A Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson [267]
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 military recruits.
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.
Kori’nh, Adar—leader of the Ildiran Solar Navy.
Kowalski—Roamer clan.
Kri’l—legendary star-crossed swimmer from Ildiran myth.
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, Alexa’s mother.
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.
Llaro—abandoned Klikiss world.
Logan, Chrysta—last captain of the lost generation ship Burton ; led colonists to Dobro.
Looking Glass Lakes—group of deep, round lakes on Theroc, site of a tree village.
Lost Times—forgotten historical period, events supposedly recounted in a missing section of the Saga of Seven Suns.
Lotze, Davlin—Hansa exosociologist and spy on Crenna.
Mae, Terene—EDF ensign, assigned to Tasia Tamblyn’s Manta cruiser.
Mage-Imperator—the god-emperor of the Ildiran Empire.
mail drone—small, fast ship, unmanned, designed to carry messages.
maniple—battlegroup of Ildiran Solar Navy consisting of seven septas, or forty-nine 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.
Marco Polo—one of the eleven generation ships from Earth, third to depart.
marmoth—large-statured herd beast on Ildira, known for its thick gray hide and ponderous movements.
Meyer—red dwarf sun, location of Rendezvous.
Mijistra—glorious capital city of the Ildiran Empire.
Moon Statue Garden—sculpture exhibit and topiary at WhisperPalace.
Nahton—court green priest on Earth, serves King Peter.
nebula skimmers—giant sails used to scoop hydrogen from nebula clouds.
New Portugal—Hansa outpost with EDF facilities.
Ng, Trish—Roamer pilot.
Okiah, Berndt—Jhy Okiah’s grandson, killed in the destruction of the Erphano skymine.
Okiah, Jhy—Roamer woman, very old, former Speaker of the clans.
Okiah, Kotto—Jhy Okiah’s youngest son, brash inventor who designed Isperos colony.
Oncier—gas-giant planet, test site of the Klikiss Torch.
opalbones—precious fossils from Dobro, often made into valuable jewelry.
Orange Spot—plague affecting human colonists on Crenna.
Osira’h—daughter of Nira Khali and Jora’h, bred to have unusual telepathic abilities.
Osquivel—ringed gas planet, site of secret Roamer shipyards.
ossuarium—storage chamber in the PrismPalace for the glowing skulls of former Mage-Imperators.
Otema—old green priest, ambassador from Theroc to Earth; later, sent to Ildira.
OX—Teacher compy, one of the oldest Earth robots. Served aboard Peary, now instructor and adviser to King Peter.
Palace District—governmental zone around the WhisperPalace on Earth.
Palawu, Howard—Chief Science Adviser to King Peter.
Palisade—Hansa colony world.
Paris Three—Hansa colony world.
Pasternak, Anna—Roamer clan leader, ship captain, mother of Shareen.
Pasternak, Shareen—chief of Welyr skymine; betrothed to Del Kellum