Edward Greyhaven

Lord Edward Greyhaven was a British politician. He became Science Minister in 1997. He was secretly in contact with the Ice Warrior Lord Xznaal. Greyhaven arranged for the latest Mars mission to land where there were Ice Lord tombs. While the astronauts on the surface explored, Greyhaven killed the crew in the Orbiter still circling Mars by opening the airlocks remotely. The astronauts' exploration was considered sacrilege and they were killed, giving the pretext for the Ice Warriors to take over England according to Martian law. Xznaal was crowned King of England and Greyhaven became acting Prime Minister.

This was all part of Greyhaven's plan to acquire Martian technology to make Britain great again, in exchange for a method to refertilise Martian soil. However, when Alexander Christian provided him evidence that Xznaal was conducting experiments on British prisoners, Greyhaven saw that Xznaal had broken their agreement. This made him initiate his backup plan.

The reason he had killed the Orbiter crew was so the ship would be available for Greyhaven to use as a last resort. He activated the Orbiter's rockets and set it to crash into Xznaal's clan home. Though Xznaal found Greyhaven and killed him, the Ice Lord was unable to stop the Orbiter from annihilating his entire clan. (PROSE: The Dying Days)