Stelae

Land coral formation.

Spinifex

Desert grass plant.

Ship's Eye

Term for a sandship's artificial intelligence.

Shallamon

A sandship at Twilight Beach.

Sensorium

An array of detection devices.

Pabar engine

Sandship power device.

Leopard

Old sandship name.

Gaheris

Maklin's sandship.

Disinherited

Old sandship name.

Deceiver

Old sandship name.

Binnacle

Part of a Sandship helm.

Crioyr

A sandship at Twilight Beach.

Techmaken

Sandship system computing.

Shipmaken

A sandship construction expert.

Roadmaken

A transport route construction expert.

BS330

See Barrinka-Samma.

Black Box AI

Keeping an artificial intelligence from becoming alive and active.

Barrinka-Samma

Sandship class of which Rynosseros is part, have AI spines that are not allowed to be truly alive, but can communicate.

Lateral 42

Transport route taken by Tom with Cota on board Rynosseros.

Cristo's

Restaurant at Twilight Beach.

Caerdria

Cota's secret shield shipmaken workshop.

Tens

Ab'O assistant of Cota's.

Ramos

Sandship captain at Twilight Beach.

Miras

An Ab'O Shipmaken specialisting in National ships. Tries to help Tom with a damaged Rynosseros.

Maklin

Sandship captain, associate of Miras.

Danal

Ab'O assistant of Cota's.

Cota

Secret sandship expert.

Bikkal

Ab'O assistant of Cota's.

Bel Solus

Town, has a shipyard.

Sweetbread injections

Technology to deal with personality implants.

Scori modifiers

Technology to deal with personality implants.

Quicksilver

Michael Glaive's sandship.

Quervade

A Sandive charvolant.

Nanonics

Microscopic devices.

Albatross

Black Doloroso's ship.

Whore of Babylon

Biblical figure.

Teal

A Haldane.

Sophia

Gnostic religious figure.

Sapienta Dei

Sophia of the Gnostics.

Nag Hammadi

The Gnostic Gospels.

Legion

Implanting of a personality on a resident of the Pentateuch to keep up the numbers.

Lilith

Biblical vampire woman.

Lazarus

Implanting of a personality on a resident of the Pentateuch to keep up the numbers, but from a Cold Person in failing storage.

Jehovah

Biblical figure.

Harlot of Tyre

Biblical figure.

Grail

A cup that figures prominently in Arthurian legend.

Fisher King

Mythological religious figure.

Cortical imprinting

Technique to implant a personality in a host, used on Michael Glaive.

Bladed Sun

Term for the flag of Nation.

Black Madonna

Spanish biblical figure.

Babel

Biblical city.

Avalon

Mythical realm of Arthurian legend.