by David Weber
Slang term for Silesian citizens and/or military personnel.
Solarian League—
Largest, wealthiest star nation of the explored galaxy, with decentralized government managed by extremely powerful bureaucracies.
Sollies—
Slang term for citizens or military personnel of the Solarian League.
StateSec—
Also "SS." Office of State Security. The successor to Internal Security under the Committee of Public Safety. Even more powerful than InSec. Headed by Oscar Saint-Just, originally second-in-command of InSec, who betrayed the Legislaturalists to aid Rob Pierre in overthrowing them.
Star Kingdom of Manticore—
A small, wealthy star nation consisting of two star systems: the Manticore System and the Basilisk System.
Treecats—
The native sentient species of the planet Sphinx. Six-limbed, telempathic arboreal predators which average between 1.5 and 2 meters in length (including prehensile tail). A small percentage of them bond with "adopted" humans in a near symbiotic relationship. Although incapable of speech, treecats have recently learned to communicate with humans using sign language.
"Up the kilt shot"—
An attack launched from directly astern of a starship in order to fire down the length of its impeller wedge. Due to the geometry of the impeller drive, this is a warship's second most vulnerable aspect.
Warshawski—
Name applied to all gravitic detectors in honor of the inventor of the first such device.
Warshawski, Adrienne—
The greatest hyper-physicist in human history.
Warshawski sail—
The circular gravity "grab fields" devised by Adrienne Warshawski to permit starships to "sail" along gravity waves in hyper-space.
Wormhole Junction—
A gravitic anomaly. Effectively, a frozen flaw in normal space providing access via hyper-space as an instantaneous link between widely separated points. The largest known junction is the Manticoran Wormhole Junction with six known termini as of the beginning of War of Honor.
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