by S. H. Jucha
Aputi Tulafono (too-la-fōnō) – Security lieutenant, veteran fighter
Aurelia Garmenti – Early explorer, empath
Harbour – First explorer, empath, partner of Jessie Cinders
Jess Cinders – Assault commander, fraternal twin of Kasie, partner to Lucia Bellardo
Jessie Cinders – First explorer, partner of Harbour
Kasie Cinders – Fraternal twin of Jess, empath
Leslie Finian – President
Ophelia Tuttle – Security commandant
Paul Lindstrom – Security major, “mother”
Sylians – Cat-like sentient race
Salsinona (sal-si-nō-na) – Leader of relief team
Solseena (sol-see-na) – Ex-Tsargit lead councilor, revered ancestor
Soshona (so-shona) – Fleet admiral
Talsoma (tall-so-ma) – Young monarch, Her Excellency
Tzeena (tseen-a) – Packet squadron commander
Vastzona (vast-zō-na) – Station director
Velsana (vel-sa-na) – Scientist
Swei Swee – Sentient alien lifeform inhabiting the oceans of several worlds
Wave Skimmer – First (leader) of the hive
Usaanans – Sentient race known as sand serpents
Ulgart – Ex-Tsargit lead councilor
Umtrat – Regent
Veklocks – Elder alliance race, triumvirate of bird-like aliens
Pardus – Archivist on Hyronzy Station
Other Items
Artifice – Deposed AI ruler of federacy
Cedric – Avatar of Z
Chistorlans – Sentient race, inventors of rudimentary AIs
Dassata – Dischnya name for Alex Racine, “peacemaker”
Dorgatha (dōr-gatha) – Monstrous reptiles of the Crocian wetlands
Frederica – Avatar of Miranda
House Brixton – Méridien organization that creates SADEs
Loopah – Simian race, inventors of gas-projectile launcher of the same name
Messinants – Ancient race, dome creators, genetically uplifted the alliance races
Nest – Dischnya tribe under one queen
NNEMP – Nonnuclear electromagnetic pulse
Nua’ll – Alien collective living in giant spheres
Ollassa – Sentient alien lifeform resembling a symbiotic collection of plant parts
Omnia Ships – OS, business owned by Alex Racine, Renée de Guirnon, and others
Qualls – Intellectual race destroyed by the Colony
Resistance – Alliance organization of young races that fought the Colony
SADE – Self-aware digital entity, artificial intelligence being
Sisterhood – Cloned SADEs residing on Toral
Sky tower – Méridien building built using grav technology
Sol Enclave – New government body ruling the Sol system
Soma – Collective term for Dischnya nests
Sotter (sō-ter) – Nocturnal raptor
Star Hunter First – Swei Swee name for Alex Racine
Toralians – Sentient race in Talus system, allied with the Sisterhood
Tsargit – Alliance ruling body
TSF – Terran Security Forces
United Earth – Previous government body ruling the Sol system
Wasat – Dischnya warrior commander
Planets, Colonies, Moons, and Stars
Alliance – Collection of races uplifted by the Messinants
Celus – Omnian Star
Confederation – Collection of Méridien worlds
Crimsa – Star of Pyre
Crocia – Crocian home world
Federacy – Races previously ruled by Artifice
Libre – Penal colony for Independents set up by the Confederation
Méridien – Primary world of the Confederation
New Terra – New Terrans’ home world
Norsitchia – Norsitchians’ home world
Omnia – World settled by the Dischnya, Swei Swee, SADEs, and humans
Packeo – Packeoes’ home world
Pimbor – Pimborians’ home world
Pyre – Pyreans’ home world
Quall – Home world of race lost to Colony
Sawa – original home world of Dischnya
Sol – Earth’s star
Sylia – Sylians’ home world
Talus – System of Toralians, which includes the sisters
Usaana – Sand serpents’ home world
Vinium – Home world of the Ollassa
Ships and Stations
Freedom – Omnia Ships’ city-ship
Honora Belle – Colony ship that left Earth, transport of the Pyreans
Hyronzy Station – Tsargit convenes here
Jenkels Orbital Station – Previously anchored El car to downside, called the JOS, pronounced “joss”
New Terra – Damaged and abandoned Earth colony ship
OS Deliverance – Omnia Ships’ Trident under Admiral Deirdre Canaan’s command
OS Judgment – Omnia Ships’ Trident under Commodore Lucia Bellardo’s command
OS Prosecutor – Omnia Ships’ Trident under Admiral Darius Guamata’s command
Our People – Omnia Ships’ city-ship
Outward Bound – Alex Racine’s New Terran explorer-tug vessel
Rêveur – Alex Racine’s passenger liner
Sardi-Tallen Orbital Platform – Omnian construction station
Sojourn – Haraken explorer ship
Travelers – Beam-armed shuttles and fighters
Trident – Omnian tri-hulled, beam-armed warship
Vivian’s Mirror – Killian’s scout ship
YIPS – Yellen-Inglehart Processing Station, mineral and gas-processing platform, pronounced “yips”
My Books
SADEs is the nineteenth novel in the interwoven series of The Silver Ships and Pyreans, which tell the stories of three Earth colonies. It’s available in e-book, softcover, and audiobook versions. Please visit my website, http://scottjucha.com, for publication dates and purchase locations. You may register at my website to receive email updates on the progress of my upcoming novels.
The Silver Ships Series
The Silver Ships
Libre
Méridien
Haraken
Sol
Espero
Allora
Celus-5
Omnia
Vinium
Nua’ll
Artifice
Sojourn
Alliance
SADEs
Earthers (forthcoming)
Pyreans Series
Empaths
Messinants
Jatouche
Veklocks
The Author
From my early years to the present, books have been a refuge. They’ve fueled my imagination. I’ve traveled to faraway places and met aliens with Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Herbert, and Le Guin. I’ve explored historical events with Michener and Clavell, and I played spy with Ludlum and Fleming.
There’s no doubt that the early sci-fi masters influenced the writing of my first two series, The Silver Ships and Pyreans. I crafted my stories to give readers intimate views of my characters, who wrestle with the challenges of living in space and inhabiting alien worlds.
Life is rarely easy for these characters, who encounter aliens and calamities, but they persist and flourish. I revel in examining humankind’s will to survive. Not everyone plays fair or exhibits concern for other beings, but that’s another aspect of humans and aliens that I investigate.
My stories offer hope for humans today about what they might accomplish tomorrow far from our home world. Throughout my books, humans exhibit a will to persevere, without detriment to the vast majority of others.
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