Méridien (The Silver Ships Book 3) (53 page)

Miriam Dubois – Haraken Minister of City Design and Infrastructure

Mutter – SADE of the
Money Maker
and Hive Singer to the Swei Swee

Patrice – Fiona Haraken’s close friend

Pia Sabine –
Rêveur
passenger, Haraken Assembly member

Rayland – psychopathic SADE left behind on Libre

Renée de Guirnon (gir∙nōn) – Co-Leader of House Alexander

Reinhold – Captain of the
Unsere Menschen

Rosette – starship passenger liner SADE

SADE – Méridien AI (self-aware digital entity)

Sawalie – Elder singer on Libre

Sergio De Laurent – young man at Libran town hall meeting

Simone Turin – Ben Diaz’s Méridien partner

Sophie Sabine – Pia’s niece and an Independent on Libre

Svetlana Valenko – Copilot of a Haraken harvesting ship

Tomas Monti – Director of House Alexander, Haraken Ambassador

Terese Lechaux –
Rêveur
medical specialist

Willem – starship passenger liner SADE

Z – SADE of the
Unsere Menschen

Ships and Stations:

Freedom
– Libran city-ship headed by Leader Monti

Full Load
– Benjamin Diaz’s New Terran ice asteroid tug

Il Piacere
– House Diamanté premier liner

Money Maker
– House Bergfalk freighter converted to Alex’s Dagger carrier

Outward Bound
– explorer-tug owned by Alex Racine

Rêveur
– Méridien House de Guirnon passenger liner; Jacques de Guirnon was prior Captain

Unsere Menschen
– the
Our People
, a Libran city-ship headed by Leader Eric Stroheim

Planets, Colonies, and Moons:

Bellamonde – sixth and latest Confederation planet to be attacked by the silver ships

Cetus – last Confederation colony established, first colony attacked by the silver ships

Cressida – New Terra’s metal-rich moon circling Ganymede

Ganymede – New Terra’s sixth planet outward, a gas giant with metal-rich moons

Haraken – New name of Cetus colony in Hellébore system, home of the Harakens

Libre – Independent’s colony in Arno system

Méridien – home world of the Confederation in the Oikos system

New Terra – home world of New Terrans, fourth planet outward of Oistos

Niomedes – New Terra’s fifth planet outward and site of the habitat experiments

Seda – New Terra’s ninth and last planet outward, a gas giant with several moons

Sharius – moon circling Seda and TSF support outpost for explorer-tugs

Stars:

Arno – star of the planet Libre, home of the Independents

Cepheus – original star destination for the
New Terra

Hellébore – star of the planet Cetus, location of the first Confederation colony attacked by silver ships

Mane – original name of Oikos

Oikos – star of the Méridien home planet, Renée de Guirnon’s home world

Oistos – star of the planet New Terra, Alex Racine’s home world

The Silver Ships
and
Libre
, the first and second books in this series, are available as an e-book, a softcover version, and an audiobook. Please visit my website,
http://scottjucha.com
, for publication locations. You may also register at my website to receive email updates on the progress on my upcoming novels.

Alex and friends will return in the upcoming novel,
Hellébore, A Silver Ships Novel.

It’s been an eventful journey from Anchorage, Alaska, where I was born over six decades ago, to San Diego, California, where I currently reside with my wife.

Between these two destinations, I’ve spent years overseas, earned two college degrees, held many jobs, and found a wonderful marriage partner.

My first attempt at a novel was entitled
The Lure
. It was a crime drama centered on the modern-day surfacing of a 110-carat yellow diamond that had been lost during the French Revolution. In 1980, in preparation for the book, I spent two wonderful weeks in Brazil researching the native people, their language, and the religious customs of Candomblé. The day I returned from Rio, I had my first date with my wife-to-be, Peggy Giels.

Over the past thirty-four years, I’ve outlined dozens of novels, but a busy career limited my efforts to complete any of them. Now the time has come, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed planning, researching, and writing each book in this series.

I was a young teenager when I discovered the joy of reading. Today I hope, through my stories, I’m sharing that joy.