Allegiant: The home city of emperor of the Union and capital of the planet Covenant.
Anchorage: A manufacturing moon in the Crescent Star System.
Apparatus: A city on the planet Grandstand and home to Cirque du Borge.
Covenant: One of thirteen planets within the Crescent Star System. It is also the emperor’s home planet and where the Union’s rulers reside.
Cirque du Borge: The circus of cyborgs.
Crescent Star System: The solar system that comprises the thirteen planets of the Union.
Cyborg Implants: The technology implanted into humans that makes them cyborgs. Implants can be visible, such as limbs, or literal implants under the skin. Due to their rarity and the advanced nature of the technology, they are worth millions of marks in the Union after the Cyborg Prohibition Law was put into place and the manufacturing of more implants illegalized.
Cyborg Prohibition Law: A law created by Emperor Titus Valerius and the Union Council, which made the creation of new cyborgs, the use of surgical implants, and robotic surgery illegal. Current cyborgs are allowed to remain as they are, but the creation of new cyborgs is strictly prohibited. New cyborgs and those assisting them are subject to execution or a lifetime sentence in prison.
Federates (“feds”): The local police force in the Union.
The Forgetting: A memory loss experienced by new cyborgs.
Governor/Governess: Rulers of the thirteen planets within the Crescent Star System after the Union was founded.
Grandstand: One of thirteen planets within the Crescent Star System. It is the home of Cirque du Borge and also where undesirables are often transported, including dragons.
Jinx: A moon outside of the Crescent Star System known for harboring pirates, thieves, and others who evade the law.
Marks: Paper money in the Union.
Obedient: The ship of Cirque du Borge.
Orthodocks: One of thirteen planets within the Crescent Star System.
Redwood Conservatory: An elite all-girls boarding school through college that specializes in performing arts.
Rift: A city on the planet Harvest that is ruled over by the Kabir family.
The Smoke Ring: A neighboring solar system of the Crescent Star System.
Union: An alliance between the thirteen planets of the Crescent Star System, with a leadership comprised of an emperor and an intergalactic council called the Union Council.
Union Council: The council consisting of twelve governors and governesses. They assist the emperor in ruling over the Crescent Star System.
Watchmen: Hired mercenaries at Cirque du Borge.