Barsipan: Jellyfish-like animal on Linyaari home planet. Becker See Jonas Becker.

Calum Baird : One of three miners who discovered Acorna and raised her.

Condor: Jonas Becker's salvage ship, heavily modified to incorporate various "found" items Becker has come across in his s.p.a.ce voyages.

Declan "Gill" Giloglie : One of three miners who discovered Acorna and raised her.

Delszaki Li : Once the richest man on Kezdet, opposed to child exploitation, made many political enemies. He lived his life paralyzed, floating in an antigravity chair. Clever and devious he both hijacked and rescued Acorna and gave her a cause saving the children of Kezdet. His recent death was a source of tremendous sadness to all but his enemies.

Dbarmakoi: Small burrowing sapient marsupials known to the Linyaari, now extinct as a result of Khleevi war.

Edacki Ganoosh: Corrupt Kezdet count, uncle of Kisla Man-jari.

Enye-ghanyii: Linyaari time unit, small portion of ghaanye.

Feriila: Acorna's mother.

Fiicki : Linyaari communications officer on Vhiliinyar expedition.

Fiirki Miilkar: A Linyaari animal specialist.

Fiiryi: A Linyaari.

Fraaki: Linyaari word for fish.

Geeyiinah: One of the Linyaari clans.

Ghaanye (pl. ghaanyi) : A Linyaari year.

Gheraalye malivii: Linyaari for Navigation Officer.

Gheraalye ve-khanyii: Linyaari for Senior Communications Officer.

Giirange:Office of toastmaster in a Linyaari social organization.

Giryeeni : Linyaari clan name.

GSS : Gravitation Stabilization System.

HaarhaLiirni:Linyaari term for advanced education, usually pursued during adulthood while on sabbatical from a previous calling.

Haarilnyah :The oldest clan amongst the Linyaari.

Hafiz Harakamian:Rafik's uncle, head of the interstellar financial empire of House Harakamian, a pa.s.sionate collector of rarities from throughout the galaxy and a

devotee of the old-fashioned sport of horseracing. Although basically crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase, he is fond of Rafik and Acorna.

Haven: A multigeneration s.p.a.ce colonization vehicle occupied by people pushed off the planet Esperantza by Amalgamated Mining.

Highmagister HaGurdy:The Ancestral Friend in charge of the Hosts on old Vhiliinyar.

Hraaya: An Ancestor.

Hrronye : Melireenya's lifemate.

Hrunvrun : The first Linyaari Ancestral Attendant.

liiliira: A Linyaari ship.

lirtye : Chief aagroni for narhii-Vhiliinyar.

Ikwaskwan : Self-styled "admiral" of the Kilumbembese Red Bracelets.

Imaara :An Ancestor attendant.

Jonas Becker : Interplanetary salvage artist; alias s.p.a.ce junkman. Captain of the Condor. CEO of Becker Interplanetary Recycling and Salvage Enterprises Ltd.a one-man, one-cat salvage firm Jonas inherited from his adopted father. Jonas spent his early youth on a labor farm on the planet Kezdet before he was adopted.

Kaarlye : The father of Aari, Maati, and Laarye. A member of the Nyaarya clan, and life-bonded to Miiri.

Aii-Linyaari : Something against all Linyaari beliefs, something not Linyaari.

Karina:A plumply beautiful wannabe psychic with a small shred of actual talent and a large fondness for profit. Married to Hafiz Harakamian. This is her first marriage, his second.

Kava :A coffee-like hot drink produced from roasted ground beans.

KEN: A line of general-purpose male androids, some with customized specializations, differentiated among their owners by number, for example KEN637.

Kezdet : A backwoods planet with a labor system based on child exploitation. Currently in economic turmoil because that system has been broken by Delszaki Li and Acorna.

Khaari : Senior Linyaari navigator on the BaiakLire.

Khetala : Captured as a small child for the mines of Kezdet, later sold into the planet's brothels. Rescued by Acorna, and now a beautiful young woman.

Khleevi :Name given by Acorna's people to the s.p.a.ce-borne enemies who have attacked them without mercy.

Kii: A Linyaari time measurement roughly equivalent to an hour of Standard Time.

Ki-lin. : Oriental name for unicorn, also a name sometimes a.s.sociated with Acorna.

Kilumbemba Empire : An entire society that raises and exports mercenaries for hire the Red Bracelets.

Kirilatova: An opera singer.

Kisla Manjari: Anorexic and sn.o.bbish young woman, raised as daughter of Baron Manjari; shattered when through Acorna's efforts to help the children of Kezdet her father is ruined and the truth of her lowly birth is revealed.

Kubiilikaan: The legendary first city on Vhiliinyar, founded by the Ancestral Hosts.

Kubiilikhan : Capital city of narhii-Vhiliinyar, named after Kubiilikaan, the legendary first city on Vhiliinyar, founded by the Ancestral Hosts.