Scattered Suns - Kevin J. Anderson [265]
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, 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 who originally tried to force Roamers to sign Hansa Charter.
grappler pod—small work vehicle used in shipyards of Osquivel.
grazer—slow-moving, hemispherical harvester used on Jonah 12.
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 and religion, a guiding force in a person’s life.
Hadden—EDF trainee.
handlers—Ildiran kith, handlers of the dead.
Hansa—Terran Hanseatic League.
Hansa Headquarters—pyramidal building near the Whisper Palace on Earth.
Hhrenni—star system, site of Chan greenhouse asteroids.
Horizon Cluster—large star cluster near Ildira, location of Hyrillka and many other splinter colonies.
Hosaki—Roamer clan.
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, former EDF weapons designer.
Huff, Jared—Roamer pilot.
Hurricane Depot—Roamer commercial center and fuel-transfer station, located in a gravitationally stable point between two close-orbiting asteroids, destroyed by EDF.
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.
Ildirans—humanoid alien race with many different breeds, or kiths.
Ildiran Solar Navy—space military fleet of the Ildiran Empire.
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.
jazer—energy weapon used by Earth Defense Forces.
Jonah 12—frozen planetoid, site of Roamer mining base.
Jora’h—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.
Kamarov, Raven—Roamer cargo ship captain, destroyed with his cargo ship on secret EDF raid.
Kellum, Del—Roamer clan leader, in charge of Osquivel shipyards.
Kellum, Zhett—daughter of Del Kellum.
Kett, Rlinda—merchant woman, captain of the Voracious Curiosity.
Khali, Nira—female green priest, 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 kithman—philosopher