V.V Hawkins

Fifth squad leader of the Vespers, the Arquebus Group's augmented human squad.
Like Swinburne, Hawkins is a member of Generation Seven, and has lost a great many colleagues and subordinates to the progress of science in revolutionizing the surgery.

However, he has reached a certain peace with their sacrifices, knowing that his generation of surgery is far safer than those of the past—free of the loss of humanity inflicted on the Coral technology generations, or the grisly accidents of the interim generations.