Blood of the Cosmos (78 page)

ALAKIS, EVELYN
: researcher on Vaconda, mother of Zoe Alakis, killed in a flyer crash when Zoe was young.

ALAKIS, ZOE
: wealthy head of the Pergamus medical research facility.

ALU, BEREN
: station chief of Fireheart Station.

ARAGAO, OCTAVIO
: communications officer aboard the
Kutuzov
.

ARBOR
: Rlinda Kett's restaurant on Theroc.

ARITA, PRINCESS
: daughter of King Peter and Queen Estarra, a budding naturalist.

ARUNE'L
: lens priestess in Mijistra.

ASKELOR
: Ildiran industrial planet converted to weapons production.

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.

BEAUVAIS
: traditional Roamer skymining clan.

BEBOB
: Rlinda Kett's pet name for Branson Roberts.

BEKH
: Ildiran curse.

BELLIROS
: gas-giant planet, site of clan Duquesne skymines.

BELTRIAS
: green priest hunter from Shorehaven Village.

BIG RING
: Kotto Okiah's large experimental accelerator under construction at Fireheart Station.

BJORN
: spaceship engineer in clan Reeves.

BLACK ROBOTS
: intelligent and evil beetle-like robots built by the Klikiss race; most of them were wiped out in the Elemental War.

BLOATERS
: strange organic nodules found in deep, empty space, the source of ekti-X.

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.

BURA'S
: female Ildiran engineer, operations manager of the Askelor weapons industries.

CAILLIE
: 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.

CELLI
: green priest, married to Solimar, who tends a terrarium dome in Fireheart Station. Celli is the sister of Estarra and Sarein.

CERF, ALDO
: biological merchant from Rakkem.

CHAIRMAN
: leader of the Terran Hanseatic League.

CHAKLEN
: colony leader of Dremen.

CHIAR'H
: Ildiran woman of the noble kith, volunteer worker in 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.

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.

CONDEN'S FEVER
: deadly human disease.

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.

COUGHLIN, JAN
: worker at Fireheart Station.

COVE, TRISTAN
: village leader of Shorehaven.

COVITZ, ORLI
: compy scientist, strong advocate for compies, married to Matthew Freling. She is the owner of DD.

DARO'H, PRIME DESIGNATE
: successor to Mage-Imperator Jora'h.

DAUNTHA
: green priest on Ulio Station.

DAYM
: blue supergiant star, one of the “seven suns” in the Ildiran sky.

DD
: Friendly compy owned by Orli Covitz.

DECLAN'S GLORY
: Kett Shipping vessel.

DENVA, MARIUS
: operations manager at Del Kellum's distillery on Kuivahr.

DETEMER
: Roamer clan.

DHOUGAL
: isolated island colony on Serenity's Reach, wiped out by a deadly brain parasite.

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.

DREMEN
: cloudy Confederation planet primarily known for fungus harvests.

DRE'NH, SEPTAR
: leader of a Solar Navy septa.

DUQUESNE
: Roamer clan, runs two refurbished skymines on Belliros.

DUQUESNE, AARON
: heir apparent to clan Duquesne.

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.

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.

FELLIWELL, DARWIN
: station manager of Ulio Station.

FENNIS, SHAWN
: human born on Dobro, volunteer worker in 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.

FORAY PLAZA
: gathering area in front of the Prism Palace.

FRELING, MATTHEW
: compy scientist, former 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 was the captain of the exploration ship
Kolpraxa
.

GARDENERS
: ancient, original tenders of the worldforest.

GOLGEN
: gas-giant planet, home of the Kellum skymine.

GORHUM
: transportal nexus near Theroc.

GOR'KA
: one of the misbreeds in the Kuivahr sanctuary domes.

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.

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.

HANSA
: Terran Hanseatic League

HAR'LC
: one of the misbreeds in the Kuivahr sanctuary domes, son of swimmer and scaly kiths.

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.

HERREN 3
: Confederation planet.

HILTOS
: Ildiran shrine to the Lightsource.

HORIZON CLUSTER
: star cluster in which the Ildiran Empire is located.

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.

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.

ILLI'V
: one of the mates of Prime Designate Daro'h, a clothes designer.

ISPEROS
: hot planet, site of a metals-extraction facility designed by Kotto Okiah at the beginning of the Elemental War.

ISWANDER, ARDEN
: thirteen-year-old son of Lee Iswander.

ISWANDER INDUSTRIES
: company owned by Lee Iswander with numerous high-risk operations, including the Sheol lava mines.

ISWANDER, LEE
: Roamer industrialist with numerous operations, including the Sheol lava mines.

ISWANDER, LONDA
: wife of Lee Iswander.

JAZER
: energy weapon used by Confederation Defense Forces.

JONAH 12
: ice-moon hydrogen-extraction operations founded by Kotto Okiah during the Elemental War.

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.

KAO'L
: lens kithman leader of the Hiltos shrine.

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 ran 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.

KIRAE
: intoxicating drink enjoyed by Ildirans, although humans find it distasteful.

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 beetle-like robots built by the Klikiss race; most of them were wiped out in the Elemental War. Also called black robots.

KOLPRAXA
: Ildiran exploration ship that ventured beyond the Spiral Arm, led by Tal Gale'nh; destroyed by the Shana Rei.

KORI'NH, ADAR
: great Ildiran military hero from the Elemental War, father of Gale'nh.

KRIEGER, JOCKO
: human weapons scientist who developed modifications to the Ildiran sun-bomb design.

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 now working on Ikbir.

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.