Air Route
A transportation system used to navigate around the towers of Central Command.
Air Route booth
A small padded container that resembles an upright coffin. It wraps the occupant in acceleration webbing to allow them to travel at high speed trough the Air Route system without inuring themselves.
Albatross
The Albatross is a large black vessel that uses matter obfuscators to make itself almost invisible. It has rippling wings that propel it through the air. The Albatross belongs to Lord Hades' vessel, but it has been used by various generals throughout the centuries. Most recently it has been leant to General Markov to use as part of his duties in the Southern Territories.
Alma Station
A station built on the southern slopes of the Skybreaker Mountains, in the Southern Territories. The station is owned by Central Command and is responsible for monitoring the largest of the fless caves.
Battle of Havers Compound
A battle between the Kamari and the Security Forces that took place at Havers Compound in 715 DS. Commander Nick Chambers led the initial attack force from Beacon Station. The Kamari knew that he was coming because they were tipped off by Admiral Gail Thompson. Nick's three Crocs were quickly overwhelmed but reinforcements eventually arrived from Central Command.
Beacon Station
A station built to the north of the Skybreaker Mountains. Rachel and Nick were based at Beacon Station during the battle of Havers Compound. The station is responsible for patrolling the areas north of the Skybreaker Mountains. It is frequently involved in suppressing ongoing Kamari activity.
Black Days, The Three
A prophecy foretold by Lord Hades, where the fate of Megarothia is controlled by three key events.
Black Day, The First
Part of the prophecy foretold by Lord Hades. The First Black Day was the last day of the Iridium Wars, when Megarothia was laid to ruin.
Black Towers
The six black towers that form a ring around the White Spear. The Black Towers are numbered from one to six. They are built on the Grand Plaza, which is a white stone square in the centre of the Orange Zone.
Bordox
A droid that is permanently tethered to the White Spear. It lives in a nest behind armoured plates above the White Spear's front entrance. It travels across the White Spear's walls using a series of interconnecting rails that are embedded into surface of the walls.
Bunk
A bed.
Bunk room
A room to sleep in.
Café Lyon
A cafe in the Old Quarter that is popular with the middle aged population. It specialises in the use of holocubes to provide news and entertainment.
Café Ruen
A cafe in the Old Quarter that is popular with the younger population. It has a reputation for offering drinks that contain more than alcohol and fruit.
Central Command
The centre of governing power that controls the Security Forces, Cinnamon City and the Orange Zone. Central Command is also used as the collective name for the Grand Plaza, the White Spear and the six black towers that surround it, but more formerly it would include the outlying stations also.
Cinnamon City
A metropolis policed too long by the overstretched Security Forces, and constantly influenced by an underground organisation known as the Kamari. Cinnamon City has a central core that dates back several hundred years. It is known as the Old Quarter. The outskirts have been extended and modernised with commercial and business districts. A high crime rate still plagues the city even after several crack downs and there is a general feeling that the Security Forces are not in full control.
Cleansing
A ceremony practised by the guilds to cleanse the body of a deceased member. It involves disassembling their body using nanotechnology. Cleansings are private affairs that are usually carried out in the Guild Hall with all guildmasters in attendance.
Clerics
A species that have some loyalty towards the lords. Clerics will only serve those who are stronger than themselves. They are a violent and completely lacking in empathy.
Combat Roach
A variation of a Roach that has been fitted with weapons and armour. Combat Roaches also use stronger legs than standard Roai became an armed underground organisation. Until recently it had not taken part in open warfare with the Security Forces, but this has now begun to change.
Lake Yorin
The most eastern of the three Great Lakes. Lake Yorin is 7km across at its widest point.
Lake Rezworth
The largest of the three Great Lakes. Lake Rezworth is 14km across at its widest point and it sits between lakes Dumolt and Yorin.
Lake Dumolt
The smallest of the three Great Lakes. Situated to the West of Lake Yorin, its widest point is 4km across.
Language of the Kings
An ancient language that was widely used before the Iridium Wars.
Lightning Shard
A weapon that generates charge in a hand-held device before discharging it in the direction that it is pointed.
Mazeral
A flying creature that lives in the upper levels of the fless caves. It is attracted to the warmth of living creatures and it likes nothing more than a mouthful of fresh blood.
Megarothia
The planet that is home to the Orange Zone and Cinnamon City.
Nanomachine
A machine or droid made with nano-scale engineering techniques.
Nano-grade weapons
Nano-grade weapons are weapons that are built on nanometre scales using components that are (one-thousand-millionth of a metre wide). These weapons are small enough to attack biological cells or individual molecules. They can attack from within rather and can be far more difficult to detect or combat than conventional weapons.
Nanopatch
A pool of black sludge that is made out of billions of nanomachines. Nanopatches can be used to digest enemies or to transform living matter into inanimate objects. In modern times it has been used to carry out assassinations. During the Iridium Wars they were used as vast lakes that could be placed in the path of advancing enemies.
Net-feed droid
A net-feed droid is a swarm-capable information gathering autonomous droid that began as military hardware but was licensed by Mekinet News for an undisclosed sum during a time of great upheaval in the Security Forces. Some said it should never have been sold to a commercial news agency; others said that the Security Forces' huge deficit was reason enough to find additional revenue streams from licensing of non-lethal technologies. A net-feed droid has the appearance of a silver spherical raindrop with trailing thin metallic arms on each side. Consisting largely of sensors, communications and navigation equipment, the droids are relatively simple units. There true power comes from their swarm capabilities. Up to 250 net-feed droids can act as a single swarm using a Drop Ranger as a relay station. Net-feed droids have sophisticated damage avoidance systems left over from their military origins but they have no armour or weapons capability since this was removed as part of the licensing agreement between the Security Forces and Mekinet News. The net-feed droid's small thin arms are limited in use but can carry up to 100 kg of cargo. Multiple droids can work together to carry heavier loads but this is not their primary purpose and they can be cumbersome to coordinate when using their short arms.
Neural implants
Advanced droid controlling systems that can be implanted into a human brain. Any person with neural implants will be able to access thousands of systems throughout the Orange Zone without the need of additional controlling equipment.
Nickbot
Helen Thompson's nickname for Commander Nick Chambers after he has been integrated with the TS86 droid chassis. Only his brain and spinal column remain within the machine that he has become.
Ocean of the Dead
An ocean that contained millions of dead bodies after the conclusion of the Iridium Wars.
Old Quarter
The oldest part of Cinnamon City. It is a busy trading centre consisting of many market shops that can be fixed or moveable. There are a large number of multicoloured box cabins in the Old Quarter, providing cheap and basic accommodation to the masses. There are also bars and other less savoury forms of entertainment.
Olith Gate
Stone arches, ten metres tall, that form entrances to shallow pits that appear to have little purpose. The arches are covered in mysterious symbols that occasionally seem to change on their own. Nobody understands why or how.
Orange Room
The Orange Room is the largest conference room in the White Spear. A large crystal table sits at its centre, and the north-facing glass wall looks out towards the Great Lakes and the Orange Groves beyond.
Orange Zone
The Orange Zone is an area of several hundred square kilometres. It can be loosely defined as all land that falls under the protection of the Dome Shield. Its capital is Cinnamon City.
Panther droid
Panther droids are long range cargo carriers that often travel in groups. Their body's consist of a configurable number of spherical cargo pods that are linked together and hung between four loping legs. They are capable of following a predefined route autonomously, but they are usually accompanied by a pilot who sits on their back. Most Panther droids have some kind of small manually operated weapon so they can defend their cargo from possible attack.
Pattern matchers
Data mining equipment that can process vast amounts of information in parallel in order to mine for patterns or connections between apparently unrelated events or items.
Personal force field
An undergarment that is strapped to the torso of a person to provide a short range defensive force field. The units come with a range of power and armour class ratings. A personal force field surrounds the wearer with a sensor field that detects high velocity projectiles and slows them down using a repulsive M-force
Pilot cab
The section of a vehicle where the pilot sits.
Plasma grenade
A small hand-held grenade that can be detonated with a configurable timer control. When detonated the grenade generates a short intense plasma field and wraps it in a powerful magnetic field until it is superheated. This all happens within a few thousandths of a second. The magnetic field is designed to fail almost instantly, releasing the plasma field and allowing it to expand rapidly. This causes a sudden burst of intense heat and rapid expansion of the surrounding air, leading to a high powered compression wave that is highly destructive to all surrounding objects. Plasma grenades are graded according to the power of their detonation. Grade E will blow concrete walls apart up to a range of three metres. Higher grades have a rising scale of destructive power. Grade A can take down buildings over a five hundred metre radius.
Polymer strand
A thin strong strand of synthetic material that can be used to bind prisoners. Polymer strands can also be used to form a lattice that can close off exits using web blocks.
Quickening
A phase of sudden growth experienced by sand lords.
Reconnaissance drone
Remote operated drones used for carrying out reconnaissance, recording images of terrain, and monitoring electromagnetic activity in a localised area.
Refractor Orb
A device designed by the old lords and constructed again by Helen Thompson using schematics provided by Jacob. The device is designed to interact with shield technologies.
Restricted access net
Part of Central Command's internal information systems. The restricted access net contains documents that are only visible to the officers of Central Command.
Roach
A Roach is a small land based vehicle built for speed and manoeuvrability. It lacks armour and has no weapons systems. It is generally used as a short range vehicle for transporting soldiers over short distances that are difficult to navigate or too dangerous for larger vehicles. It runs on six short legs so is ideal for muddy or uneven terrain, and its small size allows it to enter small spaces or travel through narrow access routes.
Rotohawk
A cage carrier, ground based vehicle that consists of a pilot cabin at the front and a personnel cage at the back. The cage can be used for transporting prisoners, but often it is also used to transport Security Forces during combat operations.
Sand Lord
A type of Lord that is revered by some and despised by others.
Satellite platform
An orbiting platform that is capable of storing power and delivering satellite strikes towards ground based targets.
Satellite strike
A high power weapon that can strike from an orbiting Satellite Platform.
Security Forces
The Security Forces are the combined military forces that support Cinnamon City and the Orange Zone. They are governed by the Council of Lords, and their main strength is based in a set of towers known as Central Command. The Security Forces are responsible for the protection of the Orange Zone as well as maintaining public order and applying law enforcement. Many believe that the Security Forces large remit and limited budget leaves them overstretched and open to corruption.
Scatter range
Upgraded impact pistols can be configured to fire a single cylinder projectile splits into twelve separate rods. These rods strike the target across a large area that is described as the scatter range.
Shinara
An industrialised area in the South. Mekinet News has a high security facility in Shinara where it maintains its net-feed droid hangars.
Skybreaker Mountains
A mountain range in the south of the Orange Zone.
Southern Territories
The Southern Territories lay south of the Skybreaker Mountains. Dry planes stretch for many kilometres, interrupted only by the dark stained holes that are the entrances to fless caves.
Squid droid
A type of droid that has many thin silver arms that can be used to discharge electricity into its enemies.
Scorpion droid
An outdated combat droid that has to be manually operated. The droid is controlled by tall handles that are mounted on each side of the pilot's seat. Scorpion droids have powerful front claws and can launch electrical strikes from the tips of their tails.
Toruk Powder
A stimulant used in the Southern Territories to keep the mind alert and the reactions fast. On long shifts in the fless caves it could mean the difference between life and death.
Sphynx-II controller rack
The Sphynx-II controller rack is a highly complex control unit that allows the operator to control a swarm of droids by using either manual screen interfaces or immersive sensor cap technology.
Sphynx-V controller rack
The Sphynx-V controller rack is the latest control system used by Central Command. It uses Goal Orientated control systems and can only be accessed via neural implants.
Spinner rockets
Spinner Rockets are heat seeking, highly explosive weapons that are generally fired from above ground onto ground based targets. Each rocket weighs around 140 kg.
Techno-Prophet
A modern day prophet who has a wide understanding of technology, society and the symbiosis of the two. Lord Colloran Hades is the only living Techno Prophet. He has some very firm opinions on the role of technology in the destruction of mankind, not through the development and application of weapons but through the modification and bastardisation of mankind itself through technological development.
TS86
The name of the droid chassis that has been integrated with the spinal column and brain of Commander Nick Chambers. The TS86 is a war droid based upon original schematics developed during the Iridium Wars.
Urwax
A military droid based on similar schematics to Bordox.
Walker
A Walker is an upright heavily armoured weapons platform that walks on two legs. During combat it will mostly be stationary to aid with balance during explosive attacks or heavy impacts but it can walk and fight if necessary. Walkers are rare, highly expensive and generally considered to be too vulnerable to air attack. In ground-based warfare they can be a powerful and deadly opponent.
Wasp Drone
A small flight capable drone that is used for short range combat operations and patrolling the airspace around Central Command. Wasp Drones have transparent, flexible wings that oscillate at high frequencies to generate lift. Wasp Drones carry medium grade air to ground weapons as well as air to air weapons. They have no pilot cabin so must be operated remotely by an implant, but they do have a personnel cage in their abdomen and can be used to transport small numbers of Security Forces.
War droid
A droid that has been designed to fight in wars.
War Lord
A Lord that believes in the use of power to destroy those that are weaker.
Web block
A small device that can be attached to walls to set up a trap. Web blocks are triggered by movement of any person that lacks the appropriate security credentials. Once triggered, a web block will deploy a lattice of polymer strands to all the other web blocks within a small area.
White Spear
The White Spear is the centremost tower of Central Command. Surrounded by six black towers, the White Spear rises high above them, forming a distinctive silhouette on the horizon of Cinnamon City.
Wyser River
A river close to Havers Compound
X16
See net-feed droid