together a practice session during Free Play, Shen joined up, improving his skills in the zero-gravity environment. He was committed to the extra practices, even when rumors of blacklisting circulated around Battle School.

He was incredibly loyal to Ender, defending him to others at Battle School. It was Shen whom Bean went to when he was studying Ender in order to learn why Ender was so well loved. Shen was unable to succinctly put into words his love and devotion to Ender. All he was really able to say was that he would die for Ender.

Ultimately, though, when Ender was promoted again to commander of Dragon Army, Shen believed the lies and rumors disseminated from the Battle School officers that Ender considered himself too good to practice with the “little guys” anymore. Consequently, Shen felt a bit more motivation to defeat Ender in battle.

Later, Shen was sent to Tactical School and then Command School, where he became one of Ender’s squadron leaders against the Formics in the exams, which were later revealed to be actual battles. They had renewed their deep friendship through this new mutually shared combat experience.

He was one of Ender’s former teammates who were kidnapped and forced to play war games in an undisclosed Russian location. He worked with his fellow captors to try to contact Peter Wiggin, who, they felt, was the key to their freedom.

As with the rest of his fellow captives, Shen was taken by their captor,
former Battle School student Achilles Flandres, to an undisclosed location in Russia. There, he was still allowed to write to his colleagues, but no other contact was permitted.

Shen, like the other prisoners except Petra, was freed from captivity by Russian operatives.

In the years that followed, Shen was given a ceremonial position of some kind in the Japanese government. He was approached by Hyrum Graff and Peter Wiggin separately, and offered a new life in space free from the political instability that threatened most Battle School graduates—particularly those who worked with Ender. Like his fellow soldiers, he refused the offer.

As Peter built the Hegemony into the Free People of Earth, Graff again offered Ender’s colleagues the opportunity to leave Earth and govern a planet. It was his fear that Ender’s army would be used in the worldwide conflict, manipulated by whatever political power rose to prominence, and he wanted to prevent that. Every member who received the offer, which did not include Han Tzu, Petra Arkanian, or Alai, said no. The others were already too involved in matters on Earth to leave.

Shen Guo-rong (CH)

Shen Guo-rong was one of many tutors assigned to Han Tzu in preparation for his Battle School entrance tests. He taught Tzu shapes, logic, and memorization. Tzu felt this tutor was more important than the other tutors he had. Through exercises (called games) with this tutor, Tzu was prepped for his future; however, Guo-rong told Tzu to never speak of their sessions. Tzu grew tired of the games, but continued with them to avoid disappointing his father.

Shields (EG)

The shields were a defense system designed to protect against a nuclear attack.

Shouter (SD)

Shouter was a female pequenino, the native animal species on the planet Lusitania. The females were the pequeninos’ governing body, known as the “wives.” Shouter, whose real name was Star-looker, was the chief wife. Using the piggie named Human as a translator, Shouter and Ender Wiggin drafted a treaty that defined the relationship between humans and piggies on Lusitania.

In the treaty, the piggies agreed not to kill humans or make war on other
tribes of pequeninos in exchange for Ender giving them the Hive Queen and not killing any pequeninos.

Shuttlebug (ES)

Shuttlebugs were a mode of transportation that were similar to flying, spacebound buses. They took groups of passengers short distances through space.

Sillian, Colonel (PL)

A senior officer in the International Fleet, it fell to Finland native Colonel Sillian to evaluate the results of Battle School screening tests. He was initially skeptical of John Paul Wieczorek’s test results, but agreed to perform the follow-up screening personally.