Cliff Nadaner

Cliff Nadaner was a Terran anti-Confederacy and anti-Terran Dominion rebel.

Nadaner is tall and broad-shouldered. He has receding brown hair and a hook nose.

Biography
Nadaner used to work for a factory. Jealous that another employee was winning as many "employee of the week" awards as he did, he arranged for an "accident" to kill that employee. While his rival was killed, he still didn't win another employee of the week award.

Nadaner later joined the Terran Confederacy military. He was passed over for promotion six times before he left. He later started his anti-Confederate movement, which had an anarchist philosophy. He was inspired by the Sons of Korhal rebel movement, but was also jealous of them as they were much more successful than he was.

Tarsonis City Attack
He launched an attack against the Terra family and possibly other Old Families on Tarsonis days after the Sons of Korhal launched a terrorist strike on the same world.

His forces killed three members of the Terra Old family and a number of their servants but were completely wiped out by Nova. The other families that were attacked that day suffered much fewer losses.

Enemy of the Dominion
After the defeat of the Terran Confederacy and the establishment of the Terran Dominion, Nadaner turned his guns onto the Terran Dominion. However he was generally unsuccessful.

Nadaner was located by Nova on Tyrador VIII as part of her "graduation exercise" shortly before becoming a full-fledged Ghost. When Nova read his mind, she said he had a "psychosis", which partly explained his actions. Since Nadaner killed her family, she had a personal stake in the mission; her orders were to kill him using her mind, which she did.

Followers
Nadaner was a charismatic individual and was able to gather a small rebel force around himself. His most notorious followers were Edward Peters and Gustavo McBain.

Gustavo McBain
Gustavo McBain was a Korhalian welder. When the Confederacy destroyed Korhal, he was away from his homeworld, but his wife and children were killed. He became a bitter anti-Confederate rebel at that point.

Instead of joining the Sons of Korhal, McBain joined Cliff Nadaner's group and came to enjoy killing. He especially hated the Old Families.

Ironically, McBain was sent to kill the member of the Old Families who spoke most loudly against the destruction of Korhal: Constantino Terra. He was ordered by his superior, Edward Peters, to kill Constantino's daughter, November Terra as well, but before he could pull the trigger she destroyed his mind with the power of psionics.

Edward Peters

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Edward Peters was a spy and heartless commander within Cliff Nadaner's rebel movement. He infiltrated the Terra family, one of the Confederate Old Families, in order to destroy them from the inside. Several of the family's servants fell under his command. He was killed by November Terra.