Saga of Shadows 1: The Dark Between the Stars (89 page)

TAL:
military rank in Ildiran Solar Navy, cohort commander.

TAMBLYN, JESS:
one of the heads of Academ school, married to Cesca Peroni.

TAMBLYN, TASIA:
administrator of Kett Shipping, married to Robb Brindle, father of Xander.

TAMBORR’S DEMENTIA:
disease being studied on Pergamus.

TAMO’L:
one of Nira’s halfbreed children, daughter of a lens kithman. She runs sanctuary domes for misbreeds on the planet Kuivahr.

TARKER:
architectural specialist working on Eljiid.

TELINK:
instantaneous communication used by green priests via the worldtrees.

TERITHA:
Roamer colony, site of a disaster caused by failed life support.

TERRAN HANSEATIC LEAGUE:
former commerce-based government of Earth and Terran colonies, dissolved after the death of Chairman Basil Wenceslas at the end of the Elemental War. Also called the Hansa.

THEROC:
forested planet, home of the sentient worldtrees.

THERON:
a native of Theroc.

THISM
:
faint racial telepathic network, centered on the Mage-Imperator, that binds all Ildiran people.

THREE H’S:
Admirals Handies, Harvard, and Haroun in the CDF.

TOM ROM:
guardian and majordomo of Zoe Alakis.

TORA’M:
Ildiran swimmer kithman on Kuivahr.

TORINO, MILLI:
Garrison’s supervisor at the Lunar Orbital Complex.

TRANSPORTAL:
Klikiss instantaneous transportation network.

ULDO’NH, QUL:
maniple commander in the Ildiran Solar Navy.

ULIO:
large trading complex in open space, frequented by traders of all sorts.

ULIO, MARIA:
founder of the Ulio transfer hub.

VACONDA:
wilderness planet, site of the Alakis forest watchtower station.

VANH, LARA:
Klikiss researcher on Eljiid.

VAULT OF FAILURES:
document crypt in Mijistra containing ancient discarded weapons designs developed for use against the Shana Rei.

VERDANI:
organic-based sentience, manifested as the Theron worldforest.

VERNE
:
cargo ship flown by Xander Brindle and Terry Handon.

VOECKS, ALAN:
tactical officer aboard the
Kutuzov
.

VORACIOUS CURIOSITY
:
Rlinda Kett’s private ship.

VUORAL:
small, obscure Confederation settlement on the Klikiss transportal network.

WARGLOBE:
crystalline sphere used by hydrogues.

WARLINER:
largest class of Ildiran battleship.

WENCESLAS, CHAIRMAN BASIL:
former leader of the Terran Hanseatic League.

WENTALS:
sentient water-based creatures.

WHISPER PALACE:
traditional seat of power in the Terran Hanseatic League, where the figurehead Great Kings ruled.

WHISTLERS:
possibly sentient cacti on Eljiid.

WILD, THE:
unexplored continent on Theroc.

WINGO, MERCER:
first officer aboard the
Kutuzov.

WISSKOFF, ZACHARY:
manager and maître d’ of Rlinda Kett’s Arbor restaurant.

WORLDFOREST:
the interconnected, semisentient forest based on Theroc.

WORLDTREE:
a separate tree in the interconnected, semisentient forest based on Theroc.

WULFTON:
active star, home of numerous faeros.

YAZRA’H:
daughter of the Mage-Imperator, skilled warrior and bodyguard. She is the mentor of Muree’n.

ZAN’NH, ADAR:
Ildiran military officer, eldest son of Mage-Imperator Jora’h, Adar of the Ildiran Solar Navy.