A Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson [1]
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First eBook Edition: July 2003
ISBN: 0-7595-8782-5
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Story So Far
1 Jess Tamblyn
2 King Peter
3 Estarra
4 Prime Designate Jora’h
5 Nira Khali
6 Adar Kori’nh
7 Cesca Peroni
8 Jess Tamblyn
9 Tasia Tamblyn
10 King Peter
11 Rlinda Kett
12 Basil Wenceslas
13 Davlin Lotze
14 Anton Colicos
15 Adar Kori’nh
16 Mage-Imperator
17 Jess Tamblyn
18 Tasia Tamblyn
19 King Peter
20 Basil Wenceslas
21 Estarra
22 Beneto
23 DD
24 Tasia Tamblyn
25 Rlinda Kett
26 Adar Kori’nh
27 Prime Designate Jora’h
28 Nira
29 Dobro Designate
30 Rlinda Kett
31 Anton Colicos
32 Reynald
33 King Peter
34 Prime Designate Jora’h
35 Tasia Tamblyn
36 General Kurt Lanyan
37 Cesca Peroni
38 Adar Kori’nh
39 Rlinda Kett
40 Anton Colicos
41 Nira
42 Prime Designate Jora’h
43 Jess Tamblyn
44 Reynald
45 King Peter
46 Tasia Tamblyn
47 Cesca Peroni
48 Jess Tamblyn
49 Tasia Tamblyn
50 Prime Designate Jora’h
51 Robb Brindle
52 Rlinda Kett
53 Anton Colicos
54 Adar Kori’nh
55 Tasia Tamblyn
56 DD
57 Cesca Peroni
58 Kotto Okiah
59 King Peter
60 Estarra
61 Beneto
62 Sarein
63 Nira
64 Osira’h
65 Prime Designate Jora’h
66 Del Kellum
67 King Peter
68 Estarra
69 General Kurt Lanyan
70 Cesca Peroni
71 Jess Tamblyn
72 Basil Wenceslas
73 Davlin Lotze
74 King Peter
75 Prime Designate Jora’h
76 Rlinda Kett
77 Davlin Lotze
78 Anton Colicos
79 Prime Designate Jora’h
80 Adar Kori’nh
81 Estarra
82 King Peter
83 Rossia
84 Basil Wenceslas
85 Tasia Tamblyn
86 Tasia Tamblyn
87 Zhett Kellum
88 Estarra
89 Jess Tamblyn
90 Tasia Tamblyn
91 Prime Designate Jora’h
92 Nira
93 Estarra
94 Kotto Okiah
95 Zhett Kellum
96 King Peter
97 Rlinda Kett
98 DD
99 Anton Colicos
100 King Peter
101 Mage-Imperator
102 Nira
103 King Peter
104 Tasia Tamblyn
105 Jess Tamblyn
106 Cesca Peroni
107 Admiral Stromo
108 Beneto
109 Father Reynald
110 Queen Estarra
111 King Peter
112 Basil Wenceslas
113 Zhett Kellum
114 Kotto Okiah
115 Queen Estarra
116 Osira’h
117 Mage-Imperator
118 Prime Designate Jora’h
119 Adar Kori’nh
120 Queen Estarra
121 Jess Tamblyn
122 Dobro Designate
123 Osira’h
124 King Peter
125 Father Reynald
126 Adar Kori’nh
127 Sarein
128 Father Reynald
129 Mage-Imperator Jora’h
130 Cesca Peroni
131 Jess Tamblyn
132 Basil Wenceslas
133 Anton Colicos
134 Tasia Tamblyn
135 King Peter
Command Structure Of The Earth Defense Forces
Selected Noble-Born Children Of Prime Designate Jora’h (Designates-In-Waiting)
The Ruling Family Of Theroc
Clan Tamblyn
Glossary Of Characters And Terminology
SPECIAL EBOOK FEATURE:SKETCHBOOK (not included)
Klikiss Robot
Hydrogue Warglobes
The WhisperPalace
Worldforest on Theroc
The Fungus-ReefCity
Ildiran Features and Outfits
An Ildiran Female
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THE STORY SO FAR
In the ruins of the ancient Klikiss civilization, human archaeologists MARGARET and LOUIS COLICOS discovered an exotic technology capable of igniting gas-giant planets to create new suns. For the first test of the Klikiss Torch, at the gas giant Oncier, observers included BASIL WENCESLAS, suave Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League (the Hansa), and the alien ADAR KORI’NH, military commander of the vast but stagnant Ildiran Empire. Though the humanoid Ildirans helped Earth colonize the Spiral Arm, they still see humans as ambitious upstarts. They considered the test of the Klikiss Torch unnecessary hubris, since many other planets were available for colonization.
When Oncier was ignited, collapsing into a compact sun, instant reports of the event were transmitted around the Galaxy by the green priest BENETO, a human from the forested planet Theroc, who has a special symbiosis with semisentient worldtrees. Green priests, like living telegraph stations, can send thoughts anywhere through the interconnected forest network, providing the only form of instant communication across vast distances.
At the end of the Oncier test, observers saw a cluster of diamond spheres race