Lensman (Nerik's WIR)

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

Countess Avondrin — minor zwilnik agent on Radelix (now retired)

Dessa Desplains — Zwilnik agent, originally from Aldebaren II

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.

Posenian — Humanoid race 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

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

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)