Blood of the Cosmos (79 page)

MEDUSA
: large cephalopod from Rhejak; its meat is considered a delicacy.

MIJISTRA
: Ildiran capital city.

MO
: Domestic compy now serving the Ikbir colony.

MOSBACH, PROFESSOR MICHAELA
: one of Shareen Fitzkellum's teachers on Earth.

MUNGL'EH
: one of the misbreeds in the Kuivahr sanctuary domes, a powerful singer.

MUREE'N
: halfbreed daughter of Nira and a warrior kithman, a skilled fighter, student of Yazra'h.

MURIEL
: biological mother of Zoe Alakis, a factory womb.

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.

OHRO
: spokesman for the Onthos refugees on Theroc.

OK
: compy owned by Xander Brindle.

OKIAH, JHY
: legendary former Speaker of the Roamer clans, mother of Kotto Okiah.

OKIAH, KOTTO
: renowned but eccentric Roamer scientist.

OKRUN
: CDF Juggernaut commanded by Admiral Haroun.

ONTHOS
: alien race, also called Gardeners.

ORBITAL RESEARCH SPHERE (ORS)
: isolated medical research satellite orbiting Pergamus.

OSIRA'H
: daughter of Nira and Jora'h, bred to have unusual telepathic abilities.

OSQUIVEL
: ringed gas giant, former site of Kellum shipyards.

PANNEBAKER, ALEC
: one of Lee Iswander's deputies at the Sheol lava-processing facility.

PAOLUS, DR. BENJAMIN
: foremost neurological researcher on Earth, sold Prince Reynald's medical data to Pergamus.

PASTERNAK, SHAREEN
: lost love of Del Kellum, killed by hydrogues on a skymine. Shareen Fitzkellum is named after her.

PATTON, DILLON
: weapons officer aboard the
Kutuzov
.

PERGAMUS
: secure medical research facility owned and managed by Zoe Alakis.

PERONI, CESCA
: former Roamer Speaker, wife of Jess Tamblyn; together they run the Academ school complex for Roamer children.

PETER, KING
: ruler of Confederation, married to Queen Estarra, with two children, Reynald and Arita.

PING LABYRINTH
: game played at Newstation.

PLUMAS
: frozen moon with deep liquid oceans, former site of Tamblyn clan water industry, destroyed by the Shana Rei.

POL'UX
: one of the misbreeds on Kuivahr.

POWER BLOCK
: energy source made of a charged film, folded and packed inside a container.

PRIME DESIGNATE
: eldest noble-born son of the Mage-Imperator, and successor.

PRIMORDIAL OOZE
: trade name of one of Del Kellum's distillations from Kuivahr.

PRISDIAMOND
: rare precious gem found on several Confederation planets.

PRISM PALACE
: crystalline palace of the Ildiran Mage-Imperator.

PRODIGAL SON
: Garrison Reeves's ship, formerly an Iswander Industries vessel.

PROUD MARY
: Kett Shipping vessel formerly piloted by Mary Coven, given to Orli Covitz.

QRONHA
: binary star in the Horizon Cluster, two of the “seven suns” in the Ildiran sky.

QRONHA 3
: gas giant in the Qronha system, site of a decisive battle against the hydrogues in the Elemental War.

RAINDROP
: Rlinda Kett's pet name for Reyn.

RAKKEM
: non-Confederation planet known for unregulated black-market medical services.

REEVES, DALE
: brother of Garrison, second son of Olaf Reeves, died of plague.

REEVES, ELISA
: wife of Garrison and mother of Seth, deputy of Lee Iswander at the Sheol lava mines. Also goes by her maiden name of Elisa Enturi.

REEVES, GARRISON
: Roamer worker formerly at the Sheol lava-processing facility. He was married to Elisa, father of Seth. He is the son of clan head Olaf Reeves, brother of Dale.

REEVES, OLAF
: gruff clan leader of isolationist Roamers who died of a plague on derelict Onthos city; father of Garrison Reeves.

REEVES, SETH
: ten-year-old son of Garrison Reeves.

RELLEKER
: Terran colony planet, former home of Orli Covitz's compy laboratory.

REMORA
: small attack ship in Confederation Defense Forces.

RENDEZVOUS
: asteroid cluster, former center of Roamer government. Destroyed by the Earth Defense Forces, but clan Reeves attempted reconstruction for years.

REYN, PRINCE
: son of King Peter and Queen Estarra, in line to be the Confederation's next King. His full name is Reynald.

RHEJAK
: watery planet with habitable reefs, known for large cephalopods called medusas.

RICKS, SAM
: new Speaker for the Roamer clans.

ROAMERS
: loose confederation of independent humans, primary producers of ekti stardrive fuel, often disparagingly called “space gypsies.”

ROBERTS, BRANSON
: Rlinda Kett's favorite ex-husband, affectionately called BeBob.

ROD'H
: older halfbreed son of Nira, fathered by Dobro Designate as part of the secret breeding program.

ROHANDAS, HOWARD
: fellow student with Shareen Fitzkellum on Earth.

RUSKIN, BOWMAN
: worker at Fireheart Station.

SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS
: historical and legendary epic of the Ildiran civilization.

SALIBA, SHARON
: sensor technician aboard the
Kutuzov
.

SAREIN
: sister of Estarra and Celli, lives in self-imposed exile in the Wild.

SEPTA
: small battle group of seven ships in the Ildiran Solar Navy.

SERENITY'S REACH
: colony world, home of Dhougal island, which was wiped out by a deadly brain parasite infestation.

SHANA REI
: fearsome creatures of darkness that preyed upon the Ildiran Empire long ago.

SHELUD
: green priest, brother of Aelin.

SHEOL
: binary planet under heavy tidal stresses, site of lava-mining operations led by Lee Iswander.

SHIZZ
: Roamer expletive.

SHOREHAVEN VILLAGE
: lakeshore village on Theroc, site of wyvern attacks.

SKYMINE
: ekti-harvesting facility in the clouds of a gas-giant planet, usually operated by Roamers.

SKYSPHERE
: audience chamber of the Prism Palace.

SOLIMAR
: green priest, married to Celli, who tends a terrarium dome in Fireheart Station.

SPEAKER
: Roamer leader.

SPIRAL ARM
: the section of the Milky Way Galaxy settled by the Ildiran Empire and Terran colonies.

SWIMMER
: otterlike Ildiran kith that spend most of their time in the ocean.

TAIT, MATTHEW
: tactical officer aboard the
Kutuzov
.

TAL
: military rank in Ildiran Solar Navy, cohort commander.

TAMBLYN, JESS
: one of the heads of Academ school, married to Cesca Peroni.

TAMBLYN, TASIA
: administrator of Kett Shipping, married to Robb Brindle, father of Xander.

TAMBORR'S DEMENTIA
: disease being studied on Pergamus.

TAMO'L
: one of Nira's halfbreed children, daughter of a lens kithman. She runs sanctuary domes for misbreeds on the planet Kuivahr.

TELINK
: instantaneous communication used by green priests via the worldtrees.

TEREDIT
: Confederation planet.

TERRAN HANSEATIC LEAGUE
: former commerce-based government of Earth and Terran colonies, dissolved after the death of Chairman Basil Wenceslas at the end of the Elemental War.

THEROC
: forested planet, home of the sentient worldtrees.

THERON
: a native of Theroc.

THISM
: faint racial telepathic network, centered on the Mage-Imperator, that binds all Ildiran people.

THOR'H
: eldest son of Jora'h, the first Prime Designate, who betrayed the Empire and died in the resulting civil war.

THREE H'S
: Admirals Handies, Harvard, and Haroun in the CDF.

TOM ROM
: guardian and majordomo of Zoe Alakis.

TRANSPORTAL
: Klikiss instantaneous transportation network.

ULIO
: large trading complex in open space, frequented by traders of all sorts.

ULIO, MARIA
: founder of the Ulio transfer hub.

VACONDA
: wilderness planet, site of the Alakis forest watchtower station.

VERDANI
: organic-based sentience, manifested as the Theron worldforest.

VERNE
: cargo ship flown by Xander Brindle and Terry Handon.

VORACIOUS CURIOSITY
: Rlinda Kett's private ship.

VU'LN
: one of the misbreeds on Kuivahr, a mixture of soldier kith, lens kith, and swimmer kith.

WARGLOBE
: crystalline sphere used by hydrogues.

WARLINER
: largest class of Ildiran battleship.

WENCESLAS, CHAIRMAN BASIL
: former leader of the Terran Hanseatic League.

WENTALS
: sentient water-based creatures.

WHISPER PALACE
: traditional seat of power in the Terran Hanseatic League, where the figurehead Great Kings ruled.

WHISTLERS
: possibly sentient cacti on Eljiid.

WILD, THE
: unexplored continent on Theroc.

WINGO, MERCER
: First Officer aboard the
Kutuzov
.

WISSKOFF, ZACHARY
: manager and ma
î
tre d' of Rlinda Kett's Arbor restaurant.

WORLDFOREST
: the interconnected, semi-sentient forest based on Theroc.

WORLDTREE
: a separate tree in the interconnected, semi-sentient forest based on Theroc.

WULFTON
: active star, home of numerous faeros.

YAZRA'H
: daughter of the Mage-Imperator, skilled warrior and bodyguard. She is the mentor of Muree'n.

YODER, DANDO
: trader pilot who works for Kett Shipping.

ZAN'NH
: Ildiran military officer, eldest son of Mage-Imperator Jora'h, Adar of the Ildiran Solar Navy.

 

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