Helen Bragg is Randy's competent sister-in-law who is accustomed to running her household alone while her husband Mark is away on military duty. Lib McGovern genuinely cares for Randy but has to visit him quietly due to her parents' disapproval. Dr. Dan Gunn is the town doctor whose partner was killed during a raid on their clinic by drug addicts, and who had wanted to spend his career healing people abroad rather than for money and prestige, but his wife divorced him and saddled him with debt.

1. Alas Babylon
BY Taylor,M

4. Helen Bragg
Helen is Randy’s sister-in-law, and she is a typical military
wife, accustomed to being alone and running the household
during Mark’s extended absences. She is competent under
pressure, to the point of being her best when under fire

5. Lib McGovern
Lib’s parents do not care for Randy, forcing her to visit him
quietly. She, unlike Rita Hernandez, genuinely cares for
Randy. After Randy receives Mark’s message but before he
tells her about the coming war

6. Dr. Dan Gunn
Dan Gunn is the town doctor for Fort Repose, his partner
being killed in the raid by the drug addicts on the clinic. He
is, at heart, an idealist who wanted to spend his career
treating the sick in faraway lands. He was motivated by a
desire to heal, not by the money or prestige that a medical
career would offer him. However, his wife, an alcoholic
gambler and social gadfly, divorced him since she wanted
the money and prestige that would come from being the
wife of a doctor. In the divorce, Dan was placed under a
crippling burden