First Empire

A star in the Tarantula Nebula, Greater Magellanic Cloud. Chi Rapere is surrounded by the Web, and there are many habitable volumes within the star's biosphere.

Alee: Red hair, green eyes

Cranford: Black hair

Gemmel: Thin, brown hair

Hoister: Brown hair, brown eyes

Hoffman: Average build, brown eyes

Kuchta: Brown hair

Reed: Thin build, blue/green eyes

Schmidt: Blond hair, stocky build, blue eyes

A hot, coffee-like beverage popular in the First Terran Empire.

The Floating Cities Project, begun in TE 19, established a dozen or so large antigrav-supported cities in the atmosphere of the super-Jovian planet Odin.

Humans implanted with antigrav equipment, and thus able to fly.

Some Flyers also had implanted stardrives and defense/pressure screens that allowed them to travel in interstellar space without ships. Because of unavoidable cumulative radiation damage, this practice faded in the Early Emprie period.

In Late Empire times, a hereditary society of Flyers emerged on Terra.

Capital city of Lucifer.

Ranger station for the Schmidt Foundation game preserve on Zotel. Zotel Ranger Station, which resembles a giant diatom, is in low orbit around the planet. The Rangers stand ready to assist vacationers on the world below.

From Kiswahili, an affectionate term for a child.

Imperial Navy Destroyer commanded by Alak Leonov.

A large, complex station in Clarke orbit above the major population center of Kaa. Headquarters of the Kaa Cartel, Kaa Station oversees Human interaction with the native Kaanese, both on Kaa and throughout the Empire.