Horizon Storms - Kevin J. Anderson [240]
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.
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