Saga of Shadows 1: The Dark Between the Stars (87 page)

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 former 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.