Horizon Storms (71 page)

Celli
—youngest daughter of Father Idriss and Mother Alexa.

Chen
—Roamer clan.

chrysalis chair
—reclining throne of the Mage-Imperator.

cityship
—giant hydrogue metropolis.

Clarin, Eldon
—Roamer inventor, brother of Roberto, killed when hydrogues destroyed the skymine at Erphano.

Clarin, Roberto
—administrator of Hurricane Depot, brother of Eldon.

cloud harvester
—ekti-gathering facility designed by the Hansa; also called a cloud mine.

cohort
—battle group of Ildiran Solar Navy consisting of seven maniples, or 343 ships.

Colicos, Anton
—the son of Margaret and Louis Colicos, translator and student of epic stories, sent to Ildiran Empire to study the Saga of Seven Suns.

Colicos, Louis
—xeno-archaeologist, husband of Margaret Colicos, specializing in ancient Klikiss artifacts, killed by Klikiss robots at Rheindic Co.

Colicos, Margaret
—xeno-archaeologist, wife of Louis Colicos, specializing in ancient Klikiss artifacts, vanished through transportal during Klikiss robot attack on Rheindic Co.

competent computerized companion
—intelligent servant robot, called compy, available in Friendly, Teacher, Governess, Listener, and other models.

compy
—shortened term for “competent computerized companion.”

condorfly
—colorful flying insect on Theroc, like a giant butterfly, sometimes kept as a pet.

Corribus
—ancient Klikiss world where Margaret and Louis Colicos discovered the Klikiss Torch technology, site of one of the first new Hansa colonies.

Corvus Landing
—Hansa colony world, mainly agricultural, some mining, obliterated by hydrogues.

Couarnir
—star system, location of Hurricane Depot.

Covitz, Jan
—Dremen mushroom farmer, participant in transportal colonization initiative, father of Orli.

Covitz, Orli
—Dremen colonist, joined transportal colonization initiative with her father, Jan.

Crenna
—former Ildiran splinter colony, evacuated because of plague, and resettled by humans. Home of Davlin Lotze and Branson Roberts.

Cyroc’h
—former Mage-Imperator, father of Jora’h.

Dame Battleaxe
—nickname for former Hansa Chairman Maureen Fitzpatrick.

Daniel
—new Prince candidate selected by the Hansa as a potential replacement for Peter.

Daro’h
—the Dobro Designate-in-waiting after the death of Mage-Imperator Cyroc’h.

DD
—compy servant assigned to Rheindic Co xeno-archaeology dig, captured by Klikiss robots.

Dekyk
—Klikiss robot at Rheindic Co xeno-archaeology dig.

Designate
—any purebred noble son of the Mage-Imperator; ruler of an Ildiran world.

Designate-in-waiting
—one of the next group of Designates, sons of the Prime Designate who will replace their uncles, the sons of the previous Mage-Imperator.

diamondfilm—
crystalline parchment used for Ildiran documents.

Dobro
—Ildiran colony world, site of human-Ildiran breeding camps.

Dremen
—Terran colony world, dim and cloudy; chief products are saltpond caviar and some genetically enhanced mushrooms.

drogues
—deprecatory term for hydrogues.

Dularix
—uninhabited world in Ildiran space, site of inexplicable hydrogue attack.

EA
—Tasia Tamblyn’s personal compy; her memory was wiped when she was interrogated by Basil Wenceslas.

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Earth Defense Forces
—Terran space military, headquartered on Mars but with jurisdiction throughout the Terran Hanseatic League.

EDF
—Earth Defense Forces.

Eddies
—slang term for soldiers in EDF.

ekti
—exotic allotrope of hydrogen used to fuel Ildiran stardrives.

Elwich, Private
—EDF cadet, one of Tasia Tamblyn’s trainees on Mars.

Erphano
—gas-giant planet, site of Berndt Okiah’s skymine.

Estarra
—second daughter, fourth child of Father Idriss and Mother Alexa.

Current Queen of Terran Hanseatic League, married to King Peter.

faeros
—sentient fire entities dwelling within stars.

Fan’nh
—qul in Ildiran Solar Navy, in charge of the maniple facing hydrogues at Hrel-oro.

featherhum
—Ildiran flying creature, similar to an Earth hummingbird.

Fitzpatrick, Maureen
—former Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League, grandmother of Patrick Fitzpatrick III.

Fitzpatrick, Patrick, III
—spoiled cadet in the Earth Defense Forces, General Lanyan’s protégé, presumed dead after Osquivel but captured by Roamers in Del Kellum’s shipyards.

flutewood trees
—multibranched growths on Crenna with hard bark and holes that make whistling sounds in the wind.

fracture-pulse drone
—new-design EDF weapon, also called a “frak.”

frak
—slang term for fracture-pulse drone.

Frederick, King
—previous figurehead ruler of the Terran Hanseatic League, assassinated by hydrogue emissary.

fungus reef
—giant worldtree growth on Theroc, carved into a habitation by the Therons.

furry cricket
—innocuous furry rodent found on Corribus.

Gale’nh
—experimental half-breed son of Nira Khali and Adar Kori’nh, third oldest of her children.

gliderbikes
—flying contraptions assembled from scavenged engines and framework materials, augmented by colorful condorfly wings.

Gold, Sullivan
—administrator of the Hansa’s new modular cloud harvester installed at Qronha 3.

Golgen
—gas giant where Ross Tamblyn’s Blue Sky Mine was destroyed; also bombarded by comets targeted by Jess Tamblyn.

Gomez, Charles
—human prisoner of the hydrogues, seized at Boone’s Crossing.

Goose
—derogatory Roamer term for Terran Hanseatic League.

Goswell, Bertram
—early Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League, originally tried to force Roamers to sign Hansa Charter.

grappler pod
—small work vehicle used in shipyards of Osquivel.

Great King
—figurehead leader of Terran Hanseatic League.

green priest
—servant of the worldforest, able to use worldtrees for instantaneous communication.

GU
—Analytical compy assigned to work with Kotto Okiah.

Guiding Star
—Roamer philosophy and religion, a guiding force in a person’s life.

handlers
—Ildiran kith, handlers of the dead.

Hansa
—Terran Hanseatic League.

Hansa Headquarters
—pyramidal building near the Whisper Palace on Earth.

Heald
—star system in the Ildiran Empire, site of a famous “ghost story” in the Saga of Seven Suns; two inhabited planets consolidated into a single splinter colony for defense against the hydrogues.

Horizon Cluster
—large star cluster near Ildira, location of Hyrillka and many other splinter colonies.

Hosaki
—Roamer clan.

Hosaki, Alfred
—Roamer clan leader.

Hrel-oro
—arid Ildiran mining colony, inhabited primarily by scaly kithmen.

Hroa’x
—chief skymining engineer of Ildiran skyfactory on Qronha 3.

Huck, Tabitha
—engineer aboard Sullivan Gold’s cloud harvester at Qronha 3.

Hurricane Depot
—Roamer commercial center and fuel-transfer station, located in a gravitationally stable point between two close-orbiting asteroids.

hydrogues
—alien race living at cores of gas-giant planets.

Hyrillka
—Ildiran colony in Horizon Cluster, original discovery site of Klikiss robots, main source of the drug shiing.

Idriss, Father
—ruler of Theroc, husband of Mother Alexa.

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.

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Ildirans
—humanoid alien race with many different breeds, or kiths.

Ilure’l
—Ildiran lens kithman, part of the skeleton crew remaining in Maratha Prime.

Isix cats
—sleek feline predators native to Ildira; Jora’h’s daughter Yazra’h keeps three of them.

Isperos
—hot planet, site of Kotto Okiah’s failed test colony.

jazer
—energy weapon used by Earth Defense Forces.

Jora’h
—new Mage-Imperator of the Ildiran Empire.

Jorax
—Klikiss robot dismantled by Hansa scientists to study its programming and systems.

Juggernaut
—large battleship class in Earth Defense Forces.

Jupiter—enhanced Juggernaut battleship in EDF, flagship of Admiral Willis’s Grid 7 battle group.

Kamarov, Raven
—Roamer cargo ship captain, destroyed with his cargo ship on secret EDF raid.

Kanaka—One of the eleven generation ships from Earth, last to depart.

These colonists became the Roamers.

Kari
—young friend of Celli’s, killed during hydrogue attack on Theroc.

Kellum, Del
—Roamer clan leader, in charge of Osquivel shipyards.

Kellum, Zhett
—eighteen-year-old daughter of Del Kellum.

Kett, Rlinda
—merchant woman, captain of the Voracious Curiosity.

Khali
—Nira’s family name.

Khali, Nira
—green priest female, Prime Designate Jora’h’s lover and mother of his half-breed daughter Osira’h. Held captive in breeding camps on Dobro.

kith
—a breed of Ildiran.

kleeb
—derogatory term for an EDF cadet.

Klikiss
—ancient insectlike race, long vanished from the Spiral Arm, leaving only their empty cities.

Klikiss robots
—intelligent beetlelike robots built by the Klikiss race.

Klikiss Torch
—a weapon/mechanism developed by the ancient Klikiss race to implode gas-giant planets and create new stars.

Kolker
—green priest, friend of Yarrod, stationed on Sullivan Gold’s modular cloud harvester at Qronha 3.

Kori’nh, Adar
—leader of the Ildiran Solar Navy, killed in suicidal assault against hydrogues on Qronha 3.

KR
—Analytical compy assigned to work with Kotto Okiah.

Lanyan, General Kurt
—commander of Earth Defense Forces.

lens kithmen
—philosopher priests who help to guide troubled Ildirans, interpreting faint guidance from the thism.

Lia
—former ruler of Theroc, Estarra’s grandmother.

Lica
—young friend of Celli’s, killed during hydrogue attack on Theroc.

lifetube
—small emergency evacuation device stored aboard EDF battleships.

Lightsource
—the Ildiran version of Heaven, a realm on a higher plane composed entirely of light. Ildirans believe that faint trickles of this light break through into our universe and are channeled through the Mage-Imperator and distributed across their race through the thism.

Liloa’h
—Ildiran noble female, Jora’h’s first lover.

Looking Glass Lakes
—group of deep, round lakes on Theroc, site of a tree village obliterated in hydrogue attack.

Lotze, Davlin
—Hansa exosociologist and spy on Crenna, sent to Rheindic Co where he discovered how to use the Klikiss transportal system.

Lucy
—young girl, friend of Orli Covitz on Corribus.

Mae, Terene
—EDF ensign, assigned to Tasia Tamblyn’s Manta cruiser.

Mage-Imperator
—the god-emperor of the Ildiran Empire.

maniple
—battle group of Ildiran Solar Navy consisting of seven septas, or 49 ships.

Manta
—midsize cruiser class in EDF.

Maratha
—Ildiran resort world with extremely long day and night cycle.

Maratha Prime
—primary domed city on one continent of Maratha.

Maratha Secda
—sister city on opposite side of Maratha from Prime, currently under construction by Klikiss robots.

Maylor, Fred
—Roamer clan leader.

Mhas’k
—male Ildiran agricultural kithman, part of the skeleton crew on Maratha, mated to Syl’k.

Mijistra
—glorious capital city of the Ildiran Empire.

Mouth of Space
—dark nebula, inhabited by Shana Rei, according to the Saga of Seven Suns.

Muree’n
—experimental half-breed daughter of Nira Khali and a guard kithman, youngest of her children.

Nahton
—court green priest on Earth, serves King Peter.

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nebula skimmers
—giant sails used to scoop hydrogen from nebula clouds.

New Portugal
—Hansa outpost with EDF facilities, colony known for distilleries and wineries.

nialia
—plantmoth grown on Hyrillka, source of shiing.

Nira
—Nira Khali.

Nur’of
—lead engineer, part of the skeleton crew remaining in Maratha Prime.

Oncier
—gas-giant planet, original test site of the Klikiss Torch.

Okiah, Berndt
—Jhy Okiah’s grandson, chief of Erphano skymine, killed by hydrogues.

Okiah, Jhy
—Roamer woman, very old, former Speaker of the clans.