Commander Tyler Pierce

Commander Tyler Pierce is the Commander Air Group (CAG) aboard the Constitution, and later the Warrior.

In his thirties, his father is an admiral in the British fleet of IDF. Military service runs in the family for generations. He grew up on Leeds, is upper class, has a patrician accent and background, and ultimately starts to crack when he learns his father, along with the entire British fleet in the Britannia sector, is missing, presumed dead.

In book 3, with the stress of constant combat, despair at losing his wife and children when the Swarm attacked York, and self-loathing at having to order men and women to make suicide runs, he commits suicide himself during a pivotal battle.