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dissertation committee.
    College Dean (TP)
    The College Dean was Theresa Brown’s superior while she was a graduate student. He called her in for a meeting where he, alongside his colleagues, informed her that the funding for her research had been withdrawn. It had been a political tactic made by the Hegemony to attack Theresa’s father.
    Colony IX (
See
Hundred Worlds)
    Combat School (EGS, EG, ES)
    Combat School is where graduates of Battle School go if they are not qualified for Command School or Tactical School.
    Command School (
See also
Eros Asteroid) (EGS, EG, ES, [GB])
    A large complex made up of tunnels that burrowed into the surface of the minor planet Eros, Command School was where Ender was trained on the “simulators.” He took “exams,” all of which were actually battles in the Formic War. He remotely commanded real armies by these simulators.
    It was here that Ender met Mazer Rackham and destroyed the Formic home world.
    Command School Observers/“Test Proctors” (EG, ES)
    During Ender’s “final exam” at Command School, several observers or proctors watched him take the test. They were officers in the International Fleet, and cheered Ender’s victory against the Formic home world. Hyrum Graff was among them, as was Mazer Rackham, who revealed that the officers were observing because the exams had been real battles, and this “final exam” had been the defining battle against humanity’s enemy.
    Command School Technician (EG, ES)
    The Command School Technician helped Command School students like Bean and Ender settle into their training “simulators.”
    Computer Voice (MP)
    On board Mazer Rackham’s private courier ship, the Computer Voice relayed messages and provided quasihuman companionship for the Admiral as he traveled what to him was a five-year journey, but to the people of Earth was decades. The Computer Voice had both male and female voices with which to read messages from the International Fleet and speak to Mazer. It was not sentient, however, and Mazer described it as “bland.”
    The Computer Voice would record Mazer’s responses to messages from IF-COM, and send them via ansible. The computer also tracked Mazer’s emotional responses and reported them to the Fleet. It also reported that Mazer had reprogrammed the ship to give himself complete navigational control.
    Conceição (SD)
    Conceição was a human colonist on the planet Lusitania. She was the librarian of the planetary archives, and was married to the planet’s xenolo-gist, Pipo. She was the mother of Libo, and a devout Catholic. She was devastated by the murder of her husband by the planet’s native life-forms, the pequeninos.
    Years later, at a very old age and still the archivist of Lusitania, Conceição learned of her son Libo’s adulterous relationship with Novinha von Hesse.
    Condor, The
(ES)
    The Condor
was the name of the spaceship that Bean took to Battle School.
    Copper Bugs ([GB])
    Copper Bugs were large insectoids, bred by the Formics to mine for precious metals on one of their worlds. When that world was colonized by humans after Ender’s victory against the Formics, the Copper Bugs were thought to exist because of the discovery of Gold Bugs by xenobiologist Sel Menach and his assistant, Po Tolo.
    Their exoskeleton was seemingly made of the precious metal they mined, making the bugs themselves precious natural resources.
    Córdoba (
See
Hundred Worlds)
    Crazy Tom (EG, ES, WG, SH, SG)
    Crazy Tom was a contemporary of Ender’s in Battle School, and was one of the few veterans assigned to Ender’s Dragon Army. He was the toon leader of C toon in Dragon Army. He had also developed a reputation for throwing tantrums if his superiors did things that bothered him.
    He and his toon helped lead Dragon Army to victory over Rabbit Army in their first battle. They also helped protect Ender from Bonzo Madrid and Salamander Army, when Ender’s life was threatened. In the army’s eighth battle, Tom was frozen