Gilda Rosewood

Lieutenant General United States Air Force.

Gilda is the second-in-command of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Her primary duties are command of project Messenger, the U.S. DoD efforts on Mars. She has been involved with this project since she graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1979. She was assigned to her position in charge of project Messenger in 1993.

In 1979, Gilda donated several Ovum to the Eben genetic and hybridization research program taking place on Mars. Here ovum were responsible for a portion of the fifth iteration of Eben-human hybrids. Her hybrid children (her only children) are Achael, Hlef, Khlam, Ahshuun and Pinpin.

By agreement with the Eben in 1994, she has operational command of the base on Mars. It should be noted that operational command was conceeded by the Eben to Gilda Rosewood specifically. At that time it was named Carter Air Force Station, or Carter Station for short. This name was chosen to honour the character John Carter from the A Princess of Mars series of books by Edgar R. Burroughs.

Gilda's only real passion outside of her job is collecting fine pottery from around the world. Her favourite is Turkish pottery from Avanos.