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'Ackbar' (real name not known) — New Yorker Boskonian Captain | 'Ackbar' (real name not known) — New Yorker Boskonian Captain | ||
− | '' | + | ''Bominger — Zwilnik agent and bar owner in Ardith. Fat and greedy. (deceased)'' |
− | + | Countess Avondrin — minor zwilnik agent on Radelix (now retired) | |
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+ | Dessa Desplains — Zwilnik agent, originally from Aldebaren II (now retired with a re-built memory) | ||
Eichlan — Helmuth's enigmatic and indescribable superior | Eichlan — Helmuth's enigmatic and indescribable superior | ||
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Arisians — Enigmatic beings resembling brains with vestigial bodies. Extremely powerful telepaths. Providers of the LENS. | Arisians — Enigmatic beings resembling brains with vestigial bodies. Extremely powerful telepaths. Providers of the LENS. | ||
− | Posenian — | + | Ordovik — possess the sense of perception, no other details known. |
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+ | Posenian — Humanoids possessing the sense of perception, breath some sort of exotic atmosphere. | ||
Rigellian — Native of Rigel IV, cylindrical beings with four legs, four branching tentacles, and four mouths. Most well-known users of the sense of perception | Rigellian — Native of Rigel IV, cylindrical beings with four legs, four branching tentacles, and four mouths. Most well-known users of the sense of perception | ||
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== Glossery of Terms == | == Glossery of Terms == | ||
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+ | ''Bentlam — narcotic'' | ||
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Bergenholm — Inertia neutraliser | Bergenholm — Inertia neutraliser | ||
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Give someone the needle — play a prank/make a fool of | Give someone the needle — play a prank/make a fool of | ||
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+ | ''Hadive — smoked narcotic'' | ||
Inert — not under inertialess drive | Inert — not under inertialess drive | ||
Jets/Jets to swing that — Influence/capability to do something | Jets/Jets to swing that — Influence/capability to do something | ||
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+ | ''Laxlo — Alchoholic drink drunk on Radelix'' | ||
Lens, to Lens — use a Lens to send a telepathic communication to someone. | Lens, to Lens — use a Lens to send a telepathic communication to someone. | ||
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Net — Device for allowing the safe(-ish) equalisation of intrinsic velocities. | Net — Device for allowing the safe(-ish) equalisation of intrinsic velocities. | ||
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+ | ''Nitrolabe — Centralian narcotic, injected'' | ||
Noshabkeming — Valerian deity | Noshabkeming — Valerian deity | ||
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Thionite — illegal narcotic, effective on anything with haemoglobin-based blood. | Thionite — illegal narcotic, effective on anything with haemoglobin-based blood. | ||
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+ | ''Tomingan donganeur — martial arts move, presumably from Tominga.'' | ||
Trenco — anything, animal or vegetable, that lives on the planet Trenco | Trenco — anything, animal or vegetable, that lives on the planet Trenco |
Revision as of 13:25, 24 May 2018
Contents
Characters
Lensman
Clifford Maitland — Mauler Captain
Flewelling
Fritz von Hohendorff — Commondant of Cadets
Lieutenant-Admiral Gerrond — Commander of Radelix base
Haynes — Port Admiral of Prime Base
Hotchkiss — Dauntless crew-member.
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
Winstead — Radeligian Narcotics Lensman
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
Dauntless Crew
Allerdyce — Quartermaster
Chatway - Chief Firing Officer
Henry Henderson — Chief Pilot
Hotchkiss — Lensman
LaVerne Thorndyke — Technician
Nelson — Chief Communications Officer
Schermerhorn — Third Pilot
VanBuskirk — Valerian Lieutenant
Watson — Second Pilot
Allies
'Spike' the flat — Trenconian
Wise — President of Medon
Prime Base Personnel
Clarissa MacDougall — Chief Nurse and expert in inertialess rescues
Hotchkiss — communications expert (Is this 'Lensman Hotchkiss' from the Dauntless?)
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
Bominger — Zwilnik agent and bar owner in Ardith. Fat and greedy. (deceased)
Countess Avondrin — minor zwilnik agent on Radelix (now retired)
Dessa Desplains — Zwilnik agent, originally from Aldebaren II (now retired with a re-built memory)
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
Councillor Ellington — Head of Narcotics
Crandall 'Bertie' — New Yorker former Boskonian Pilot
Gladys Forester — Millionairess and Buisinesswoman.
Matthews — Merchant Prince
van der Schleiss — Astrophysicist
'Wacky' Williamson — Science Fiction author (maybe a reference to Jack Williamson)
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 I — Barren, Mercury-like world
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
Medon — Technologically advanced world, formally in Lundmark's Nebula
Radelix — Civilisation member world, inhabitants are highly intelligent
Ardith — Capital of Radelix Radeligian — Language of Radelix
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
Species
Arisians — Enigmatic beings resembling brains with vestigial bodies. Extremely powerful telepaths. Providers of the LENS.
Ordovik — possess the sense of perception, no other details known.
Posenian — Humanoids possessing the sense of perception, breath some sort of exotic atmosphere.
Rigellian — Native of Rigel IV, cylindrical beings with four legs, four branching tentacles, and four mouths. Most well-known users of the sense of perception
Velantians — 'Dragon-snakes', winged, with multiple arms, legs and eyes. Powerful telepaths.
Star Systems
Lundmark's Nebula — possible origin of Boskone
Star Cluster AC 257-4736 — location of Helmuth's Grand Base
Glossery of Terms
Bentlam — narcotic
Bergenholm — Inertia neutraliser
Blasted off — lost your/their temper
Boskone — space pirate outfit - (inter-)galactic in scope
Fayalin — 'A stimulating, although non-intoxicating beverage prepared from the fruit of a Crevenian shrub, Fayaloclastus Augustifolius Barnstead; much in favor as a ceremonial drink among those who can afford it.' E.E.S.
Free — under inertialess drive
Give someone the needle — play a prank/make a fool of
Hadive — smoked narcotic
Inert — not under inertialess drive
Jets/Jets to swing that — Influence/capability to do something
Laxlo — Alchoholic drink drunk on Radelix
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.
Nitrolabe — Centralian narcotic, injected
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.
Tomingan donganeur — martial arts move, presumably from Tominga.
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)