Thomas Wade

Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by Cixin Liu

Chief of the PDC's Strategic Intelligence Agency, the sociopath who pushed through the Staircase Program, lost the Swordholder vote to Cheng Xin, then waited fifty years to take the Halo Group from her by force. The only human who would have actually pressed the button.

Also known as: Wade, Director Wade

What They Know

• The full classified history of the Staircase Program including the reactor safety overrides that should have made it impossible
• How to murder an asset and make it look like an icefishing accident — a method he used on Mikhail Vadimov, his only Swordholder rival
• The complete operational doctrine of the Halo Group's lightspeed engine project, including which board members can be bought and which must be killed
• His own rate of being correct under pressure — 100% in the Swordholder simulation games — and the social cost of saying so
• Where on a human body to fire a sidearm so the target lives long enough to answer one question

Connections

• leads — pia
• leads — halo_group
• rivals — cheng_xin
• rivals — luo_ji
• enemy_of — sophon
• located_in — earth

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