Beanie - A close-fitting knitted hat.
Breaking, The - A Taren term for the disaster which shattered the spaces.
Buckley’s chance - Buckley was a convict in Australia who escaped and survived by living with Australian Aborigines. The phrase means "nearly impossible".
Café Crescent - Pandora’s first café.
Carche Landing - The main airport in Unara.
Casszilla - Rawr!
Caves of Nonora - A Taren children’s story, where Til, Magara and Nosk discover an entrance to the kingdom of the Tarull, deep below Unara.
Channa - A rocky planet inhabited by ex-Muinans living a nomadic tribal life. Tare has established a mine on Channa in an area of land isolated from the inhabitants.
Chapstick - Lip moisturiser.
Chune - One of the ships KOTIS uses to travel between Tare, Kolar and Muina.
Copped a Serve - Received a barrage of anger.
Council of Tare - The Lahanti (mayors) of the cities of Tare.
Cruzatch - A dangerous humanoid Ionoth, shadow burning white.
Dazenti - Swarming phasic Ionoth: capable of passing through walls.
Ddura - An enormous energy being created by the Lantarens.
Deep-space - The large portion of the Ena which exists between the memory spaces. It is white in appearance, and filled with gates which open directly to real-space worlds.
Deep-space Ionoth - Ionoth which are formed and dwell not in the relatively small Spaces, but instead in Deep-space.
Delar - A Taren measurement unit – roughly 75 centimetres.
Despawn - Disappear, vanish. Taken from computer games where a monster is said to spawn when it appears in the game world, and despawn when it disappears (usually after being killed).
Diodel - One of the ships KOTIS uses to travel between Tare, Kolar and Muina.
Do Not Go Gentle - "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", a poem by Dylan Thomas.
Dohl Array - A series of underwater farms on Tare.
Drone - An advanced robot, usually used for scanning and monitoring.
Drop Bears - Important Tourist Advisory: Please wear protective head gear when walking beneath gum trees in Australia.
Ena - A dimension connected to the thoughts, memories, dreams and imagination of living beings.
Ena manipulation - A psychic talent which can change the substance of the Ena, particularly in stabilising gates between spaces. It can also be used in a limited way to change reality.
Expecto Patronum - Looks like Cass has read Harry Potter.
Escort quest - A mission in an online game involving protection of a non-player character while they travel.
Faer - The Senior Captain in the Taren entertainment The Hidden War. Played by Eyle Sured.
Fahr - Kolaren treacle tea.
Falazen - A platform town ruled by border collies.
Fan service - Revealing or provocative shots of characters in anime/manga.
Fanfic - Fiction based on the stories of others and/or fiction involving a person of whom the writer is a fan.
Firiana - A platform town east of Pandora, situated among the islands of the surri.
First level monitoring - Interface monitoring which triggers an alert if certain conditions are reached (eg. loss of consciousness, heart attack). All residents of Tare are on first level monitoring.
Francesca - Francesca is a flowering shrub also known as "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" because its flowers fade from purple to violet to near-white as they age.
Gate - A tear or rift between spaces/worlds.
Gate Sight - A psychic talent which can judge the status of gates between spaces.
Gate-lock - An enclosure built around a gate from near-space to real-space to prevent Ionoth from passing through.
Gelzz - A now nearly-extinct cave-dwelling Taren insect noted for its tendency to admit a lingering rotten odour as a defence mechanism.
Goralath - The name originally given to the ruins where Pandora is later established.
Gorra - The first island settled on Tare.
Hasata - A city on Tare.
House Dayen - One of the leading Lantaren groups on pre-destruction Muina, and architects of the Pillars project.
House Renar - A Nuran House which was given the care of Sentarestel after her parents' deaths.
House Zolen - A Lantaren group on pre-destruction Muina believed responsible for the Arenrhon installation.
HSC - Higher School Certificate. Received when graduating from high school in Australia.
Ian Thorpe - A famous Australian swimmer.
In-skin - An immersive interface experience where most of the senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste – are stimulated.
Interface - An in-body nanite installation used by Tarens as personal computers/the Taren internet.
Ionoth - Creatures which form in the Ena, usually remnants of the dreams and nightmares of inhabited planets.
Ista - An honorific for medical doctors.
Isten - Professor.
Joden - The Taren equivalent of a minute, though the unit is longer than an Earth minute. One hundred joden equal a kasse.
Kadara - Naturally-forming massive Ionoth.
Kalane - A medium-sized island city near the Dohl Array.
Kalasa - The training city of the Lantarens.
Kalrani - Trainees not yet qualified as Setari.
Kasse - The Taren equivalent of an hour, spanning approximately two and a half Earth hours.
Kaszandra - The KOTIS research facility on Kalasa’s island.
Keszen Point - An outlying island of Konna used for warehousing.
Kolar - A hot, arid world settled by Muinan refugees, and advanced technologically by the Tarens.
Konna - Both the city and the island where the main KOTIS base is located on Tare.
KOTIS - An acronym for the "Agency for Ionoth Research and Protection".
Kuna - Supplementary memory provided by the interface.
Lahanti - Leaders of the cities of Tare – an equivalent to a mayor of a city-state.
Lantar/Lantarens - The ruling class of Muina before the disaster. Powerful psychics.
Lastier - A fictional equivalent of Kaoren Ruuel from the Taren entertainment The Hidden War. Played by Teral Saith.
Litara - One of the ships KOTIS uses to travel between Tare, Kolar and Muina.
Lolcat - I can haz cheeseburger?
Lord Vetinari - A most Machiavellian ruler, found in the Discworld books of Terry Pratchett.
Luim - One of the ships KOTIS uses to travel between Tare, Kolar and Muina.