He is usually dressed in the white and green colors favored by the Alliance Navy - a majority-white uniform with green shoulders, cuffs, stripes down the arms & legs and accents with black trim at the cuffs and edges of the coat. Even a relative newcomer to the military world like Kayto Shields was able to tell at first glance that the Admiral was not someone to take lightly. His short-cut hair and neatly-clipped beard are white from his age and his face is fairly well-lined, but his stance is still as crisp as when he was in his prime and his dusk-brown eyes still carry a sharp, penetrating gaze that reflects his years of experience. Tall and very fit for his age, Admiral Gray is described by Kayto in the Novel as being "classically handsome" and having the aged gracefully. However, the next target of his campaign into PACT territory - the formally neutral world of Cera and the homeworld of Kayto Shields - will be the defining point of the advance, for both the war and the crew of the Sunrider. Despite a misstep at Ongess, Admiral Grey continues that campaign with success, hoping to quickly destroy PACT's forces and maybe even go beyond the Neutral Rim to capture most of PACT's space.
Due to this he was, together with Captain Shields, the main victor in the Battle of Far Port, when he arrived just in time to launch a flanking attack against the disorganized and leaderless PACT fleet, successfully destroying most of it.Īfter that battle, Grey received the command of the Alliance's Combined Fleet - a grouping of various space fleets that make up a large portion of the Alliance's total military strength - with the objective of defeating PACT and reconquering or liberating the Neutral Rim. He leads the powerful Emerald Fleet, formally known as the Alliance's 1st Fleet. Whether the Admiral be a critical supporter of the Sunrider's lone mission against PACT, or whether the Admiral intends to make the Ceran vessel a pawn in his own deadly political game against the Alliance government, is unknown. However, the glory days of The Alliance seem to be waning as the war machine of PACT looms over the horizon. Today, centuries after its birth, the Solar Alliance is a massive space democracy which accounts for most of humanity’s sciences and commerce, and it owes most of that to the Grey family. The Grey family has retained a powerful position in Alliance politics even centuries after the legendary exploits of Madeline Grey, the famed admiral who unified a hundred worlds against the New Empire’s war machine. One of the top brass of the Solar Alliance fleet, Admiral Harold Grey’s name is uniformly respected throughout Alliance space as a cunning military strategist and a man of honor. Admiral Harold Grey is a major character in Sunrider.