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WARPWAVE – Gayan transport for souls or messages. Analogue in nature, allows souls or messages to travel as modulations on an ultra long wave. Flexible point to point, allows transport of individual souls or messages. Critically, allows managed soul transport, not available to Spargar who do not believe in soul separation
WORDERS OF DAWN – Highest caste of race Dawn of Gaya. Ancient councillors, planners, initiators and reviewers. Live mostly on Planet Chamarel and rarely travel, managing Dawn of Gaya operations from their adopted planet. Lykke, Chiara and Ghazan are Worders of Dawn
ZARNHA – Agents of race Spargar for operations on subordinate worlds and security operations on Spargan. Radical fundamentalist arm of Spargar that competes with Travellers of Dawn for political control of emerging human races in the Milky Way galaxy. Haruka, Michiko and Tatsu are high-ranking Zarnha on Earth
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iThe roll call of all Omeyn MuneMeis across the Spargar Empire is managed by the Mind biological computer and network. The Mind has a multi-layered message transport system where the base layer provides chromosome level encryption. All Omeyn MuneMei iterations are identical genetically so only they can pass security to participate in the galactic conclaves.
iiA Rakul MuneMei is the highly dangerous extra male form of the MuneMei. The Omeyn MuneMeis of the Conclave are all genetically XXY trichromatics to a Rakul’s XYY, highly masculine genome.
iiiVolunteers of advanced years in the Jarlankan military who offer their suicide in extreme situations to the glory of their service for the greater good.
ivA landing Gayan craft utilises DMF drive capability to disperse material in the line of travel to slide underground to conceal their location. Fluid surfaces like lakes and seas are as trivial to disperse as air itself, loose soil is straightforward and even solid rock can be parted but is seldom attempted as being impractically slow.
vThe major security forces of the Anglophone nations, USA, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
viThe 1977 Voyager mission launched a satellite far out into space with gold discs of information about the earthly human race, hoping it would be picked up by alien intelligence that could reply. The records contain sounds and images of a wide range of earthly life and human culture. Voyager should reach a nearby star in around 40,000 years, all being well.
viiBuildingscapers – Gayan culture ‘builds’ using Ivory Vines where growing conditions allow. The vine must be encouraged to grow in particular configurations imagined by buildingscapers. Buildingscapers use various hormones and growth inducers to make the vine grow to plan from its complex nodal structure.
viiiOrion Arm – of the Milky Way galaxy. Our Solar System is situated far out along the Orion spiral arm of the galaxy. Potentially a staging point for more discoveries of host planets for the human race to the outermost edge of the Orion Arm and from there into deep space between the galaxies.
ixGayan Spaceship Spirit is one of the ceremonial craft used by race Dawn of Gaya for diplomatic missions. Spirit is of medium size, similar to Maria in capability but sleek, shiny and most attractive of appearance to impress races unfamiliar with space flight.
xLone Star was developed to be a very easy language for use in alien transmissions by METI – Messaging to Extra Terrestrial Intelligence – by Michael W Busch. The message language was the opposite of most electronic messaging that are encoded for security. Alien targeted messages should be the opposite, easy to decode and understand.
xiAll sophisticated space drive systems are capable of inducing vacuum conditions in the direction of travel disposing with the need for aerodynamics and allowing for focus on life support systems of passengers. This allows for space vehicles to be manufactured in any functional shape, Spargar vessels in particular are shaped as fat saucers to provide maximum space and comfort for passengers.
xiiThe balance of trade between the EU and the UK is massively in favour of the EU in goods, and in favour of the UK in services, especially financial services.
xiii‘Siphonaptera’ is a rhyme by the mathematician Augustus De Morgan that illustrates the majesty of the universe.