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COVITZ, JAN - Dremen mushroom farmer, father of Orli, moved to Corribus in transportal colonization initiative, where he was killed in Klikiss robot attack.
COVITZ, ORLI - Dremen colonist, moved to Corribus with her father Jan, where she was one of two survivors of the Klikiss robot attack. Later, she moved to Llaro to join the Crenna refugees.
CRENNA - former Ildiran splinter colony, evacuated due to plague, and resettled by humans, then later frozen when its sun died in hydrogue-faeros battles.
CUTTER - small ship in Ildiran Solar Navy.
CYROC’H - former Mage-Imperator, father of Jora’h.
CZIR’H - Dzelluria Designate, the first leader to fall to Designate Rusa’h's rebellion.
DANIEL - Prince candidate selected as a replacement for Peter, left stranded on neo-Amish world of Happiness.
DARO’H - the Dobro Designate-in-waiting after the death of Mage-Imperator Cyroc’h.
DD--Friendly compy owned by Margaret Colicos, seized by Klikiss robot Sirix, then escaped through a transportal to rejoin Margaret.
DESIGNATE - any purebred noble son of the Mage-Imperator, ruler of an Ildiran world.
DIAMONDFILM - crystalline parchment used for Ildiran documents.
DIENTE, ESTEBAN - one of the four surviving Grid admirals after the hydrogue war.
DIO’SH - Ildiran Rememberer, murdered by Mage-Imperator after he discovered the truth about the former hydrogue war.
DOBRO - Ildiran colony world, site of human-Ildiran breeding camps.
DOMATE - largest sub-breed of Klikiss, silver carapace with black tiger stripes. The domates acquire and provide genetic material to the breedex during reproductive fissioning.
DOOLEY, JYM - Roamer trader at Rhejak.
DREMEN - Terran colony world, dim and cloudy, chief products are saltpond caviar and genetically enhanced mushrooms.
DROGUE - Deprecatory term for hydrogues.
DROPSHIP - fast-delivery vessel used by EDF.
DUBOV, YURI - colonist farmer on Llaro.
DURRIS - trinary star system, close white and orange stars orbited by a red dwarf, three of the Ildiran 'seven suns’. Durris-B was extinguished in hydrogue-faeros war.
DZELLURIA - Ildiran world in the Horizon Cluster, first world to be conquered in Rusa’h's rebellion, ruled by Designate Czir’h. EA - Tasia Tamblyn’s personal compy, destroyed by hydrogues and Klikiss robots.
EARTH DEFENCE FORCES (EDF) - Terran space military, led by General Kurt Lanyan.
EDDIES - slang term for soldiers in EDF.
EKTI - exotic allotrope of hydrogen used to fuel Ildiran star-drives.
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.
FIREFEVER- ancient Ildiran plague.
FITZPATRICK, MAUREEN - former Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League, grandmother of Patrick Fitzpatrick III, nicknamed 'Battleaxe’.
FITZPATRICK, PATRICK, III - General Lanyan’s protege in the Earth Defence Forces, presumed dead after battle of Osquivel but captured by Roamers in Del Kellum’s shipyards. Later, in love with Zhett Kellum, he abandoned the EDF, stole his grandmother’s space yacht, and went in search of the Roamers.
FRACTURE-PULSE DRONE - new-design EDF weapon, also called a 'jfrak’.
FREDERICK - previous Great King of the Hansa, Peter’s predecessor, 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 halfbreed son of Nira and Adar Kori’nh, third oldest of her children.
GAROA - Ildiran world in the Horizon Cluster, formerly conquered in Imperator Rusa’h's rebellion.
GEORGE - second Great King of the Terran Hanseatic League.
GLIDERBIKE - flying contraption assembled from scavenged engines and framework materials, augmented by colourful condorfly wings.
GOLD, SULLIVAN - administrator of the Hansa’s modular cloud harvester at Qronha 3, held captive by Ildirans.
GOLGEN - gas giant where Ross Tamblyn’s Blue Sky Mine was destroyed, now