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=== Prime Base Personnel === | === Prime Base Personnel === | ||
Clarissa MacDougall — Chief Nurse and expert in inertialess rescues | Clarissa MacDougall — Chief Nurse and expert in inertialess rescues | ||
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Hotchkiss — communications expert | Hotchkiss — communications expert | ||
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Lacy — Surgeon-Marshal and skeleton enthusiast | Lacy — Surgeon-Marshal and skeleton enthusiast | ||
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Schermerhorn — 3rd.-best Patrol pilot | Schermerhorn — 3rd.-best Patrol pilot | ||
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Watson — 2nd.-best Patrol pilot | Watson — 2nd.-best Patrol pilot | ||
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== Setting Information == | == Setting Information == | ||
=== Makes of Automobile === | === Makes of Automobile === | ||
− | ''Crownover sedan — Large and slow | + | ''Crownover sedan — Large and slow'' |
− | DeKhotinsky sporter — fast car, top speed 140 mph.'' | + | ''DeKhotinsky sporter — fast car, top speed 140 mph.'' |
=== Space Travel === | === Space Travel === | ||
− | ''Cruising Speed: 60 parsecs/hour | + | ''Cruising Speed: 60 parsecs/hour'' |
− | Full Blast: 90 parsecs/hour'' | + | ''Full Blast: 90 parsecs/hour'' |
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Boyssia II — location of hidden New-Yorker Boskonian base | Boyssia II — location of hidden New-Yorker Boskonian base | ||
− | Corvina — Origin of Klono cult | + | ''Corvina — Origin of Klono cult'' |
Delgon — homeworld of the Overlords | Delgon — homeworld of the Overlords |
Revision as of 09:42, 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
Gladys Forester — Millionairess and Buisinesswoman.
Matthews — Merchant Prince
Setting Information
Makes of Automobile
Crownover sedan — Large and slow
DeKhotinsky sporter — fast car, top speed 140 mph.
Space Travel
Cruising Speed: 60 parsecs/hour
Full Blast: 90 parsecs/hour
Planets
Aldebaran II — Earth colony world
Arisia — cloistered homeworld of the mysterious Arisians
Boyssia II — location of hidden New-Yorker Boskonian base
Corvina — Origin of Klono cult
Delgon — homeworld of the Overlords
Radelix — Civilisation member world, inhabitants are highly intelligent
Tellus — alternative name for Sol III, Earth
Trenco — only known source of the drug Thionite
Valeria — heavy gravity dutch colony world
Velantia — homeworld of the Velantians
Star Systems
Lundmark's Nebula — possible origin of Boskone
Star Cluster AC 257-4736 — location of Helmuth's Grand Base
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)