List of Ender's jeesh
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In the fictional Ender's Game series, the term "jeesh" is used to refer to someone's inner circle or group of close friends. Ender Wiggin is the protagonist of the original Ender's Game: his friends are known as Ender's jeesh. Other students are listed in List of Battle School students.
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[edit] Alai
Alai (pronounced a lie) is a student of North African descent. In Battle School, he was an exceptional student, adroit in the battle room, and was one of the first kids to befriend Ender, with the word "salaam" and a kiss on the cheek. He also helped lead the special training sessions Ender conducted. These training sessions worked developed the skills of students in the zero-gravity game that was played at Battle School. This game was designed to teach students military tactics and skills. Alai is considered to be almost as good strategically as Ender was.
However, when Ender becomes commander of Dragon Army, they have a falling out of sorts. Ender attempts to rekindle the friendship by proposing "salaam" again; but Alai says it is not to be, and tells of the meaning, which is "peace be unto you." Alai is also one of the final three dozen commanders that leads under Ender's command during the Third Invasion in which the Buggers are killed.
Alai appears in the later books in the Bean Quartet as well, including Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets.
In Shadow Puppets, Alai has become a de facto caliph for the Muslim nations, being their chief military, political and spiritual leader. He then successfully orchestrates them into a combined attack against China, removing from China's control both its recent acquisitions in India and the rest of Southern Asia. He also divides up other providences of China, such as Tibet (independent now), Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia (given to Mongolia).
In Shadow of the Giant, Alai's Muslim empire starts to fall apart due to the actions of extremists. Alai faces a China under the control of Han Tzu, a fellow jeesh member; and India under the control of the Battle School graduate Virlomi, who has declared herself a Hindu Goddess. Alai tries to ally with India by marrying Virlomi, but turmoil leads the extremists and the Indian people to conspire against him. Alai flees his empire after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt. After peace has been restored, Alai leaves Earth with the help of the International Fleet to colonize another world.
[edit] Bean
Bean is a student of Greek descent who is youngest but smartest member because he has Anton's Key turned on within him. When the kids are assembled in Command School, the supervisor chooses Bean to lead at first. When Ender arrives, Bean steps back and surveys the flow of the battle to alert Ender or the other generals when a problem arises.
[edit] Dink Meeker
Dink Meeker is a Battle School student. He is portrayed as one of those who refuses to play the teacher's game. He says that he was offered command of an army two times, but refused to play. He was paranoid of the game and convinced the teachers were the enemy and that the Bugger War was fake and trumped up so that all children with ability for command were in the hands of the International Fleet; however, he loved the game, so he stayed as a toon leader. Dink asked for Ender Wiggin to be transferred into Rose de Nose's army under his command as a toon leader after he had watched Ender. He sees Ender's new strategies, such as blocking vital parts of the body with his legs, and recruits him, teaching his own toon Ender's tactics. Dink refrains from protecting Ender, instead inciting independence in him. Later, he is sent to Command School along with the rest of Ender's jeesh. His ability for command is commented by Petra Arkanian, who claims him to be 'simple-minded' jokingly. After the war, Dink is sent back to Earth but quickly captured, along with the rest of Ender's jeesh, by Achilles. He consoles Petra and talks with her often, but they are separated when Dink is rescued.
[edit] Carn Carby
Carn Carby is a veteran soldier who commands Rabbit Army. He is an Australian. In the original short story version of Ender's Game, he was conceived as a much dumber person who bumbles an almost-guaranteed victory under very favorable circumstances. Originally, when Bean is transferred into Rabbit Army, Ender says, "Why would they put you under an idiot like Carby?" However, in the novel version, he was rewritten to be more friendly as Carby's character was revised, saying "Carby's a good man; I hope he recognizes you for what you're worth.". He and his Rabbit Army were the first to battle against Ender's Dragon Army and were beaten badly. When Carby told the other commanders of Ender's new tactics, they didn't believe him, so Carby told Ender "to beat the snot out of them" in battle. A few years ahead of Ender, Carby was a tentative choice to be sent with Ender's jeesh to Eros, but went anyway, meeting the rest of his jeesh in pre-Command school.
[edit] Crazy Tom
Crazy Tom is a British student. He is a veteran soldier who was chosen by Bean for Ender Wiggin's Dragon Army. He got his nickname due to his temperment; he could not stand to work under commanders that he considered to be stupid. He wrecked rooms and once sent a message to every kid in the school about how bad his commander was. As a result, he was constantly on the transfer lists (soldiers that commanders were willing to trade). In, fact, he was the most transferred soldier in Battle School History. However, once he was under Ender, he cooled down and performed well. Ender assigned him control of a toon. He later became a commander in the Formic War where they lead a "Third Invasion" and attack the "Buggers" so that humanity can survive. By the time of Shadow of the Giant, he has become a lecturer on strategy at West Point.
[edit] Dumper
Dumper is the leader of "E" toon in Dragon's Army. He is described by Bean as being among the most worshipful of Ender. Along with the other toon leaders, he is part of Ender's "jeesh," the group that works under Ender in fighting the Formics.
After returning to Earth, he drops his Battle School nickname and is referred to in Shadow of the Giant by his real name, Champi T'it'u. He becomes a leader of his people, the Quechua Indians of Latin America, in their search for independence. After being contacted by Peter Wiggin, T'it'u becomes one of the early supporters of the Free People of Earth, and the Quechua are one of the first two stateless peoples to be given a homeland within the FPE, a nation called Runa. The land was given up by FPE members Bolivia and Ecuador and was liberated by force from Peru.
Rather than using Champi T'it'u's troops or the Brazilian military, the FPE sends Rwandan soldiers under the command of Julian Delphinki, emphasizing that war with one member of the FPE is war with all of it.
[edit] Fly Molo
Fly Molo is a veteran soldier from the Dragon Army. He is portrayed initially as being contemptuous of Ender's five-toon formation, but later accepts it as wise, after arguing the concept with Bean. He becomes the third person (after Petra and Vlad) to "blow out" and become no longer useful in the "simulated" conflict. In 'Shadow of the Hegemon', it is noted that Fly Molo's memory is superior even to fellow Battle School students and graduates.
[edit] Han Tzu
Han Tzu (nicknamed Hot Soup) is one of Ender's toon leaders while in Dragon Army.
After the Formic War, Han Tzu returns to China. However, he is soon disgusted by the corrupt and incompetent military hierarchy. Under the leadership of Achilles de Flandres, China manages to conquer the nation of India as well as much of Southeast Asia. However, he loses it to the liberating forces of Caliph Alai and the newly-formed Muslim Crescent League. The Chinese leadership, inculcated into its own myth of invincibility, refuses to surrender until it has lost not only all its new territory, but a good deal of the Middle Kingdom itself. Han Tzu's sound military advice on the subject is entirely ignored. After Han Tzu has stood up and bluntly told his military superiors that they are fools, he expects to be arrested and executed, but his fate is left hanging as Shadow Puppets ends.
In Shadow of the Giant, he meets Mazer Rackham in a restaurant. Rackham hands him a deadly blow-dart pen, calling it the "Mandate of Heaven". After some practice, Han Tzu overthrows the government. The soldiers assassinate the current leader and the entire nation rallies behind Han Tzu, as they felt they were disgraced when the foreign troops entered.
Chinese policy under Han Tzu is concilatory and hospitable. He takes as many steps as possible towards securing the goodwill of his formerly-conquered neighbors, including releasing (former) political leaders to their native lands, and turned most of his efforts towards internal reconstruction and pacification. He built trust and goodwill from his soldiers, joking with them and living like them, and soon had an army with high morale to lead into battle.
He is able to successfully defend China from the invading forces from Russia, India, and the Crescent League by creating an alliance with Thailand and the Free People of Earth. He led an army in the north and defeated an invading Russian army by retreating and drawing the Russians into a trap by destroying a dam.
[edit] Petra Arkanian
Petra Arkanian is a Armenian student who is the only female in the jeesh. During the Earth's invasion of the Bugger worlds, Ender gives her large assignments, having her control large blocks of the main squadron. She is the first student to blow out, falling asleep during a battle.
[edit] Shen
Shen is a Japanese student who is part of Ender's group of launchies. He is introduced as the kid who has a "big butt" and is constantly mocked by Bernard and his gang. Ender steps in and sends a number of messages under pseudonyms (such as "Cover your butt. Berrnard is watching. - God") to break Bernard's control over the room. He becomes Ender's first friend in Battle School. He later guides Bean and tells him why students love Ender.
[edit] Vlad
Born in Belarus in the New Warsaw Pact, Vlad is known as being a solid student who was always passed up in favour of more ambitious students in the various Armies that operated in the Battle Schools battleroom game. Vlad is one of the 40 students chosen to serve in Dragon Army under the command of Ender, where he is made one of the five toon leaders of the army (in charge of B toon). Vlad is one of the dozen or so students that were chosen to be in Ender's Jeesh, helping command the warships of the International Fleet against the Formics in the Third Invasion.
After the Formic War, Vlad is returned to Earth, where he is later recruited into the Russian military. He appears later in the series as an assistant to Achilles de Flandres. Achilles uses Vlad during his stay in Russia but drops him as soon as he is exposed by Bean. Vlad does not agree with Achilles's ideas at first, but after he manipulates Vlad by using Vlad's love for Russia, Vlad is ready to do anything for Achilles.
Eventually, Vlad grows tired of being the pawn of the Russian government. Using the escape hatch offered to him by Hegemon Peter Wiggin and the International Fleet, Vlad escapes from Russia to warn the Free People of Earth of the planned Russian invasion of China, as well as the battle plans against Armenia and China from Muslim and Indian governments. Following the defection, Vlad, along with many of his fellow Jeeshmates, leaves Earth on one of the many Colony Ships going to recolonize the former Formic worlds so he would never again be used as a pawn in international politics.
| Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series | |
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| International Fleet | Admiral Chamrajnagar | Hyrum Graff | Mazer Rackham |
| Battle School | Petra Arkanian | Bean | Achilles de Flandres | Bonzo Madrid | Ender's Jeesh | Other Battle School students |
| Ender's family | Ender Wiggin | John Paul Wiggin | Peter Wiggin | Theresa Wiggin | Valentine Wiggin |
| Other | Han Qing-jao | Si Wang-mu | Jane | Minor characters |
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