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− | Blakeslee | + | Blakeslee — former Chief Communications officer in Boyssia II base |
− | Crandall 'Bertie' | + | Crandall 'Bertie' — New Yorker former Boskonian Pilot |
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+ | ''Miss Forester — New York socialite''. | ||
Matthews — Merchant Prince | Matthews — Merchant Prince |
Revision as of 08:00, 15 April 2018
Contents
Characters
Lensman
Clifford Maitland — Mauler Captain
Flewelling
Fritz von Hohendorff — Commondant of Cadets
Gerrond — Commander of Radelix base
Haynes — Port Admiral of Prime Base
Kimball Kinnison — Grey Lensman
Lageston of Mercator V — Stationed on Trenco (deceased)
Murphy
Raoul LaForge
Snowden
Tilotsen
Tregonsee of Rigel IV — Commander of Trenco Base
Voelker
Widel Holmberg
Worsel the Velantian
Brittania Crew
(included for historical reasons, the surviving members of the Brittania's crew have been re-assigned.)
Allerdyce — Quartermaster
Chatway
Dalhousie
Henry Henderson — Pilot
Jenkins
LaVerne Thorndyke — Technician
Nelson — Communications
Smith
Thompson
Uhlenhuth — Technician
VanBuskirk — Valerian Lieutenant
Allies
'Spike' the flat — Trenconian
Prime Base Personnel
Clarissa MacDougall — Chief Nurse and expert in inertialess rescues Hotchkiss — communications expert Lacy — Surgeon-Marshal and skeleton enthusiast Schermerhorn — 3rd.-best Patrol pilot Watson — 2nd.-best Patrol pilot
Arisians
Mentor — Kinnison's tutor
Boskonians
'Ackbar' (real name not known) — New Yorker Boskonian Captain
Eichlan — Helmuth's enigmatic and indescribable superior
Gilversleeve — Valerian pirate captain
Helmuth — Speaker for Boskone (now dead)
Krimsky — Vice-Commander of Boyssia II base
Sansteed — Boskone department head (presumed dead)
Vogenar — Wheelman in Aldebaran I base (very likely dead)
Wolmark — high ranking Boskonian (presumed dead)
Other Characters
Blakeslee — former Chief Communications officer in Boyssia II base
Crandall 'Bertie' — New Yorker former Boskonian Pilot
Miss Forester — New York socialite.
Matthews — Merchant Prince
Glossery of Terms
Bergenholm — Inertia neutraliser
Blasted off — lost your/their temper
Boskone — space pirate outfit - galactic in scope
Free — under inertialess drive
Give someone the needle — play a prank/make a fool of
Inert — not under inertialess drive
Jets/Jets to swing that — Influence/capability to do something
Lens, to Lens — use a Lens to send a telepathic communication to someone.
Lensing — using a Lens to read someone's mind
Klono — spaceman's deity (usually used for expletives)
Mauler — slow, heavily armed mobile fortress
Net — Device for allowing the safe(-ish) equalisation of intrinsic velocities.
Noshabkeming — Valerian deity
QX — OK
Sense of Perception — non-visual, volumetric sense
Seven Sector Callout — [I]really[/I] good looking.
Thionite — illegal narcotic, effective on anything with haemoglobin-based blood.
Trenco — anything, animal or vegetable, that lives on the planet Trenco
Zabriskan fontema — something with very little sense
Zwilnik — anything or anybody that comes after thionite
--Nerik the Red (talk) 07:23, 15 April 2018 (PDT)