Gretchen Rania is the personal secretary and aide to Sid Barry. She was close to him, as Profit treated her like the daughter that he never had. She learned to be politically ruthless and to use every event as a political step up, even manipulating the assassination attempt against her boss to further his political agenda, by using it to gain both sympathy from the population and to eliminate his rival through a revenge fund, both of which would have helped him to be elected as one of the Systems Commonwealth most senior positions, Triumvir.