Transpicuous, COEC: a vessel once registered with the COE.
tri-rage: the local name for a weather pattern — a series of three violent dust storms — found on Sciacca's World.
Trinity: the world on which AIs are made in the region dominated by the COE. The AI factory was founded and is overseen by the High Human known as the Crescend.
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Ul-œmato: the Dominion name of Houghton's Cross; roughly translatable as 'Founder's Rock'.
Undira Province: home of the Commonwealth of Empires' original capital.
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Vasos: the Mbatan capital system.
Veden, Makil: an Eckandar Trade Axis citizen and Commerce Artel ex-delegate.
Vereine, Ataman Ana: the last leader of the Ataman Theocracy and the founder of the Andermahr Experiment.
Vexisen Republic, Greater: a nation home to the most ancient known Pristine remains, pushing Humanity's appearance in the wider galaxy back to half a million years.
vintu buds: the shoots of a plant native to Sciacca's World.
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Walan Third: a COE world leased to the Commerce Artel.
war-dancer: a Surin ritual combatant.
Warfare Protocol: the code by which war is conducted within and between those nations that trade with the Commerce Artel.
Wars: notable conflicts include the Interdiction, Scion, Secession, Ghost, and First and Second Ataman Wars.
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Xarodine: an epsense-inhibiting drug.
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