Commander Fiona Ayoade

Commander Fiona Ayouade is the leader of The Resistance.

Appearance

Background

Commander Fiona Ayouade was born in London, United Kingdom. She is an intelligence operative.

Her service record:

Captain, Royal Army Intelligence Corps, ret. 2006;

Case Officer, undisclosed location, Secret Intelligence Service, 2006-2007;

SIS liaison to U.S. Counterterrorism Center, 2008-2009;

Chief of Station, Lagos, 2009-2012;

Chief of Station, Islamabad, 2012-2014;

Deputy Chief of African Affairs, 2014-2015;

Senior adviser to insurgent group, location undisclosed, 2016-present.

Personality

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Quotes

Research

• "Don't ever make the mistake of thinking a problem is solved. Defeating any enemy is like plucking your eyebrows - for every hair you remove, twelve more will show up to the funeral." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Email to SIS regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
• "Diplomacy has its place, but if you don't go into every situation prepared for the absolute worst case scenario, you might as well turn up wearing nothing but a smile." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Leaked training video
• "You'd think a threat this big would finally make us abandon old grudges and band together, but humanity always finds a way to hurt itself, doesn't it?" — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Undated letter, recipient unknown
• "That senator's demand that we deploy rifle companies to patrol the suburbs for aliens is foolish for so many reasons, not the least of which is that they may not be sent home when this is over." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Private correspondence
• "Information is our greatest weapon, bar none. If we know enough about what we're fighting and where, we can win wars before even a single shot has been fired." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, From her thesis at the Joint Services Command and Staff College
• "There's a them, and there's an us. Always has been, as much as we kid ourselves that somehow we've become more enlightened over all these years of blood and suffering." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, SIS correspondence
• "The damage from a bullet is not caused by the projectile itself, it is caused by the energy of the impact. Energy weapons just cut out the middleman." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Technical weapons briefing
• "I brought you on board, doctor, because I believe you're the only one who can pull this off. The good news is that, if I'm wrong, there'll be no-one left to tell me about it." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Engineering briefing
• "Tell me what we need to send more people further, faster. Otherwise we'll be stuck playing defense forever - and that's just a slow way to lose." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Attending a technical design briefing for the UK space program
• "Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed ... Yeah, yeah, yeah. We really don't need Yeats' defeatism right now." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, responding to media coverge of the Resistance
• "Never forget that the true power in any kingdom is not the man on the throne, but instead those who quietly stand at his shoulders." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, "Data in the Shadow of War."
• "You'll frown at my ignorance and romanticism, but look, if one good thing comes out of all this mess, it's getting to tell my kids that every spaceship has a tiny star at its heart." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Private correspondence following a tour of Los Alamos National Laboratory
• "In 1954, the Americans built the first nuclear-powered submarine, and changed the course of naval warfare. Now, it is upon us to become the creators of the first nuclear-powered spaceship. It is upon us to define warfare in space." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, From a speech made while opening the Churchill Shipyards
• "Mum's last years were a blur of doctors and treatments. By that point, every movement was painful. The one thing she loved was her aquatic therapy. Whenever I was home on leave, I'd take her to the pool for hours. Weightless. Smiling. Free." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Response to SIS psychological evaluation question "What gives you strength in difficult times?"
• "With all due respect, there are only two things that really matter here: Getting wherever we need to be fast, and not getting ourselves killed in the process." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Research Proposal Review Conference for the U.K.'s Defense and Security Accelerator
• "Believe me, these bastards have already read everything humanity's ever written. If we don't come up with some way to talk without them listening in, we've got less chance of survival than a hummingbird in a hurricane." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Encrypted Signal message to Resistance scientist Philip Rhodes (D.O.B. 2.27.77, SSN 078-05-1120) on 4.9.18 at 17.42, from 4.824167,7.033611
• "We can speculate about where these bloody things came from until the cows come home, but right now all the matters is whether or not we've got something that can put a bullet square between whatever the hell they call eyes." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Comments made during a confidential videocall, shortly after first contact
• "Together, we're stronger. Apart, we're weaker, yeah? Sounds great on paper, love, but the trouble is there's always some bloke with a loud voice who wants to keep us apart - and a whole lot of someone elses bankrolling him." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, Responding to an email from her cousin
• "The dreamer in me wants to believe it would bring a golden age of advancement and prosperity for all mankind. But I'm a realist. I know better.
  Any race advanced enough to find us would be advanced enough to end us, likely without even regarding us." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, NATO Symposium on Alien First Contact
• "When I was a kid, the threat of nuclear armageddon was on every front page, every day. So forgive me if I get just a tiny bit anxious when you tell me that our best hope of sailing the stars is staging nuclear explosions inside our spacecraft." — Commander Fiona Ayouade, In an email, receiving address encrypted