In a vid, the Hegemon Ukko Jukes announced that one of the eight Parallax telescopes , Copernicus, was destroyed by a Formic fighter ahead of the main alien fleet. Mazer discussed the news with the rest of his breach team. Some time later, Mazer was ordered to report to Colonel Vaganov's office. However, Vaganov suspected that he put his personal life with Kim above his soldier duties, which he saw as a good quality in an officer. Vaganov stated that he thought the Fleet would lose the coming war because of incompetent leadership, and revealed that he had set up the officer socials to identify soldiers like Mazer, who couldn't stand bureaucracy.
After mentioning that he believed Mazer's breach team was the best in the Fleet, he asked how he thought of the Gravity Disruptor device. Mazer expressed his concerns with the device, and then showed Vaganov his design for a nanobot shield. After telling Mazer not to share his ideas with junior officers, Vaganov asked Mazer to bring the designs to him first.
Mazer was then informed that he would begin testing live Gravity Disruptor charges the next day, when he had just listed the various problems with the device. Mazer protested, but was shut down by Vaganov and dismissed. The following morning, Mazer and his team set out to test the live Gravity Disruptor charges. However, one of the four cubes was faulty; Mazer radioed to mission control asking to abort the mission, but his request was denied.
The resulting explosion ripped the test ship apart, sending shrapnel in all directions. One piece sliced into Shambhani's calf, creating a gaping hole in his suit. His suit sealed itself, but abandoned his leg from the knee down. The team was taken back to the station in a medic ship, but there was little chance of saving Shambhani's leg. After leaving and showering, he was informed that Shambhani lost his leg.
Mazer went to Colonel Vaganov's office, where he saw him showing the Hegemon Ukko Jukes, the Hegemon, a series of holos of the breach teams testing the Gravity Disruptor. However, the clip of Mazer's team was edited so that the explosion did not look as violent and Shambhani did not make an appearance. After returning, Vaganov was confronted by Mazer when he realized that the defective cube was deliberate, giving the most skilled breach team the harder test.
After some discussion of the matter, Vaganov insisted that the nanoshield design would be developed by Gungsu, against Mazer's objections. He was confined to private quarters until he was to be transported to Luna for a court-martial.
He considered uploading the information to his forum, but decided against it as Vaganov had ordered him to come to him with new information. He sent an email to Vaganov's aide, asking to meet with the colonel. Once in Vaganov's office, Mazer explained the images in the email. He expressed his concern that the asteroid may be used as a missile to be launched at Earth.
Mazer suggested that the International Fleet form an assault team specializing in asteroid combat. After Vaganov asked to see the rest of the images in Mazer's email, he noticed that all his other correspondence were missing. Vaganov thought this meant he was concealing the fact that he was talking about Vaganov to others, which Mazer denied. Paranoid, Vaganov revoked Mazer's net access and declared that he would handle transferring the information to the rest of the Fleet.
To avoid Vaganov's bureaucracy impeding the sharing of the information, Mazer signed into his forum on the holofield and sent the information out to the junior officers of the Fleet. Furious, Vaganov assigned Mazer a MP to guard him at all times and dismissed him. Over the next week, Vaganov assigned Mazer an impossible amount of tasks, which he could not complete each shift.
At the beginning of the his shift, Nardelli tried provoking Mazer by taking his ear piece and scuffing his boots on the floor. Mazer did not fight Nardelli and finished the shift with no more problems.
After Mazer's shift ended, Nardelli escorted Mazer to an officer and reported Mazer's work progress. The officer then had Nardelli take Mazer to a health officer, who proceeded to give Mazer a physical. After the physical, the health officer reported that he was not recommending Mazer for duty due to previous injuries sustained in the First Formic War.
After questioning the doctor, Mazer discovered that Vaganov likely hired the officer, as he would not recommend Mazer for duty in war. Nardelli then escorted Mazer to the cargo bay, where Nardelli attempted to fight Mazer; however, Mazer did not fight back, but resisted injury due to being knowledgeable of zero gravity combat. Mazer then left Nardelli in the cargo bay and went to his shuttle, which took him to Luna for his court martial.
On the way to Luna, Mazer replied to Victor's email with his thoughts on the exoskeleton armor he had made for exploring Asteroid GJ When he had arrived on the moon, he met Lieutenant Prem Chamrajnagar , who was his appointed attorney for his court martial.
After adjusting to Luna's gravity, he was surprised that he was assigned someone so young and new as his attorney. However, he soon realized that Prem was intelligent and resourceful, as she knew things about his record that most other IF officers did not. After discussing his court martial and the judicial system of the Fleet on a rover ride to the shuttle terminal, Prem and Mazer parted ways for the time being. Mazer met Kim outside of the security perimeter. After embracing, they went their favorite noodle shop in the Old Town of Imbrium , which was owned by a Japanese couple they were good friends with after Kim saved their daughter's life.
After getting seated and ordering their food, they discussed Mazer's future in the IF. Soon, however, Kim brought up the topic of trying to have a baby again. Mazer was wary at first, for the miscarriages were difficult to get past for the two of them.
He didn't want the child to grow up with the Formics still a threat, but Kim persuaded him to think otherwise. Later, Mazer met Prem at CentCom for his court arraignment. Prem gave him advice for how to act in the courtroom and told him that another doctor had cleared him for combat readiness in the Fleet.
When told that the prosecuting attorney Reginald Ravenshaw had threatened to charge him with espionage, Prem took Mazer to the cafeteria to explain why that charge and others that had been filed against him were bogus.
Prem suggested that they show the jury that Mazer was trusted by the Strategos for his involvement in the final battle of the First Formic War, but Mazer remembered he was told not to reveal that to anyone and rejected the idea.
Mazer and Prem then left and headed to the courtroom, where they were greeted by Ravenshaw as he sat on their table. After insulting Prem's inexperience as an attorney and Mazer's Maori heritage, he went to the prosecutor's table as Colonel Michio Soshi arrived in the courtroom. After settling in, Soshi addressed Prem and asked if the defense wished to enter a plea, to which she said that Mazer plead as not guilty.
Soshi acknowledged this, adjourning the court for three weeks. After joking with Prem and Mazer, Ravenshaw left the courtroom as well. Mazer and Prem took a taxi to Gungsu Industries, where Mazer intended to convince the company to give financial compensation to Mustafa Shambhani who had invented the nanoshield that was sold to them by Vaganov. Mazer planned to sell Shambhani and Victor Delgado's inventions to Gungsu, which would supply them with funds and Mazer with freedom from his court martial.
They were met by Woo Han's assistant, who inquired into the point of their visit. Lying, Mazer said that the International Fleet was forming an asteroid assault team and wanted new tech developed by Gungsu. Prem was worried that pretending they had IF business would hurt Mazer's case for his court-martial if caught, but he brushed her off.
The assistant returned and brought them into Hea Woo Han's office. After offering them tea, Hea Woo Han thanked Mazer and his team for testing the gravity disruptor and expressed her condolences for Shambhani's injury due to it. After discussing Hea's military background, Mazer asked what she thought the IF's greatest weakness was.
She addressed the Fleet's lack of warships and experienced crew, but Mazer expressed his thoughts on the bureaucracy that was hindering the IF's development. He then showed her some of Victor Delgado's technology that he had engineered, offering a development and production contract with Gungsu. Mazer explained that the nanoshield tech that had been given to her by Vaganov was in fact designed by Shambhnai, and Woo Han offered to give him and his family financial compensation.
Mazer asked if Hea could use her influence with Vaganov to end his court-martial, but she explained that that was out of her abilities. Understanding, Mazer finished the meeting and left Gungsu's headquarters. Prem and Mazer got in another taxi and headed to the offices of Juke Limited.
Lem agreed to produce the suits for the asteroid strike team. Less than a week later, Mazer and Prem went to court for the hearing.
Judge Ravenshaw acquitted the charges because the only witness for the prosecution fell through, so Colonel Soshi had no evidence to use against Mazer. However, Ravenshaw did allow a letter of reprimand to be placed on Mazer Rackham's file, infuriating Prem because she believed that implied to the jury that Mazer was guilty.
Furthermore, Mazer and Prem parted ways after Mazer convinced Prem she could fight the injustices she saw within the system by being the best lawyer possible.
Before heading to CentCom for reassignment, Mazer met with Kim in the lobby, where they discussed their future. Kim had realized that Mazer would likely be reassigned off of Luna, and she urged him to stay. She also told him that she was not pregnant before parting ways.
Upon arriving at the cubicle, the office worker informed Mazer he had been assigned to Colonel Li. Mazer then had to head directly to his assignment in shuttledock Upon meeting Colonel Li, Rackham discovered he had met the man briefly during the First Formic War, and that Li had been training Bingwen over the past 3 years.
Rackham disagreed with Li's leadership style and told Li directly that he disapproved of Li using Bingwen and several other boys for the purpose of war. After acting like he agreed with Li by losing the fight, Rackham apologized to Bingwen for abandoning him over the past three years before they headed to TAG. Before launch, Mazer managed to call Kim for five minutes to inform her on why he had not come home and to say goodbye.
Mazer also attempted to warn Kim about the IF's upcoming attack against the Formics. Before the call was forcibly ended, Mazer sang an old song to Kim and told her that he loved her.
Mazer took a shuttle to a cargo ship in the atmosphere above Luna. Vaganov, now a rear admiral, came to greet Mazer in his quarters and told Mazer that he had learned about his past during the First Formic War.
Vaganov believed the two to be potential threats and that they had a downward career. Mazer did not agree to help Vaganov with spying for the reason of being loyal to a commanding officer. After the tenuous meeting with Vaganov, Mazer went to confront Colonel Li, believing he needed to go ahead and start training the boys in zero-g combat. Mazer convinced Li that one of the cargo bays could be turned into a training facility for tunnels, while the outside of the ship could be used as a battle room for open area combat.
Mazer Rackham's plan for the tunnel training and battle room on the ship successfully went through. He would randomize the tunnels daily in order to challenge the boys under Li's command. For the battle room, Mazer organized the marines on the ship into teams and scored points based upon the winners.
Mazer had Bingwen and the other boys watch the battles between the marines in order to teach lessons on tactics and strategy.
The conversation revolved around the Formic asteroids that were thought to be heading for Earth, as it had been realized that none of them were. Mazer and Bingwen convinced Zembassi to attack an asteroid named Castalia instead of the group's original target. After months of traveling to Castalia, the ship finally arrived and the battle room was opened again for the men to train with.
The plan of attack on Castalia was organized by Li, but the details were set by Mazer and Bingwen. However, soon after their arrival Vaganov confronted Zambassi with the problems in his plan, as he believed that by blowing up the Formic-created atmosphere around the asteroid they would destroy any discoveries about the bioengineered Formic bugs that could be obtained. Mazer and Zembassi were against the idea of sending in men to the asteroid, as the volatile atmosphere presented a high risk, but Vaganov had already conferred with the Polemarch and Strategos , and after detailing the fact that the cadet program was secretive and nobody would know if all the cadets died on the asteroid, Vaganov took his leave back to his quarters, and his plan was to be implemented.
Through discussion with Zembassi and Li, Mazer decided to take fellow soldiers Kaufman and Rimas with him on the mission into the asteroid, along with Bingwen as he could fit into the tunnels. Two days later, the breach team was ready to go. They planned to kill the crew of the Formic Miniship , collect the bioengineered "bugs", and then send in Bingwen once the threat was eliminated.
After shuttling to the resin shell of the asteroid, Mazer cut an entry point and went inside, followed by Kaufman and Rimas. Mazer ordered Kaufman to leave and transfer his supplies to Bingwen, and then wait in the shuttle craft.
After realizing that Mazer and Rimas could not fit in the tunnels, Bingwen suggested they give him their supplies and wait out in the shuttle for Bingwen to finish investigating. Mazer did not like the idea, but he knew it was the best course of action. After going further in the tunnels, Bingwen came upon a wide and darkened cavern in the middle of the asteroid, with a metal wall of Hulmat blocking his view.
Bingwen came to the realization that the asteroids were being used as factories to make ships by the Formics, not missiles. However, after discussing with Mazer, he realized that the miniship crew of five was not enough to pilot the ships that would be made inside the asteroid. Zembassi ordered Bingwen to proceed, and he came upon a Hive Queen being birthed. After the workers began to swarm him, he pulled out an ignitor and sparked the atmosphere, destroying the asteroid.
Mazer, Rimas, and Kaufman rushed in and recovered Bingwen, who had survived the blast and took him back to the ship. After the asteroid was destroyed, Zembassi met with Mazer in his office to discuss the discovery. They inferred that the Hive Queen Bingwen saw was a "general" of the army, so to speak, and that either the further a Hive Queen from her workers the less control she had over them, or the more workers under her control the weaker her command of them.
They mentioned the Formic ship that survived the blast due to its Hulmat composition, and that Vaganov had been promoted to vice admiral after the incident, making him the commanding officer of the vessel. Mazer checked his email and saw one from Imala, who was heading out into deep space on a secret mission.
She told him that she was pregnant, and to pass the news on to Victor, who would be arriving on the Fleet warship Vandalorum in a year or so. Mazer watched as the marines all saluted Bingwen one by one, and his thoughts drifted to Kim in New Zealand, and of their future children. When the Second Formic War had begun, Mazer piloted a poorly-armed supply ship in the rear echelons of the human fleet's formation.
As he flew through the swarms of Formic ships, he noticed that they centered around a single craft. Going against orders, he fired a missile at it, destroying it and unknowingly killing a Hive Queen. This ended the invasion with a human victory. Following the war, Mazer was placed in one of the International Fleet's courier ships and sent into the stars where his only exercise consisted of electrical stimuli to his muscles.
He traveled at nearly the speed of light to keep him young enough to command the human fleet in the future. The ship was programmed to return after a preset amount of time and distance. He would have aged only five years, though decades passed on Earth; upon his return to his home planet , he would be expected to command the human invasion fleet, currently heading to the homeworlds of the Formics. Though his victories in the war had become the Fleet's greatest propaganda tool, and his legend had been perpetuated through the vids that everyone saw, Mazer's time in space was lonely.
He had made the decision to take this short trip alone. He utilized the ansible for communication with the International Fleet headquarters. Through this method, he communicated with the then-lieutenant Hyrum Graff , informing him on the newly-organized Battle School. Graff had been assigned as the head of recruitment for the school, and was to look for a candidate who had the same traits as Mazer. Graff had located Mazer's family on Earth and used them to convince Mazer to help him.
Mazer was angered that his family, to whom he was considered dead, was used in such a fashion. He was sent bandwidth-costly visual messages via the ansible of his daughter and the rest of his family. Along with the visual, he received letters from his family.
However, through the letters he learned that his ex-wife, Kim Arnsbrach, had remarried. The Computer Voice that provided his only companionship in this stage of his journey reported back to the Fleet of Mazer's emotional responses to the letters from his family.
It also reported that he had reprogrammed the ship and computer to allow him complete navigational control. The Fleet had grown concerned over these reports and sent shrinks to evaluate him via ansible.
Mazer had decided that he would not be coming back to Earth. Mazer instructed the Fleet to give Hyrum Graff sufficient authority to truly find and train a successor to him as commander of the human forces against the Formics. Then, and only then, would Mazer return to Earth, promising to help train his successor a few years earlier than the original plan. The Fleet had no option but to agree, and promoted Graff. Mazer fulfilled his part of the bargain, returning to Earth to train the new commander.
The boy, Ender Wiggin , had been sent to this highest of military schools at a very young age, and Mazer was assigned to teach him to defeat the Formics. Mazer introducing Ender to the simulator in Ender's Game Film. In 0 BX, one year after Ender's arrival at Eros, Mazer entered Ender's room and waited for him to wake up; when he did, Mazer sat silently until Ender moved near him, grabbing his leg and knocking him down.
This made Ender more cautious of Mazer, but the old man did not speak until the end of the day, when Mazer lashed out in fluid movement and immobilized Ender within two seconds. Mazer informed Ender that he would be his teacher and mentor from then on, and that he would be programming the simulator that Ender would train with.
Mazer pushed Ender past his limits, but Ender rose above the pressure. In his "final exam" at Command School, Ender fired the Molecular Disruption Device at the Formic Homeworld , unknowingly committing xenocide but securing a victory for humanity. Mazer revealed to Ender that the exams and simulations had all been real battles, devastating Ender and making him pass out for five days.
Mazer and Ender had several conversations about the Formics, Graff, and Ender's role in the deaths of Bonito de Madrid and the boy named Stilson. Mazer would never directly confirm any of Ender's theories, but his lack of denial was always enough for Ender to know he was right. Mazer was chosen to be the pilot of the first colony ship in the new Dispersal Project , colonizing the former Formic worlds.
Ender was also placed in this project as the new governor of a planet later named Shakespeare. It was all a lie, however. Mazer never left the Sol System again. He continued to work with Hyrum Graff in the Ministry of Colonization. Around 2 AX , Mazer communicated with Graff in some way and discussed the luck of humanity's victories over the Formics and the possible threat of a Formic fleet coming from a world that survived the Third Invasion.
Later, Graff had another conversation with Mazer where he discussed descendants, and how nothing compared to having genetic offspring compared to a child that one mentored.
Mazer told Graff not to extend his life with relativistic voyages, since he had experienced one and said it was like prison. He also said he felt more of a connection with Ender than his actual great-grandchildren. Though he was not seen for years during the wars on Earth after Ender's victory, Mazer resurfaced around 8 AX to offer Han Tzu and Bean passage into space.
Han Tzu refused, while Bean agreed. He accompanied Bean's wife, Petra Arkanian , to Portugal where she retrieved a girl named Bella , who had been born by a surrogate mother carrying an embryo that belonged to Bean and Petra. Mazer explains to Ender how he found a way to stay alive to teach Ender how to fight the buggers. Even after destroying the buggers before, Mazer sacrificed everything to ensure that his knowledge would live on.
Like Ender, Mazer focuses more on the survival of the human race than on his own happiness and innocence. After Ender realizes he destroyed the buggers, Graff and Mazer explain why they had to trick him, and why Ender had to be the person who performed the actual killing.
Mazer also tells Ender how he learned from his time fighting that, to be successful, they would need a new commander as compassionate as Ender to truly understand the enemy.
SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Characters Ender Valentine Peter. Themes, Motifs, Symbols. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Quotes Mazer Rackham Quotes. I surprised you once, Ender Wiggin.
Just because I looked peaceful? You turned your back on me.
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