Lensman (Nerik's WIR)

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)