Nightfall_at_Algemron

Concord Survey Service – A division of Star Force dedicated to scouting, surveying, and first contacts. Conker – A derogatory term for citizens of the Galactic Concord.
Connor, Gabriel – A former Concord marine lieutenant, now freelance explorer and infotrader.
Corpse – A derogatory term for a VoidCorp Employee.
Corrivale – An F2 yellow-white star.
Coulomb – A red dwarf star near the edge of the Verge.
CSS – see Concord Survey Service.
Dalius – A small gas giant and the fifth world of the Algemron system.
Danwell – The only hospitable world of the Eldala system; homeworld of the edanweir.
Dareyev, Elinke – Captain of Star Force vessel Schmetterling.
David, Lemke – A Star Force second lieutenant navigator, usually called "Lem." Now deceased. Delonghi, Aleen – A member of Concord Intelligence.
DeVrona, Mara – A Concord Administrator currently assigned to the Algemron system. drivecore – The central engine core of a stardrive.
drivesat – A communications satellite that drops into drivespace in order to transmit and receive messages.
driveship – Any spaceship that is equipped with a stardrive.
drivespace – The dimension into which starships enter through use of the stardrive. In this dimension, gravity works on a quantum level, thus enabling movement of a ship from one point in space to another in only 121 hours.
durasteel – Steel that has been strengthened at the molecular level. edanwe (pl. edanweir) – A sentient species native to Danwell. Eldala – A newly discovered system past Mantebron.
Enda – A fraal.
Erhardt Field – The main spaceport and airport of Galvin. Located about 20 kilometers from the city center in the Verdant Mountains.
e-suit – An environment suit intended to keep the wearer safe from vacuum, extreme temperatures, and radiation.
External – A term used to describe anything that originates beyond known space. Falada – A Concord Star Force Heavy Cruiser.
flechette gun – Any firearm that utilizes bundles of tiny, razor-sharp aerofoils as projectiles.
Fort Drum – The capital city of the Federal State of Algemron on Galvin.
fraal – A non-Terran sentient species. Fraal are very slender, large-eyed humanoids.
Galactic Concord – The thirteenth stellar nation, formed by the Treaty of Concord. Concord law and administration rule in the Verge.
Galactic Standard – The lingua franca of known space.
Galvin – Home planet of the Federal State of Algemron.
gillie – A small gamefish native to Bluefall noted for its seventeen gill-slits.
gravity induction – A process whereby a cyclotron accelerates particles to near-light speeds, thereby creating gravitons between the particle and the surrounding mass. This process can be adjusted and redirected, thus allowing the force of gravity to be overcome. Most starships use a gravity induction engine for in-system travel.
Grawl – A weren poetess.
Grid – An interstellar computer network.
Grith – A moon of Hydrocus and the only habitable world in the Corrivale system. gurnet – A quadripedal species native to Kurg favored for its meat. Gyrofresia ondothalis fraalii – see "Ondothwait" Halo – A small gas giant of the Algemron system.
Hammer's Star – A yellow G5 star. Site of the outermost Concord outpost in the Verge.
Hatire Community – A theocratic stellar nation founded on the founded on the general anti-technology religion of the same name.
Hatire faith – A religion that preaches ascendance through union with the spirit of the Cosimir, a Precursor deity that the Hatire adopted as their own. Most Hatire hold attitudes antagonistic to technology and abhor all forms of man-machine integration.
Havryn – A gas giant of Algemron and largest planet in the system. High Mojave – The only inhabited world of the Mantebron system. Also the site of the best-preserved Glassmaker ruins.
holocomm – holographic communication.
halodisplay – The display of a holocomm that can be viewed in either one, two, or three dimensions, Ilmater – A lifeless world of Algemron. Inseer – A citizen of Insight.
Insight – A subsidiary of VoidCorp that broke away to form a separate stellar nation. Citizenry is dominated by freethinking Grid pilots who believe that humanity can reach its destiny only in Gridspace.
Iphus – A planet in the Corrivale system.
Iphus Collective – A mining facility run by StarMech Collective on Iphus.
JustWadeIn – A software program developed by Insight that allows the user to learn space combat at ever-increasing levels of difficulty.
Kendai – A planet of the edge of the Stellar Ring that houses the drivespace relay that connects communications between the stellar nations and the Verge.
Kharls, Lorand – A Concord Administrator.
kraath – A hostile external species of unknown origin.
Lalique – Angela Valiz's driveship.
lanth cell – The standard lanthanide battery used to power most small electronic equipment and firearms. lighthouse – A huge space station, capable of 50 light-year starfalls, that roams the Verge. Lightning Nebula – An unexplored region of space beyond Hammer's Star. Longshot – Helm Ragnarsson's weapon-laden driveship.
Long Silence – That period of time when the Stellar Nations lost contact with the Verge because of the Second Galactic War.
Mantebron – One of the outermost star systems of the Verge, mass weapon – A weapon that fires a ripple of intense gravity waves, striking its target like a massive physical blow.
mass reactor – The primary power source of a stardrive. The reactor collects, stores, and processes dark matter, thus producing massive amounts of energy.
mechalus – The most common term used for an Aleerin, a sentient humanoid symbiote species that has achieved a union between biological life and cybernetic enhancements.
mindwalker – Any being proficient with psionic powers.
Monitor Mandate – The mandate of 2497 that granted both Alitar and Galvin full independence from the Thuldan Empire and Austrin-Ontis Unlimited.
neurocircuitry – Cybernetic implants intended to fuse electronic or mechanical systems with a living biological entity.
Norrik. Garth – Deputy Chief of Field Operations for the Federal State of Algemron's Intelligence
Directorate.
ondothwait – A plant. Scientific name: Gyrofresia ondothalis fraalii.
orbweaver – A sentient organism, whose body is made of living crystal and glass, believed to have been created by the Glassmakers. Though highly intelligent and curious, no orbweaver encountered thus far has ever displayed any inherent sense of self.
Orion League – A heterogenous stellar nation founded on principles of freedom and equal rights for all sentients.
Palshizon – A planet of Algemron on which the Concord keeps a permanent installation in order to enforce the Monitor Mandate.
Pariah Station – The Concord installation orbitting Palshizon whose job it is to enforce the Monitor Mandate.
Phorcys – A planet of the Thalaassa system.
phymech – An automated emergency medical system with a fairly sophisticated AI system. Most phymechs come with fairly specialized medical supplies—skinfilms, bandages, antiseptics, painkillers, etc.
plasma weapon – A weapon that converts an electro-chemical mixture into white-hot plasma and then utilizes a magnetic accelerator to throw a blast of the plasma at the target. The super-heated plasma explodes upon striking its target.
prassith – A genetically enhanced sweet root first introduced in the Stellar Ring by the Orlamu. Ragnarsson, Helm – A human mutant.
rail cannon – An electromagnetic accelerator that fires projectiles at extremely high velocities. Rand – Lorand Kharls's assistant.