| SHIP
DETAIL |
| 4th
Class Ratings Mess |
TOPRI:124 |
4th
Class Ratings Mess |
messroom
aboard Aries |
| After
Hold |
BROKE:24 |
After
Hold |
Skink
has an 'after hold' suggesting that there is more than one |
| |
BROKE:27 |
After
Hold |
|
| Airlock |
BROKE:26 |
Airlock |
the
ramp leading to the lock is just wide enough for two people |
| |
BROKE:39 |
After
Airlock |
Grimes
and Una plan on entering Delta Geminorum via the after airlock |
| |
BROKE:59 |
Airlock |
|
| |
BROKE:89 |
Airlock |
|
| |
ROADR:93 |
Airlock |
the
interior airlock into the hold of the Epsilon Sextans can
only hold two people at a time |
| |
WANDE:265 |
Airlock |
at
least two men can fit into Adder's airlock at the same time |
| Alpha
Class Liner |
GIFTH:32 |
Alpha
Class Liner |
|
| Aries |
TOPRI:43 |
Aries |
Lower
dropped the ship, and lower, the noise of her Drive deafening
now, every protrusion, every mast, turret and sponson that
broke the smooth lines of her hull visible to the naked eye.
From a staff just abaft her sharp stem the ensign of the SurveyService...streamed
vertically upwards. |
| |
TOPRI:58 |
Aries |
its
airlock is located high on its side. the ship carries lots
of equipment even though it is a fighting ship, its primary
function is exploration and survey. Has underwater welding
gear, scuba outfits, among other equipment. |
| |
TOPRI:66 |
Aries |
has
a film library on board |
| Armory |
BROKE:100 |
Armory |
|
| Atmosphere
Sampling |
BROKE:58 |
Atmosphere
Sampling |
the
boat is equipped to take samples. the atmosphere of the unnamed
planet is most likely unbreathable. The radioactivity is not
too high. |
| Auxillery
Drive Actuator |
GIFTH:37 |
Auxillery
Drive Actuator |
smaller
keys in the control room |
| Axial
Shaft |
BROKE:27 |
Axial
Shaft |
|
| Beta
Class |
SEEIN:203 |
Beta
Class Vessel |
Willis
has not served on one in a while and is unfamiliar with the
layout. |
| Binoculars |
BROKE:34 |
Binoculars |
a
large set is mounted on the bridge of Skink |
| |
BROKE:76 |
Binoculars |
mounted
in the control space on a universal mount. |
| Boat
Blister |
TOPRI:17 |
Boat
Blister |
protective
storage for ship's boats. There is an inside door and airlock
leading from the ship to the boat in the blister |
| Boat
Landing Lights |
BROKE:78 |
Boat
Landing Lights |
Grimes
turns them on. |
| Boat's
Book Locker |
BROKE:50 |
Boat's
Book Locker |
|
| Boat's
Chronometer |
BROKE:108 |
Boat's
Chronometer |
|
| Boat's
Toolkit |
BROKE:48 |
Boat's
Toolkit |
has
a soldering iron in it |
| Boat's
Workshop |
BROKE:51 |
Boat's
Workshop |
is
located with its power plant and propulsive units |
| Captain's
Quarters |
BROKE:27 |
Captain's
Quarters |
|
| Cargo
Port |
BROKE:25 |
Cargo
Port |
Skink's
cargo port is just forward of her landing vanes |
| |
BROKE:38 |
Cargo
Ports |
Delta
Geminorum has multiple cargo ports that were left open by
the hijackers |
| Catalogue
of Carlotti Beacons |
BROKE:152 |
Catalogue
of Carlotti Beacons |
Contains
the locations of the navigation beacons listed by their call
signs. There isn't one on the lifeboat because Panzen removed
all of the books when it captured them |
| Constellation
Class Cruiser |
SLPBU:230 |
Constellation
Class Cruiser |
|
| |
SUBTR:173 |
Constellation
Class Cruiser |
is
in port at Lindisfarne |
| Control
Board Pilot Lights |
BROKE:69 |
Control
Board Pilot Lights |
|
| Control
Cabin Port |
BROKE:81 |
Control
Cabin Port |
|
| Control
Room |
TOPRI:5 |
Control
Room |
has
"narrow confines" |
| Damage
to Delta Geminorum |
BROKE:24 |
Damage
to Delta Geminorum |
We
don't know, yet, what damage has been done to her by the pirates. |
| Delta
Class |
GIFTH:34 |
Delta
Class |
the
Gift Horse is midway in size between an ITC Gamma class and
a Delta class |
| Dreadnaught
Class |
TINME:201 |
Dreadnaught
Class |
in
port at Lindisfarne Base |
| Drift
Indicator |
GIFTH:37 |
Drift
Indicator |
a
screen in the control room |
| Epsilon
Class |
RIMGH:73 |
Epsilon
Class |
|
| |
WORDS:43 |
Epsilon
Ships |
according
to Halley, the worst thing about serving on them is that they
never settle down on a regular run |
| Epsilon
Gruis |
WORDS:44 |
Epsilon
Gruis |
the
ship brings cutlery, cloth, tinned meat, mirrors, in exchange
for native fruit juices (which are made into an excellent
wine) |
| Epsilon
Lyrae |
GIFTH:32 |
Epileptic
Liar |
nickname
for Epsilon Lyrae |
| |
GIFTH:35 |
Epileptic
Liar |
|
| Epsilon
Sextans |
RIMGH:73 |
Epileptic
Swan |
nickname
for Epsilon Pavonis |
| |
ROADR:46 |
Sexy
Eppy |
nickname
for Epsilon Sextans |
| Freeman,
Una |
BROKE:5 |
Ship's
Boat Capacity |
20
persons. has concentrated foodstuffs, algae vats, recreational
facilities and is a closed ecology |
| Gamma
Class |
GIFTH:34 |
Gamma
Class |
the
Gift Horse is midway in size between an ITC Gamma class and
a Delta class |
| Gyroscopes |
GIFTH:37 |
Gyroscope
Controls |
other
controls in the Gift Horse's bridge |
|
| Inertial
Drive |
BROKE:66 |
Inertial
Drive |
Grimes
puts it into "reverse". |
|
| |
CHANC:10 |
Interplanetary
Drive Room |
room
on Faraway Quest |
|
| Inertial
Drive Controls |
BROKE:38 |
Inertial
Drive Controls |
mounted
in the ship's boat |
|
| Life
Support System |
BROKE:100 |
Life
Support System |
|
|
| |
BROKE:105 |
Life
Support System |
|
|
| Main
Drive Actuator |
GIFTH:37 |
Main
Drive Actuator |
a
big red key in the control room |
|
| Main
Lounge |
SEEIN:197 |
Main
Lounge |
passengers
aboard the ship are asked to congregate there to pass Immigration
and Customs |
|
| Major
Terran Warship |
TOPRI:43 |
Major
Terran Warship |
Aries
is described as such - giving some idea of the general size
of warships. |
|
| Manschenn
Drive |
CHANC:11 |
Interstellar
Drive Room |
room
on Faraway Quest |
|
| |
ROADR:30 |
Manschenn
Drive Room |
room
housing the M.D. aboard ship: "...inside this holy of holies,
no man need fear to admit that he was scared by the uncanny
complexity of the ever-precessing gyroscopes. He stared at
the tumbling rotors, the gleaming wheels that seemed always
on the |
verge
of vanishing into nothingness, that rolled down the dark dimensions,
dragging the ship and all aboard with her." |
| Manschenn
Drive Overhaul |
BROKE:53 |
Manschenn
Drive Overhaul |
a
job requiring both patience and a remarkably steady hand. |
|
| Medicinal
Brandy |
BROKE:62 |
Medicinal
Brandy |
a
supply is kept aboard the boat. |
|
| Periscope |
BROKE:88 |
Periscope |
mounted
on the boat |
|
| Pile |
GIFTH:37 |
Pile |
|
|
| Planet
Class Transport |
SUBTR:173 |
Planet
Class Transport |
is
in port at Lindisfarne |
|
| Plates |
BROKE:7 |
Plates |
have
sealed in magnets for adhering to a surface under zero-g |
|
| Polarizer |
BROKE:110 |
Polarizer |
The
lifeboat's ports polarize to cut out strong sunlight. |
|
| Radar |
GIFTH:37 |
Radar
Altimeter |
a
screen in the control room |
|
| Radar
Repeater |
BROKE:66 |
Radar
Repeater |
Mounted
on the control panel of the ship's boat. |
|
| Radio
Technician's Manual |
BROKE:50 |
Radio
Technician's Manual |
stored
aboard the boat |
|
| Serpent
Class Courier |
MOUNT:277 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
|
| |
SLPBU:216 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
|
| |
SLPBU:218 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
can
reach Droomoor from Lindisfarne Base in about a week. |
|
| |
SUBTR:172 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
lightly
armed, crewed by a captain, 2 officers (ensigns) an engineering
officer (ensign) and 2 communications officers (lieutenants).
has no Carlotti gear aboard and has passenger accomodations.
Adder is assigned to travel from Lindisfarne Base to |
Doncaster
for Grimes' first mission |
| |
SUBTR:173 |
Flying
Darning Needle |
slang
for serpent class couriers |
|
| |
SUBTR:174 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
these
ships do not have elevators |
|
| |
SUBTR:175 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
has
auxillary rockets |
|
| |
SUBTR:181 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
|
| |
SUBTR:199 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
|
| |
TINME:201 |
Flying
Darning Needle |
|
|
| |
TINME:201 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
|
| |
WHATY:296 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
| Ship
Detail |
CHANC:8 |
Boat
Blister |
two
are added to Faraway Quest |
| |
MANWH:122 |
Ship
Fare |
the
fare from Faraway to Van Diemen's Plant is about "cr 2500"
(2500 credits) |
| |
MANWH:124 |
Ship
Shop |
Clavering
notes that Delta class liners have small ship shops onboard |
| |
OPERA:39 |
Ship's
Elevator |
Danton
rides to the control room in 'the little elevator" |
| |
RIMOF:7 |
Ship
Elevators |
mentioned
that the newer Epsilon class ships have passenger elevators;
older ships have spiral staircases |
| |
RIMOF:124 |
Ship's
Boat |
Calver
thinks the captain of Thermopylae should have put everyone
on boats in orbit around Eblis |
| |
ROADR:2 |
Ship
Classes |
listed
as: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon; the size of a ship
relates to its class, running from larger to smaller |
| |
ROADR:10 |
Ship
Cabins |
the
Captain's cabin on a Survey Service cruiser is quite small;
Craven's cabin's dayroom is much larger |
| |
ROADR:57 |
Ship's
Detention Cell |
are
padded |
| |
ROADR:60 |
Ship's
Stowage Gear |
there
are 'gantries and conveyor belts' in Delta Orionis' hold |
| |
ROADR:66 |
Ship
to Ship Tunnel |
A
temporary tunnel rigged between two ships via airlocks is
used |
| |
ROADR:124 |
Ship
Silhouette |
Waldegren
frigates are almost identical in silhouette to ITC's Epsilon
class ships |
| |
WHATY:307 |
Ship's
Exercise Equipment |
includes
a rowing maching |
| |
WHATY:308 |
Ship's
Exercise Equipment |
includes
hoirzontal bars |
| |
WHATY:311 |
Ship's
Stores |
include:
toast, butter, sardines, lemon wedges, mayonnaise. coffee,
sugar, cream |
| |
WHATY:311 |
Shower
Room |
aboard
Adder |
| |
WHATY:312 |
Ship's
Stores |
baked
fish, salad, apples, salad |
| |
WHATY:314 |
Tinned
Food Storeroom |
aboard
Adder; contains: ham, sausage, sardines |
| |
WITHG:151 |
Ship's
Boat |
the
exploration party is landed on Delta Sextans IV by 'boat' |
| |
WITHG:152 |
Ship's
Boat |
has
to be of a decent size because in addition to 7 passengers,
it can stow 3 small helicopters and all the other landing
party gear |
| |
WITHG:165 |
Ship's
Pinnace |
|
| Ship's
Laboratory |
TOPRI:49 |
Ship's
Laboratory |
|
| Ship's
Wardroom |
TOPRI:49 |
Ship's
Wardroom |
|
| Test
Kit |
BROKE:115 |
Test
Kit |
Used
to test atmosphere, water, food on unexplored planets, for
use by shipwreck survivors. |
| |
BROKE:116 |
Test
Kit |
|
| Tripedal
Landing Gear |
BROKE:25 |
Tripedal
Landing Gear |
|
| |
TOPRI:44 |
Tripedal
Landing Gear |
Aries
is so equipped |
| VIP
Suite |
WHATY:314 |
VIP
Suite |
one
deck down from the officer's living quarters and there are
passenger's suites a deck below the VIP suite |
| Wardroom |
TOPRI:8 |
Wardroom |
aboard
Aries |
| Zodiac
Class Cruiser |
TOPRI:26 |
Zodiac
Class Cruiser |
Aries
is this class of ship |
| SHIP
LINES |
| Carinthian
Space Service |
BRING:77 |
Carinthian
Space Service |
shipline
that runs the Wenceslaus moon ferry, the ore ships from Silesia |
| |
BRING:105 |
Carinthian
Survey Service |
Carinthian
'navy' |
| Cluster
Lines |
BRING:13 |
Cluster
Lines |
|
| |
RIMOF:15 |
Cluster
Lines |
|
| Dog
Star Line |
ROADR:41 |
Dog
Star Line |
inferred
that it is based on planets around Sirius |
| |
SLPBU:234 |
Dog
Star Line |
|
| |
TOPRI:155 |
Dog
Star LIne |
|
| Faraway
Line |
MANWH:109 |
Faraway
Line |
runs
a route from Van Diemen's Planet to Faraway |
| Federation
Survey Service |
BROKE:22 |
Federation
Survey Service |
|
| |
MOUNT:270 |
Federation
Survey Service |
|
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Federation
Survey Service |
|
| |
ROADR:2 |
Federation
Survey Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:5 |
Federation
Survey Service |
|
| |
WANDE:265 |
Federation
Survey Service |
|
| |
WHATY:298 |
Federation
Courier Service |
|
| |
WHATY:337 |
Federation
Survey Service |
|
| Interstellar
Survey Service |
TOPRI:76 |
Interstellar
Survey Service |
alternate
name for Federation Survey Service |
| Interstellar
Transport Commission |
BRING:13 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
BROKE:34 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
CHANC:1 |
Commission |
(ITC) |
| |
GIFTH:32 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
handles
shipping in Dunsinane's region |
| |
GIFTH:34 |
Commission |
|
| |
GIFTH:36 |
Commission |
|
| |
GIFTH:39 |
Commission |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
| |
MANWH:122 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
MOUNT:270 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
Jumbuk
was an ITC ship. The ship line obviously existed during the
First Expansion |
| |
PILLR:37 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
one
of her Epsilon class tramps put in on Lishaar for emergency
MD repairs and reported what it found |
| |
RIMGH:75 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
ROADR:2 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
SEEIN:200 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
SEEIN:209 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| |
TOPRI:21 |
Interstellar
Transport Commission |
|
| Moon
Ferries |
BRING:63 |
Moon
Ferries |
the
shipping line that runs from Carinthia to Wenceslaus |
| Rim
Runners |
BRING:13 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| |
BRING:23 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| |
CHANC:1 |
Rim
Runners Inc |
|
| |
CHANC:4 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| |
RIMGH:73 |
Rim
Runners |
is
going through a period of expansion at this time and there
were many more ships than people to crew them; |
| |
RIMGH:73 |
Rim
Runners |
using
second, third and even fourth-hand ships |
| |
RIMGH:74 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| |
RIMGH:82 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Rim
Runners |
Harris
mentions that R.R. officers are refugees from the I.T.C.,
Survey Service, Waverly Royal Mail, Trans-Galactic Clippers |
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Rim
Runners |
Harris
mentions that Rim Runners is always short of officers |
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Rim
Runners |
noted
that their ships are "worn out Epsilon Class and they even
have an Ehrenhaft drive ship" |
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Rim
Runners |
the
Rim World's shipping line |
| |
RIMOF:10 |
Rim
Runners |
have
become defacto explorers of the Rim sector of the galaxy |
| |
RIMOF:10 |
Rim
Runners |
Rim
Runners is also defacto the Rim Worlds Naval Reserve |
| |
SLPBU:217 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| |
SUBTR:171 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| |
WHATY:318 |
Rim
Runners |
|
| Rim
Worlds Naval Reserve |
RIMOF:10 |
Rim
Worlds Naval Reserve |
mentioned:
all Rim Runners officers sign on in the naval reserve; this
is prepartory to Rim Worlds becoming independant |
| |
RIMOF:10 |
Rim
Worlds Naval Reserve |
nascent
reserve navy for the rim worlds using Rim Runners commercial
vessels |
| Royal
Skandian Navy |
WHATY:320 |
Royal
Skandian Navy |
|
| |
WHATY:327 |
Royal
Skandian Navy |
|
| Sundowner
Line |
BRING:49 |
Sundowner
Line |
one
of their ships is being diverted to Carinthia |
| |
ROADR:26 |
Sundowner
Line |
based
on the Rim Worlds; could very well be the precursor to Rim
Runners; they don't travel far from the rim - just the 4 Rim
Worlds and occassionally the Shakespearian Sector |
| |
ROADR:27 |
Sundowner
Line |
every
once and a while one of their ships will visit the "drearier
worlds of the Empire of Waverly |
| |
ROADR:28 |
Sundowner
Line |
is
manned by 'drifers, castoffs from ITC, TGC, Waverly Royal
Mail - none yet are from the Survey Service |
| Survey
Service |
BROKE:10 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:11 |
Federation
Survey Service |
there
is an inter-service rivalry between the FSS and Corps of Sky
Marshalls |
| |
BROKE:12 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:14 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:15 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:32 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:44 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:62 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:115 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
BROKE:138 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
CHANC:6 |
Survey
Service |
can't
or won't survey more of the rim worlds, even though they have
been asked many times |
| |
CHANC:8 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
MOUNT:287 |
Survey
Service |
the
policeman of the galaxy |
| |
OPERA:38 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
OPERA:39 |
HQ |
on
Earth - presumably Survey Service |
| |
PILLR:31 |
Survey
Service |
impressed
the need for the act upon the Federation Parliment |
| |
RIMGH:77 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
RIMOF:10 |
Survey
Service |
mentioned
that it has neglected exploring the Rim Worlds |
| |
SEEIN:202 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
SEEIN:205 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TINME:211 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:9 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:40 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:52 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:57 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:58 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:123 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:131 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:135 |
Survey
Service |
|
| |
TOPRI:153 |
Survey
Service |
|
| Thuringian
Navy |
TOPRI:95 |
Thuringian
Navy |
Stolzbergs
served in it; it was disbanded 'after federation' |
| Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
BRING:11 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
Lightning
is this companies newest ship |
| |
MOUNT:272 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
makes
cruise stops on Olgana |
| |
MOUNT:273 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
|
| |
MOUNT:274 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
one
of their ships is in port on Olgana |
| |
MOUNT:295 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
|
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
|
| |
RIMOF:74 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
Jane
Arlen mentions that TGC is thinking of running cruises out
to the Rim Worlds |
| |
SEEIN:208 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
|
| |
SEEIN:208 |
Trans-Galactic
Clippers |
a
cruise to the Rim Worlds stops on Elsinore and has a few cabins
available; Willis is able to take one and travel direct from
Elsinore to Earth |
| Waverly
Royal Mail |
BRING:13 |
Waverly
Royal Mail |
|
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Waverly
Royal Mail |
|
| SHIPS |
| Adder |
BROKE:20 |
Adder |
|
| |
BROKE:87 |
Adder |
|
| |
BROKE:138 |
Adder |
|
| |
MOUNT:270 |
Adder |
|
| |
MOUNT:280 |
Adder |
|
| |
SLPBU:216 |
Adder |
|
| |
SLPBU:217 |
Adder |
following
the Mr. Adam incident, the ship's computer is being replaced
while in port |
| |
SLPBU:221 |
Adder |
|
| |
SLPBU:223 |
Adder |
|
| |
SLPBU:230 |
Adder |
is
having mechanical problems |
| |
SLPBU:238 |
Adder |
|
| |
SLPBU:239 |
Adder |
|
| |
SUBTR:172 |
Adder |
|
| |
SUBTR:172 |
Adder |
Courier
ship that Grimes is given command of |
| |
SUBTR:199 |
Adder |
|
| |
TINME:200 |
Adder |
the
crew does not normally run to a cook and the crew of the ship
is unusually foo conscious |
| |
TINME:201 |
Adder |
is
'dwarfed by (the) larger vessels' in port at Lindisfarne Base |
| |
WANDE:244 |
Adder |
|
| |
WANDE:246 |
Adder |
has
6 space mines in its magazine |
| |
WANDE:247 |
Adder |
is
equipped with a laser cannon |
| |
WANDE:250 |
Adder |
before
running across the buoy, Adder was delivering fleet mail |
| |
WANDE:256 |
Adder |
|
| |
WANDE:257 |
Adder |
|
| |
WANDE:262 |
Adder |
|
| |
WANDE:265 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:296 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:297 |
Adder |
has
a VIP suite, a whole compartment located below the officer's
flat (presuming a major portion of a deck on Adder) |
| |
WHATY:300 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:303 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:305 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:318 |
Adder |
the
Manschenn Drive breaks down |
| |
WHATY:322 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:325 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:326 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:328 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:329 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:333 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:333 |
Adder |
nothing
on the ship is on the 'secret' list |
| |
WHATY:334 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:336 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:337 |
Adder |
|
| |
WHATY:338 |
Adder |
|
| Adler |
ROADR:123 |
Adler |
one
of the frigates which attacked Epsilon Sextans |
| |
ROADR:136 |
Adler |
is
destroyed by Inflexible |
| Agent
of the Old Ones |
WANDE:245 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
|
| |
WANDE:246 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
is
spherical, metallic in appearance, has markings that look
painted on and no projections of any kind on its surface |
| |
WANDE:261 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
seen
up close, the markings on its hull have the appaearance of
a printed circuit. It is apparently an intelligent machine |
| |
WANDE:262 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
the
interior is dark until light is needed; it then comes on (as
if the buoy is reading the thoughts of Grimes and Deane) |
| |
WANDE:263 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
there
is machinery inside; Grimes stares at a spinning wheel of
rainbow luminescense. The Buoy is 'aware' of Grimes and Deane |
| |
WANDE:265 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
'transports'
Grimes and Deane outside itself |
| |
WANDE:265 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
is
an agent of the 'old ones' |
| |
WANDE:266 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
its
job is to make contact with indigenes and initiate their education;
they were to abort their mission if they found intelligence |
| |
WANDE:267 |
Unidentified
Space Buoy |
would
stay in the vicinity of a race it was educating, monitoring
and nudging their development if necessary |
| Albatross |
ROADR:123 |
Albatross |
destroyed
by Grimes during the second encounter between the 'pirates'
and Epsilon Sextans |
| Alien
Ship |
BROKE:63 |
Alien
Ship |
refers
here to one of the conical ships. |
| Alpha
Centauri |
ROADR:27 |
Alpha
Centauri |
is
on the Sol to Sirius run |
| Alpha
Cepheus |
TOPRI:21 |
Alpha
Cepheus |
an
INterstellar Transport Commission ship; Kravisky served aboard
her |
| Alpha
Draconis |
BRING:25 |
Alpha
Draconis |
there
was a mutiny aboard in the past |
| Alpha
Scorpii |
RIMOF:15 |
Alpha
Scorpii |
|
| |
RIMOF:16 |
Alpha
Scorpii |
had
an outbreak of food poisoning when Jane Arlen served aboard
her |
| |
SEEIN:201 |
Alpha
Scorpii |
was
aproaching Austral when Willis had his accident |
| Aries |
TOPRI:5 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:6 |
Aries |
is
travelling well beyond the trade routes |
| |
TOPRI:7 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:12 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:13 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:17 |
Aries |
has
'boat blisters', storing the smaller boats |
| |
TOPRI:30 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:35 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:38 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:39 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:40 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:42 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:43 |
Aries |
a
"shining, metallic tower." |
| |
TOPRI:44 |
Aries |
deploys
a ramp extending from the after airlock upon landing (meaning
there is more than one airlock); the airlock itself has a
circular doorway |
| |
TOPRI:78 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:79 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:90 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:107 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:118 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:131 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:154 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:155 |
Aries |
|
| |
TOPRI:156 |
Aries |
is
finally recalled to Lindisfarne Base |
| Asp |
SLPBU:218 |
Asp |
A
serpent class courier in port at Lindisfarne Base |
| Atlanta |
DRIFT:52 |
Atlanta |
bound
from Sol III to Procyon |
| Basset |
SLPBU:234 |
Basset |
is
a ship in the vicinity of Adder when she breaks down |
| Beacon
Tender |
BROKE:155 |
Beacon
Tender |
A
ship that regularly visits Carlotti Beacon Stations to check
their status and make repairs where necessary |
| Beta
Carinae |
BRING:30 |
Beta
Carinae |
there
was a smuggling case involving this ship smuggline Euphorine.
Since Liz was somehow involved, it is presumably an ITC ship |
| Beta
Geminorum |
ROADR:27 |
Beta
Geminorum |
travels
to Atlanta, Caribbea, Carinthia and the Cluster Worlds |
| Beta
Orionis |
BRING:55 |
Beta
Orionis |
disappeared;
her loss has never been accounted for |
| Beta
Puppis |
BROKE:11 |
Beta
Puppis |
Una
Freeman arrives at Lindisfarne aboard this ship |
| Beta
Ursa Majoris |
SEEIN:203 |
Beta
Ursa Majoris |
Commission
ship, runs from Earth to Caribbea directly |
| Beta
Virginis |
GIFTH:41 |
Beta
Virginis |
ship
served on by Judith and Chambers |
| Borzoi |
BROKE:10 |
Borzoi |
A
Dog Star Line ship that picks up Delta Geminorum's crew |
| Bunyip |
ROADR:23 |
Bunyip |
went
missing in an area where the Waldegren Navy was holding manuevers;
Baxter and other Rim Worlders suspect it was pirated |
| Caliban |
RIMOF:5 |
Caliban |
|
| |
RIMOF:5 |
Caliban |
arrives
at Port Forlorn bearing Derek Calver |
| |
RIMOF:7 |
Caliban |
was
formerly Epsilon Sextans |
| Captor's
Ship |
CAGET:271 |
Captor's
Ship |
has
a drive similar to Ehrenhaft drive |
| Cobra |
SLPBU:218 |
Cobra |
A
serpent class courier in port at Lindisfarne Base |
| Cone
Ship |
BROKE:59 |
Cone
Ship |
The
ship landed on the unnamed planet is cone-shaped, with a metallic,
drilled and pitted surface. There are antennas near its apex
and the top is ringed with circular ports. |
| |
BROKE:65 |
Conical
Ships |
They
come across two of these vessels. Their hulls have green,
white, blue and red lights on them. |
| |
BROKE:68 |
Conical
Ships |
|
| |
BROKE:69 |
Conical
Ships |
are
obviously armed and fire a missile salve at the skeleton spheres. |
| |
BROKE:71 |
Conical
Ships |
one
of them explodes during the battle. |
| Constellation
Class Cruiser |
BROKE:15 |
Constellation
Class Cruiser |
|
| Corgi |
TOPRI:155 |
Corgi |
Aries
had to capture this ship when there was a mutiny aboard; Aries
chased her almost out to the Rim; Grimes is in charge of the
boarding party and is glad the mutineers did not put up a
fight |
| Corvette |
BROKE:22 |
Corvette |
|
| Cragge
Rock |
MOUNT:293 |
Cragge
Rock |
lifts
off from Olgana |
| Creole
Queen |
RIMGH:72 |
Creole
Queen |
travels
between Caribbea and Van Diemen's Planet |
| |
RIMGH:82 |
Creole
Queen |
shuttles
between Caribbea and Van Diemen's Planet |
| |
SEEIN:205 |
Creole
Queen |
formlery
a Delta class tramp with a new internal layout |
| Cutty
Sark |
MOUNT:276 |
Cutty
Sark |
is
in port on Olgana |
| |
MOUNT:277 |
Cutty
Sark |
|
| Delta
Bootis |
CHANC:1 |
Delta
Bootis |
Commission
ship; next to visit Faraway |
| |
CHANC:2 |
Delta
Bootis |
|
| |
CHANC:8 |
Delta
Bootis |
|
| Delta
Cygni |
GHOST:56 |
Delta
Cygni |
has
24 passengers aboard |
| |
GHOST:61 |
Delta
Cygni |
first
mention of ship's name |
| Delta
Eridani |
BRING:21 |
Delta
Eridani |
travels
a route from Earth, to Caribbea, to Van Diemen's Planet, to
Atlantis and then to Carinthia |
| Delta
Geminorum |
BROKE:10 |
Delta
Geminorum |
was
abandoned in deep space after receiving a bomb threat from
hijackers |
| |
BROKE:14 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:15 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:19 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:24 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:26 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:31 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:34 |
Delta
Geminorum |
is
a typical Delta class liner. When sighted, her outer airlock
door is open |
| |
BROKE:35 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:37 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:39 |
Delta
Geminorum |
the
bomb in her hold explodes just before Grimes and Freeman board
her - set off by Grimes' communicating with Skink via Carlotti
radio. Delta Geminorum is destroyed. |
| |
BROKE:41 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:45 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:46 |
Delta
Geminorum |
The
ship was running under MD when she blew up - where or when
did Una and John go? |
| |
BROKE:101 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| |
BROKE:102 |
Delta
Geminorum |
|
| Delta
Orionis |
ROADR:2 |
Delta
Orionis |
Ship
Grimes will take to his next assignment |
| |
ROADR:3 |
Delia
O'Ryan |
nickname
for Delta Orionis |
| |
ROADR:39 |
Delia
O'Ryan |
a
nickname for Delta Orionis |
| Delta
Serpens |
MANWH:123 |
Delta
Serpens |
in
Port Remote, travelling from Faraway to Mitylene |
| Discovery |
BRING:25 |
Discovery |
the
porter's ship was "the old Discovery" |
| Draconis |
SLPBU:234 |
Draconis |
|
| Dynasoar |
TOPRI:55 |
Dynasoar |
|
| Dynosoar |
TOPRI:13 |
Pinnace |
Aries'
rocket re-entry boat |
| |
TOPRI:18 |
Pinnace |
Aries'
pinnace is a rocket boat. It is a " graceless, stubby, flattened
dart" with venturi and control surfaces |
| |
TOPRI:19 |
Pinnace |
Aries
rocket boat is 'ancient' |
| |
TOPRI:22 |
Pinnace |
has
parachute breaks and retro-rockets for re-entry |
| |
TOPRI:24 |
Pinnace |
has
ejection gear |
| |
TOPRI:29 |
Pinnace |
also
referred to as a 're-entry vehicle' |
| |
TOPRI:41 |
Dynosoar |
a
re-entry vehicle |
| |
TOPRI:41 |
Pinnace |
referred
to as a Dynosoar by Marlene |
| |
TOPRI:47 |
Dynosoar |
|
| |
TOPRI:58 |
Dynosoar |
|
| |
TOPRI:62 |
Dynosoar |
|
| |
TOPRI:66 |
Dynosoar |
|
| |
TOPRI:75 |
Dynosoar |
|
| |
TOPRI:76 |
Dynosoar |
|
| |
TOPRI:114 |
Dynosoar |
|
| El
Doradan Automated Freighter |
TOPRI:6 |
El
Doradan Automated Freighter |
they
have two crewmen a captain and an engineer. each ship does
one run a year, which is sufficient to supply the El Doradan's
needs |
| Emporer's
Yacht |
ROADR:86 |
Emporer's
Yacht |
much
of the stowage in the hold is for 'the emporer's yacht' |
| Epsilon
Gruis |
WORDS:41 |
Epsilon
Gruis |
|
| |
WORDS:48 |
Epsilon
Gruis |
|
| |
WORDS:49 |
Epsilon
Gruis |
|
| Epsilon
Lyrae |
GIFTH:32 |
Epsilon
Lyrae |
ITC
ship that had just left Dunsinane for Elsinore; her round
trip is apparently 6 weeks |
| |
GIFTH:33 |
Epsilon
Lyrae |
|
| |
GIFTH:39 |
Epsilon
Lyrae |
|
| Epsilon
Pavonis |
CHANC:1 |
Epsilon
Pavonis |
old;
"brought all the way across the galaxy" from Earth to the
Rim. The ship has been sold to Rim Runners Inc |
| |
CHANC:6 |
Epsilon
Pavonis |
has
been sold to Rim Runners to become their first survey ship
- Faraway Quest |
| |
RIMGH:73 |
Epsilon
Pavonis |
one
of the commission's scruffier tramps; carrying whiskey from
Nova Caledon to Lorn |
| Epsilon
Puppis |
BRING:21 |
Epsilon
Puppis |
after
visiting Carinthia, will be visiting Ultimo, Thule, Faraway
and Lorn |
| Epsilon
Serpentis |
ROADR:26 |
Epsilon
Serpentis |
|
| Epsilon
Sextans |
RIMOF:7 |
Epsilon
Sextans |
now
Shakesperian Line's Caliban |
| |
ROADR:46 |
Epsilon
Sextans |
Delta
Orionis' PRO receives a distress call from this ship which
has been attacked by pirates |
| |
ROADR:47 |
Epsilon
Sextans |
The
ship's PRO is one of the survivors of the pirate's attack.
He claims that the pirates were two Waldegrenes frigates |
| |
ROADR:61 |
Epsilon
Sextans |
the
survivors of the pirate attack were: 4th engineer, Chief,
second and third Interstellar Drive engineers and the PRO |
| |
ROADR:126 |
Epsilon
Sextans |
was
carrying: vaciar, escargot, pate de foi gras, virginia ham,
brie, alcoholic cherries, montrachet |
| |
ROADR:137 |
Epsilon
Sextans |
was
heading for Waverly before being pirated |
| Faraway
Queen |
RIMOF:116 |
Faraway
Queen |
runs
the Eastern Circuit about a month behind Lorn Lady |
| Faraway
Quest |
CHANC:6 |
Faraway
Quest |
crew
positions: Master, Purser, Chief and 2nd MD Engineers, Rocket
Engineer, Chief Officer, Surgeon/Biochemist, Electronic Radio
Officer |
| |
CHANC:6 |
Faraway
Quest |
the
converted and re-named Epsilon Pavonis |
| |
CHANC:8 |
Faraway
Quest |
has
had two boat blisters added and the cargo area has been converted
to living accomodations; additional crew members are 2 additional
engineers, 3 astronomers and 2 biologists |
| |
CHANC:11 |
Faraway
Quest |
|
| |
CHANC:12 |
Faraway
Quest |
visits
numerous worlds and finds nothing above the dinosaurs in terms
of life. Many of these worlds can be colonized |
| Gift
Horse |
GIFTH:32 |
Gift
Horse |
name
the colonists give the ship that appears in orbit |
| |
GIFTH:35 |
The
Stranger |
has
a needle prow - she had been designed for planetary landings |
| |
GIFTH:36 |
The
Stranger |
has
"the usual greenhouse at the nose" and a name is printed below
one of the windows but in an unfamiliar script. there is an
airlock 'where one should be" two-thirds of the way between
nose and tail. It is obvious that the ship is made by humans
or |
| |
GIFTH:39 |
Gift
Horse |
|
| |
GIFTH:39 |
Gift
Horse |
the
route plannets is Dunsinane to Elsionore, to Illyria, to Venice,
to Phillipi |
| |
GIFTH:40 |
Gift
Horse |
cargo
- mail, ram and 2 ewes for Elsinore, a dozen bales of sheepskins
for Illyria, whiskey for Venice, rooster and chickens for
Phillipi |
| |
GIFTH:40 |
Gift
Horse |
still
has life boats (at least two) aboard |
| |
GIFTH:41 |
Gift
Horse |
|
| |
GIFTH:43 |
Gift
Horse |
the
MD has taken over and can't be stopped |
| |
GIFTH:45 |
Gift
Horse |
|
| |
GIFTH:46 |
Gift
Horse |
|
| |
GIFTH:47 |
Gift
Horse |
disintegrates
shortly after landing |
| |
GIFTH:112 |
Gift
Horse |
|
| Globular
Ship |
BROKE:60 |
Globular
Ship |
a
"glittering latticework, roughly globular in form." "A skeleton
globe inside of which the shapes of enigmatic machines spun
and glittered. From its lower surface dangled writhing tentacles,
long, metallic ropes." A later look reveals a dozen tentacles. |
| Grollan
Spaceships |
RIMOF:72 |
Grollan
Spaceships |
they
have no advanced drives; they always use chemical reaction
inside an atmosphere; their atomic engines don't burn clean |
| Guardships |
ROADR:125 |
Guardships |
mentioned
in reference to being around the Dartura base; inferred that
these are interplanetary warships |
| Inflexible |
ROADR:135 |
Inflexible |
arrives
at Dartura just after Epsilon Sextans and Adler, along with
other Survey Service ships |
| |
ROADR:136 |
Inflexible |
destroys
Adler |
| Insect
Class Courier |
BROKE:22 |
Insect
Class Courier |
these
are essentially long range pinnaces and serve the purpose
of dispatch boats |
| James
Baines |
BRING:74 |
James
Baines |
Fergus
served aboard her |
| Jolly
Swagman |
MANWH:109 |
Jolly
Swagman |
tramp
freighter, travelling from Van Diemen's Planet to Faraway |
| Jumbuk |
MOUNT:278 |
Jumbuk |
|
| |
ROADR:26 |
Jumbuk |
Sundowner
Line |
| Life
Boat |
BROKE:24 |
Mark
XIV Lifeboat |
|
| |
BROKE:25 |
Lifeboat |
looks
like a fat cigar |
| |
BROKE:25 |
Mark
XIV |
|
| |
BROKE:81 |
Boat |
is
trapped inside Panzen like an insect in a spider web |
| |
BROKE:90 |
Lifeboat |
|
| |
BROKE:99 |
Boat |
|
| |
BROKE:102 |
Lifeboat |
|
| |
BROKE:103 |
Boat |
|
| |
BROKE:115 |
Lifeboat |
|
| |
BROKE:116 |
Boat |
|
| |
BROKE:153 |
Lifeboat |
|
| Lightning |
BRING:7 |
Lightning |
Petersen
served on this ship until he missed its departure |
| |
BRING:11 |
Lightning |
Lightning
is travelling for Port of Spain on Caribbea |
| Listra |
CHANC:17 |
Listra |
Lowanni
ship - Beta class in size |
| Lizard
Class Courier |
BROKE:19 |
Lizard
Class Courier |
|
| |
BROKE:22 |
Lizard
Class Courier |
are
as large as covettes but are not armed like corvettes. They
have far greater cargo and passenger capacity than the Serpent
Class couriers |
| Lode
Jumbuk |
MOUNT:269 |
Lode
Jumbuk |
colony
ship that originated in Port Woomera, Earth, and ended up
on Olgana |
| |
MOUNT:270 |
Lode
Jumbuk |
carried
ova and spermatazoa "as did all colonisation vessels of her
period" in refrigeration |
| |
MOUNT:272 |
Lode
Jumbuk |
landed
on the northern continent of Olgana, which was uninhabited
by the indigenes at that time |
| |
MOUNT:276 |
Lode
Jumbuk |
|
| |
MOUNT:281 |
Lode
Jumbuk |
|
| |
MOUNT:288 |
Lode
Jumbuk |
the
personnel used blimps for their initial explorations of Olgana |
| Lode
Ranger |
OPERA:40 |
Lode
Ranger |
a
migrant ship bound for Caribbea from Earth. it ran into a
magnetic storm around Antares |
| |
OPERA:40 |
Lode
Ranger |
found
near the south magnetic pole of the planet |
| |
OPERA:42 |
Lode
Ranger |
|
| Lode
Star |
CAGET:265 |
Lode
Star |
has
Ehrenhaft drive trouble and sets down on an unknown planet;
the pile then goes critical and the captain and most of the
crew die when she explodes. fifty-odd passengers and crew
survive the explosion |
| |
CAGET:270 |
Lode
Star |
|
| Lodejammer |
MOUNT:279 |
Lodejammer |
|
| Loderunner |
SEEIN:202 |
Loderunner |
Ehrenhaft
drive ship that got lost and landed on Bronsonia |
| Lorn
Lady |
RIMGH:72 |
Lorn
Lady |
|
| |
RIMOF:7 |
Lorn
Lady |
in
port Forlorn |
| |
RIMOF:9 |
Lorn
Lady |
nicknames
the Forlorn Bitch |
| |
RIMOF:16 |
Forlorn
Lady |
nickname
for Lorn Lady |
| |
RIMOF:17 |
Lorn
Lady |
described
as an old ship |
| |
RIMOF:124 |
Lorn
Lady |
Calver
uses reaction drive in a last ditch effort to save Thermopylae;
he is successfull, but Lorn Lady breaks in two |
| Lowanni
Ship |
CHANC:14 |
Lowanni
Ship |
analogous
to a Beta Class ship - a trading vessel |
| Matthew
Flinders |
PILLR:31 |
Matthew
Flinders |
survey
service ship; sent on a mission from Earth to find new worlds
that could be used for their resources and colonized |
| |
PILLR:35 |
Matthew
Flinders |
the
control room is 400 feet away from the tail fins |
| |
PILLR:36 |
Matthew
Flinders |
is
still in service 30 years after its first visit to Lishaar |
| Moon
Empress |
BRING:105 |
Moon
Empress |
Wenceslaus
moon ferry |
| Moon
Princess |
BRING:71 |
Moon
Princess |
a
moon ferry running from Port Tauber to Wenceslaus; described
s a passenger ship (unlike Moonmaiden) |
| Moon
Queen |
BRING:70 |
Moon
Queen |
a
moon ferry running from Port Tauber to Wenceslaus; described
s a passenger ship (unlike Moonmaiden) |
| Moon
Rocket |
BRING:24 |
Moon
Rocket |
regular
ship runs between Wenceslaus and Port Tauber |
| Moonmaiden |
BRING:70 |
Moonmaiden |
the
ship Petersen takes from Port Tauber to Wenceslaus; has a
'needle nose and looks small to Petersen |
| |
BRING:71 |
Moonmaiden |
a
description of the ship: cargo holds first, then a gyroscope
level, but no interstellar drive level and no hydroponics
level, then passenger level, with 6 two-person cabins arranged
around the central shaft: this ship's atmosphere will be c |
| |
BRING:71 |
Moonmaiden |
can
carry up to 12 passengers |
| |
BRING:74 |
Moonmaiden |
pitifully
undermanned: captain, two mates, two engineers and a purser/stewardess;
the trip to Wencelsaus is relatively short |
| |
BRING:79 |
Moonmaiden |
the
moon ships maintain steady acceleration until turnover, so
there is 'gravity' aboard ship |
| |
BRING:81 |
Moonmaiden |
there
is a crash, the lights go out, the ship has had some kind
of accident |
| |
BRING:87 |
Moonmaiden |
the
ship's generators run off of waste heat from the main drive |
| |
BRING:91 |
Moonmaiden |
Petersen
manages to enter the control room and confirms that the Captain
and Ivor are dead; it becomes obvious that there was a bomb
in the control room |
| |
BRING:100 |
Moonmaiden |
Petersen
tells Port Pilsen control that the captain, chief, second
officer and chief engineer are all dead |
| Ore
Carrier |
BRING:47 |
Ore
Carrier |
on
the ground in Port Tauber - a 'big ship'; comes from Silesia |
| Pathfinder |
SUBTR:168 |
Pathfinder |
returns
to Lindisfarne Base from Delta Sextans |
| |
WITHG:145 |
Pathfinder |
Survey
Ship |
| |
WITHG:164 |
Pathfinder |
|
| Princess
Helga |
WHATY:320 |
Princess
Helga |
|
| |
WHATY:321 |
Princess
Helga |
|
| |
WHATY:325 |
Princess
Helga |
Princess
Helga emerged into normal space/time only feet from the drifting
Adder. At one moment there was nothing...at the next moment
she was there, a vague outline at first, but solidfying rapidly.
A great spindle of gleaming plastic and metal, the |
| |
WHATY:326 |
Princess
Helga |
|
| |
WHATY:328 |
Princess
Helga |
|
| |
WHATY:334 |
Princess
Helga |
|
| |
WHATY:335 |
Princess
Helga |
|
| Princess
Ingaret |
WHATY:331 |
Princess
Ingaret |
|
| Private
Trading Vessel |
PILLR:37 |
Private
Trading Vessel |
there
are three in the port on Lishaar, from Calydon |
| Quest |
SEEIN:205 |
Quest |
Willis
meets the captain of this ship while in Port Fortinbras on
Elsinore. He takes passage to Bronsonia aboard this ship.
A Survey Service ship. |
| |
SEEIN:207 |
Quest |
|
| Rescue
Tug |
BRING:104 |
Rescue
Tug |
at
the inquiry regarding Moonmaiden, it is suggested that Petersen
should have manuevered to miss Wenceslaus and waited for a
rescue tug, rather than trying to land |
| Rimgirl |
RIMGH:74 |
Rimgirl |
main
character is assigned to this ship by Commodore Grimes; only
has two engineers in its compliment, on interstellar, the
other reaction drive |
| |
RIMGH:75 |
Rimgirl |
'greivously
undermanned by ITC standards' and her personnel are 'sub-standard';
one of the ships on the Eastern Circuit |
| |
RIMGH:75 |
Rimgirl |
carries
manufactured goods to the Eastern Circuit, then brings back
artifacts and natural products |
| |
RIMGH:76 |
Rimgirl |
|
| |
RIMGH:81 |
Rimgirl |
bound
"Port Forlorn from Tharn" |
| |
RIMGH:82 |
Rimgirl |
|
| Rimgirl
(II) |
RIMGH:80 |
Rimgirl
(II) |
an
alternate reality Rimgirl |
| |
RIMGH:81 |
Rimgirl
(II) |
bound
"from Tharn to Port Forlorn" |
| Rimhound |
RIMOF:48 |
Rimhound |
is
delivering aircraft to Tharn about 3 weeks after Lorn Lady's
arrival |
| Rocket
Mail |
MOUNT:273 |
Rocket
Mail |
provides
transport from Newer York to Nevernever on Olgana |
| Selene |
BRING:75 |
Selene |
lunar
ferry that crashes into the dome of Luna City |
| Serpent
Class |
BROKE:25 |
Serpent
Class |
|
| Serpent
Class Courier |
BROKE:15 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
| |
BROKE:16 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
| |
BROKE:22 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
| |
BROKE:86 |
Serpent
Class Courier |
|
| Skandian
Destroyer |
WHATY:334 |
Skandian
Destroyer |
in
Koben Haven Port |
| Skandian
Transport |
WHATY:334 |
Skandian
Transport |
in
Koben Haven Port |
| Skandian
Tug |
WHATY:334 |
Skandian
Tug |
in
Koben Haven Port |
| Skink |
BROKE:19 |
Skink |
a
Lizard Class Courier is going to Olgana |
| |
BROKE:20 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:22 |
Skink |
has
a crew of 20, passenger capacity for 25. If the cargo spaces
are used for passengers it can carry 75. It has inertial drive,
manschenn drive and auxillery reaction drive, one battery
of laser cannon and missiles |
| |
BROKE:25 |
Skink |
Not
a big ship, but she looks big compared to Adder. She could
never be called a flying darning needle |
| |
BROKE:27 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:28 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:29 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:31 |
Skink |
...Skink
fell through the immensities, through the Continuum warped
by the temporal precession field of her Manschenn Drive. As
seen from her control room the stars were neither points of
light nor appreciable discs, but pulsing spirals of iridescence. |
| |
BROKE:34 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:37 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:38 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:41 |
Skink |
Following
the explosion of Delta Geminorum, there is no sign of Skink. |
| |
BROKE:42 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:44 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:46 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:47 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:50 |
Skink |
|
| |
BROKE:61 |
Skink |
Grimes
misses his pipe which was left aboard the courier. |
| Spurling
Six |
GIFTH:34 |
Spurling
Six |
the
only usable (barely) space vessel on Dunsinane; has rocket
drive instead of the "usual jets" |
| |
GIFTH:35 |
Spurling |
the
ship's airlock door is missing - but they take the ship up
anyway, wearing spacesuits |
| |
GIFTH:36 |
Spurling |
one
of its wings gets crunched when they haul it up to the Gift
Horse |
| |
GIFTH:37 |
Spurling |
could
be repaired for re-entry - but no guarantee of a safe landing |
| Star
Rover |
RIMOF:73 |
Star
Rover |
|
| |
RIMOF:85 |
Star
Rover |
staffed
by two men (engineers) in addition to Sonya and Bill |
| |
RIMOF:88 |
Star
Rover |
destroyed
on the ground at the Grollan spaceport by Lorn Lady, which
hovered over her and used reaction drive to melt her down |
| Starquest |
OPERA:38 |
Starquest |
|
| |
OPERA:39 |
Starquest |
|
| |
OPERA:40 |
Starquest |
|
| |
OPERA:40 |
Starquest |
can't
be landed safely |
| Stone
Spaceships |
MOUNT:294 |
Stone
Spaceships |
were
sent out millions of years ago (by the 'First Ones'?). they
have a drive like the ID and something like the MD. They are
fusion powered and require psionics to operate |
| Sweepers |
BROKE:63 |
Skeleton
Spheres |
|
| |
BROKE:69 |
Skeletal
Spheres |
begin
"shimmering into visibility". These are bigger than the earlier
ones that Grimes and Una saw. |
| |
BROKE:70 |
Skeleton
Spheres |
Are
not attacking against the conical ships. They are using lasers
or something similar to detonate the missiles fired at them. |
| |
BROKE:71 |
Skeleton
Spheres |
|
| |
BROKE:83 |
Sweepers |
the
designation of the skeleton spheres |
| Taiping |
BRING:53 |
Taiping |
Petersen
was fourth officer on the "old Taiping" when it was approaching
the planet the Skoda powerplan was on and saw the explosion |
| The
Outsider |
RIMGH:73 |
The
Outsider |
Calver's
ship he purchased with salvage money |
| |
RIMOF:94 |
The
Outsider |
a
"rim ghost" seen by Lorn Lady's crew shortly after leaving
Grollor |
| Thermopylae |
RIMGH:72 |
Thermopylae |
|
| |
RIMOF:92 |
Thermopylae |
|
| |
RIMOF:116 |
Thermopylae |
is
off Eblis |
| |
RIMOF:117 |
Thermopylae |
its
tubes are burned out and it can't use its Manschenn Drive
and is falling into Eblis |
| |
RIMOF:124 |
Thermopylae |
carries
1500 passengers and 300 crew |
| Trailblazer |
MOUNT:269 |
Trailblazer |
the
survey ship which redicovered the lost colony on Olgana |
| Unnamed
Exploration Ship |
MANWH:128 |
Unnamed
Exploration Ship |
Clavering
notes that it is "twice the size" of an Alpha Class Liner |
| Viper |
SLPBU:218 |
Viper |
A
serpent class courier in port at Lindisfarne Base |
| Waltzing
Matilda |
BRING:49 |
Waltzing
Matilda |
has
been diverted to Carinthia from its regular run, which is
Nova Caldeon to Faraway via Elsinore |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| Acceleration
Webbing |
BRING:72 |
Acceleration
Webbing |
Restraint
system for passengers during ship manuevering |
| Air
Tanks |
BROKE:80 |
Air
Tanks |
the
air tanks of the space suits are almost empty. |
| |
BROKE:88 |
Air
Bottles |
there
are spares aboard the boat |
| |
BROKE:100 |
Air
Bottles |
|
| Alarm
System |
WITHG:152 |
Alarm
System |
Grimes
installs an electrical fence with alarms around the camp |
| |
WITHG:154 |
Alarm
System |
has
a force field |
| Analyzer |
BRING:56 |
Analyzer |
capable
of determining whether someone is telling the truth or lying |
| Anti-Matter |
BRING:105 |
Contraterren
Matter |
anti-matter |
| |
CHANC:21 |
Anti-Matter |
Erin
and Morris' life boat explode when they make contact |
| |
SEEIN:202 |
Contraterrene
Matter |
meteors
that hit Alpha Scorpii are anti-matter |
| Automatic
Harvesters |
TOPRI:21 |
Automatic
Harvesters |
great
glittering machines working the fields on El Doardo@&@@&@@&@@ |
| Automatic
Shower |
TOPRI:33 |
Automatic
Shower |
...Before
he could raise a hand the curtain slid across the opening,
before he could look for controls a fine spray of warm, soapy
water came at him from all directions. This was succeeded,
after a few minutes, by water with no added detergent and,@&@finally,
by a steady blast of hot air. When he was dry, the curtain
slid back... |
| Binoculars |
BROKE:77 |
Binoculars |
|
| |
TOPRI:141 |
Binoculars |
|
| Brain
Draining Technique |
BROKE:10 |
Brain
Draining Technique |
leaves
the subject "worse than a vegetable" |
| Brain
Surgery |
MANWH:128 |
Brain
Surgery |
personality
destroying brain surgery for dealing with habitual criminals
is abhored on all civilized worlds |
| Carlotti
Beacon |
BROKE:152 |
Beacon |
A
Carlotti navigation beacon - in this case an automatic, unmanned
one. |
| |
BROKE:155 |
Carlotti
Beacon |
|
| |
WHATY:328 |
Base
Beacon |
This
one is located at the Kone Haven base |
| Carlotti
Gear |
BRING:6 |
Carlotti
Beacons |
Petersen
sees these out the window (two) and notes that they are "oddly
convoluted columns". They are as tall as space ships (inferred) |
| |
BRING:55 |
Carlotti
Beacons |
mentioned
and described as "like mobius strips coiled around attenuated
klein flasks" |
| |
BRING:55 |
Carlotti
Beacons |
no
time lag between transmission and reception, regardless of
distance |
| |
BROKE:10 |
Carlotti
Radio |
|
| |
BROKE:39 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
|
| |
BROKE:39 |
Mini
Carlotti Receiver |
attached
to the bomb in Delta Geminorum's hold |
| |
BROKE:42 |
Carlotti |
|
| |
BROKE:44 |
Carlotti |
the
transciever was smashed during the explosion |
| |
BROKE:47 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
|
| |
BROKE:48 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
|
| |
BROKE:49 |
Carlotti
Radio |
some
circuit trays are interchangeable between NST and Carlotti
radio sets |
| |
BROKE:50 |
Carlotti
Mark IVA |
|
| |
BROKE:50 |
Deep
Space Radio |
Carlotti
transciever. "...the Carlotti equipment propogated signals
which, somehow, ignored the normal three dimensions of Space
and, by taking a shortcut of some kind, arrived at the receiving
station, practically instantaneously." |
| |
BROKE:51 |
Carlotti
Antenna |
looks
like a metal moebius strip and is oval rather than circular. |
| |
BROKE:51 |
Carlotti
Set |
|
| |
BROKE:52 |
Carlotti
Direction Finding |
controls
can be set to "hunt" to find and lock in on a Carlotti transmission. |
| |
BROKE:55 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
has
a vision screen |
| |
BROKE:57 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
|
| |
BROKE:58 |
Carlotti
Speaker |
|
| |
BROKE:62 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
|
| |
BROKE:64 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
Picks
up anothjer conversation in the alien language. |
| |
BROKE:66 |
Visiscreen |
The
vision screen of the Carlotti Transciever |
| |
BROKE:68 |
Carlottie
Transciever Visiscreen |
|
| |
BROKE:73 |
Carlotti
Speaker |
|
| |
BROKE:73 |
Transciever |
|
| |
BROKE:76 |
Carlotti
Speaker |
|
| |
BROKE:77 |
Carlotti |
|
| |
BROKE:152 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
|
| |
BROKE:153 |
Beacon
Transmitter |
The
transmitter in the station can be used to send a distress
signal |
| |
BROKE:153 |
Carlotti
Transciever |
The
one on the lifeboat does not have any significant range |
| |
BROKE:153 |
Moebius
Strip Antenna |
|
| |
MOUNT:271 |
Carlottigram |
|
| |
OPERA:38 |
Carlotti
Beacons |
had
not been invented when Lode Ranger got lost |
| |
OPERA:39 |
Carlotti
Radio |
|
| |
OPERA:39 |
Carlottie
Beacon Tank |
shows
stars, vector and line-of-bearing lines while under Manschenn
drive |
| |
SLPBU:234 |
Carlotti |
|
| |
WANDE:245 |
Carlotti |
|
| |
WHATY:320 |
Carlotti |
|
| |
WHATY:321 |
Carlotti |
has
a 'pilot antenna - an elliptical mobius strip rotating around
its long axis |
| |
WHATY:321 |
Carlotti |
has
a vision screen |
| |
WHATY:323 |
Carlotti |
|
| |
WITHG:147 |
Carlotti
Direction Finder |
used
with Carlotti beacons on various world to fix positions |
| Carlotti
Signal |
BROKE:52 |
Beacon
Signal |
Carlotti
beacon signals are morse transmissions |
| |
BROKE:73 |
Carlotti
Signals |
They
are picking them up from everywhere. |
| Carlottigram |
BROKE:18 |
Carlottigram |
|
| Changing
mass while using Manschenn |
BROKE:46 |
Changing
mass while using Manschenn |
drive.
Grimes refers to the idea that you'll fall into a different
universe an old spaceman's yarn. |
| Chart
Tank |
BRING:35 |
Chart
Tank |
Vynalek
has a spherical, transparent tank, about 5 feet in diameter,
that Petersen thinks looks like a chart tank |
| Communications |
OPERA:38 |
Communications |
now
(story time frame) if a ship goes lost, everyone in the galaxy
knows about it almost immediately; then (gausjammer timeframe)
no one would know when a ship went missing |
| Deep
Freeze |
BRING:60 |
Deep
Freeze |
'for
a long sleep' |
| Dictating
Machine |
SEEIN:200 |
Dictating
Machine |
Anne
purchases a used one for Johnnie to use to write with |
| Dog's
Brain |
TOPRI:69 |
Dog's
Brains |
|
| Drinking
Bulb |
ROADR:19 |
Drinking
Bulb |
soups
are also served in drinking bulbs |
| Dust
Shoes |
BRING:80 |
Dust
Shoes |
used
to walk on the surface of Wenceslaus |
| Dust
Sled |
BRING:61 |
Dust
Sled |
mode
of transportation on Wenceslaus |
| |
BRING:80 |
Dust
Sled |
rocket
powered; suck dust in at one end and force it out the other.
uses an electrostatic charge like an ion drive some ships
use. build like a boat |
| Ehrenhaft
Drive |
CAGET:265 |
Ehrenhaft
Drive |
|
| |
CAGET:271 |
Ehrenhaft
Drive |
|
| |
DRIFT:52 |
Etheric
Currents |
may
be another way of describing the Ehrenhaft drive |
| |
MOUNT:278 |
Ehrenhafts |
old
FTL drive, used in Jumbuk |
| |
MOUNT:279 |
Ehrenhaft |
the
first FTL drive "The Ehrenhaft generators converted the ship,
the lodejammer, into what was, in effect, a huge magnetic
particle." |
| |
OPERA:38 |
Ehrenhaft
Drive |
a
'chancy box of tricks at the best |
| |
OPERA:38 |
Gaussjammer |
|
| |
OPERA:40 |
Ehrenhaft
Drive Midget |
small
drives used in message capsules |
| |
OPERA:40 |
Ehrenhaft
Generators |
when
the piles are dead from a magentic storm, the bio-chemists
convert the food to fuel and they hunt for likely planet |
| |
RIMOF:6 |
Ehrenhaft
Drive |
|
| |
SEEIN:202 |
Ehrenhaft
Drive |
one
of the many gauss-jammers that got themselves lost in the
bad old days of the Ehrenhaft Drive |
| Ejection
Chairs |
TOPRI:25 |
Ejection
Chairs |
the
pinnace's ejection seats are buoyant |
| Emergency
Transceiver |
BRING:105 |
Emergency
Transceiver |
The
Board of Inquiry inot Moonmaiden recommends that an emergency
transceiver be located amidships following the accident |
| Fergus
Device |
BRING:60 |
Fergus'
Apparatus |
like
a Manschenn Drive but with Carlotti Beacon attached; when
it is running, people near it have a 'I have been here before'
feeling |
| |
BRING:152 |
Fergus'
Invention |
a
combination of manschenn drive and carlotti beacon that can
allow someone's consciousness to be sent back in time; there
is no memory of the time transfer; the transferee is forced
to cycle over and over between the transfer points |
| |
BRING:157 |
Fergus
Device |
one
way time travel...with limitations. Fergus can't tell the
future. You can only travel back in time to a period when
you were affectd by an MD field. You can remember some - but
always too late to be able to break the cycle. |
| Fixing
Position |
ROADR:29 |
Fixing
Position |
obtaining
a fix while under interstellar drive is an art more than a
science |
| Flare
Gun |
RIMOF:65 |
Flare
Gun |
Calver
uses one from the balloon while they are making their escape
from Tarshedi's castle |
| Flares |
WANDE:260 |
Flares |
are
combustible in vacuum |
| FTL |
BRING:55 |
FTL |
described
as: "an interstella ship goes ahead in space and astern in
time" |
| Gaslight |
RIMOF:32 |
Gaslight |
The
Tarnians use natural gas for lighting |
| Gunpowder |
WANDE:251 |
Gunpowder |
they
decide to use gunpower as fuel for the plastic rocket |
| Gyroscopes |
BROKE:33 |
Gyroscopes |
|
| |
GIFTH:46 |
Gyroscopes |
|
| |
OPERA:39 |
Gyroscopes |
used
to align the ship |
| |
SEEIN:197 |
Gyroscopes |
the
high whine (during landing) |
| HF
Radio |
BROKE:86 |
HF
Radio |
Robotic
telepathy is not the same as HF signals used to communicate
among robots. |
| Hydroponics |
CHANC:11 |
Hydroponics |
room
on Faraway Quest |
| |
OPERA:39 |
Hydroponics
Tanks |
ship's
bio-chemist and aides are laying in fresh chemicals and nutrients
for them |
| |
ROADR:30 |
Ship's
Farm |
yeast
and dissue culture vats; algae converting waste into usable
materials and oxygen producing vegetation is laid out |
| |
ROADR:51 |
Synthetic
Chlorophyll |
used
to generat oxygen in atmpshere units aboard ship |
| |
ROADR:67 |
Ship's
Farm |
has
algae tanks, yeast vats and creeping plants |
| Induction
Transmitters |
ROADR:135 |
Induction
Transmitters |
use
lots of power |
| Inertial
Drive |
BROKE:25 |
Inertial
Drive |
muttering |
| |
BROKE:26 |
Inertial
Drive |
has
an irregular beat |
| |
BROKE:28 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:33 |
Inertial
Drive |
The
MD is shut down but the ID remains in operation: "There was
the brief seconds of temporal disorientation, with distored
outlines and all colors sagging down the spectrum, with all
the shipboard sounds echoing oddly and eerily. |
| |
BROKE:55 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:56 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:61 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:64 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:65 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:67 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:69 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:73 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:74 |
Inertial
Drive |
They
will travel the rest of the way to the star on ID. |
| |
BROKE:79 |
Inertial
Drive |
nothing
on the boat is working under the influence of the vibration. |
| |
ROADR:6 |
Inertial
Drive |
mentioned
for first time |
| |
ROADR:109 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
SLPBU:219 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
SLPBU:232 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
SLPBU:239 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
SUBTR:176 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
SUBTR:178 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
SUBTR:186 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
TOPRI:7 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
TOPRI:9 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
TOPRI:13 |
Inertial
Drive |
has
an odd, irregular beat |
| |
TOPRI:43 |
Inertial
Drive |
has
an 'irregular throb' |
| |
TOPRI:50 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
TOPRI:58 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
WANDE:252 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
WANDE:259 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
WANDE:260 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
WHATY:303 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
WHATY:318 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| |
WHATY:327 |
Inertial
Drive |
Grimes
is surprised that Princess Helga's ID is started before her
MD is activated |
| |
WHATY:329 |
Inertial
Drive |
|
| Inflatable
Tents |
WITHG:151 |
Inflatable
Tents |
Grimes
erects these at the party's base came |
| Interplanetary
Drive |
GIFTH:34 |
Interplanetary
Drive |
|
| |
GIFTH:37 |
Interplanetary
Drive |
|
| Ion
Drive |
BRING:80 |
Ion
Drive |
some
ships use this method of propulsion |
| Landing
Apron |
BRING:96 |
Landing
Apron |
(at
Port Pilsen) a circle of gray concrete |
| Life
Boat |
BROKE:37 |
Ship's
Boat |
|
| |
CHANC:17 |
Life
Boat |
|
| |
CHANC:20 |
Life
Boat |
|
| |
GHOST:56 |
Life
Boats |
can't
be used in interstellar space, only good when near a planet |
| Life
Lines |
WANDE:255 |
Life
Lines |
are
used by crew when outside a ship |
| Lift
Shaft |
BRING:111 |
Lift
Shaft |
Petersen
rides on in the Strauss-Hilton - lifted on a cushion of compressed
air |
| Lodejammer |
MOUNT:269 |
Lodejammer |
a
ship using the Ehrenhaft interstellar drive |
| Magnetic
Soles |
BROKE:6 |
Magnetic
Soled Sandals |
|
| |
BROKE:47 |
Magnetic
Soles |
|
| |
TOPRI:5 |
Magnetic
Soles |
|
| |
WANDE:255 |
Magnetic
Soled Boots |
part
of the crew's space suits |
| Manning
Scale |
ROADR:15 |
Manning
Scale |
relates
to the crew required for a particular size or type of ship;
the manning scale of merchantman is much less than the navy's |
| Manschenn
Drive |
BRING:55 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
BRING:55 |
Manschenn
Drive |
well
known fact that "people who work all their lives in the time-twisting
fields of the drive are more than a little mad." |
| |
BRING:144 |
Manschenn
Drive Field |
There,
whining disturbingly, was the gleaming complexity of a Manschenn
Drive unit, the smoothly spinning, ever-precessing gyroscopes,
the shining wheels that tumbled. Tumbled drawing eye and thought
into a weirdly distorted continuum.@&@that seemed always on
the point of vanishing into that less-than-nothingness - or
greater than infinity? - and that somehow never did. |
| |
BROKE:10 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:28 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:31 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:33 |
Manschenn
Drive |
The
MD is shut down but the ID remains in operation: "There was
the brief seconds of temporal disorientation, with distored
outlines and all colors sagging down the spectrum, with all
the shipboard sounds echoing oddly and eerily. |
| |
BROKE:34 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:37 |
Interstellar
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:42 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:44 |
Interstellar
Drive |
Grimes
states that someone ought to be running around not using their
interstellar drive and capable of picking up NST transmissions
- he hopes. |
| |
BROKE:46 |
Manschenn
Drive |
spacemen
are scared of it |
| |
BROKE:47 |
Manschenn
Drive |
The
Manschenn Drive warps the Continuum-the space-time continuum-about
the ship that's using it. Putting it very crudely, such a
ship is going astern in time while going ahead in space... |
| |
BROKE:73 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:89 |
Interstellar
Drive |
|
| |
BROKE:96 |
Interstellar
Drive Unit |
|
| |
BROKE:98 |
Interstellar
Drive Unit |
|
| |
BROKE:109 |
Interstellar
Drive |
Panzen
shuts his drive down |
| |
CAGET:267 |
Interstellar
Drive |
no
communication possible when the drive is operating |
| |
CHANC:2 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
CHANC:11 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
GHOST:53 |
Drive |
MD |
| |
GHOST:54 |
Manschenn
Drive |
...all
was not well with the intricacy of spinning, precessing wheels
that is the Drive. The note - which should be high, steady,
almost supersonic - wavered, at times deepening to a low hum,
at times raising painfully above normal aural range. And@&@with
almost every action there was the haunting sense of familiarity,
the feeling of I've-done-this-before. |
| |
GHOST:56 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
GHOST:57 |
Manschenn
Drive |
glitches
in the drive cause people to relive experiences that just
happened |
| |
GHOST:61 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
GHOST:65 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
GHOST:66 |
Manschenn
Drive |
Rayner
and Willoughby are attacked by wild dogs; Rayner defends them
with a pistol. One of Rayner's bullets sets the rotor of an
MD unit in storage briefly into motion. |
| |
GHOST:67 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
GIFTH:34 |
Interstellar
Drive |
|
| |
GIFTH:37 |
Interstellar
Drive |
as
near to an MD as makes no difference and works on the same
principal of Temporal Precession |
| |
GIFTH:39 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
GIFTH:41 |
Interstellar
Drive |
|
| |
GIFTH:42 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
GIFTH:42 |
Manschenn
Drive |
Manschenn
- "induced a gyroscope to precess at right angles to the three
dimensions of space. The precession still takes place within
the framework of the space-time continuum...anyhow, it takes
some few minutes to warm the drive up. Once the precession |
| |
GIFTH:44 |
Manschenn
Drive |
although
impossible, the MD is running in reverse |
| |
GIFTH:45 |
Manschenn
Drive |
has
burnt itself out |
| |
MANWH:110 |
Interstellar
Drive |
star
upon star, stretching, apparently to infinity |
| |
OPERA:39 |
Manschenn
Drive |
stars
vanish and are replaced by odd, unsteady whorls of wan luminosity |
| |
RIMGH:76 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
RIMGH:77 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
RIMGH:79 |
Manschenn
Drive |
its
sound and vibration change, becoming more of a whine than
a hum |
| |
RIMGH:82 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
RIMOF:68 |
Manschenn
Drive |
dizziness,
loss of temporal orientation usually occurs when it is turned
on |
| |
ROADR:9 |
Manschenn
Drive |
effects
of using the drive: a "sensation of deja vu, 'colors sagging
down the spectrum': ahead of the ship the stars look like
'pulsating spirals'; behind the ship they look like 'uncanny
compromises between the sphere and the tesseract' |
| |
ROADR:9 |
Manschenn
Drive |
first
mention: the math of Manschenn Drive technology is beyond
the comprehension of all but a handful of people |
| |
ROADR:74 |
Manschenn
Drive |
when
initiating the drive, the ship appears to 'warp into a klein
flask' |
| |
ROADR:77 |
Manschenn
Drive |
the
expulsion of any mass from a ship running under the drive
is 'suicide' |
| |
ROADR:78 |
Manschenn
Drive |
Grimes
wants to know why Epsilon Sextans wasn't 'flung into some
other space time' when the ships atmosphere was expelled through
the rents in the hull caused by the pirate's lasers. Calver
explains that she was held in place by |
| |
ROADR:94 |
Manschenn
Drive |
early
models of the drive required a 'temporal precession field
initiator' in order to be started |
| |
ROADR:94 |
Temporal
Precession Field Initiator |
early
models of the Manschenn drive required a 'temporal precession
field initiator' in order to be started |
| |
SEEIN:202 |
Manschenn
Drive |
usual
drill when approaching a planet is to turn off the drive |
| |
SLPBU:219 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
SLPBU:232 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
SLPBU:239 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
SUBTR:176 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
TOPRI:6 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
TOPRI:7 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
TOPRI:13 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
WANDE:245 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
WANDE:247 |
Manschenn
Drive |
can
be run in 'neutral'. essentially turned on, but not active,
allowing for potentially quick get-aways |
| |
WHATY:304 |
Manschenn
Drive |
is
activated and everyone feels the familiar deja vu |
| |
WHATY:319 |
Manschenn
Drive |
Adder's
drive has broken down - the bearings are gone and the main
rotor is warped |
| |
WHATY:320 |
Manschenn
Drive |
Grimes
dreads the "temporal consequences of a Manschenn Drive malfunction. |
| |
WHATY:321 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
WHATY:325 |
Manschenn
Drive |
Princess
Helga's field will cover both ships when Adder is towed |
| |
WHATY:326 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| |
WHATY:335 |
Manschenn
Drive |
|
| Marker
Buoy |
TOPRI:60 |
Marker
Buoy |
used
to mark the location of the Pinnace |
| Mass
Proximity Indicator |
BROKE:31 |
MPI |
|
| |
BROKE:32 |
MPI |
Delta
Geminorum shows up in the MPI as a glowing spark located at
"green 83, altitude seventeen negative" |
| |
BROKE:64 |
Mass
Proximity Indicator |
|
| |
CHANC:13 |
Mass
Proximity Indicator |
|
| |
GIFTH:43 |
Mass
Detector |
|
| |
ROADR:75 |
Mass
Proximity Device |
Craven
speculates that this device may have been used by the pirates
to locate Epsilon Sextans; in discussing it, they determine
that it would serve as a 'type of radar for ships using Manschenn
Drive' |
| |
ROADR:86 |
Mass
Proximity Device |
looks
like a gyroscope and moebius strip |
| |
WANDE:246 |
Mass
Proximity Indicator |
|
| |
WANDE:249 |
Mass
Proximity Indicator |
|
| Message
Capsule |
OPERA:38 |
Message
Capsule |
are
still returning 'centuries after the last of the gausjammers
are being broken up' |
| |
OPERA:40 |
Message
Capsule |
the
Lode Ranger's message capsule took at least 200 years to get
to Earth. They have midget Ehrenhaft drives inside them |
| Meteor
Shield |
SEEIN:202 |
Meteor
Shield |
Alpha
Scorpii's shield had been renewed at Port Woomera prior to
its trip to Austral |
| Micro
Pile |
TOPRI:130 |
Micro
Pile |
miniature
atomic pile used to power a ship - El Doradan in this case |
| Mini-Manschenn |
BROKE:37 |
Mini-Manschenn |
a
miniature drive aboard the ships' boat |
| |
BROKE:41 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:44 |
Mini-Manschenn |
the
boat's MMD was smashed during the explosion |
| |
BROKE:49 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:53 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:56 |
Mini-Manschenn |
is
shut down |
| |
BROKE:64 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:65 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:70 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:71 |
Mini-Manschenn |
They
use it once again to escape from the scene of the battle between
the Cones and the spheres. |
| |
BROKE:74 |
Mini-Manschenn |
Grimes
shuts it down because they are close enough to their target
star. |
| |
BROKE:151 |
Mini-Manschenn |
is
a total write off (being sent back to their universe by Zephalon
did something to cause it to burn out.) |
| |
BROKE:152 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:153 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| |
BROKE:154 |
Mini-Manschenn |
|
| Minicamera |
BRING:67 |
Minicamera |
will
take pictures even in near darkness and in darkness if there
is an infrared source |
| Minirecorder |
BRING:67 |
Minirecorder |
will
hear a pin drop at twenty meters |
| Mono
Wheel |
MANWH:123 |
Ferranti
Mono Wheel |
a
car |
| Moon
Cities |
BRING:110 |
Moon
Cities |
are
all generally the same; plain, unobtrusive architecture, vast
areas of transparency |
| Mooring
Rockets |
ROADR:57 |
Mooring
Rockets |
Delta
Orionis has two - one on the bow, another on the stern; inferred
that they are used to moor one ship to another while in space |
| Morse |
BROKE:152 |
Morse
Code |
received
over the Carlotti |
| |
BROKE:152 |
Morse
Signal |
UBZKPT
- UB for Unwatched Beacon, ZKPT - the beacon's call/identification
sign. |
| |
DRIFT:43 |
Morse
Code |
|
| Moving
Stairway |
TOPRI:31 |
Moving
Stairway |
escalator;
however, the treads 'flow', rather than move in a linked fashion.
It also can turn into a moving floor |
| Narcotherapy |
BRING:60 |
Narcotherapy |
some
type of physical therapy |
| Navigation |
SUBTR:185 |
Navigation |
before
the introduction of Carlotti Beacons, navigation is more of
an art |
| NST |
BROKE:39 |
NST
Radio |
Normal
Space Time Radio. While close to a ship with its Manschenn
Drive in operation, the short-range NST radios mounted in
space suits are "no good" |
| |
BROKE:42 |
NST |
|
| |
BROKE:44 |
NST |
the
boat's NST radio is working following the explosion |
| |
BROKE:49 |
NST
Radio |
some
circuit trays are interchangeable between NST and Carlotti
radio sets |
| |
BROKE:50 |
NST
Mark VII |
|
| |
BROKE:51 |
NST |
|
| |
BROKE:77 |
NST |
|
| Nuclear
Bomb |
BROKE:39 |
Nuclear
Bomb |
Inside
Delta Geminorum and intended by the hijackers to detonate
shortly after they abandoned the ship. "As a bomb it lacked
the sophistication of the weaponry of the armed forces of
the Federation - but it worked." |
| Nuclear
Pile |
ROADR:30 |
Nuclear
Pile |
it
is noted that there is a 'pile' on one of the decks of the
ship; it is inferred that this refers to a nuclear powerplant.
referred to as the radioactive heart of the ship |
| Organ
Bank |
SEEIN:202 |
Organ
Bank |
Willis
receives new eyes from the Port Southern Hospital's 'bank' |
| Periscope |
BRING:93 |
Periscope |
there
is a viewing Periscope in the control room of Moonmaiden |
| Personal
Comunicator |
SLPBU:224 |
Personal
Comunicator |
Grimes
hangs one over his shoulder before disembarking |
| Personalized
Wrist Radio |
RIMOF:28 |
Personalized
Wrist Radio |
Derek
Calver worked at a company that manufactured these |
| Phoenix
Generator |
SLPBU:232 |
Phoenix
Generator |
a
generator aboard Adder. power generator? |
| Plastic
Surgery |
SEEIN:198 |
Plastic
Surgery |
Willis
has plastic surgery |
| Playmaster |
RIMOF:82 |
Player |
multi-media
center on board Star Rover |
| |
SEEIN:199 |
All
Purpose TV |
|
| |
SEEIN:200 |
All
Purpose TV |
has
taped programs that can be loaded into it |
| |
TOPRI:88 |
Playmaster |
|
| |
TOPRI:90 |
Playmaster |
Grimes
watches a futurized version of Casino Royale |
| Pneumatic
Fenders |
WHATY:325 |
Pneumatic
Fenders |
stored
in sockets along the hull, these inflate when two ships link
up |
| |
WHATY:328 |
Pneumatic
Fenders |
are
mounted in sockets |
| Polarized
Glass |
BRING:6 |
Polarized
Glass |
Petersen
uses a knob to adjust the polarity of the hotel windows to
allow sunlight in |
| Portable
Transciever |
WITHG:155 |
Portable
Transciever |
one
is kept at the base camp |
| Power
Plant Shielding |
BROKE:41 |
Power
Plant Shielding |
Grimes
theorizes that it may have been the ships' reactors shielding
that prevented them from being blown up when the bomb aboard
Delta Geminorum exploded. |
| Propellant
Pump |
RIMOF:71 |
Propellant
Pump |
Lorn
Lady is delayed on Grollor while the engineers repair a propellant
pump |
| |
RIMOF:102 |
Propellant
Pumps |
break
down and require repair, causing a delay in Lorn Lady's departure
from Mellise |
| Pseudo
Gravity |
ROADR:8 |
Pseudo
Gravity |
created
by centrifigul force |
| Radar |
WANDE:246 |
Radar |
Adder
has a radar system |
| Radio
Beacon |
TOPRI:20 |
Radio
Beacon |
|
| Ralston |
RIMOF:40 |
Ralston |
2D
device for balancing cargo in a ship's hold |
| Reaction
Drive |
BROKE:28 |
Auxilery
Reaction Drive |
|
| |
GIFTH:45 |
Reaction
Drive |
they
use this to land |
| |
OPERA:39 |
Reaction
Drive |
|
| |
ROADR:129 |
Reaction
Unit |
Jane
uses one to manuever in zero gravity |
| |
SLPBU:219 |
Auxillary
Reaction Drive |
|
| |
SLPBU:232 |
Auxillery
Machinery Control Panel |
located
on the bridge |
| |
SLPBU:233 |
Auxillery
Engine Room |
abord
Adder. There has been a leak of deuterium and the storage
tanks are empty |
| |
WHATY:303 |
Auxillery
Rockets |
|
| Refrigerated
Cannister |
SLPBU:230 |
Refrigerated
Cannister |
is
used to transport the egg of a Queen aboard |
| Rescue
Apparatus |
BRING:101 |
Rescue
Apparatus |
a
large boat-like dredge for rescuing ships and people below
the dust of Wenceslaus; has a large extendable tunnel |
| Rocket
Powered Dust Sled |
BRING:136 |
Rocket
Powered Dust Sled |
there
are a few on Wenecslaus, used by the Port personnel and the
Post Office; they're faster than ordinary sand sleds |
| Roman
Candles |
WANDE:260 |
Roman
Candles |
insulated
cardboard tubes fitted with friction fuses; they are used
for individual propulsion over short distances in space |
| Scuba
Outfits |
TOPRI:75 |
Scuba
Outfits |
have
spherical helmets |
| Searchlight |
WANDE:246 |
Searchlight |
Adder
has a searchlight as part of its equipment |
| Self-lighting
Cigarette |
TOPRI:56 |
Self-lighting
Cigarette |
|
| Sleep
Vibration |
BROKE:108 |
Vibration |
Panzen
uses it again while Grimes and Una are struggling. |
| |
BROKE:110 |
Sleep
Vibrations |
Una
suggests using cotton wadding to eliminate the effects of
the vibrations. |
| |
BROKE:111 |
Soporific
Humming |
|
| Slipstick |
SUBTR:177 |
Slipstick |
one
is used as an aide to navigation |
| Solarium |
WHATY:306 |
Solarium |
on
board Adder, used to provide ultra-violet light for the ship's
farm and for sunbathing by the crew |
| Sonic
Lock |
RIMOF:80 |
Sonic
Lock |
Star
Rover has a sonic lock on the airlock entrance |
| Sounding
Rocket |
WANDE:247 |
Sounding
Rocket |
several
are stored on Adder; the crew plan to use several to test
the buoy |
| |
WANDE:248 |
Sounding
Rocket |
has
a 'fish-like' shape and a ring of bright red lights around
its midsection for tracking |
| |
WANDE:257 |
Sounding
Rocket (Plastic) |
one
blew up before reaching the buoy, the first one missed, the
third reaches the buoy but does nothing |
| Spacesuit |
BRING:97 |
Spacesuit |
the
version on Moonmaiden are just good enough to pass the tests,
an inexpensive model |
| |
BROKE:6 |
Spacesuits |
|
| |
BROKE:43 |
Suits |
|
| |
BROKE:59 |
Spacesuits |
|
| |
BROKE:65 |
Spacesuits |
|
| |
BROKE:92 |
Spacesuits |
are
not a good rig to wear while doing gymnastics |
| |
BROKE:99 |
Suits |
|
| |
BROKE:115 |
Spacesuits |
|
| |
BROKE:153 |
Spacesuits |
|
| |
CHANC:20 |
Lowanni
Spacesuit |
has
reaction units at the shoulders |
| |
OPERA:42 |
Spacesuit |
is
an old fashioned one, with a narrow visor strip in the helmet |
| |
RIMOF:126 |
Spacesuit |
have
reaction drives, transparent helmets, bulky suits, magnetic
soled shoes |
| |
TOPRI:16 |
Pressure
Suit |
|
| |
WANDE:257 |
Skin-Diver's
Spacesuit |
like
leotards, skin-tight, not armored, ideal for working "allowing
absoluter freedom of movement - but very few spacemen liked
them. A man feels that he should be armored, well armored,
against an asbolutely hostile environment" |
| |
WANDE:257 |
Spacesuit |
is
armored, carries water and food pellets and has waste processing
capabilities |
| |
WANDE:258 |
Skin-Diver's
Suits |
are
equipped with radios |
| |
WANDE:260 |
Skin-Diver's
Suits |
has
an adhesive closure |
| |
WANDE:261 |
Skin-Diver's
Spacesuit |
has
adhesive pads at knees, elbows and feet |
| Spacesuit
Helmet Visor |
BROKE:80 |
Spacesuit
Helmet Visor |
Grimes
discovers that theirs are open when he awakes. He administers
artifical rescucitation to Una. |
| Spacesuit
Propulsion Unit |
BROKE:97 |
Spacesuit
Propulsion Unit |
|
| Spacesuit
Radio |
BROKE:39 |
Spacesuit
Radio |
Normal
Space Time Radio. While close to a ship with its Manschenn
Drive in operation, the short-range NST radios mounted in
space suits are "no good" |
| |
BROKE:58 |
Spacesuit
Radios |
|
| |
BROKE:88 |
Suit
Radios |
|
| Spacesuit
Visors |
BROKE:58 |
Spacesuit
Visors |
|
| Spy
Beam |
BRING:35 |
Spy
Beam |
the
'chart tank', is the viewer for the spy beam, which allows
people to spy virtually anywhere |
| |
BRING:37 |
Spy
Beam |
use
of the beam is barely legal; it can be monitored remotely
and blockers are available |
| |
BRING:38 |
Spy
Beam |
its
effective range is 'out to Carinthia's moon' |
| Spy
Beam Blocker |
BRING:37 |
Spy
Beam Blocker |
a
device that prevents viewing of the area by a spy beam; blockers
are very expensive |
| Synchronizing
Temporal Precession |
BROKE:37 |
Synchronizing
Temporal Precession |
necessary
to allow the ship's boat to rendezvous with Delta Geminorum |
| Temporal
Precession |
GIFTH:42 |
Temporal
Precession |
|
| |
GIFTH:43 |
Temporal
Precession |
|
| Terraformed
Planet |
TOPRI:34 |
Terraformed
Planet |
El
Dorado was terraformed |
| Terraforming |
TOPRI:56 |
Terraforming |
is
enormously expensive |
| Thermoplastic |
WANDE:254 |
Thermoplastic |
is
used to make the rocket casing. it is easy to form |
| Tissue
Culture Vats |
OPERA:39 |
Tissue
Culture Vats |
ship's
bio-chemist and aides are laying in fresh chemicals and nutrients
for them |
| |
ROADR:20 |
Tissue
Culture Vats |
used
to grow meat for serving aboard ship |
| |
TOPRI:35 |
Tissue
Culture Vats |
|
| Transmission
Jamming |
WHATY:324 |
Transmission
Jamming |
The
Skandians jam Adder's transmissions |
| Tri-Di
Chart |
CHANC:12 |
Tri-Di
Chart |
navigation
chart on Faraway Quest |
| |
RIMGH:77 |
Tri-Di
Chart |
visualizing
device; often used to play tic-tac-toe |
| Voice
Lock |
SUBTR:196 |
Voice
Lock |
is
not a commonly used technology on Doncaster |
| Zero
Gravity Plates |
ROADR:20 |
Zero
Gravity Plates |
have
spines on their surface for holding food in place |
| THINGS |
| 3D
Naughts and Crosses |
CHANC:12 |
3D
Naughts and Crosses |
a
game played in the Tri-Di tank |
| 4th
Class Rating |
TOPRI:124 |
4th
Class Rating |
presumably
the lowest enlisted rank in the Survey Service |
| Alien
Transmission |
BROKE:65 |
Alien
Transmission |
Grimes
and Una pick up another transmission. "Quarat tambeel?. Trafelet"
Grimes believes it translates into 'What ship? Over.' |
| Aphrodisiac
Drink |
BROKE:134 |
Aphrodisiac
Drink |
Given
by Panzen to Una and Grimes to force them to procreate. |
| Arcturus
VI |
CAGET:271 |
Arcturus
VI |
Hawkins
used to weave baskets, paint them in gaudy colors and sell
them to passengers as artifacts from the 'lost planet of Arcturus
VI |
| ATREG |
ROADR:51 |
ATREG |
Survey
Servive abbreviation for Atmospheric Regeneration unit, consisting
of synthetic chlorophyll and a UV source |
| Automatic
Sampling and Analysis |
BROKE:153 |
Automatic
Sampling and Analysis |
This
is conducted by the lifeboat automatically |
| Baron
Samedi |
TOPRI:102 |
Baron
Samedi, Lord of Graveyards |
appears
in effigy |
| |
TOPRI:105 |
Baron
Samedi |
|
| |
TOPRI:149 |
Baron
Samedi |
|
| |
TOPRI:150 |
Baron
Samedi |
|
| Bible |
TOPRI:130 |
Bible |
the
Christian bible |
| Birnam
Wood |
GIFTH:32 |
Birnam
Wood |
name
for the Gift Horse suggested by Ogilvy |
| Boarding
Party |
BROKE:24 |
Boarding
Party |
Grimes'
party that will board Delta Geminorum will consist of 3 spacemen
Lieutenants, 4 engineer lieutenants, 1 electronic communications
officer, 6 petty officers, 1 petty officer cook and 3 wardroom
attendants |
| Braille
Alphabet |
SEEIN:201 |
Braille
Alphabet |
it
is taking Willis some time to learn it, his progress is slow |
| Burial
at Space |
RIMOF:69 |
Burial
at Space |
Maclean
is buried in space shortly after Lorn Lady leaves Tharn |
| Carinthian
Women |
BRING:78 |
Carinthian
Women |
something
about Carinthia produces women with a siamese-cat quality |
| Carlotti
Gear |
BROKE:55 |
Carlotti
Transmission |
The
signal picked up: "Dizard waling torpet droo. Contabing blee.
Contabing unwar. Contabing dinzin. Waling torpet, waling droo.
Tarfelet, tarfelet, tarfelet." |
| Catalogue
of Carlotti Beacons |
BROKE:47 |
Catalog
of Carlotti Beacons |
a
printed book with all of the locations, coordinates and call-signs
of the various Carlotti navigating beacons |
| Centaurian
Sector |
GHOST:65 |
Centaurian
Run |
regular
shipping noted between the Centaurian system and Weldon |
| Coach
Fare |
BRING:119 |
Coach
Fare |
the
fare for taking a coach from the hotel to the mail firings
(launching of mail rockets) is $1.50 |
| Command
and Control |
ROADR:69 |
Command
and Control |
even
Shaara don't expect Queen-Captains to handle the ship and
gunnery at the same time - referring to Grimes going aboard
Epsilon Sextans to operate the defenses |
| Compulsory
Exercise |
ROADR:15 |
Compulsory
Exercise |
employed
aboard navy ships |
| Coordinates
of Unidentified Contact |
WANDE:245 |
Coordinates
of Unidentified Contact |
the
contact is located at A1763.5 x ZV97.75 x J222.0 |
| Defnition
of Man |
BROKE:75 |
Defnition
of Man |
As
long as they're intelligent-and they must be!-their bodily
form doesn't matter a damn. Do you know how man has been defined,
more than once? A fire-using, tool-making animal. Anybody
who can build ships and set up a network of interstellar@&@communications
comes into that category. |
| Deja
Vu |
BROKE:46 |
Deja
Vu |
When
the drive starts up, the "feelings of deja vu...the flashes
of precognition" |
| |
BROKE:54 |
Deja
Vu |
|
| El
Doradan Houses |
TOPRI:22 |
El
Doradan Houses |
are
large and miles from neighbors |
| Encyclopedia
Galactica Year Books |
TOPRI:48 |
Encyclopedia
Galactica Year Books |
|
| Federation
One Cent Coin |
BROKE:13 |
Federation
One Cent Coin |
is
made of zinc alloy |
| Federation
Survey Service |
BROKE:7 |
Mummy |
a
nickname for the FSS |
| Female
Space Officers |
ROADR:3 |
Female
Space Officers |
are
as 'rare as hen's teeth' at this time |
| Fleet
Mail |
WANDE:250 |
Fleet
Mail |
consists
of revised regulations, promotions, appointments |
| Flying
Dutchman of Space |
GIFTH:43 |
Flying
Dutchman of Space |
they
begin to refer to the Gift Horse by this name |
| Free
Fall |
BROKE:47 |
Free
Fall |
|
| |
OPERA:39 |
Free
Fall |
everyone
experiences nausea at the sudden weightlessness |
| |
RIMOF:32 |
Free
Fall |
Calver
notes that they spent weeks in freefall while travellinmg
between Faraway and Tharn. Mentioned as a usual thing. |
| |
ROADR:10 |
Free
Fall |
once
in space, the crew and passengers of Delta Orionis are in
free fall |
| |
SLPBU:232 |
Free
Fall |
everything
on Adder shuts down and the crew are in free fall |
| |
TOPRI:5 |
Free
Fall |
Aries
is in free fall |
| |
TOPRI:62 |
Free
Fall |
Grimes
compares it to scuba diving |
| Fringe |
BROKE:83 |
Fringe |
Panzen
believes that Una and John "must be from the fringe" - an
alternate Rim. |
| FSS
Couriers |
SUBTR:170 |
Survey
Service Couriers |
small
crews. the ships are always commanded by a 'two ringer' (lieutenants) |
| FSS
Marines |
WHATY:334 |
Federation
Marines |
|
| FSS
Psychiatry Branch |
BROKE:15 |
FSS
Psychiatry Branch |
|
| FSS
Supply Branch |
BROKE:15 |
FSS
Supply Branch |
|
| Fungus |
CAGET:270 |
Fungus |
fed
to the captives; imitation version of that found on Lode Star's
planet |
| Galactic
Drift |
SUBTR:176 |
Galactic
Drift |
|
| |
WANDE:250 |
Galactic
Drift |
at
Adder's present rate of drift, they would end up around Algol
in about 1,753 years |
| |
WHATY:304 |
Galactic
Drift |
|
| Galactic
Geographic Magazine |
SEEIN:200 |
Galactic
Geographic Magazine |
|
| |
SEEIN:203 |
Galactic
Geographics Magazine |
|
| Giant
Insect Looking Thing |
BROKE:153 |
Giant
Insect Looking Thing |
Seen
in the entrance to the beacon dome; it turns out to be a bicycle
and Grimes begins to suspect that Zephalon is playing games
with him. |
| Glass
Bottle |
BROKE:133 |
Glass
Bottle |
Panzen
delivers a glass bottle of some alcoholic beverage to them;
it has a left-handed threaded cap. |
| Gold
Bicycle |
BROKE:87 |
Bicycles |
|
| Gold
Coins |
DRIFT:50 |
Gold
Coins |
have
a helmeted head on one side an a bireme on the other |
| |
DRIFT:52 |
Gold
Coin |
Furness
has kept it all these years as a luck piece |
| Gosepl
According to Zephalon |
BROKE:89 |
Gosepl
According to Zephalon |
|
| Gravity
Field |
BROKE:51 |
Gravity
Field |
Physical
work is more easily done in one than in free fall |
| Havana
Cigars |
TOPRI:35 |
Havana
Cigars |
are
apparently still being made |
| High
Merkish |
WORDS:43 |
High
Merkish |
Randall
mentions other traders who can converse in this language |
| Humpy |
BROKE:126 |
Humpy |
Slang
for a rough shelter |
| |
BROKE:128 |
Humpies |
|
| Klaviteratron |
BROKE:83 |
Klaviteratron |
completely
unexplained. Panzen accuses Grimes and Una's race of destroying
it. |
| Lalage |
BRING:36 |
Lalage |
a
novel by Dupless |
| Lasheleq |
RIMOF:78 |
Lasheleq |
Lorn
Lady's engineers are invited to visit a factory that makes
them, but no one knows what they are |
| Latter
Day Flying Dutchman |
BROKE:75 |
Latter
Day Flying Dutchman |
Grimes
doesn't want their boat to become one of these. |
| Lindisfarne
Cup |
BROKE:12 |
Lindisfarne
Cup |
the
Marines and the Supply Branch are competing against each other
in this event |
| Low
Merkish |
WORDS:43 |
Low
Merkish |
Randall
mentions other traders who can converse in this language |
| Machinetta |
SUBTR:182 |
Machinetta |
the
brand of coffee maker aboard Adder |
| Magazine |
BRING:20 |
Magazine |
The
Australian Coal, Shipping and Steel Monthly, a magazine in
Maleter's office |
| |
BRING:20 |
Magazine |
The
California Mortician's Gazette, a magazine in Maleter's office |
| Magnetic
Storm |
MOUNT:279 |
Magnetic
Storm |
...a
magnetic storm, tangling the liens of force like a bowl of
spaghetti, would throw her (the ship) anywhere - or nowhere.
...these storms also drained the micropile of all energy. |
| Man-Colonized
Galaxy |
TOPRI:34 |
Man-Colonized
Galaxy |
Foods
indigenous to the home planet (Earth) are the most expensive
in the 'man-colonized galaxy. This refers to the galaxy having
been fully explored/colonized by Grimes' time. |
| Marine
Buglers |
TOPRI:44 |
Marine
Buglers |
aboard
Aries |
| Masochist |
BROKE:108 |
Masochist |
So
we aren't allowed to hurt each other. Just as well that neither
of us is a dinkum sadist or masochist... |
| Masturbation |
BROKE:126 |
Masturbation |
John
thinks of it as a solution for not being able to have sex
with Una but thinks that doing so "would be an admission of
defeat." |
| Meelongee |
RIMOF:103 |
Meelongee |
greetings
in Mellisan |
| Mellisan
Pearls |
RIMOF:102 |
Mellisan
Pearls |
export.
"great, lustrous pearls" |
| Meteor |
DRIFT:43 |
Meteor |
begins
to flash and whistle in some kind of morse code, once it is
on the ground. Speculation that the meteor is some kind of
missile |
| |
DRIFT:46 |
Meteor |
is
an ovoid, approximately four feet, six inches by 3 feet |
| |
DRIFT:47 |
Meteor |
has
lettering on it; one character appears to be a greek 'pi' |
| |
DRIFT:49 |
Meteor |
cracks
open into four equal sections and reveals yellow metal and
sheets of paper inside; the metal is gold coins |
| |
DRIFT:51 |
Meteor |
described
as a guided missile 'from outside' |
| Misplaced
sense of humor |
BROKE:148 |
Misplaced
sense of humor |
Grimes
is famous for his and it has often gotten him in hot water. |
| Neo-Calvinism |
BROKE:102 |
Neo-Calvinism |
|
| Neo-Calvinist |
BROKE:100 |
Neo-Calvinists |
A
contemporary religion - fundamentalist. They believe in heaven
and hell and each individual's hell is tailored to them and
their sins. |
| |
BROKE:106 |
Neo-Calvinist |
|
| Night
Sky from Dunsinane |
GIFTH:33 |
Night
Sky from Dunsinane |
...sparse
stars and the great gulf of emptiness between them - at this
time of the year the huge, luminescent lens that was the Galaxy
set shortly after the sun. The absence of stars made the night...very
cold and very dark. |
| O'Dowd's
Mountain Dew |
WORDS:44 |
O'Dowd's
Mountain Dew |
|
| Officers
Pool |
BROKE:15 |
Officers
Pool |
officers
are placed in the pool awaiting assignment |
| Opalwood |
RIMOF:81 |
Opalwood |
fabulously
expensive; from Fomalhaut VI; Star Rover has a coffee table
made out of it in its lounge |
| Parsalong
Game |
BROKE:98 |
Parsalong
Game |
Played
by the robots, similar to chess with the pieces - leader,
troopers, war vehicles, great and little guns, fortresses. |
| Plastic
Coins |
RIMOF:74 |
Plastic
Coins |
Grollan
coinage is plastic |
| Police
Band |
GIFTH:40 |
Police
Band |
plays
at the port when Gift Horse takes off |
| Police
Force |
CHANC:8 |
Police
Force |
the
Faraway city (?) police force provides 3 officers and 50 men
to serve as Faraway Quests marines |
| Polo |
TOPRI:28 |
Polo |
Henri
plays polo |
| Population
drain |
MANWH:108 |
Population
drain |
the
Rim Worlds see an exodus of population to the inner worlds |
| Promotions |
WITHG:166 |
Promotion |
in
the FSS is a 'result of captain's reports - not seniority' |
| Psionics |
CHANC:13 |
Average
Psi Female |
usually
unintelligent |
| RERAT |
ROADR:51 |
RERAT |
Survey
Service abbreviation for Reserve Rations |
| Rim
Ghosts |
BRING:55 |
Rim
Ghosts |
mentioned
by Vynalek |
| |
RIMOF:95 |
Rim
Ghost |
Engel's
uses the phrase for the apparition; people looking like Calver,
Arlen and Brentano are visible - Calver is dressed as Master
& Owner; Calver has brief memories of using salvage money
to run a trader ship |
| Royal
Skandian Body Guard |
WHATY:329 |
Royal
Skandian Body Guard |
accompanies
the Skandian King when he visits Adder |
| Sadist |
BROKE:108 |
Sadist |
So
we aren't allowed to hurt each other. Just as well that neither
of us is a dinkum sadist or masochist... |
| Sauna |
WHATY:306 |
Sauna |
the
ship's gymnaisum is equipped with a sauna |
| Search
and Rescue Operation |
BROKE:44 |
Search
and Rescue Operation |
Grimes
and Una speculate on how long it will take the FSS to start
one - or whether they ever will. |
| Shaara
Buildings |
SLPBU:221 |
Shaara
Buildings |
the
buildings around the port are "featureless mud colored domes" |
| Ship
Captain's Medical Guide |
BROKE:120 |
Ship
Captain's Medical Guide |
a
book |
| Singing
Drums |
ROADR:38 |
Singing
Drums |
a
famous orchestra |
| Sissari
Jewels |
RIMOF:98 |
Sissari
Jewels |
chief
export |
| Sleep
Vibration |
BROKE:78 |
Strange
Vibration |
Grimes
and Una start to feel an odd vibration in the ship that induces
somnolence. |
| Slumbo
Sleeping Tablets |
WORDS:44 |
Slumbo
Sleeping Tablets |
|
| Snoopers |
ROADR:44 |
Snoopers |
nickname
for PROs |
| Soft
Lights and Sweet Music |
RIMOF:82 |
Soft
Lights and Sweet Music |
Calver
selects this music tape to play on board Star Rover |
| Song |
BROKE:128 |
Song |
Oh
I was a bachelor and lived by myself, And worked at ther thatcher's
trade... |
| |
BROKE:129 |
Song |
She
cried, she sighed, she damn near died...Ah me, what could
I do? So I took her into bed, and covered up her head, To
save her from the foggy,. foggy dew... |
| |
GIFTH:40 |
Auld
Lang Syne |
song |
| |
GIFTH:40 |
Road
to the Isles |
song |
| |
GIFTH:40 |
Will
ye not come back again |
song |
| |
MOUNT:277 |
Jumbuk
Song |
When
the jolly Jumbuk lifted from Port Woomera, Out and away for
Altair Three, Glad were we all to kiss the tired old Earth
good bye - Who'll come a-sailing in Jumbuk with me? Sailing
in Jumbuk, Saling in Jumbuk, Who'll come a-sailing in Jumbuk
with me?@&@Glad were we all to kiss the tired old Earth good
bey - You'll come a-sailing in Jumbuk with me! Then there
was Storm, the Pile and the engines dead - Blown out to Hell
and gone were we! Lost in the Galaxy, falling free in sweet
damn all - Who'll come a-@&@sailing in Jumbuk with me? (Chorus)
Up jumped the Captain, shouted for his Engineer, 'Start me
the diesels, one, two, three! Give me the power to feed into
the Ehrenhafts - You'll come a-sailing in Jumbuk with me! |
| Space-time
warping |
BROKE:89 |
Space-time
warping |
occurs
under influence of the drive |
| Spaceman's
Marches |
BRING:13 |
Spaceman's
Marches |
songs
that are old melodies with new lyrics |
| Stars
Going Out |
GIFTH:112 |
Stars
Going Out |
at
night, they can watch the stars slowly going out as the galaxy
ages |
| Stationary
Bicycle |
WHATY:306 |
Stationary
Bicycle |
in
the ship's gymnasium for exercise |
| Stewards
Store |
CHANC:11 |
Stewards
Store |
room
on Faraway Quest |
| Stutz-Archer |
BROKE:113 |
Stutz-Archer |
a
brand of bicycle, described to Panzen by Una. |
| |
BROKE:154 |
Stutz-Archer |
a
brand of bicycle |
| Suit
of Lights |
BROKE:144 |
Suit
of Lights |
A
matador's uniform. |
| Survey
Service Commission |
ROADR:138 |
Survey
Service Commission |
you
must serve for ten years before you can resign your commission |
| Tarot
Pack |
TOPRI:151 |
Tarot
Pack |
used
to foretell the future |
| Time
Cycle |
RIMOF:120 |
Time
Cycle |
Bendix
mentions the possibility of "getting caught in a time cycle";
all textbook say its impossible; Calver refers to not wanting
to get thrown into the remote past |
| Trug |
WORDS:43 |
Trug |
Randall
mentions other traders who can converse in this language |
| |
WORDS:45 |
Trug |
|
| Universal
Letter of Credit |
TOPRI:98 |
Universal
Letter of Credit |
'bank
check' honored everywhere in the galaxy |
| Valerian |
WORDS:43 |
Valerian |
Randall
mentions other traders who can converse in this language |
| |
WORDS:45 |
Valerian |
|
| Van
Allens |
WHATY:304 |
Van
Allens |
|
| |
WHATY:327 |
Van
Allens |
|
| Voodoo |
TOPRI:127 |
Old
Religion |
in
this case, it refers to Voodoo practices |
| Warped
Space |
TOPRI:6 |
Warped
Space |
He
saw only warped space, suns near and far that had been twisted
to the semblance of pulsating, multicolored spirals, blackness
between the suns that had been contorted into its own vast
convolutions, sensed (but with what sense?) rather than seen." |