The Ashes of Worlds - Kevin J. Anderson [249]
Frederick — previous Great King of the Hansa, Peter’s predecessor, assassinated by hydrogue emissary.
Freedom’s Sword — outspoken protest group that is attempting to oust Hansa Chairman Basil Wenceslas.
fungus reef — giant worldtree growth on Theroc, carved into a habitation by the Therons.
Gale’nh — experimental half-breed son of Nira and Adar Kori’nh, third oldest of her children.
Gold, Jerome — Sullivan and Lydia’s adult son.
Gold, Lydia — Sullivan’s wife.
Gold, Patrice — Sullivan and Lydia’s adult daughter.
Gold, Philip — Sullivan and Lydia’s teenaged grandson.
Gold, Sullivan — former administrator of the Hansa’s modular cloud harvester at Qronha 3, which was destroyed by hydrogues; temporarily held captive by Ildirans, then quietly returned to Earth by Rlinda Kett and Branson Roberts.
Gold, Victor — Sullivan and Lydia’s adult son.
Golgen — gas giant where Ross Tamblyn’s Blue Sky Mine was destroyed; now it is the site of renewed Roamer skymining, particularly by clan Kellum.
green priest — servant of the worldforest, able to use worldtrees for instantaneous telink communication.
Guiding Star — Roamer philosophy and religion, an inspirational 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.
Hansa — Terran Hanseatic League.
Hansa headquarters — pyramidal building near the Whisper Palace on Earth.
Hobart — Roamer clan, operators of a skymine on Golgen.
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.
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. A devotee of the green priest Kolker’s joined telink/thism philosophy, Tabitha was killed by faeros when they reemerged from the dead sun of Durris-B.
hydrogues — alien race living in the cores of gas-giant planets, allied with the black robots and defeated by a combined force of verdani, wentals, Solar Navy, EDF, and Roamers.
Hyrillka — Ildiran colony in the Horizon Cluster, from which Designate Rusa’h began his rebellion. When battles between faeros and hydrogues threatened to extinguish one of Hyrillka’s suns, the population was evacuated and taken temporarily to Ildira. The current Hyrillka Designate is the boy Ridek’h.
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 fleet of the Ildiran Empire, much of which was devastated defending Earth during the end of the hydrogue war. Many warliners were being rebuilt in large orbiting shipyards over Ildira before the recent faeros invasion.
Ildirans — humanoid alien race with many different breeds, or kiths.
Isix cats — sleek feline predators native to Ildira; Jora’h’s daughter Yazra’h kept three of them, though one was killed by faeros.
jazer — energy weapon used by Earth Defense Forces.
Jonah 12 — icy planetoid, site of Kotto Okiah’s hydrogen-extraction facility, destroyed by Klikiss robots. Caleb Tamblyn was stranded on Jonah 12 after faeros destroyed his water tanker.
Jora’h — Mage-Imperator of the Ildiran Empire.
Juggernaut — largest battleship class in Earth Defense Forces.
Jupiter — Admiral Willis’s flagship Juggernaut.
Kamarov, Raven — Roamer captain, destroyed with his cargo ship during a secret EDF raid. Patrick Fitzpatrick III gave the order to fire on him, following instructions given by General Lanyan.
Kellum, Del — Roamer clan leader, in charge of Osquivel shipyards and many Golgen skymines; formerly engaged to Shareen Pasternak, who was killed by hydrogues; father of Zhett.
Kellum, Zhett — daughter of Del Kellum; married to Patrick Fitzpatrick.
Kett, Rlinda — heavyset merchant woman, captain of the Voracious Curiosity,