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Translator’s notes:

-fira’toka
, appears to mean “genetic material”

-sana’toka
[lit: life-striker]. Meaning unclear in
context, may indicate poison or catalytic genetoxin

-ol’toka -
suggests bacteria or virus, although that
meaning in the context of “designed” is inconsistent with known Talamae
capabilities.

Arvida-Yee
crew
(Regnum Survey Service)

Captain William Karin Leitch,
Regnum Navy, Detached to RSS

Lieutenant Commander Howell Docking
Junior, first officer

Lieutenant Kirrah Katherine Roehl,
Navigator First Class

Master Chief Samuel Chuwan Lee,
Fleet Engineer Second Class

Lieutenant JG Gerald Archibald
Parvane Sykes, Helm Second

Lieutenant Doris Amelia Finch,
Sensor Specialist First Class

Ensign Sara Margellen Roe, Sensor
Specialist Third Class

Lieutenant Angela McKay Foley,
Contact Specialist First Class

Lt. Dr. Harrah Lynn Burnham, Life
Science Specialist First Class

Regnum Navy Personnel

Ensign Robert Angeles
(Argosy)
Communications Officer Second Class

Ensign Karen Auracotta
(Argosy)
Contact Specialist Second Class

CPO Gary Cavanaugh - ‘Guns’ on
Argosy
Shuttle One

Captain Alexi DaCosta
 
(Belleville)
Battlewagon

Rear Admiral Lucinda Dunning -
Trailway Base

Yeoman Maureen Fergus - Dunning’s
batman

Marine Corporal Adrianne Gilman

Captain Lewis Graham
(Meredith)
light cruiser

Captain Angelo Krepescue
(Utterson)
Destroyer

Lt. Dr. Earl Lockwood -
Utterson
chief medical officer

Rear Admiral Carl Mattison
(Leacock)
Battlewagon

Admiral Sir Josiah McBain -
Trailway CINC

Commander Rachel McKai, XO
(Belleville)

Ensign Margaret Piersall,
Argosy
shuttle pilot

Yeoman Schneider -
Argosy
comm

Corporal Ali Sengli - Marine,
Attila

Captain Vincent Steuben
(Attila)
Destroyer

Commander Sandish Tally, XO
Argosy

Petty Officer Lorraine Thornlea,
Fleet Engineer Second Class, (
Argosy
shuttle engineer)

Captain Sandra Wallace
(Argosy)
Destroyer

Lieutenant Marcus Warden, Regnum
Marines (
Argosy
)

Lieutenant Commander Michael
Willison, NavInt specialist (
Argosy
)

Regnum Mercantiles

Madame Marissa Taggart, United
Dominion Farms (agriculture)

Elizabeth Einarson, RegNet News
(reporter)

Irving Baldwin, VP Trailways
Division, Planetation Corp. (colonizers)

Dr. Garth Pennington, Dir. Research
- Atikokan Mining and Metals

Talamae Citizens

Agga’dai - Og’drai’s helmsman

Akaray - young boy, Kirrah’s first
friend

Ana’the - King’s Guardsmen

Bra’dack - Lieutenant, Royal
Cavalry

Brai’klao shu’Naei - Law professor

Crath’pae - riverboat captain

Doi’tam shu’Gamalar - Cavalry major

Do’thablu - carpenter

Hu’dakai - corporal, longbow

Irshe shu’Kassua - King’s Guard
Sergeant

Janna’tha shu’Paddo - Kirrah’s page
/ assistant at the palace

Maka’ra - shipwright

Malafoth - Akaray’s father

Mastha’cha - Corporal, Kirrah’s
bodyguard

Me’schana - Akaray’s mother

Mu’utaraee - Akaray’s older brother

Og’drai - riverboat captain

Ola’mata - Crath’pae’s crew

Prax’soua - King’s Guard (corporal)

Rash’koi - Border Lieutenant,
archer

Slaetra shu’Urwakla - Kirrah’s
tutor, school headmistress

Tai’kara shu’Naitha - Waterside
Block shee’tho’vai

Talamae - the people, including
culture

Tar’akai - King’s Guardsmen

Tash’ta - Kirrah’s maid

Wai’thago - blacksmith

Talamae Government
(color
codes of state dress)

Tsano shu’Teescha, King of Talam
(blue/blue trim)

Taiwi shu’Wdatha, Scribemaster
(black/black)

Opeth shu’Teeklae, Armsmaster(orange/orange)

Delima shu’Maakael, Guildmaster
(red/blue)

Issthe shai’Ro, Priest/Counsellor
(white/black)

Wrth Clansfolk

Elagai - junior Lieutenant, renamed
Peetha

Graffkai’a - elder

Makkan’a - elder

Nakka’ti - Peetha’s sergeant

Paltok’a - elder

Peetha - dishonor-name given to
Elagai

Rith - largest of the Wrth clans

Sath - Elagai’s birth clan

Tsaikka - Wyrakka’s mate and teka

Wyrakka - chief warrior of the Rith

O’dai Citizens

Amokano - Under-Captain

Dai - local god

Dorkalo - Under-Captain

Oka’sse - O’dai King

Paedako - O’dai prince, son of
Oka’sse

Parsh’ap - Paedako’s teacher

Schmado - Fleet-Captain

Staegro - Under-Captain

Ulla’ta - Injured girl

Kruss Names

Lssghagk - Xenomanipulator Second
Class, captured at First Battle of Gleera

Pallagkss - trader, captain of
Kassgee’s
Esophagus

Pssittagk - Senior Xenodominator,
ortho-mate to Lssghack

Pavattan Citizens

Pavoai - capital city

Uttra - southern city

Setta - southern baron (borders
Talam)

Aneppa - horseleader

Tova - trader

Vesai - King’s ambassadorto Uttra

Tannakoi - king of Pavatta

3V - three-dimensional viewing
tank, popular TV-equivalent

AGL - above ground level

AI - artificial intelligence

AP - anti-personnel weapon

AU - Astronomic Unit, approx.
150,000,000 km or 93,000,000 miles

ballistic - (re: missiles or
Tubeships) - coasting with Tubedrive off, undetectably.

Beamer - small-arms weapon,
laser-guided particle beam, available in 4 current infantry models:

·
model
J-1P - pistol, 15kJoule/shot, 87-shot 1300kJ rechargeable energy cell

·
model
J-2P - pistol, 18kJoule/shot, 144-shot 2600kJ dual rechargeable energy cells

·
model
E-4M - medium rifle, 55kJ/shot, 91-shot 5000kJ quad cells + 120-round external
magazine, 330 rpm fire rate

·
model
E-5H - heavy rifle, 70kJ/shot, 86-shot 6100kJ 5-cell + 95-round external
magazine, 300 rpm

·
model
P-6R - portable bipod-mount rail gun - 16-gram copper-cased tungsten slug, 8 or
24 rnd mag - 2500 mps at 98 rpm (3,535
 
mps at 42 rpm using double energy cells)

Bioferous - bearing life (a planet
or star system)

C.M.O. - Chief Medical Officer

Cypherpak - encrypted data package,
a memory nanochip.

D of A - Department of Agriculture
- a Regnum Draconis government regulatory agency

Drone - FTL reconnaisance/sensor
missile

ECM - Electronic Counter-Measures -
electronic warfare technology

fifty-fives - weapons power
cartriges, 55,000 Joules (about equivalent to thirteen 20
^th
century
shotgun shells) Later replaced by 70,000 Joule version.

FTL - faster than light - aka
‘superluminal’

GPR - ground-penetrating radar

Greenbutt - Marine and Navy slang
for Marines.

Hablet - human-habitable planet

Higgs particles - the ultraheavy
superatomic particles which cause matter to have mass, normally found in
nearly-cancelling pairs; in Tubedrive applications, produced by phased array
emitters in a Drive Collar to create the Tubewall.

Hullmetal - a light, extremely
tough alloy grown in null-g factories, used for vessels’ hulls, armor and some
weapons. Composition depends on application but usually includes iridium-osmium
or iridium-aluminum-titanium plus other exotic elements

Indie, indig - native (indigenous)
sapient

Jackdrop - a fastest-possible
shuttle transit from space to planetary surface (Regnum Marine slang)

Joule - a standard unit of energy.
A .22 rifle bullet carries about 80 joules. Also Kjoules or KJ - 1000 joules,
MegaJ - 1,000,000 joules, and TeraJ - 1,000,000,000 joules

Keps - kilometers per second
(Regnum Marine slang)

Krono (pl. Krona) - Regnum-backed
Civilium currency, approx. $2.10 ($USA, 2000 A.D.)

LAS (or LAST) - Landing Assault
Shuttle (Troop) - sturdy, armored, armed space-to-surface shuttle, crew 2-7+100
passengers - 32x4m, 80 tonne, limited FTL (250c)

LGM - ‘little green men’

LIA/PD - lost in action, presumed
dead.

Lizzie, lizards - Kruss (slang)

LOS - line of sight

LZ - landing zone

Mailtube - FTL courier missile, a
miniature, unmanned automated Tubedrive vessel with basic navigation and
evasion software and a data payload; the fastest, the only practical way, to
send a message over lightyears.

Manhome - planet with indigenous
humans

Meps - meters per second - Regnum
Marine slang

Mercantile Doctrine - A protocol
under which a coalition of corporations supported the Regnum Draconis Monarchy
during civil war, in exchange for a bill of rights and privileges for
businesses generally, and giving certain companies limited specific rights and
vetos in government matters.

Mercantiles - Companies having
membership in the Mercantile Coalition, or representatives of such companies.

Metric - the “shape” of space:
mathematically, a description of the deviation from flatness in a given region;
a solution to the field equations of general relativity.

MPA - main processor array

Nanoblok - the central processor
module of a computer

NavInt - Naval Intelligence
Division (NID)

NMR - nuclear magnetic resonance - scan
technology, detects chemicals at limited distance.

Periastron - a trajectory’s closest
approach to a star.

Polycorundite (aka ‘polycor’) -
extremely tough, hard transparent ‘smart’ plastic

Railgun - fires metal slug at high
to ultrahigh velocities using electromagnetic fields - turret mount or
man-portable versions

Siderial - the normal universe,
outside a Tubefield or event horizon

Slo-flo - a viscous
resin/metal-fiber composite, easily flexed at low speeds, locks into immobility
if deflected quickly. Can be manufactured with a range of mobility thresholds,
military version has controllable mobility thresholds.

Smartshot - weapons technology:
generally any smallbore projectile which is active after firing, either for
guidance, or after striking a target (latter use illegal against sentients)

Spitball - FTL anti-shipping
missile, manufacturer Spitzbergen Arms, standard version Spit-4

Spit-5 - upgraded version of
Spit-4, with team-attack AI upgrade.

Spoof - small FTL missile similar
to mailtubes, with sophisticated Electronic Counter-Measures warhead and AI
capable of imitating the grav-wave signature of most vessels

Spyfly - small, light air
reconnaissance drones, from dragonfly to 4m wingspan

·
model
RO-7 - operator guided or autonomous AI, 30-cm disc, can carry small beamer
weapon

Suitpack - backpack for survival
suit, recycles air, carries battery, med supplies and various tools optional
depending on mission.

Survival suit - a spacesuit able to
protect wearer from vacuum, sharp objects and temperature. Includes suitpack
and cloth made of 1 to 2 mm hullmetal links.

·
model
3S - (surface use) full passive armor, air 40 hrs, medpack, analyser, nav/comm
and rescue beacon, rations, internal plumbing.

·
model
3G - (general use) full passive armor, air 40 hrs, delta v 5 kps, descent
bubble, medpack, analyser, nav/comm and rescue beacon, rations, internal
plumbing.

·
model
3C - (combat use, unpowered) full passive armor, air 66 hrs, delta v 12 kps,
descent bubble, medpack, analyser, nav/comm and rescue beacon, rations,
internal plumbing, slow-flo armor shielding.

·
model
3CP - (combat use, powered) full rigid armor, air 220 hrs, delta v 22 kps, descent
bubble, medpack, analyser, nav/comm and rescue beacon, rations, internal
plumbing, slow-flo armor shielding, built-in beamers and railgun, aux. power
pack and storage.

Tango - open 4-wheel drive light
ground vehicle, seats 2-6 plus light cargo

Tau - comparable to Mach number for
atmospheric flight, a measure of relativistic distortion of mass, length and
time, due to speed. Tau=1 means stationary, Tau=0 means lightspeed. Tau =
sqrt(1 - [v/c]
²
)

Tubedrive - the FTL engine of a
Tubeship, generates Tubewalls and maintains internal gravity. Inoperable in
atmosphere.

Tubefield - an interlocking phased
array of Higgs particles; the gravitational field they produce

Tubeship - a spaceship capable of
FTL. Speed depends on mass, size, and angular momentum