IronStar (77 page)

Tubewall - the artificial gravity
well created by Tubedrive.

UnTube - to drop out of Tubedrive

Warm boot - starting a computer
from standby, one level above cold shutdown

Wristcomp - powerful 15x9x2cm wrist
computer includes camera, screen, translator, 2-way communications

Regnum Navy Ranks
-
Regnum
Marine equivalent

Fleet Admiral - Field Marshal

Admiral - General

Vice Admiral - Lieutenant General

Rear Admiral - Major General

Captain - Colonel

Commander
 
- Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant Commander - Major

Lieutenant - Captain

Lieutenant(JG) - 1
^st
Lieutenant

Ensign - 2
^nd
Lieutenant

Chief Warrant Officer - CWO

Warrant Officer - WO

Master CPO - Master Gunnery
Sergeant

Senior CPO - Master Sergeant

Chief Petty Officer - Gunnery Sergeant

Petty Officer - Sergeant

Seaman - Corporal

Seaman Apprentice - Private

Vessels

RNS
Argosy
- Destroyer,
Sandra Wallace

RSS
Arvida-Yee
- Regnum
Survey Ship (registration RS88938), William Leitch

RNS
Attila
- Destroyer,
Vincent Steuben

RNS
Belleville
- Battlewagon
(Y-class), Alexi DaCosta commanding

RNS
Leacock
- Battlewagon
(Y-class), flag, Rear Admiral Carl Mattison

RNS
Meredith
- Light
cruiser, Lewis Graham

RNS
Utterson
- Destroyer,
Angelo Krepescue

RSS-Regnum Survey Ship

RNS- Regnum Navy Ship

FTB-Fast Torpedo Boat

LAST-Landing Assault Shuttle
(Troop)

Regnum Navy Specs

Survey Scout - speed 2,300 c, size
50x12 m, mass 1,300 Tonne, crew 9

FTB (Impaler class) - speed 2170 c,
size 64x14 m, mass 2,350 T, crew 14

Destroyer - speed 1,725 c, size
200x24 m, mass 22 KT, crew 95+10 marines

Light Cruiser - speed 1,495 c, size
480x76 m, mass 520 KT, crew 385-430+40

Heavy Cruiser - speed 1,180 c, size
675x165 m, mass 3.3 MT, crew 1120-1300+100

Battlewagon (Sioux class) - speed
970 c, size 920x240 m, mass 9.1 MT, crew 3200-3700+300

Battlewagon (Yoruba class) - speed
1,050 c, size 820x172 m, mass 4.6 MT, crew 1860-1980+180

LAST (shuttle) - speed 250 c, size 32x5
 
m, mass 80T, crew 2-7+100

Mailtube - speed 1,550 c, size 150x18
cm, mass 65 Kg, uncrewed

Spit-4 - speed 2,900 c, size 150x18
cm, mass 95 Kg, uncrewed

Spit-5 - speed 2,900 c, size 150x18
cm, mass 95 Kg, uncrewed (enhanced AI)

Kruss Navy Specs

Corvette (K)- 1,960 c - 130x20 m,
12.4 KT, crew 46

Light Cruiser (K) - 1,610 c -
310x82 m, 480 KT, crew 420

Patrol Cruiser (W)- 1,420 c -
425x104 m, 1,060 KT, crew 990

Heavy Cruiser (I) - 1,300 c -
540x135 m, 2.3 MT, crew 1,920

Battleship (W)- 1,115 c - 770x190 m,
6.4 MT, crew 5,800

Battlefort (G)- 880 c - 1,080x190m,
9.4 MT, crew 7,350

(K)=Kappa class, (I)=Iota class, (W)=Wolfram
class, (G)=Gamma class

Place names (Civilium Planets)

Armitage
- capitol of
Armitage Brotherhood, a small human empire

Confluence Prime
- capitol
of Solar Confluence, a league of methane-breathers inhabiting gas giants

Civilium
- a federation of
civilized sentient races including all human, Kruss, Confluence and other
empires, responsible for peace and order, enforces laws of conflict and trade.

Darkwall
- planet where
Kruss and humans met, now a Civilium wardstate, quarantined at request of
autochthons

Draconis Prime
- capitol of
Regnum, a medium-sized human empire

Greenworld
- failed Regnum
colony

Kettleblack Nebula
- a
hundred-by-three hundred lightyear cloud of thin dust hiding thousands of
stars, barely explored by humans.

Krusslath
- Kruss home world

Longsummer
- Regnum world,
Kirrah’s childhood

New Rochelle
- Regnum world,
wine exporters

Noopisha
- homeworld of
Noopish, currently a Kruss possession

Novo Karachi
- Regnum desert
world, dangerous fauna - mining

Northland
- Regnum mining
world, home of Atikokan Mining and Metals

Regnum Draconis
- (kingdom
of the dragon) one of 18 human interstellar empires, containing approx. 45
stellar systems

Sharpspur
- world near
Noopisha, currently a Kruss posession

Trailway
- Regnum Navy base
nearest Athena/Sho’Ito

Sho’ito planet

Diameter: 13,580 km (1.065x Earth)

Atmosphere: Nitrogen 80%, oxygen
19%, surface pressure 1225 millibars

Surface Gravity: 10.496 m/s
²
,
1.071 Standard G.

Mass: 7.1687e+024 kg (1.20x Earth mass)

1 year local = 1.395 Standard years

1 year local = 449.05 days local

1 day local
 
= 27 hours 14 minutes Standard

takka: unit of time: 1 hour 21
minutes 39 seconds (1/20th of a local day)

bhrakka: unit of time:
approximately 4 minutes 5 seconds (1/400th of a local day)

Sho’ito Nations

Ale’appa
- west across Sea
of Sun - peaceful city-state - freshwater fishermen, traders

 
- land 190,000 km
²
(plains &
forest), pop. 28,000 (conquered by O’dai)

O’dai
- southwest -
expansionist monarchy - farmers, fishermen, traders

- land 1,420,000 km
²
(plains, rainforest, jungle), pop. 235,000

Pavatta
- north - feudal,
hunters, foresters, some farming and mining

 
- land 5,760,000 km
²
(plains &
boreal forest), pop. 140,000 (dispersed)

Talam
- central - farming,
trading democracy, decentralized

 
- land 615,000 km
²
(plains &
forest), pop. 73,000

Wrth
- fierce mountain tribe
to northeast, plains nomads and herdsmen in summer

 
- Land 510,000 km
²
(mostly
uninhabitable mountain), pop. 35,000

Yashee
- island fishing
people, off eastern shore of continent, peaceful

 
- Land 5,000,000 km
²
(80% ocean),
pop. 175,000

Place names (Talam nation)

Ale’appa - fallen city, west of
lake

Geera - river flowing west from
city of Talameths’cha

Geeratha - river flowing from east
to Talameths’cha

Malame’thsha - Akaray’s village

Olame’thsha - Talamae village on
north bank Geera

South Geera - river flowing from
south to Talameths’cha

Talam - the Realm (the land; its
people)

Talameths’cha - capital city of
Talam

Upper Geera - river flowing from
northeast to Talameths’cha

WhiteCap Mountains - Wrth homeland,
east of Talam

Place names (Pavatta nation)

Pavoai - capital city

Uttra - southern city

Place names (O’dai nation)

O’dakai - O’dai capital city

City Streets (Talameths’cha)

Falling Ash Road - north-south main
road

Merchant’s Path Road - n/s, 2 km
east from palace

Scholar’s Road - e/w, 3 km north
from palace, n. of school

Slow Water Road - east-west main
road

Tailors’ Road - n/s, +3 km east
from palace.

Vocabulary

ak’ - prefix: no, negation

anshae - arm;

anshath’la - courage, fortitude
[lit: arm of the spirit]

aska - dear, beloved one

ath’la - essence; spirit; soul;
light

ath’la’doma - see
ath’lae’mara
[lit:
spirit-sculpture]

ath’lae - priest [lit:
spirit-puller]

ath’lae’mara - priest’s healing
[lit: light drawn forth]

ayah - trouble; ‘sticky danger’

bothta - armor

bhrak - copper coin

bhrakka - unit of time:
approximately 4 minutes 5 seconds (1/400th of a local day)

dappa - oilseed plant, cultivated
by Talamae

dakka’tachk - corporal (rank of)

daythan - eating; attacking;
investigating

daethra - making; preparing

doi’la - unit of length - 1200
hab’la (516 meters)

doma - sculpture, three-dimensional
art including architecture

dosha - root; (with proper name)
lord

eesa - called, named

eetah - decisive success, victory,
consummation

eeyu - danger

eeyutha - big (‘mother of’) danger

firado’kae - synergy; strength of
numbers (lit: braid-of-three)

fira’tachk - major (rank of) [lit:
leader of braid-of-groups]

fira’toka - genetic material [lit:
life-braid]

gaelae - hurry; urgent

glatha - medicinal fruit [lit:
‘mender’]

guta - part, portion

hab’la - unit of length, about 43
cm.

honak - spear-creature

irwua - ‘pond-net’ communal
predator

ito - wisdom; experience plus
knowledge

ito’lae’mara - rune-drawing [lit:
wisdom drawn forth]

jasa - friend, ally

k’ - is

kaena’hachk - power-of-darkness,
righteous rage

kae’rruckh - fierce native raptor,
2.5 m wingspan

kaetha’sha - power-with, synergy

kalalla - decoy; sacrifice;
gift-as-tool

karadoi - client, patron

‘kai - suffix: past tense

ki’ - was

kiros - to defeat; consume;
discover

kiro’shapa - to instruct

kir’shas - lesson; classroom

kir’shazza - hypothetically; lesson
between friends

kir’vekka - caution; lesson between
enemies

laeto - lead, to draw along

lotha’shu - guest; visitor

ma - us

mara - go, exit, leave

marathka - flee, escape

mu’atha - smaller cousin grazing
creature

mu’uthn - large grazing creature

nago’ra - wash

‘o - interrogative suffix (apply to
any word)

ol’ - prefix - ‘small’

or’eeyu - approaching danger

patha - calm pleasure, comfort

pathazza - comfort-between-friends
(non-sexual)

pa’wai - tree species: rubbery wood

pudra - fish plentiful in warm
fresh water, meaty and tasty

rifflauth - growth; profit

ro’ath’la - fellowship,
sister/brotherhood, lit. ‘group-spirit’

ro’tachk - sergeant (nearest
equiv), lit. ‘group leader’

rova - group, team, organization,
body

sanak - strike, blow, completion

sana’tachk - lieutenant (nearest
equiv) [lit: strike-leader]

sana’toka - poison [lit: life-striker]

sasstha - teamwork, cooperation,
coincidence

sha’pluuth - wooly herbivore,
herded by Wrth

shee’thomm - authority plus
responsibility

shee’tho’vai - alderman, voting
representative of city block

sho’Teescha - King’s officer

sho’ - prefix: child of (mother).
Suffix: ‘-my mother’

shu’ - prefix: child of (father).
Suffix: ‘-my father’

shuah - greeting; farewell;
deceased

shuahsha - dying gift; ashes

shui’ - prefix: belonging to
(royalty)

shui’Talam - official, royal

snath - large scavenger bird

‘ta - suffix: future tense

Takka - unit of time: 1 hour 21
minutes 39 seconds (1/20th of a local day)

Tasgath - bottom-feeding river
fish, inedible

Tcha - chief, mayor

Tchae - King

to’k - hand

toka - life

tsala - enter; hello

tso’ckhai - "grass
weasel" plains predator

vai’atho - city block building

vekka - enemy

wathra’ch - assign; decide; judge;
weigh; test

yag’la - tree species, springy
wood, used for bows

-z - suffix: plural

Pronouns

na- I

ma- we

da- you

daz- you (pl.)

paez- they (m+f)

paaz- they (no gender)

pao- she (f)

paoz- they (all f.)

pau- he (m)

pauz- they (all m.)

navo- my (f)

navu- my (m)

davo- your (f)

davu- your (m)

paov- hers

pauv- his

mave- ours, a group having mixed or
unknown gender

-ve - suffix: possessive (gender
definite but unknown)

-vi - suffix: possessive
(genderless)

-vo - suffix: possessive (belongs
to female)

-vu - suffix: possessive (belongs
to male)

-we - suffix: associative (gender
definite but unknown)

-wi - suffix: associative
(genderless)

-wo - suffix: associative (belongs
to female)

-wu - suffix: associative (belongs
to male)