Tessa Holloran
From The Babylon Project
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Tessa Holloran was the Mars Resistance leader during the Earth Alliance Civil War where she was known as "Number One". [1]
She became romantically involved with Stephen Franklin shortly after he arrived to garner the support and solidarity of the resistance. [2] Later after the capture of Sheridan by President Clark's forces, Tessa's agents captured Michael Garibaldi who had been implicated as a turncoat. Though she had initially been intent on summarily executing, Lyta Alexander showed Tessa the truth that the Psi Corps were ultimately behind Garibaldi's betrayal and she ordered him released. [3] In November, Holloran helped arrange for thirty altered Telepaths in cryonic suspension to be smuggled aboard the fleet of Omega class destroyers that were in Mars orbit. [4] [5]
After the fall of Clark's regime and the new Interstellar Alliance's condition for the Earth Alliance's membership be the freedom of the colony worlds, Mars was finally freed from colonial rule and began to set itself up as an independent world. [6] Tessa Holloran suddenly found herself making the transition from resistance leader to bureaucrat as she was duly elected as a member of the Mars Provisional Government. Within her first year on the job she quickly encountered heavy resistance from Earth which manifested itself in the form of red tape and "bureaucratic blackmail" in an attempted to hamstring and destabilise the fledgling government. In late 2262 she visited Babylon 5 to warn of a plot to assassinate Garibaldi and Lise Hampton-Edgars and to get the support in Sheridan in helping them break Earth's domination of Martian commerce. She got more than she bargained for when Sheridan offered to allow Mars to set up a diplomatic office on Minbar help to establish an account outside of Earth's jurisdiction, on top of which Garibaldi offered Tessa his former position as head of ISA Covert Intelligence. Realising she could do more for Mars in this new position than she ever could back home, she agreed. Ironically, just as she found herself now living on Babylon 5, Stephen Franklin was getting ready to leave for Earth to take up his new job as Head of Xeno-biological research at Earth Dome. Though the two did make time to revisit their affections for one another, before they parted again. [7] [8]
