MURRUE RAMIUS

Murrue is an Earth Alliance officer and engineer who becomes captain of the Archangel because most of the people who were supposed to command it die during the attack on Heliopolis. She is suddenly responsible for a new warship, a group of civilian refugees and several teenagers who were never meant to become military personnel. Murrue leads with more empathy than Natarle initially considers appropriate, but the difference is not incompetence. She understands that getting the ship home means keeping the people aboard functioning as people, not just crew positions. Her relationship with Mu grows out of that long stretch of shared responsibility and near disasters. By the time the Archangel breaks from the Earth Alliance, Murrue has learned to trust her own judgment even when the uniform and the orders are pointing somewhere else.