Horizon Storms - Kevin J. Anderson [241]
handlers—Ildiran kith, handlers of the dead.
Hansa—Terran Hanseatic League.
Hansa Headquarters—pyramidal building near the WhisperPalace on Earth.
Heald—star system in the Ildiran Empire, site of a famous “ghost story” in the Saga of Seven Suns ; two inhabited planets consolidated into a single splinter colony for defense against the hydrogues.
Horizon Cluster—large star cluster near Ildira, location of Hyrillka and many other splinter colonies.
Hosaki—Roamer clan.
Hosaki, Alfred—Roamer clan leader.
Hrel-oro—arid Ildiran mining colony, inhabited primarily by scaly kithmen.
Hroa’x—chief skymining engineer of Ildiran skyfactory on Qronha 3.
Huck, Tabitha—engineer aboard Sullivan Gold’s cloud harvester at Qronha 3.
Hurricane Depot—Roamer commercial center and fuel-transfer station, located in a gravitationally stable point between two close-orbiting asteroids.
hydrogues—alien race living at cores of gas-giant planets.
Hyrillka—Ildiran colony in Horizon Cluster, original discovery site of Klikiss robots, main source of the drug shiing.
Idriss, Father—ruler of Theroc, husband of Mother Alexa.
Ildira—home planet of the Ildiran Empire, under the light of seven suns.
Ildiran Empire—large alien empire, the only other major civilization in the Spiral Arm.
Ildiran Solar Navy—space military fleet of the Ildiran Empire.
Ildirans—humanoid alien race with many different breeds, or kiths.
Ilure’l—Ildiran lens kithman, part of the skeleton crew remaining in Maratha Prime.
Isix cats—sleek feline predators native to Ildira; Jora’h‘s daughter Yazra’h keeps three of them.
Isperos—hot planet, site of Kotto Okiah’s failed test colony.
jazer—energy weapon used by Earth Defense Forces.
Jora’h—new Mage-Imperator of the Ildiran Empire.
Jorax—Klikiss robot dismantled by Hansa scientists to study its programming and systems.
Juggernaut—large battleship class in Earth Defense Forces.
Jupiter—enhanced Juggernaut battleship in EDF, flagship of Admiral Willis’s Grid 7 battle group.
Kamarov, Raven—Roamer cargo ship captain, destroyed with his cargo ship on secret EDF raid.
Kanaka—One of the eleven generation ships from Earth, last to depart. These colonists became the Roamers.
Kari—young friend of Celli’s, killed during hydrogue attack on Theroc.
Kellum, Del—Roamer clan leader, in charge of Osquivel shipyards.
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 an EDF cadet.
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.
Kolker—green priest, friend of Yarrod, stationed on Sullivan Gold’s modular cloud harvester at Qronha 3.
Kori’nh, Adar—leader of the Ildiran Solar Navy, killed in suicidal assault against hydrogues on Qronha 3.
KR—Analytical compy assigned to work with Kotto Okiah.
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, Estarra’s grandmother.
Lica—young friend of Celli’s, killed during hydrogue attack on Theroc.
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.
Liloa’h—Ildiran noble female, Jora’h‘s first lover.
Looking Glass Lakes—group of deep, round lakes on Theroc,