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Seedship A robot starship that carries fertilized ova, or the equivalent, to a new planet around a new star. The seed-ship lands, grows the ova to adulthood, and thus colonizes a new star system without the need of transporting a complex life-support system.
SubBubble Subterranean bubble—a standard type of Lunar construction. Consists of a large excavation under the Lunar surface, usually formed by melting an area of sub-surface rock and then placing the interior under pressure. Much of Central City is composed of interconnected Sub-Bubbles.
Sunstar The star in the Multisystem around which the Earth orbits.
Terra Nova (TN) Earth’s only surviving major spacecraft In the Multisystem. Dianne Steiger is her captain.
TeleOperator A remote-control device, generally resembling a humanoid robot, but without a true robot’s capacity for independent action. Instead, a T.O. is controlled by a human operator in a control harness at a remote location. As is the case with most virtual reality devices, the sensations reported by the T.O. to the operator can seem real.
T.O. See TeleOperator.
Virtual Black Hole (VBH) Currently a theoretical possibility only. In concept, a VBH is formed by an artificial massless gravity source sufficiently focused that a microscopic black hole forms. If a VBH of a sufficient gravity gradient survives long enough, in the presence of sufficient mass, it should be able to absorb that mass and thus become self-sustaining.
Virtual Reality General term applied to any technology that makes a non-local environment (real or imaginary) seem utterly real to an observer-participant. See TeleOperator.
VISOR, Venus Interim Station for Operational Research A large station orbiting Venus. Planned as the headquarters for the terraforming of that planet.
Worldeater Charonian, and, later, human terminology for the massive life-form known to humans as Landers. See Lander.
Wormhole A link between two points in space, formed by creating two identically tuned black holes. The wormhole in effect renders the two points contiguous across a flat plane, no matter how distant they actually are from each other.
Wormhole Transit Loop A ring of equally spaced R-H sets that share an orbit around a Sphere. They serve as relay stations for communications and transport.
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