Rigil Kent

Carlos had assumed the name Rigil Kent in order to protect his identity if any of his small group of resistance fighters were ever captured.

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It was a voyage of approximately 4,595 miles, a great circle route, plotted, when weather permitted, by the brightest stars in the heavens, by Capella, the double star; by Altair and Vega; and afterward by Rigil Kent and Acrux, new stars in a new southern sky.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

It was a voyage of approximately 4,595 miles, a great circle route, plotted, when weather permitted, by the brightest stars in the heavens, by Capella, the double star; by Altair and Vega; and afterward by Rigil Kent and Acrux, new stars in a new southern sky.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

In breaking off her operation earlier to capture Rigil Kent, he'd asserted his rank as the most senior Union Astronautica officer on Coyote.

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Rigil Kent has inflicted some damage upon us, I'll grant you that, but the fact remains that your people are outnumbered by at least ten to one.

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And although Chris Levin had recently rejoined us, quite a few people still didn't trust him -- I wasn't sure how much I did, to tell the truth -- and his authority as temporary leader of Rigil Kent was shaky at best.

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Luisa Hernandez would have ordered a raid even if there hadn't been a resistance movement, he said, and in fact we should be thankful that Rigil Kent had captured a patrol skimmer last month, otherwise we probably wouldn't have been able to beat off the attack.

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More than half of Red Company still referred to him as Rigil Kent, the alias he'd chosen for himself long ago, even though they now knew his real name.

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It was an absurd moment -- Wendy Gunther, wife of the legendary Rigil Kent, crouched in her pajamas on top of a well -- but there wasn't much else I could do.

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_ For the past two years, Rigil Kent had been waging guerilla warfare against the Union.

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