Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 1
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Description
The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Sauscony Valdoria (Soz): Sauscony is a Jagernaut in the Skolian army and the main character.
- Rex Blackstone: Rex is a Jagernaut in the skolian army and Sauscony's friend.
- Jaibriol Cox: Jaibriol is an Aristo heir and a main character.
- Taas: Taas is Sauscony's companion and also a Jagernaut.
- Helda: Helda is a Jagernaut in the Skolian army, Sauscony's companion.
First Sentence
Although I had known about Delos since I was a young woman, this was my first visit to the planet.
Table of Contents
Glossary
- Bitons: A subelectronic building block. They are most weakly interacting particles found that coupled to the electromagnetic field. Electrons consisted of bitons—hundreds of thousands of bitons.
- Biomech: A biomechanical system implemented into human body to enhance it's functionality (imlemented only into Jagernauts).
- Cyberlock: Cyberlock is a brain implant. When activated, the lock produced a field tuned to its owner's brain waves. Low-keyed fields sounded an alarm when penetrated, mid-keyed fields repulsed intruders, and high-keyed fields killed them.
- Inversion: To go at faster-than-light speeds, or superluminal, meant passing through the speed of light, where our mass would become infinite compared to slower objects, our length shrink to nothing, and our time stop. At superluminal speeds, mass and energy became imaginary, square roots of negative numbers. To reach the superluminal universe, we needed only to add an imaginary part to our speed. To go from real to compley space (speeds) means to invert.
- Jagernaut: Jagernauts are bioengineered fighter pilots, elite officers in the Imperial Space Command of Skolia.
- Jumbler: Jumbler is a type of photon gun. Jumblers had to be big; each contained a particle accelerator. . It carried abitons for fuel, antiparticles of the biton. When the Jumbler is fired, abitons whipped around the accelerator and ejected in a beam. Abitons annihilated bitons, creating photons, which meant a Jumbler turned electrons into light. The gun got its name from the way solids looked after we shot them.
- Kyle space: Kyle space, sometimes called psiberspace, is a kind of internet for telepaths. In Kyle space thoughts are represented as waves and the telepath who "loggs in" can instantenously communicate with other people in the net.
- Nervoplex: Nervoplex is used to cover boardwalks. The network of molecular fibers and nanochips woven into it reacted to the distribution of weight it experienced, letting the boardwalk analyze and interact with pedestrian traffic as if it sensed moods.
- Psicon: An image similar to the icons on a computer, except that psicons appeared in the mind.
- Rhon psion: Rhon psions are the most powerful empaths and telepaths.
Series
This is book 1 in the Saga of the Skolian Empire series.
Authors & Contributors
- Catherine Asaro (Author)
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