Matter

Upstart: (species) generally recognised if mildly pejorative term for (usually intelligent and even Involved) species which is regarded as having achieved such status by the exploitation of its relationship with another, already advanced, civilisation

Urletine: (mercenaries) fight for Sarl; L8S

Uzretean: a Rollstar of L9S

Vaw-yei: Tower, Sursamen

Veil World: see Shellworld

Vilamian Ocean: on L8S

Voette: country, L8S

Vruise: location of Falls, L9S

wallcreep: foliage, L8&9S

Wars of Unity: sequence waged by Hausk to unite the Eighth

Wiriniti: capital of Voette, L8S

Xilisk: region near Pourl, L8S

Xiliskine Tower: Tower nearest to Pourl, L8S

xirze: crop, common on L8&9S

Yakid: Boiling Sea of, L9S

Yakid City: on shores of above, L9S

Yattle: planet, Greater Yattlian Spray

Zamerin: high rank of the Nariscene (see also Grand Zamerin)

Zaranche: planet, Inner Caferlitician Tendril

Za’s Revenge: C cocktail

Zoveli: star and system, location of Prasadal

Zuevelous: Morthanveld family, Gavantille Prime

Zunzil Ligature: region of space; location of Iln home world/s

Ships

Culture

Don’t Try This At Home: Steppe-class MSV

Eight Rounds Rapid: Delinquent-class FP exGOU

Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall: GCU

It’s My Party And I’ll Sing If I Want To: Escarpment-class GCU

Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill: GCU

Liveware Problem: Stream-class Superlifter (modified Delta class, Absconded)

Now We Try It My Way: Erratic-class (ex-Interstellar-class General Transport Craft)

Pure Big Mad Boat Man: GCU

Qualifier: Trench-class MSV

Seed Drill: Ocean-class GSV

Subtle Shift In Emphasis: Plains-class GCV

Transient Atmospheric Phenomenon: GCU

Xenoglossicist: Air-class LSV

You Naughty Monsters: GCU

You’ll Clean That Up Before You Leave: Gangster-class VFP ex-ROU

Nariscene

Hence the Fortress: Comet-class star-cruiser

Hundredth Idiot, The: White Dwarf-class

Morthanveld

“Fasilyce, Upon Waking”: Cat.5 SwellHull

Inspiral, Coalescence, Ringdown: Great Ship

“On First Seeing Jhiriit”: Cat.4 CleaveHull

“Now, Turning to Reason, & Its Just Sweetness”: Cat.3 SlimHull

Sursamen Levels: Inhabitants

0: Surface; vacuum/habiformed: Nariscene/Baskers/others

1: Vacuum: Seedsail nursery

2: Vacuum: Baskers

3: Vacuum: Dark

4: O₂ ocean: Cumuloforms

5: Methane shallows: Kites/Avians

6: Higher Gas Giant: Tendrils — Naiant

7: Methane Ocean: Vesiculars — Monthian megawhales

8: Land — O₂: Sarl

9: Land — O₂: Deldeyn/Sarl

(Under-/Over square division)

10: Mid Gas Giant: Tendrils — Variolous

11: Methane ocean: Vesiculars — Monthian megawhales

12: Lower Gas Giant: Swimmers

13: Water/slush matrices: Tubers/Hydrals

14: Ice/water: Dark

15: Machinery: the WorldGod — a Xinthian

16: Core — solid: the WorldGod — a Xinthian

Time Intervals

aeon: 1 000 000 000 years

deciaeon: 100 000 000 years

centiaeon: 10 000 000 years

eon: 1 000 000 years

decieon: 100 000 years

centieon: 10 000 years

millennium: 1 000 years