Lensman (Nerik's WIR)
Characters
Lensman
Barknett — Radeligian 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
Miss Hostetter — Librarian
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
Eukonidor — Arisian border guard
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)
Eichamp (Amp of the Eich) — 'Eighth of Boskone' Foremost psychologist of the Eich (deceased)
Eichlan (Lan of the Eich) — 'First of Boskone' Helmuth's enigmatic and indescribable superior (deceased)
Eichmil (Mil of the Eich) — 'Second of Boskone'
Eichnor (Nor of the Eich) — 'Third of Boskone'
Eichsnap (Snap of the Eich) — 'Fourth of Boskone'
Gilversleeve — Valerian pirate captain
Helmuth — Speaker for Boskone (now dead)
Krimsky — Vice-Commander of Boyssia II base
Ninth of Boskone — Unnamed Eich.
Prellin — Bominger's immediate superior.
Sansteed — Boskone department head (presumed dead)
Seventh of Boskone — Unnamed Eich.
Vogenar — Wheelman in Aldebaran I base (very likely dead)
Wolmark — high ranking Boskonian (presumed dead)
Other Characters
Sir Austin Cardynge — Phenomenally smart British theoretical physicist
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
Alaskan — Known mostly as a producer of rare cigarettes
Aldebaran I — Barren, Mercury-like world
Aldebaran II — Earth colony world
Arisia — cloistered homeworld of the mysterious Arisians
Borova IV — Uninhabited planet in the Borova system.
Boyssia II — location of hidden New-Yorker Boskonian base
Bronseca — Earthlike, but somewhat warmer. Large Tellurian population.
Cominoche — Capital of Bronseca
Centralia — Planet nearest to the centre of the Galaxy.
Chickladoria
Corvina — Origin of Klono cult
Delgon — homeworld of the Overlords
Euphrosyne — Large asteroid in the Borova system.
Miner's Rest — Spaceman's resort on Euphrosyne
Jarnevon — homeworld of the Eich (in Lundmark's Nebula') a dark, frigid and airless world.
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
Vandemar — Planet furthest from the center of the Galaxy.
Velantia — homeworld of the Velantians
Alphabetic Species Classification Scheme
1st letter: Atmospheric Requirements (A = Oxygen)
2nd letter: Temperature Requirements (A = Earth-like)
3rd letter: Overall Body Arrangement (A = erect)
4th letter: Head types (A = humanlike)
5th letter: Arm types (A = humanlike)
6th letter: Leg types (A = humanlike)
Species
Arisians — Enigmatic beings resembling brains with vestigial bodies. Extremely powerful telepaths. Providers of the LENS.
Bronsecan — native of Bronseca
Eich — "A many-tentacled creature indescribable to man. It was not like an octopus. Though spiny, it did not resemble at all closely a sea-cucumber. Nor, although it was scaly and toothy and wingy, was it, save in the vaguest possible way, similar to a lizard, a sea-serpent, or a vulture."
Kalonian — Blue-skinned humanoids, possible orgininating in Lundmark's Nebula.
Ordovik — possess the sense of perception, no other details known.
Posenian — "As tall as a tall human, and heavier. Somewhat human in shape, but not in detail. Four arms instead of two, each arm had two opposed hands, and each hand had two thumbs, one situated about where a little finger would be expected. No eyes, not even vestigial ones. Two broad, flat noses and two toothful mouths; one of each in what would ordinarily be called the front of his round, shining, hairless head; the other in the back. Upon the sides of the head were large, volute, highly dirigible ears. And, like most races having the faculty of perception instead of that of sight, their heads are relatively immobile, their neck being short, massive, and tremendously strong. They can breath Tellurian atmosphere without problems, but not Radelix's."
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
Trocanthers — 'cold-blooded, quasi-reptilian beings who abhor light of all kinds and who breathe a gaseous mixture not only paralyzingly cold but also chemically fatal to man'.
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, known also to the trade by such nicknames as "benny," "benweed," "happy-sleep," and others, is a shredded, moistly fibrous material of about the same consistency and texture as fine-cut chewing tobacco.
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
H.T.T.s — 'High-Tension Tinkers' (Second-Stage Lensmen)
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)