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A: (Imperial English): The neutral-animate pronoun. Emperor Chang disliked the fact that there was no good Standard English pronoun that referred to a single individual of unknown sex, or where sex was immaterial, so he made use of the Celtic "a", often written with an accent mark (á) by those who use Standard, to distinguish it from the indefinite article (@ is sometimes used when the printing/writing device cannot show accent marks). In Imperial English orthography, the Cyrillic "ya" (reversed R) is used.
[Preparer's note: The @ symbol has been used throughout these stories in the manner described above.]
ACADEMY: The Imperial Military Academy or Imperial Administrative Academy. Both are headquartered in and have their most prestigious facilities in the Antarctica Palace Complex; "branch" Academies are located throughout the Empire.
AHTO, Subsector 12-C:
No. systems: 89 Sector: Eridanuswith 3 inhabited planets: 2 Ruled by:with 2 inhabited planets: 11with 1 inhabited planet: 21AEGIR, Subsector 17-D:
No. systems: 72 Sector: Induswith 3 inhabited planets: 3 Ruled by:with 2 inhabited planets: 8with 1 inhabited planet: 24AGNI, Subsector 11-B:
No. systems: 153 Sector: Geminiwith 3 inhabited planets: 4 Ruled by:with 2 inhabited planets: 12with 1 inhabited planet: 24ALANNA, Clan: First of the Sandeman clans. Famous for its outstanding edged weapons.
ALANNA, Dana Dru-: Originally Dana Manfredi. A Terran woman who swore personal fealty to Richard Jason. When Jason repudiated her after trying to kill her, Dana asked the Alanna clan-chief's help in making atonement for allowing him to accept an unworthy thakur-na. After seeing the evidence, the Alanna instead asked Clan Miklos to convene a planet-wide conference, and asked Clan Vader to rule on both Dana's and Jason's actions. The decision was that Dana had acted properly and Jason had not; the Alanna then offered her his clan's countenance (essentially adoption), and when she accepted, claimed Chief's Right on her behalf. The conference agreed with that, banning Jason from any business in Subsector Sandeman, declaring his property forfeit, and giving him a day to get off-world or be killed by the first warrior who saw him. It also named Dana to the warrior caste and gave her the right to wear honor-black. ("Thakur-Na")
ALDRAS:
Sector: 16, Virgo Year:Subsector: C, Ishtar Day:System: Elder Gravity:Settled/established: Axial tilt:By: Oxygen:Satellites: % Water:Ident code prefix: ALS Continents:Ruled by: Fayette family<(Barbara Tennison)ALPH, Subsector 17-A:
No. systems: 95 Sector: Induswith 3 inhabited planets: 3 Ruled by:with 2 inhabited planets: 9with 1 inhabited planet: 20ALTERNATE UNIVERSES: Until the first ship from a provably alternate universe appeared in the Empire, these were thought to be mathematical abstractions. Afterward, however, they were accepted as fact. That first confirmed inter-universe transition, like most, was the result of a drive malfunction, and led to the further discovery that if the drive was repairable, the ship's next hyper-transition would take it away (from what happened to Imperial ships, return it to its own universe)....