Star Trek: Terok Nor 02: Night of the Wolves (48 page)

dolamide
: versatile material that can be used, in very pure form, to manufacture explosives (DS9/“Dramatis Personae”)

Fostossa virus
: source of an epidemic that swept across Bajor during the occupation (VGR: “Nothing Human”)

fusionstone
: ancient building material
(Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume Two—Fragments and Omens)

grass vipers
: gray-skinned snakes (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

hara
cat
: large feline predator (DS9/“Second Skin”)

hiuna
leaf
: Bajoran tobacco (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Ih’tanu
: traditional celebration of a Bajoran girl’s fourteenth birthday (DS9/“Accession”)

Kalla-Nohra
: unique medical condition suffered by Bajorans and Cardassians who were exposed to the effects of a mining accident at Gallitep in 2353 (DS9/“Duet”)

kellipate
: unit of distance (DS9/“Progress”)

kelbonite
: material known to interfere with various types of scanning equipment (TNG/“Silicon Avatar”)

kosst
: swearword or curse, derived from Kosst Amojan (DS9/“The Reckoning”; however, the word’s original meaning was simply “to be” (DS9/“The Assignment”)

linnipate
: unit of distance, roughly two or three meters (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

lugfish
: large, slow, and ugly fish (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

nyawood
: type of wood similar to mahogany (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Orb
: also known as a “Tear of the Prophets”; one of several religious artifacts that sometimes impart visions or insights upon those who gaze into them (DS9/“Emissary”)

Orkett’s disease
: affliction being studied at the Bajoran Institute of Science (VGR/“State of Flux”)

porli
fowl
: chickenlike food animal

raider
: generic name for a small attack craft used by the resistance

ra-vu rum’ta
: Old Bajoran expression meaning “child of night”; the classic poetical name for a cadge lupus

salam
: type of grass (DS9/“Shakaar”)

sinoraptor
: animal known for its fierceness and eyes that face opposite directions (DS9/“Shakaar”)

spoonhead
: slur used by some Bajorans when referring to a Cardassian (DS9/“Things Past”)

tessipate
: unit of area (DS9/“Progress”)

tyrfox
: wily canine predator (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

uridium
: mineral that, in its unprocessed state, is highly unstable; uridium ore is processed on Terok Nor (DS9/“Civil Defense”)

Religious Ranks

The following is a breakdown of known ranks in the Bajoran religion, in ascending order.

prylar
: a monk

ranjen
: a monk specializing in theological study

vedek
: a high-ranking priest, typically a regional spiritual leader

kai
: the world leader of the Bajoran religion

D’jarra
Caste System

Until recent times the Bajorans had a series of castes called
D’jarra
s. This is a rough order of ranking for the ones that have been established so far.

Ih’valla
: artists (above Te’nari) (DS9/“Accession”)

Te’nari
: unknown, but below Ih’valla (DS9/“Accession”)

Mi’tino
: low-ranked merchants and landowners (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Va’telo
: pilot, sailor, driver, and similar professions (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Ke’lora
: laborers and lawmen (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Sern’apa
: unknown (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Imutta
: those who deal with the dead, the “unclean,” and lowest ranking
d’jarra
(DS9/“Accession”)

Resistance Cells

The following is a list of the established Bajoran resistance cells and their areas of operation.

Bram
: active in Jo’kala (Musilla Province)

Halpas
: active in Relliketh (Hedrikspool Province)

Kintaura
: active in Rakantha Province

Kohn-ma
: active in Dahkur Province (DS9/“Past Prologue”)

Ornathia
: active in Tilar Peninsula (Hedrikspool Province)

Shakaar
: active in Dahkur Province (DS9/“Duet”)

APPENDIX II: CARDASSIA

Characters

Abor, Dost
(male) operative of the Obsidian Order, assigned to Valo VI listening post

Astraea
(female) traditional name of the ceremonial “guide” or religious leader for the Oralian Way (
DS9
/
A Stitch in Time
)

Dalak
(male) official of the Cardassian Information Service, superior of Natima Lang and Veja Ketan

Damar, Corat
(male) military officer serving on Terok Nor (DS9/“Return to Grace”)

Darhe’el
(male) military officer, overseer of the Gallitep mining facility on Bajor, political rival of Gul Dukat (DS9/“Duet”)

Dukat, Athra
(female) wife of Skrain Dukat (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Dukat, Skrain
(male) military officer who served under Danig Kell during the formal first contact with Bajor, later prefect of Bajor and commander of Terok Nor (DS9/“Emissary”; Dukat’s given name was established in the DS9 novel
A Stitch in Time
)

Ico, Rhan
(female) Letin Pasir’s handler in the Obsidian Order (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Kell, Danig
(male) military officer and member of Central Command, direct superior of Skrain Dukat (DS9/“Civil Defense”; Kell’s first name was established in
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Ketan, Veja
(female) correspondent for the Cardassian Information Service

Kieng
(male) code name for Joer Varc, an operative of the Obsidian Order

Kretech
(male) military officer serving on the scoutship
Kevalu

Kruva
(male) commander of the patrol ship
Drakamair,
assigned to the Pullock system

Lang, Natima
(female) correspondent for the Cardassian Information Service (DS9/“Profit and Loss”)

Marritza, Aamin
(male) military officer and file clerk serving at the Gallitep mining facility on Bajor (DS9/“Duet”)

Mendar
(female) professor at the Ministry of Science on Cardassia Prime

Moset, Crell
(male) civilian physician and exobiologist who worked on Bajor during the annexation (VOY/“Nothing Human”)

Ocett, Malyn
(female) military officer in command of the scoutship
Kevalu,
assigned to patrol the Bajoran system (TNG/“The Chase”; Ocett’s given name was established in
A Stitch in Time
)

Pa’Dar, Kotan
(male) former scientist, later exarch at the Tozhat settlement on Bajor (DS9/“Cardassians”)

Pasir, Letin
(male) operative of the Obsidian Order, assigned to Bajor posing as a vedek (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Prang, Limor
(male) operative of the Obsidian Order (
A Stitch in Time
)

Ratav
(male) military officer commanding a base in Hedrikspool Province on Bajor

Regnar
(male) code name for an operative of the Obsidian Order (
A Stitch in Time
)

Reyar, Kalisi
(female) civilian scientist

Reyar, Yannik
(male) civilian liaison between Central Command and the Obsidian Order, father of Kalisi Reyar

Sa’kat
(male) military officer assigned to patrol the perimeter of Cardassia City

Tain, Enabran
(male) head of the Obsidian Order (DS9/“The Wire”)

Tedar
(male) military officer stationed in Dahkur Province on Bajor

Thrax
(male) chief of security on Terok Nor (DS9/“Things Past”)

Trach
(male) noncommisioned officer serving on Terok Nor

Vara, Miras
(female) civilian scientist

Varc, Joer
(male) operative of the Obsidian Order, code name “Kieng”

Veda
(male) military officer serving on the scoutship
Kevalu

Yopal
(female) director of the Bajoran Institute of Science

Places

Lakarian City
: population center on Cardassia Prime, site where ancient Hebetian culture was said to have flourished long ago (DS9/“Defiant”)

Cardassia City
: capital city of Cardassia Prime (
A Stitch in Time
)

Letau
: the innermost moon of Cardassia Prime and the site of a maximum-security prison facility

Ministry of Science
: center of learning and scientific research in Cardassia City (DS9/“Destiny”)

Paldar Sector
: residential district of Cardassia City (
DS9
/
A Stitch in Time
)

Pullock V
: habitable planet in the Pullock system; site of a Cardassian manufacturing complex (DS9/“Shakaar”)

Terok Nor
: space station orbiting Bajor; the main ore processing facility as of 2346 and the command post for the Bajoran annexation

Other

Drakamair
:
Hideki
-class patrol ship under the command of Dalin Kruva, operating in the Pullock system

kanar
: alcoholic beverage (TNG/“The Wounded”)

Kevalu
: scoutship under the command of Dalin Malyn Ocett, operating in the B’hava’el system

Koeder
:
Keldon
-class warship

marga
: fish with a smooth, pink belly

metric
: unit of time, roughly equivalent to a minute (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Obsidian Order
: intelligence bureau of the Cardassian Union (DS9/“The Wire”)

Oralian Way
: religion dating back to the First Hebitian civilization on Cardassia Prime, forced to go underground during the era of the Bajoran annexation (the Hebitian civilization was first mentioned in TNG/“Chain of Command, Part II; the Oralian Way was established in the DS9 novel,
A Stitch in Time
)