ATTENDER: servile Ildiran kith.
AURIDIA: sparsely inhabited planet over which Newstation and Academ orbit. Auridia contains a Klikiss transportal for access into the transportal network.
AZZAR: Klikiss robot.
BALI’NH, ADAR: historical Ildiran commander, first Ildiran to contact human generation ships.
BEBOB: Rlinda Kett’s pet name for Branson Roberts, her favorite ex-husband.
BEKH: Ildiran curse.
BENETO: green priest brother of Estarra, killed by the hydrogues.
BIG GOOSE: deprecating name for the former Terran Hanseatic League.
BIG RING: Kotto Okiah’s large experimental accelerator under construction at Fireheart Station.
BJORN: spaceship engineer in clan Reeves.
BLACK ROBOTS: intelligent and evil beetlelike robots built by the Klikiss race; most of them were wiped out in the Elemental War.
BLIND FAITH: ship flown by Captain Branson Roberts.
BLOATERS: strange organic nodules found in deep, empty space.
BLONDIE: diner owner in the human enclave in Mijistra.
BO: Teacher compy from Academ, tasked to teach Roamer children from clan Reeves.
BOLAM, DENNIS: administrator of the Eljiid research camp.
BOONE’S CROSSING: former Hansa colony, wiped out by a hydrogue attack in the Elemental War.
BREEDEX: central mind of the Klikiss.
BRIA’NH, TAL: historical Ildiran commander, one of the first to combat the Shana Rei.
BRINDLE, ROBB: administrator of Kett Shipping, married to Tasia Tamblyn, father of Xander.
BRINDLE, XANDER: one of the pilots of Kett Shipping vessel Verne, son of Robb Brindle and Tasia Tamblyn.
BUGBOT: deprecating slang term for a Klikiss robot.
BUZZBEETLE: Theron insect.
CAILLIÉ: generation ship from Earth whose passengers colonized Theroc.
CAIN, DEPUTY ELDRED: former deputy of the Terran Hanseatic League, now an administrator of Earth loyal to the Confederation.
CARII: Ildiran splinter colony, site of an ancient Shana Rei attack during an eclipse.
CARLIN, REESE: Retroamer.
CELLI: green priest, married to Solimar, who tends a terrarium dome in Fireheart Station. Celli is the sister of Estarra and Sarein.
CHAIRMAN: true leader of the Terran Hanseatic League.
CHIAR’H: Ildiran woman of the noble kith, volunteer worker on the Kuivahr sanctuary domes, married to human Shawn Fennis.
CHRYSALIS CHAIR: reclining throne of the Mage-Imperator.
COLICOS, ANTON: historian, known for his work with Ildiran records, first to translate portions of the Saga of Seven Suns; the son of famed xeno-archaeologists Margaret and Louis Colicos.
COLICOS, LOUIS: xeno-archaeologist, husband of Margaret Colicos, specializing in ancient Klikiss artifacts, killed by Klikiss robots at Rheindic Co.
COLICOS, MARGARET: xeno-archaeologist, wife of Louis Colicos, spent much of Elemental War as prisoner of the Klikiss. She and her son Anton collated the only known Klikiss history, The Song of the Breedex.
COLLIN: young green priest, friend of Arita’s.
COMPETENT COMPUTERIZED COMPANION: intelligent servant robot, also called a compy, available in Friendly, Teacher, Governess, Listener, Worker, and other models.
COMPY: nickname for competent computerized companion.
CONFEDERATION: new human government replacing the Terran Hanseatic League, loose alliance among Roamer clans, independent planets, and remnants of the Hansa. Ruled by King Peter and Queen Estarra, capital on Theroc.
CORRIBUS: colony where Orli Covitz once lived, devastated by Klikiss robot attack during the Elemental War.
COVEN, MARY: former pilot of the Proud Mary.
COVITZ, ORLI: compy scientist, strong advocate for compies, married to Matthew Freling. She is the owner of DD.
DANIEL, PRINCE: former candidate to replace King Peter in the Hansa.
DARO’H, PRIME DESIGNATE: successor to Mage-Imperator Jora’h.
DAYM: blue supergiant star, one of the “seven suns” in the Ildiran sky.
DD: Friendly compy owned by Orli Covitz.
DENVA, MARIUS: line supervisor at Del Kellum’s distillery on Kuivahr.
DETEMER: Roamer clan.
DHULA: gas-giant planet on the edge of the Ildiran Empire.
DOBRO: Ildiran splinter colony, former home of the secret breeding program where many humans were held captive.
DOLUS: famous twenty-first-century Earth artist.
DREMEN: cloudy planet, former home of Orli Covitz.
DROGUE: nickname for hydrogues.
DUGGAN, ANDREA: artist suffering from Heidegger’s Syndrome.
DUGGAN, JAMES: husband of Andrea Duggan.
DURRIS: trinary star in the Horizon Cluster, three of the “seven suns” in the Ildiran sky.
DYVO’SH: young Ildiran rememberer, assistant to Anton Colicos.
EARTH DEFENSE FORCES (EDF): former military for the Terran Hanseatic League, precursor to the Confederation Defense Forces.
EKTI: exotic allotrope of hydrogen used to fuel Ildiran stardrives.
EKTI-X: stardrive fuel with higher energy potential than traditional ekti.
ELEMENTAL WAR: conflict across the Spiral Arm involving the human race, Ildiran Empire, the hydrogues, faeros, wentals, verdani, as well as the Klikiss and their black robots.
ELJIID: abandoned Klikiss world where Margaret Colicos is buried.
ENDA’F: Ildiran autopsy specialist.
ENTURI, ELISA: wife of Garrison Reeves and mother of Seth, deputy of Lee Iswander at the Sheol lava mines. Also goes by her married name of Elisa Reeves.
ESTARRA, QUEEN: ruler of Confederation, married to King Peter, with two children, Reynald and Arita.
EXXOS: leader of surviving Klikiss robots.
FAEROS: sentient fire entities dwelling within stars.
FENNIS, SHAWN: human born on Dobro, volunteer worker at the Kuivahr sanctuary domes, married to Ildiran woman Chiar’h.
FILMGOGGLES: eye protection used on Ildira.
FIREHEART STATION: Roamer research and industrial station at the heart of a nebula, specializing in energized films. Site of Kotto Okiah’s current large-scale experiment.
FITZKELLUM, KRISTOF: thirteen-year-old son of Zhett Kellum and Patrick Fitzpatrick III, also called Toff.
FITZKELLUM, REX: two-year-old son of Zhett Kellum and Patrick Fitzpatrick III.
FITZKELLUM, SHAREEN: seventeen-year-old daughter of Zhett Kellum and Patrick Fitzpatrick III.
FITZPATRICK III, PATRICK: husband of Zhett Kellum, one of the managers of the Kellum skymine on Golgen.
FREDERICK, KING: predecessor to King Peter, killed by hydrogues.
FRELING, MATTHEW: compy scientist, husband of Orli Covitz.
FUNGUS-REEF: large inhabited fungal growth on the worldtrees of Theroc.
GALE’NH, TAL: halfbreed son of the green priest Nira and Ildiran war hero Adar Kori’nh, a tal in the Ildiran Solar Navy. Gale’nh is the captain of the exploration ship Kolpraxa.
GANN, HENNA: mistress of Matthew Freling.
GARDENERS: ancient, original tenders of the worldforest.
GOLGEN: gas-giant planet, home of the Kellum skymine.
GREAT KINGS: the Kings of the Terran Hanseatic League, figurehead leaders.
GREEN PRIEST: servant of the worldforest, able to use worldtrees for instantaneous communication.
GUIDING STAR: Roamer philosophy and religion, a guiding force in a person’s life.
HALL OF REMEMBERERS: headquarters and historical archives of the Ildiran rememberer kith, where the Saga of Seven Suns is maintained.
HANDIES, ADMIRAL EDGAR: CDF Admiral, head of Grid 0, one of the “Three H’s.”
HANDON, TERRY: one of the pilots of Kett Shipping vessel Verne, partner of Xander Brindle.
HANNIG, KLAUS: medical researcher on Pergamus.
HANSA: Terran Hanseatic League.
HAPPINESS: closed-off f
ormer Klikiss planet, inhabited by neo-Amish settlers.
HAROUN, ADMIRAL SHIMAL: CDF Admiral, head of Grid 6, one of the “Three H’s.”
HARVARD, ADMIRAL PETROV: CDF Admiral, head of Grid 11, one of the “Three H’s.”
HEIDEGGER’S SYNDROME: fatal degenerative neurological disease, thought to be incurable. Adam Alakis died of Heidegger’s Syndrome.
HORIZON CLUSTER: star cluster in which the Ildiran Empire is located.
HUMMERS: voracious locustlike insects from Vaconda.
HYDROGUES: alien race that dwells within gas-giant planets, the main destructive antagonists in the Elemental War.
HYRILLKA: Ildiran planet, site of several battles in the Elemental War; the Klikiss robots were originally discovered on one of Hyrillka’s moons.
IDRISS, FATHER: former ruler of Theroc, father of Estarra.
IKBIR: Confederation colony world.
ILDIRA: home planet of the Ildiran Empire, under the light of seven suns.
ILDIRAN EMPIRE: large alien empire, the only other major civilization in the Spiral Arm.
ILDIRAN SOLAR NAVY: space military fleet of the Ildiran Empire, commanded by Adar Zan’nh.
ILDIRANS: humanoid alien race with many different breeds, or kiths; they are able to interbreed with humans.
ISWANDER, ARDEN: thirteen-year-old son of Lee Iswander.
ISWANDER, LEE: Roamer industrialist with numerous operations, including the Sheol lava mines.
ISWANDER, LONDA: wife of Lee Iswander.
ISWANDER INDUSTRIES: company owned by Lee Iswander with numerous high-risk operations, including the Sheol lava mines.
JAZER: energy weapon used by Confederation Defense Forces.
JORA’H: Mage-Imperator of the Ildiran Empire. He is the father of numerous important Ildirans, including Adar Zan’nh and the halfbreed telepath Osira’h. His consort is the green priest Nira.
JUGGERNAUT: largest battleship class in the Confederation Defense Forces.
KANAKA: one of the old Earth generation ships, origin of the Roamer clans.
KEAH, GENERAL NALANI: commander of the Confederation Defense Forces.
KELLUM, DEL: former Speaker of the Roamer clans, successor to Cesca Peroni. Father of Zhett Kellum. He now runs a distillery on the Ildiran ocean planet of Kuivahr.
KELLUM, ZHETT: daughter of Del Kellum, married to Patrick Fitzpatrick III. She runs a large skymine on Golgen. She and Patrick have three children, Shareen, Kristof, and Rex.
KENNEBAR: leader of an isolationist faction of green priests on Theroc.
KETT, RLINDA: trader and former trade minister of the Confederation, now owner of Kett Shipping. She also owns several high-end restaurants.
KETT SHIPPING: Rlinda Kett’s shipping company, managed by Robb Brindle and Tasia Tamblyn.
KHANDUL: colony planet near Vaconda.
KIRAE: intoxicating drink enjoyed by Ildirans, although humans find it distasteful.
KLANEK, TONY: space traffic controller at Newstation.
KLEE: a hot beverage made from ground worldtree seeds, a specialty of Theroc.
KLIKISS: ancient insectlike race, long vanished from the Spiral Arm, leaving only their empty cities. After their resurgence in the Elemental War, they departed through their transportal network and are considered lost or extinct.
KLIKISS ROBOTS: intelligent and evil beetlelike robots built by the Klikiss race; most of them were wiped out in the Elemental War. Also called black robots.
KOLPRAXA: new-design Ildiran exploration ship to go beyond the Spiral Arm, led by Tal Gale’nh.
KORI’NH, ADAR: great Ildiran military hero from the Elemental War, father of Gale’nh.
KO’SH, REMEMBERER: Ildiran historian assigned aboard the Kolpraxa.
KUIVAHR: Ildiran planet with shallow seas and strong tides, site of Tamo’l’s sanctuary domes for misbreeds and Del Kellum’s distillery.
KUTUZOV: flagship Juggernaut of the Confederation Defense Forces.
LENS KITH: one of the Ildiran breeds, religious philosophers.
LIGHTSOURCE: higher plane of existence above normal life, an Ildiran version of heaven.
LU: Listener compy at Orli Covitz’s compy laboratory.
LUBAI: green priest serving at the Lunar Orbital Complex.
LUNAR ORBITAL COMPLEX: military and civilian base established in the rubble of Earth’s Moon.
MAGE-IMPERATOR: the god-emperor of the Ildiran Empire.
MANTA: cruiser-class battleship in Confederation Defense Forces.
MEDUSA: large cephalopod from Rhejak; its meat is considered a delicacy.
MIJISTRA: Ildiran capital city.
MO: Domestic compy at Orli Covitz’s compy laboratory.
MOSBACH, PROFESSOR MICHAELA: one of Shareen Fitzkellum’s teachers on Earth.
MUREE’N: halfbreed daughter of Nira and a warrior kithman, a skilled fighter, student of Yazra’h.
NADD: green priest serving aboard the Kutuzov.
NEW PORTUGAL: Confederation planet, home of a university and also known for its wines.
NEWSTATION: large orbiting station above planet Auridia, the new Roamer center of government. The Roamer school Academ is also nearby.
NIGHTSHADE: Shana Rei occultation barrier.
NIRA: green priest consort of Mage-Imperator Jora’h, mother of five halfbreed children: Osira’h, Rod’h, Gale’nh, Tamo’l, and Muree’n.
OK: compy owned by Xander Brindle.
OKIAH: name given to derelict space city inhabited by clan Reeves.
OKIAH, KOTTO: renowned but eccentric Roamer scientist.
ONTHOS: alien race, builders of derelict space city claimed by clan Reeves.
ORBITAL RESEARCH SPHERE (ORS): isolated medical research satellite orbiting Pergamus.
ORFINO: architectural specialist working on Eljiid.
OSIRA’H: daughter of Nira and Jora’h, bred to have unusual telepathic abilities.
OSQUIVEL: ringed gas giant, former site of Kellum shipyards.
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