Glossary
Term Definition
| 2216 LA-66 | Asteroid LA-66 discovered in 2216, and is 50 km across along its largest axis. It shares the same orbit as 324 Bamberga at 2.7 AU from the sun, and is close by. |
| 324 Bamberga | A 230 km diameter asteroid inside the asteroid belt, 2.7 AU from the sun <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/324_Bamberga> |
| Alitria | Female vock eh-zay |
| Amanria | Male vock eh-zay |
| AM-J | Asteroids, Meteors and Junk |
| Arma dei Carabinieri | Name of the AC-6 police force. They reference the Italian name for the armed police force. They became infamous throughout the solar system for their brutal put down of the AC-6 2450 insurrection. The end of the revolt negotiated their end. |
| Beltov 1239 | Plasma pistol issued to Ladna |
| Boucha eh-Draphyon | TroAire Dragon’s Mouth River in Chantia, TroAire |
| boughkeifer | A vock eh-zay non-physical holographic sensor and communications device that floats in the air, |
| travels at incredible speeds and looks like a white fireball | |
| BT-12X | High-end police tracer, triple redundant electronics |
| Cincinnatus | Tree whose bark is made into a spice similar to cinnamon |
| Café La Femme Fatale | Nice little breakfast nook on IA-6 Wheel 11, main deck |
| Cat Three Space Traffic Control emergency | Loss of space vessel imminent |
| Chamflos | Vock eh-Zay Flower that smells like apples or Chamomile |
| Chudan kick | Karate Kick to main body |
| Chukoku | First instance of a minor infraction in Karate |
| “Clair’s” | The six defined senses of empaths: |
| · Clairaudient: The sensing of voices that are not present or projecting a silent voice to another. | |
| · Claircognizant: clear sense of knowing, psychic insight | |
| · Clairsentient: clear sense of feeling, sensing through your own body | |
| · Clairvoyant: clear sense of vision, psychic vision, sometimes referred to as the “third eye”. | |
| · Circumstance: clear tasting, someone who can taste something that is not physically present.. | |
| · Clairalience: clear smelling, some who can smell something that is not is not really there. | |
| Class 1 Emergency | Potential significant damage to station, effecting more than 1 wheel |
| Class 2 Emergency | Potential significant damage to station, effecting more than 2 wheels |
| Class 3 Emergency | Potential major damage to station, effecting more than 30% of the wheels |
| Class 4 Emergency | Potential significant damage to station, effecting more than 50% of the wheels |
| Class 5 Emergency | Potential catastrophic loss of station |
| Class A Damage | Surface Damage |
| Class B Damage | Surface penetrations, light |
| Class C Damage | Surface penetrations, deep |
| Class D Damage | Surface penetrations past Deck 180F (one deck, outer layer) |
| Class E Damage | Penetrations with loss atmosphere, potentially catastrophic |
| CnT | Carbon nano-tube filament used to make structures lighter than steel and many times stronger than steel. |
| They make the great 3 and 7 km diameter space stations possible | |
| Cosmic Eye | A group of remote viewers who used their talents for sports betting and stock picking. After arrest by the Federation they became known as the “Oracles.” The Federation used them to predict rebellions and other events harmful to the Federation. |
|
Confinement Droid Contair |
A droid that is what it says it is. Can look like a table, or a chair, and has restraints when needed. Passenger Vessel, 500 passengers, a single rotating hull to simulate 0.5G that is strung between two end caps |
| Curses | –By the Seven Sisters |
| –Draco | |
| –Pleiades | |
| (In general, the use of any star system or nebulae by name.) | |
| Cycles (TroAire) | A TroAire solar year, when TroAire makes a complete revolution around its sun, LoSin. |
| TroAire Day: 5.57 Earth Days | |
| TroAire Year: 39.0 Earth Days | |
| TroAire Years: 9.365 Earth Years | |
| A Grand Cycle is the time for Gliese A and Gliese B to rotate around each other once. This occurs every 42.15 Earth Years or 395 TorAire Cycles. | |
| dans l’obscurité | In the darkness, French |
| defmanee | A Wa-Zay Challenge |
| des conneries | Bullshit, French |
| Dobock | Tae Kwando |
| Dites-lui est mère aimait très mach | Tell him his mother loved him very much, French |
| Doppio Massimo | Tre Lupo’s control command for the holoprojector |
| EpSin | Gliese 667A, rotates around GJ 667B (NoSin) every 42.15 years |
| ERT | Emergency Response Team |
| Erwartung | Name for Gliese 667Cf. The name means ‘hope’. |
| Espejo de Reversa | Spanish for “reverse mirror.” It is an invisible enabling cloak. This is accomplished by processing all the reflected photons to remove the image within the boundary of the clock. |
| Et enregistrés pour tous les juges d’entendre | And recorded for the judges to hear, French |
| Forloc | 3.85 km per forloc (TroAire unit of distance) |
| Gangalla-pen-syakar | Dragon species called ‘Mouth of a Thousand Knives’ |
| Gi | Karate uniform |
| Gioveinos | Jupiter Currency |
| Grand Cycle | Time it takes for EpSin and NoSin to make one complete revolution in the Gliese 667 trinary star system, 42.15 Earth years. |
| Hansoku | In Karate, a penalty of disqualification following a very serious infraction |
| Hansoku-chui | Warning in karate of disqualification for infractions where a Keikoku has been given |
| Indigo Sierra | Police Code for hostages being held abord a ship, i.e. incarceration aboard ship |
| Inter-station | Between Stations |
| Intra-Sol | The short term used to refer to the Intra-Sol Federation. Similarly the term “Federation” is also used. Intra-Sol, Federation, and Intra-Sol Federation are all the same. |
| Intra-solar | Within the solar system |
| Hellion series | A mid-range vidcom model |
| histoire fausse | False history, French |
| HRT | Hunter-Retrieval Team – Paramilitary force of Intra-Sol Federal Enforcement Services (FES). They have a number of unspecified powers. |
| Intra-solar cruisers | Ships that between space stations of different planetary rings |
| Inter-station cruisers | Ships that go between space station s of the same planetary ring |
| Keikoku | Second instance of a minor infraction in karate. |
| Kraken Elv river | River in the aquatic part that flows between the large holo-theaters on Wheel 11. |
| Kraken Elv Water Park and Theaters | One of 12 theaters on Wheel 11, Deck (largest: Megalopolis, Next largest: Epidaurus) |
| Name Size Greaak Seating | |
| Megalopolis 1 24,000 | |
| Argos 2 20,000 | |
| Dodona 3 20,000 | |
| Dionysus 4 17,000 | |
| Epidarius 5 12,000 | |
| Larissa 6 10,000 | |
| Oeniades 7 12,000 | |
| Epidarius 8 10,000 | |
| Delphi 9 5,000 | |
| Aptera 10 5,000 | |
| Lindos 11 4,000 | |
| Delos 12 smalll | |
| Isaac Asimov Six | Class C Inhabited Services Station in orbit between Mars and the asteroid belt (180 Decks, 18 Wheels). In the year 2468, it is aligned with 324 Bamberga. Its orbit is approximately 2.1 AU from the sun |
| ISD | Inner Space Dock |
| ISDS | Inner Space Dock Support |
| Jodan kick | In karate, a kick to the face, head, or neck |
| Jo-Hun Empath’s School on AC-8 | Empath School on AC-8 Where Ladna received her training in the Claires |
| LN Bomb | Liquid Nitrogen bottle |
| LoSin | Gliese 667C, star in constellation Scorpius, 23.6 light-years away. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_667> |
| LSO | Federation liaison support officer |
| maglev | Electromagnetic Lift Vehicle using electromagnetics and super conductors |
| Maintenant vous parlez des conneries | Now you are talking bullshit, French |
| Marteinos | Martian Currency |
| Meteorites, Antitanenite | Antitaenite -20 – 40 % Ni (Ni, Fe) |
| Meteorites, Kamacite | Kamacite – 5 – 10 % Ni (Ne, Ni |
| Meteorites, Taenite | Taenite – 20 -65% Ni |
| Meteorites, Tetrataenite | Tetrataenite – 48 -57 % Ni (FeNi) |
| Metis | Lounge in RH-3 Wheel 5 |
| Mithrim Moes Café | Deck 148, Wheel 15, outside the Orion Observatory |
| Nakchronikkous | Vock eh-Zay Messenger of Death or Change |
| Nicobar Dinner | Main Deck, Q Section |
| NoSin | Gliese 667B, companion star of the Gliese A and B star system. They orbit each other every 42.15 years, and Gliese C orbits them every 800 plus years |
| ODS | Outer Dock Support |
| Oui, mourir en paix | Die in peace |
| P-120 Guardroid | Newest model |
| P-110 Guardroid | Current common model |
| PacoSin | Quint’s sun |
| PAE | pre-adult ed |
| Pleiades | Seven Sisters Messier 45 in constellation Taurus |
| P-Lev | Personnel Electromagnetic Lift Vehicle |
| Police P-mag | Small two person electromag lift carrier similar to the teacup ride in a Disney park |
| ProAire | Gliese 667Cc – third planet, 28 day year |
| Quint | Cold, wintry planet of the PacoSin star system |
| Quis custodiet ipsos custod ies. | Who will guard the guards themselves, Latin saying |
| QuoAire | Gliese 667Cg – LoSin’s fifth planet, 265 day year |
| Robert Heinlein Three | Class B Inhabited Services Station in orbit between Mars and the asteroid belt. Its orbit is 2.1 AU, the same as IA-6 (Fomalhaut station). |
| Rocket ball | The size of a hand ball, played with a special form fitting glove protecting the fingers that are bowled into a fist. |
| Rogues | A group of people performing minimal services for rations |
| RuoAire | Gliese 667Ce – LoSin’s fourth planet, 62 day year |
| Sagan Star Chamber | IA-6 star chamber where Llama Azul met Brian Quan |
| Saraofus | A place made mention by the Blue Flame |
| Seelenreise | The ‘Soul Traveler’ is the ship Emily Gannon and her crew traveled to Gliese 667C’s second planet |
| SGC | Survivor Guilt Club |
| Shakei | Shield, vock eh-zay |
| Shea’lay | Poisonous blue amphibian |
| SilverHelious | Leader of the rouges in the Dionysus |
| Shimeis 147 | 1920 KV ion pistol used by Gannon |
| Shinkkaku | In karate, this is disqualification from the tournament |
| SIP | Science Investigation Panel |
| Surlongula | Rite of Passage, vock eh-zay entrance criteria to enter one of the four houses |
| Synesthesia | Neurological condition where stimulation of one sense stimulates other senses adding to the perception |
| SWT | Space Walking Tourist |
| Syakar | Lance, vock eh-zay |
| Tankay | Six-legged monster, 1 m high |
| Tantor House | Elite Hotel in G Sector of Wheel 6 Ladna originally booked Alex. He lasted about an hour |
| Terrainos | Earth Currency |
| TroAire | Gliese 667Cf – TroAire’s second planet, 39 day year |
| TroAire Day | A TroAire solar day. The TroAire solar day is 5.57 Earth days. Seven TroAire days make one TroAire solar year (LoSin Cycle). |
| Tu prétends me connaître | You clam to know me, French |
| Type R ERT | Rescue Emergency Response Team |
| Vida-matic 89 | Lower End vidcom |
| Vock eh-zay | The people of TroAire |
| vodyare | Vock eh-zay female formal dress attire. A wrap-around dress with hair piece to lift hair above the neck and fan it out. |
| Vovinam | Vietnamese martial arts |
| WEVA | Wheeled Extra-vehicular Activity |
| X47J Triton | Higher End vidcom |