The Ashes of Worlds - Kevin J. Anderson [252]
septa — Ildiran Solar Navy battle group composed of seven ships.
septar — commander of a septa.
shizz — Roamer expletive.
Sirix — Klikiss robot, leader of robotic revolt against humans.
skymine — ekti-harvesting facility in the clouds of a gas-giant planet, usually operated by Roamers.
skysphere — main dome of the Ildiran Prism Palace, equivalent to a throne room.
Solimar — young green priest, treedancer, and mechanic; Celli’s boyfriend.
Soul-threads — connections of thism that trickle through from the Lightsource. The Mage-Imperator and lens kithmen are able to see them.
Speaker — political leader of the Roamer clans.
Spiral Arm — the section of the Milky Way Galaxy settled by the Ildiran Empire and Hansa colonies.
splinter colony — an Ildiran colony that meets minimum population requirements.
Steinman, Hud — old transportal explorer, discovered Corribus and decided to settle there. After the black robot attack on Corribus, he and Orli Covitz were the only two survivors; they joined the Crenna refugees on Llaro before the Klikiss invasion there, and were rescued by Tasia Tamblyn and Robb Brindle.
Stoner, Benn — leader of former human captives on Dobro.
streamer — fast single ship in Ildiran Solar Navy.
Sweeney, Dahlia — DD’s first owner.
tal — military rank in the Ildiran Solar Navy, cohort commander.
Tamblyn, Caleb — one of Jess and Tasia’s uncles, stranded on Jonah 12 after the faeros destroyed his water tanker.
Tamblyn, Jess — Roamer in love with Cesca Peroni, infused with wental energy.
Tamblyn, Karla — Jess and Tasia’s mother, frozen to death in ice accident on Plumas, revived by tainted wentals.
Tamblyn, Ross — Jess and Tasia’s brother, betrothed to Cesca Peroni, killed in the first hydrogue attack on Golgen.
Tamblyn, Tasia — Jess’s sister, who left the Roamers to join the EDF, captured by hydrogues at Qronha 3 and freed by Jess. Now she and Robb Brindle have joined the Confederation military.
Tamblyn, Torin — one of Jess and Tasia’s uncles, twin to Wynn, currently running the Plumas water mines.
Tamblyn, Wynn — one of Jess and Tasia’s uncles, twin to Torin, currently running the Plumas water mines.
Tamo’l — experimental half-breed daughter of Nira and a lens kithman; second youngest of her children.
Telink — instantaneous communication used by green priests via worldtrees.
Terran Hanseatic League — commerce-based government of Earth and Terran colonies, also called the Hansa, managed by a Chairman and a figurehead King.
Theroc — forested planet, home of the sentient worldtrees, currently the center of the Confederation’s government.
Theron — a native of Theroc.
thism — faint racial telepathic link from the Mage-Imperator to the Ildiran people.
Thor’h — eldest noble-born son of Mage-Imperator Jora’h; former Prime Designate who joined Rusa’h’s rebellion; he died on Dobro.
torch trees — worldtrees possessed by faeros, filled with living fire but not consumed.
transgate — hydrogue/faeros point-to-point transportation system.
transportal — Klikiss instantaneous transportation system.
treedancers — acrobatic performers in the Theron forests.
treeling — a small worldtree sapling, often transported in an ornate pot and used by green priests for telink.
Troop Carrier — personnel transport ship in the Ildiran Solar Navy.
Twitcher — EDF stun weapon.
Tylar, Crim — Roamer detainee on Llaro, father of Nikko, rescued by Tasia Tamblyn and Robb Brindle.
Tylar, Nikko Chan — young Roamer pilot, son of Crim and Marla; Nikko was one of Jess Tamblyn’s first water bearers to deliver wental water; his ship is the Aquarius.
Unison — standardized government-sponsored religion for official activities on Earth, whose spokesman is the Archfather, a paid actor.
UR — Governess-model Roamer compy, formerly held at Llaro with other Roamer detainees; she lost one of her arms protecting several children during an attack by a Klikiss scout.
Usk — breakaway Hansa colony, populated mainly by farmers, site of a horrific pogrom led by General Lanyan and the Archfather