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Digest Group Library Data
"The following items of information may be found in any ship's library program."
— Library Data, The Travellers' Digest #1
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Library Data from The Travellers' Digest
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Ancients: Highly intelligent race which gained prominence approximately 30,000 years ago. Most of what is know about the Ancients has been gleaned from archaeological excavations of Ancient sites, the remains of cities, bases, outposts and settlements of the Ancients. Dating procedures have established that a Final War spanning a 2,000 year period destroyed virtually all of the Ancients of that time.
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"Behind the Claw": A Galanglic slang term used by the inhabitants of the Spinward Marches, Deneb and Trojan Reach sectors to refer to these areas. The term derives from the supposed resemblance between a claw and the Great Rift, as seen on maps of the Imperium. Inhabitants of this region feel a certain pride in this designation, and it is used to imply that they share a camaraderie and common interest. The name was once used as the title of a popular newsmagazine with a circulation area encompassing the three sectors named above. The term is rarely used by inhabitants of other areas of the Imperium. (Travellers' Digest #1, Travellers' Digest #2) Back to top |
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Corridor: Imperial sector containing 267 systems dramatically split by the Great Rift; 69 systems lie rimward of the Rift and 149 systems form the coreward third of the sector. Corridor is named for its role in connecting the old, well-established Vland sector with the frontier sectors of Deneb and the Spinward Marches. The name Corridor dates from about 140, and has displaced the old Vlani name (Eneri, rough translation: "star salad") for the sector. (Travellers' Digest #3)
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Deneb Sector: Imperial sector containing 385 systems beyond the Great Rift; named for the sector's brightest star, Deneb (1938).
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Express Boat: Interstellar message or data carrier. Express boats attempt to reduce the information lag time between systems by relaying messages to succeeding boats with a minimal delay between jumps, much like the Pony Express [of ancient Terra].
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Galanglic: "Galactic Anglic," the official language of the Third Imperium. Galanglic is a direct descendant of Anglic, the language used during the Rule of Man (-2204 through -1776). The popularization of Galanglic is important to the Imperium, because a common language known by all is beneficial to commerce. On many worlds, Galanglic is in fact a second language, used only in dealing with offworlders and Imperial officials. Although Galanglic is the official name for the language, it is often called Anglic by its speakers. (Travellers' Digest #1, Travellers' Digest #2, Travellers' Digest #3) Back to top |
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Humaniti (former spelling "Humanity"): Collective name for all human races, including Solomani, Vilani, Zhodani and others. (Travellers' Digest #1) Back to top |
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Imperium: See Third Imperium.
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Kaaribilanidin ("Vland Club"): Kaaribilanidin is less violent that many pro-Vilani societies. The group is not strictly anti-Terran, but believes that Vland, because of its historical status as the capital of the First Imperium, should have more direct control over political decisions in the Imperium. Kaaribilanidin was founded on Vland in 654, shortly after the Civil War. It was instrumental in influencing Emperor Zharkirov to reject the Solomani Movement's basic positions and to sympathize with Vilani nobles. (Travellers' Digest #5) Back to top |
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Monadium: Inpenetrable bluish-gray metal used as the basic construction material by the Ancients at the site on Antiquity/Ian. It has defeated all efforts to determine its exact composition: some experts believe it contains titanium. Even modern (TL 15) plasma and fusion weapons are unable to penetrate it. (Travellers' Digest #3) Back to top |
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One Imperium Movement: Adherents of this organization believe that all of the peoples of both the previous Imperiums should be united in one massive Imperium, including the coreward extents of the First Imperium and the Solomani Sphere. An offshoot of this group, the Full Imperium Party, believes that because the Zhodani are humans, they should also be conquered and forced to live like "decent people." The One Imperium Movement has a long history, dating from shortly after the verification of the Solomani Hypothesis.
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Rachele Society: Secret Vilani supremacist group founded on Pretoria/Pretoria by Zid Rachele in 992. Genocidal policies favoured by the group culminated in the attempted takeover of the Pretorian government in 1010. An attempt at nuclear blackmail backfired when 26,000 people (including 1,900 Rachelean commandoes) were killed by a nuclear explosion after the Society seized Imperial Scout facilities on Saki/Pretoria (0306). The Imperium plans to relax martial law over the next ten years, although some military intelligence analysts insist that the Rachele Society still exists; Zid Rachele himself disappeared in 1015 after escapting from the prison world Exile in the Usani subsector (Deneb 1928). (Travellers' Digest #1, Travellers' Digest #5)
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Sector: Mapping unit in astrography consisting of sixteen subsectors arranged in a pattern of four across and four deep. Sectors are broad measures of area and have an average of 480 to 640 worlds each. (Travellers' Digest #1)
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Third Imperium (0 to present): Founded in the year 0 by Cleon, first Emperor, as the successor to the Sylean Federation, a growing, expanding government centered in the territory formerly part of the First and Second Imperiums. The rise of the Third Imperium marked the end of the Long Night and the beginning of present day interstellar government.
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Vargr: Intelligent major race inhabiting regions generally coreward of the Imperium. Vargr are derived from Terran canine stock which was genetically altered to allow an upright stance, an opposable thumb and intelligence. (Travellers' Digest #1)
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Xboat: See Express Boat. (Travellers' Digest #1) Back to top |
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Zhodani: One of three major human races within the known galaxy. Zhodani inhabit the empire known as the Zhodani Consulate, with its capital at Zhodane. More than 90% of all racial Zhodani live under the Consulate.
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