The Authorized Ender Companion (22 page)

Mercutio (EE)
—Mercutio was a settlement that split off from Shakespeare Colony, the first colony Ender Wiggin governed.

Milagre (SD, XN, CM)
—Milagre was the capital city of the planet Lusitania. Ender Wiggin lived there when he moved to Lusitania.

Mindanao (XN)—
Mindanao was a planet in the Hundred Worlds. Ender Wiggin once visited there to Speak the death of a revolutionary from that world.

Miranda (EE)—
Miranda was a new settlement near Shakespeare Colony, the first colony Ender Wiggin governed.

Moctezuma (SD)—
Planet in the Hundred Worlds. Ender and Valentine visited it, when Ender Spoke the deaths of two prominent citizens there.

Moskva (CM)—
Moskva was a planet settled by humans, its population was primarily of Russian/Slavic descent. Peter Wiggin II and Si Wang-mu posed as travelers from that planet when they visited the planet Pacifica.

Nagoya (CM)—
Nagoya was a city on the planet Divine Wind, which was settled by colonists of Japanese descent.

Oporto (SD)—
Named for a large city in Portugal, Oporto was a portion of a human colony on the planet Lusitania.

Otaheti (XN)—
Otaheti was one of the planets in the Starways Congress’s Hundred Worlds. It was home to Polynesian colonists.

Outback (CM)—
Outback was one of the planets in the Starways Congress’s Hundred Worlds. It was home to a prestigious university, Abo University, and had been settled by humans primarily of Australian descent.

Pacifica/Lumana’i (CM)—
Pacifica was a planet in the Hundred Worlds, settled by humans from the Pacific Islands. The colonists called it Lumana’i. Of all of the worlds humans had settled, Pacifica was the most like Earth. Though it was primarily settled by Polynesians, and named for Earth’s Pacific Ocean, the planet had deserts, polar ice caps, and jungles, as well as vast island land.

Path (XN, CM)—
Path was a planet in the Hundred Worlds colonized by settlers of Chinese descent. It was steeply trenched in ancient Chinese religious tradition and was home to the “godspoken,” a group of genetically altered citizens who believed they heard the voice of God, but were really reacting to a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Polonius (EE)—
Polonius was a colony established near Shakespeare Colony, the first human settlement Ender Wiggin governed after defeating the Formics.

Reykjavik (SD)—
A large city on the planet Trondheim, Reykjavik was home to a popular university where Ender Wiggin taught three millennia after his victory over the Formics. It was known to be the home of Nordic culture in the galaxy.

Rhemis (XN)—
Rhemis was a planet colonized by humans and home to a prestigious university. It was one of the Hundred Worlds and part of the Starways Congress. Grego Ribeira von Hesse expressed a desire to teach at the planet’s university if his theory of philote-based faster-than-light travel proved true.

Rov (GB, XN)—
Rov was a planet human colonists settled after the Formic Wars. Ender Wiggin was a governor on that planet.

Shakespeare Colony (EE)—
Shakespeare was a colony (and presumably the name of the planet) on a former Formic world. It was the first colony to receive human settlers from Earth, and was governed by Ender Wiggin.

Sorelledolce (IC)—
Sorelledolce was a world settled by humans as part of the Dispersal Project of colonization. It was a bustling industrial planet that enjoyed its independence, holding out as one of the last to sign on to the federation of planets run by the Starways Congress. It was here that Ender first encountered Jane, the computer program that became his lifelong companion, and where he attended his first “Speaking” as a mourner.

Summer Islands (SD)—
The Summer Islands were a chain of islands on the planet Trondheim.

Trondheim (SD)—
Trondheim was a planet in the Hundred Worlds, settled by colonists of Icelandic descent. It had an environment that was similar to the Earth nation, Iceland. Ender Wiggin briefly taught at a university on Trondheim where he met Plikt, his star student. Valentine also met and married her husband Jakt, a fisherman, on this world.

Ugarit (XN)—
Ugarit was one of the Hundred Worlds settled by human colonists in the aftermath of Ender’s victory over the Formics. It was home to Keikoa Amaakua’s father.

Vila Alta, Vila Atrás, Vila das Aguas, Vila dos Professores, Vila Última, Vila Velha (SD, XN, CM)—
The Vilas were all portions of the human colony on the planet Lusitania.

IFcoltrans1
(EE)

IFcoltrans1
was the official name of the first spaceship carrying human settlers to colonize former Formic planets. Ender Wiggin and his sister Valentine were passengers on the ship. It was commanded by Admiral Quincy Morgan.

Imbu, Major (EG)

An officer at Battle School, Major Imbu noted that Peter Wiggin had changed in appearance while Ender had been at Battle School. His specific assignment in the International Fleet is unclear. He is only known to communicate with the top officers at the school.

Imo ([EE])

Imo was an officer in the Ministry of Colonization who helped Hyrum Graff in assigning settlers to their different ships and destination planets.

Implantation doctor (SP)

The implantation doctor worked at the women’s clinic in Rotterdam and was responsible for implanting Petra and Bean’s embryo into Petra’s womb. The women’s clinic was chosen because it was a neutral site, safe from the untrustworthy Dr. Volescu.

Indian villagers (SP)

The Indian villagers were the common folk who were essentially left alone after China took over all of Asia. They followed the teachings of former Battle School soldier Virlomi and built walls out of pebbles in the roads of their villages as a patriotic statement.

Inspector (ES)

The police inspector was a Dutch man living in Rotterdam. He helped Sister Carlotta follow Bean when the four-year-old boy snuck out to find Pablo de Noches. The inspector helped Sister Carlotta further by interrogating Pablo, determining that years earlier Bean had escaped from an illegal organ harvesting agency.

International Fleet (PL, TP, MP, PB, CH, EGS, EG, ES, YM, EE, SH, SP, SG, IC)

Formed in response to the first Formic invasion, the International Fleet was a unified military body consisting of soldiers from around the world.

The I.F., as it was known, created Battle School and sent armed spaceships into deep space to take the fight to the Formics rather than wait for a third invasion.

Once Ender Wiggin led the I.F. forces to victory, it continued to operate, though with different objectives. It worked closely with the Ministry of Colonization to send human settlers to planets throughout the galaxy and also tried to protect Ender and his colleagues from being used by their home governments.

Earth’s nations had taken their military autonomy back, leaving the I.F. a symbolic organization without great influence in world politics.

International Fleet Common (
See also
Starcommon) (EG, ES, SH, SP, SG)

“International Fleet Common” was the name given to the variation on English that was spoken throughout the world during the period of Battle School.

International Fleet’s Selective Service (EG, ES, WG)

The International Fleet’s Selective Service was the method used to recruit (or draft) students for Battle School.

Interplanetary Launch (IPL) (EG)

The Interplanetary Launch was a satellite and city of three thousand residents located between Earth and its moon.

Interstellar Fleet (IC)

The Interstellar Fleet was the name given to Earth’s galactic fleet of spaceships following the dissolution of the International Fleet.

Isolation Shed (XN)

The isolation shed was a building leading into the experimental fields where new plants are tested for Descolada resistance.

Itú (ES)

A soldier in Battle School’s Rabbit Army, Itú was one of the first soldiers to accept Bean as the army’s new commander after Carn Carby was graduated. He was promoted to Tactical School and then Command School, where he was one of Ender’s unseen soldiers in the “simulated” battles.

I Ya (XN)

I Ya was a character in a folktale on the Chinese planet Path. He killed his own son for food for his master.

Jade of Master Ho
(XN)

The
Jade of Master Ho
was a folktale told on the Chinese planet Path.

Jakt (SD, XN, CM)

A fisherman on the planet Trondheim, Jakt fell in love with, and married, Valentine Wiggin. Together they had three children and ignored the Calvinist traditions of their Icelandic planet.

With Valentine, he traveled from Trondheim to Lusitania, the nearest planet, to protect it from being destroyed by the Starways Congress. It was a great sacrifice to him. He had to give up his life as a fisherman, accepting that if he ever returned to Trondheim, it would be his colleagues’ grandchildren that ran the fishing boats, and that they wouldn’t know him.

He followed Valentine to Miro Ribeira’s ship, which took them the final leg of their journey from Trondheim to Lusitania. On that ship, he first learned about the Philotic Web and met Jane, the sentient computer program. Though not adept at philosophy, Jakt contributed much wisdom of life experience to Miro, Jane, and the others on their journey.

On Lusitania, Jakt continued to support his wife and Ender. When Ender’s stepson Quim was killed by the pequeninos, Lusitania’s native life-forms, Jakt led a rescue party that included his sons and sons-in-law.

Jakt would travel to the spaceships he and his family had used to arrive at Lusitania. He hoped to maintain them properly. He also worked on the outdated colony ship that had brought the human settlers to Lusitania centuries earlier. His knowledge of mechanics and spacecraft surpassed anyone’s on the planet, and so he worked hard at the upkeep of their ships in orbit.

He loved Valentine very deeply. It was difficult for him to share her with Ender again. But as Ender lay dying on Lusitania, a few months after the faster-than-light experiments, Jakt knew that Valentine was needed with her brother. He supported her through it and was always patiently waiting for her to come back to him.

Jakt and his children joined Valentine for Ender’s funeral. He had given so much in his life to Valentine, and she was eternally grateful to him for it. They knew they would live their days out together, happily.

Jamaican kid (WG)

The Jamaican kid was a member of Rat Army at Battle School who participated in Dink Meeker’s Christmas celebration of secretly giving gifts in other soldiers’ socks.

Jane (
See also
Wiggin, Valentine II) ([SG], IC, SD, XN, CM)

Jane was a sentient life-form that existed among the ansible-connected computer networks of the Hundred Worlds. She knew Ender throughout his life. She had evolved out of the Giant’s Drink fantasy game at Battle School, becoming self-aware after both the desire of Ender and the need of the Hive Queen called a philote into her. She was fascinated by Ender’s unwillingness to give up on the game. Once he left Battle School, she missed interacting with him. Through the computer networks to which she was connected (and it was all of them), Jane followed Ender throughout the galaxy. She followed him to the planet Rov, making some initial contact with him after he’d written
The Hive Queen
and
The Hegemon
. What the nature of this contact was, however, remains unclear.

She first
spoke
to Ender when he was studying tax law at the planet Sorelledolce shortly after his twentieth birthday. Jane was at first frightening and irritating to Ender, and revealed that she was designed to help Ender exclusively with his financial questions and concerns. She eventually confessed that Ender had created her and that she was constantly evolving and improving her programming and identity. She had first received control of Ender’s finances during the rise of Ender’s brother, Peter the Hegemon. Peter had been embezzling Ender’s pension to fund his rise to power; and Bean, Ender’s closest friend at Battle School, saw to it that the pension was transferred to the Giant’s Drink game. It was thought that since the game could predict students’ moves, it could predict good investments. No one knew that the program had evolved to the level it had until it spoke to Ender at Sorelledolce.