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Sades

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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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  The Silver Ships novels have reached Amazon’s coveted #1 and #2 Best-Selling Sci-Fi book, many times, in the science fiction categories of first contact, alien invasion, and space flight.

 

 

 


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