A small, wealthy star nation consisting of two star systems: the Manticore System and the Basilisk System.
The native sentient species of the planet Sphinx. Six-limbed, telempathic arboreal predators which average between 1.5 and 2 meters in length (including prehensile tail). A small percentage of them bond with 'adopted' humans in a near symbiotic relationship. Although incapable of speech, treecats have recently learned to communicate with humans using sign language.
An attack launched from directly astern of a starship in order to fire down the length of its impeller wedge. Due to the geometry of the impeller drive, this is a warship's second most vulnerable aspect.
Name applied to all gravitic detectors in honor of the inventor of the first such device.
The greatest hyper-physicist in human history.
The circular gravity 'grab fields' devised by Adrienne Warshawski to permit starships to 'sail' along gravity waves in hyper-space.
A gravitic anomaly. Effectively, a frozen flaw in normal space providing access via hyper-space as an instantaneous link between widely separated points. The largest known junction is the Manticoran Wormhole Junction with six known termini as of the beginning of
