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LOST TIMES - forgotten historical period, events supposedly recounted in a missing section of the Saga of Seven Suns.
LOTZE, DAVLIN - Hansa exosociologist and spy, sent to Rheindic Co where he and Rlinda Kett discovered how to use the Klikiss Transportal system. Later, he left Hansa service and went in hiding to live on Llaro with other Crenna refugees.
MAGE-IMPERATOR - the god-emperor of the Ildiran Empire.
MANTA - mid-sized 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, destroyed by Klikiss robots.
MARATHA SECDA - sister-city on opposite side of Maratha from Prime, destroyed by Klikiss robots.
MEDUSA - giant tentacled creature herded on Rhejak. Its - shell is large enough to be used as a dwelling, and its meat is prized.
MIJISTRA - glorious capital city of the Ildiran Empire, site of the Prism Palace.
MOON STATUE GARDEN - sculpture exhibit and topiary at Whisper Palace.
MUREE’N - experimental halfbreed daughter of Nira Khali and a guard kithman, youngest of her children.
NAHTON - court green priest on Earth.
NEBULA SKIMMERS - giant sails used to scoop hydrogen from nebula clouds.
NIRA - green priest female, Jora’h's lover and mother of his halfbreed daughter, Osira’h. Held captive in breeding camps on Dobro, then freed.
OKIAH, JHY - former Speaker of the clans, died on Jonah 12.
OKIAH, KOTTO - Jhy Okiah’s youngest son, a brash and eccentric inventor.
O’NH, TAL - second highest-ranking officer in Ildiran Solar Navy, one-eyed veteran with an inset jewel in his empty socket.
OSIRA’H - daughter of Nira and Jora’h, bred to have unusual telepathic abilities.
OSQUIVEL - ringed gas planet, site of secret Roamer shipyards.
OSQUIVEL - new personnel transport built to retrieve Roamer detainees on Llaro.
OTEMA - former ambassador from Theroc, green priest sent to Ildira where she was murdered by Mage-Imperator Cyroc’h.
OX - Teacher compy, one of the oldest Earth robots, instructor and adviser to King Peter, his memories were mostly wiped during Peter and Estarra’s escape from Earth.
PALACE DISTRICT - governmental zone around Whisper Palace on Earth.
PALAWU, HOWARD - Hansa Chief Science Adviser, vanished while investigating Klikiss transportal technology.
PD - one of two Friendly compies, formerly belonging to Admiral Crestone Wu-Lin, taken as 'students’ of Sirix.
PERONI, CESCA - Roamer Speaker of all clans, trained by Jhy Okiah. Cesca was betrothed to Ross Tamblyn, then Reynald of Theroc, but has always loved Ross’s brother Jess. Now infused with wental power, she joined Jess in his work for the wentals.
PERONI, DENN - Cesca’s father, a Roamer merchant.
PETER, KING - King of the Hansa, married to Estarra, he escaped Earth and established a new Confederation on Theroc.
PIKE, ZEBULON CHARLES - one of the four surviving Grid admirals after the hydrogue war.
PLUMAS--frozen moon with deep liquid oceans, site of the Tamblyn clan water industry, nearly destroyed by tainted wental inhabiting Karla Tamblyn’s body.
PRIME DESIGNATE - eldest son and heir-apparent of Ildiran Mage-Imperator.
PRISM PALACE - dwelling of the Ildiran Mage-Imperator.
PUTTER-BOAT - small, low-powered craft used on Rhejak.
PYM - abandoned Klikiss world resettled during Klikiss Colonization Initiative.
QRONHA--a close binary system, two of the Ildiran 'seven suns’. Contains two habitable planets and one gas giant, Qronha 3, where skymining was destroyed by hydrogue attacks. QT - one of two Friendly compies, formerly belonging to Admiral Crestone Wu-Lin, taken as 'students’ of Sirix.
RAJANI - Roamer clan, one of the investors on Constantine III.
RAJAPAR - former Klikiss world.
RECIRC SORTER - recirculation sorter, vital filtering component of the Company Works extraction facility on Rhejak.
RELLEKER - Terran colony world, popular as a resort, destroyed by hydrogues.
REMEMBERER - member of the Ildiran storyteller kith.
REMORA - small attack ship in Earth Defence Forces.
RENDEZVOUS - inhabited asteroid cluster,