Metal Swarm - Kevin J. Anderson [238]
GREAT KING--figurehead leader of Terran Hanseatic League.
GREEN PRIEST - servant of the worldforest, able to use worldtrees for instantaneous communication.
GUIDING STAR - Roamer philosophy and religion, a guiding force in a person’s life.
GYPSY - space yacht flown by Patrick Fitzpatrick III, renamed after he stole it from his grandmother to search for Zhett Kellum.
HANS A - Terran Hanseatic League.
HANSA HEADQUARTERS - pyramidal building near the Whisper Palace on Earth.
HAPHINE - gas giant planet formerly infested with hydrogues.
HHRENNI - Star system, site of Chan greenhouse asteroids.
HIFUR- abandoned Klikiss world, recaptured by robots.
HORIZON CLUSTER - large star, cluster near Ildira, location of Hyrillka and many other splinter colonies. Most of Rusa’h's rebellion took place in the Horizon Cluster.
HREL-ORO - arid Ildiran mining colony, devastated in a hydrogue attack.
HUCK, TABITHA - engineer aboard Sullivan Gold’s cloud harvester, held captive by Ildirans, and turned her talents to helping in the war against the hydrogues.
HURRICANE DEPOT - Roamer commercial centre and fuel-transfer station, destroyed by EDF.
HYDROGUES - alien race living at cores of gas-giant planets.
HYRILLKA - Ildiran colony in Horizon Cluster, from which Designate Rusa’h began his rebellion, the Klikiss robots were rediscovered frozen on one of the outlying moons.
IDRISS, FATHER - former ruler of Theroc, husband of Mother Alexa and father of Reynald, Beneto, Sarein, Estarra, and Celli.
ILDIRA--home planet of the Ildiran Empire.
ILDIRAN EMPIRE - large alien empire, the only other major civilization in the Spiral Arm.
ILDIRAN SOLAR NAVY - space military of the lldiran Empire.
ILDIRANS - humanoid alien race with many different breeds, or kiths.
ILKOT - Klikiss robot, companion to Sirix.
ISIX CATS - sleek feline predators native to Ildira, Jora’h's daughter Yazra’h keeps three of them.
JACK - first Great King of the Terran Hanseatic League.
JAZER - energy weapon used by Earth Defence Forces.
JEN’NH - septar of Tal O’nh’s processional group of warliners.
JONAH 12 - icy planetoid, site of Kotto Okiah’s hydrogen-extraction facility, destroyed by Klikiss robots.
JORA’H - Mage-Imperator of the Ildiran Empire.
JUGGERNAUT - large battleship class in Earth Defence Forces.
JUPITER - enhanced Juggernaut battleship in EDF, flagship of Admiral Willis’s Grid 7 battle group.
KAMAROV, RAVEN - Roamer captain, destroyed with his cargo ship on secret EDF raid.
KELLUM, DEL - Roamer clan leader, in charge of Osquivel shipyards and a Golgen skymine.
KELLUM, ZHETT - daughter of Del Kellum, in love with Patrick Fitzpatrick.
KETT, RLINDA - heavyset merchant woman, captain of the Voracious Curiosity.
KITH - a breed of Ildiran.
KLIKISS - ancient insect-like race, long vanished from the Spiral Arm, leaving only their empty cities.
KLIKISS ROBOTS - intelligent beetle-like robots built by the Klikiss race.
KLIKISS TORCH - a weapon 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 cloud harvester at Qronha 3, held captive by Ildirans.
KORI’NH, ADAR - leader of the Ildiran Solar Navy, killed in suicidal assault against hydrogues on Qronha 3.
KO’SH - chief scribe of the Ildiran rememberer kith.
LANYAN, GENERAL KURT - commander of Earth Defence Forces.
LENS KITHMEN - philosopher priests who help to guide troubled Ildirans, interpreting faint guidance from the .
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 arechannelled through the Mage-Imperator and distributed across their race through the thism.
LIONA - green priest assigned to Del Kellum’s skymine on Golgen then the Osquivel shipyards.
LLARO - abandoned Klikiss world where Roamer detainees are kept after being captured by EDF; also, new home of Orli Covitz and the survivors