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Honorifics:
Yol = male
Ya = female
Yo = hermaphrodite
Ye = budding creatures
Information:
Aconstik net – an electronic network used to destroy orbiting equipment
Afed = Federation currency A
Central Galactic Library is on Arlucian
CEO – Chief Executive Officer, usually of a company
CPO – Chief Petty Officer
DA – District Attorney
Deroo – beverage, somewhat similar to Ovaltine
Dimplert – game similar to snooker and pool
Drindle – low alcohol spirit
Edrule sol – a savoury snack the size of a sausage roll. Puff pastry enfolding a couple of the tiniest, salty but sweet fish
Esponging – teaching by direct mind control
Federation year = 0.96 x Earth Year
FEU – Federation Enforcement Unit
Frame – galaxy-wide digital storage network
Galactic Standard - Universal language used within the Federation. Worlds can keep their own languages, but Galactic Standard must be taught to every individual
GCHQ - The Government Communications Headquarters is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.
Intranet – secure, restricted internet
Orion spur Archives are on Delarkon
QE Quantum Entanglement
RBB is the author
Remarkables – mountain range on the South Island of New Zealand
Resolute Desk – a gift from Queen Victoria, it is made from the timbers of HMS Resolute and has been used by many presidents of the United States including Jack Edward Spence.
Roosevelt Room – a famous large conference room in the heart of the west wing of the White House.
Secradarve – sphere which accesses the Frame
Sheladiz – large town in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
Shossball – throwing and catching game
Situation assessment – a practice which can be ordered by courts to roll back time to get to the truth about an event
SWAT – Special Weapons and Tactics force
Terasco – musical instrument
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Federation Characters:
Bezub – spindly domestic robot
Breganin, Yol Rummy Blin from Daragnen – the author
Churmbin, Ya Prold – councillor responsible for Earth. Her assistants are Yol Grath and Ye Disteen.
Dimorathron, Ye Strighiton – President of the Federation
Diribort, Yol (chief medical officer on the Ronoi) – short blue creature with stubby horns, four arms and two legs.
Grad – domestic service robot
Herodeen, Yol Bod – Diplomatic assistant
Hinderon, Commander Yol Kref – Federation Enforcement Unit
Lindron, Ya Lyl – Diplomatic assistant
Merofort, Yol Slindo from Purrs – powder blue apes – Eloo & Viro, his wives. His children are Daro [Viro’s] and Rindo [Eloo’s]. Slindo is secretary and assistant to Ambassador Moroforon
Mistorn, Ya Heldy from Clueb – small black flying cherub-like individual with photographic memory. Heldy is assistant to Ambassador Moroforon
Moroforon, Ya Garincha Dela from Racutaan – tall, slender with lateral jaws. Husband Gerish and sister Telorcha.
Ruud, Yol Ja – Diplomatic assistant
Serin, Yol Ghal – Federation inspector
Staz, Captain Yol Braden – captain of the Ronoi
Trestogeen, Ambassador Yol Hareen – later ambassador (home Pestoch)
Unsela, Ya Zo – from Terotone – a species with some mind reading and control abilities. Large eight-fingered hands. Body phases in and out of existence.
Verolmoron, Ya Strin – Federation inspector
Wukkundi, Commander Ya Dustul – Federation Enforcement Unit
Yeronez, CPO Ya Kro – Ronoi’s Chief Petty Officer
Human Characters:
Ahmadi, Salman (Iranian President)
Bark, Colonel Whitley – black, forty-eight, distinguished looking, one of the negotiators in the Palestine agreement
Beech, Sandy (Alexander) (President Spence’s trainee aid)
Blaney, Morwenna – thirties, white woman, fluent in more than twenty languages, interpreter from the UN
Bond, Mike & Helen (President Spence’s sister & brother-in-law)
Braun, General – Army Chief – USA
Brennan, Geoff – Canadian political commentator
Brownlee, Tim (minority house leader)
Burko, General – Air Force Chief – USA
Channarong, Anurak (Thailand Prime Minister)
Cheung Da (Chinese President)
Deloitte, Mark (Online retail guru)
Derry, Gil (director of the FBI)
Eden, Charles – White House media consultant, mixed race (white and Asian), forty, balding and short.
Eze, Miriam (Nigerian President)
Grange, Melanie (New Zealand Prime Minister)
Greave, Wilson (Distribution magnet)
Hall, Colin – white, sixties, silver hair, once ambassador to the Court of St. James
Hood, Ken (British Prime Minister)
Howell, Mrs Nancy (President Spence’s secretary)
Ivanov, Dimitri (Russian President)
Janssen, Stefan (Netherlands)
Ledermann, Vernon (majority house leader)
Madden, Harvey (secret service officer)
Mann, Admiral – Navy chief – USA
Moghadam, Fadhil El (ISIS Commander)
Mahmood, Ahmed (Egyptian President)
McBride, Harry (Democratic Presidential Candidate)
Meunier, Jeanne (French President)
Mistoba, Juan (Bolivian President)
Nixon, Robert – Bob (White House Chief of Staff)
Okafor, Perfect (Secretary General of UN)
Said, Mustafa (President of Iraq)
Sillic, Mara (Croatian President)
Slimbridge, John (US Vice President)
Spence, Jack (US President)
Solberg, Dick (Swedish Prime Minister)
Stone, Peter (Head of the biggest search engine company)
Toscano, Maria (Italian President)
Wilson, Paula – Perfect Okafor’s biographer/secretary
Worth, Melinda – Head of Social Security in USA
Yamata, Ishi (Japanese Prime Minister)
Federation Planets:
Federation comprises 247,213 planets.
Capital planet Arlucian – seat of government
Blurel is a planetary system in which a gas giant has moons with vast quantities of emeralds lying on the beaches
Dabrune – strange world with pastel violet oceans and warm coloured vegetation. Dabrunians have tentacles and feelers. It is a transition world close to the galactic centre.
Daragnen – author’s planet.
Delarkon – 18 light years from Earth – home to Earth’s delegate at the Central Council, Ya Prold Churmbin
Ecisfiip – world with a swirling green atmosphere
Hmethux – has twice Earth’s gravity and exoskeletons are needed to move about
Rostaren empire was encompassed by the Federation about ten years prior to Earth’s first contact. It was almost a thousand worlds and caused a minor recession in the rest of the Federation.
Terotone – a planet whose intelligent species has some mind reading and control abilities
Veroscando – a world which has large quantities of heavy metals like gold and platinum