The Ashes of Worlds - Kevin J. Anderson [248]
Colicos, Margaret — xeno-archaeologist, wife of Louis Colicos and mother of Anton, vanished through transportal during Klikiss robot attack on Rheindic Co and lived among Klikiss. After helping colonists escape from Llaro, Margaret was recaptured by the new breedex.
competent computerized companion — intelligent servant robot, called compy, available in Friendly, Teacher, Governess, Listener, and other models.
compy — shortened term for “competent computerized companion.”
condorfly — colorful flying insect on Theroc like a giant butterfly, sometimes kept as pets.
Constantine III — stormy, primordial planet, site of Roamer facility to extract polymers and raw materials from its thick atmosphere; known for exotic flame-proof materials.
Corribus — ancient Klikiss world where Margaret and Louis Colicos discovered the Klikiss Torch technology, site of one of the first new Hansa colonies. Eradicated by Klikiss robots; Orli Covitz and Hud Steinman were the only survivors.
Covitz, Orli — teenaged girl, one of two survivors of the Klikiss robot attack on Corribus. Later, she moved to a new home on Llaro, only to be caught in the Klikiss invasion. After discovering that her music could stun the Klikiss hive mind, she helped the remaining colonists escape.
Crenna — former Ildiran splinter colony, evacuated due to plague, and resettled by humans, then later frozen when its sun died in hydrogue-faeros battles. The colonist refugees resettled on Llaro, and were trapped by the Klikiss invasion there.
cutter — small ship in Ildiran Solar Navy.
Cyroc’h — former Mage-Imperator, father of Jora’h, poisoned himself so that Jora’h would have to take over the leadership.
Daniel — Prince candidate selected as a replacement for Peter, left stranded on neo-Amish world of Happiness.
Daro’h — former Dobro Designate-in-waiting but now the Prime Designate of the Ildiran Empire after the death of Thor’h.
DD — Friendly compy owned by Margaret Colicos, seized by the Klikiss robot Sirix, before he escaped through a transportal to rejoin Margaret. Now DD serves as the companion to Orli Covitz.
Designate — any purebred noble son of the Mage-Imperator, ruler of an Ildiran world.
diamondfilm — crystalline parchment used for Ildiran documents.
Diente, Admiral Esteban — one of the four surviving grid admirals after the black robot uprising and the hydrogue war; he was ordered to capture the Mage-Imperator’s Flagship.
Dobro — Ildiran colony world, former site of human-Ildiran breeding camps before a revolt shut them down.
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.
drogue — deprecatory term for hydrogues.
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 the hydrogue-faeros war, but reignited when faeros incarnate Rusa’h led an armada of faeros back through the star’s transgate.
Earth Defense Forces (EDF) — Terran space military, led by General Kurt Lanyan, devastated during the black robot uprising and the hydrogue war.
Eddies — slang term for soldiers in EDF
ekti — exotic allotrope of hydrogen used to fuel Ildiran stardrives, primarily extracted from gas-giant planets.
Eldora — Confederation forestry colony.
Estarra, Queen — second daughter, fourth child of Father Idriss and Mother Alexa, married to King Peter, recently gave birth to a son, Reynald.
faeros — sentient fire entities dwelling within stars.
featherviper — poisonous serpent from Theroc.
Fitzpatrick, Maureen — former Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League, grandmother of Patrick Fitzpatrick III, nicknamed “Old Battleaxe.”
Fitzpatrick, Patrick III — General Lanyan’s protégé in the Earth Defense Forces, presumed dead after battle of Osquivel but captured by Roamers. Later, he abandoned the EDF, stole his grandmother’s space yacht, and went in search of the Roamers; now he is married to Zhett Kellum.