Zaventu: A Brai. Susa of the Atacarino and Susyc of the Brai space group. He is junior to Susyc Velo and so must waive overall command to him.
Aanvallenino: Verusta (Defence space ship) of the Brai. A part of the ‘A’ Defence Group of the Diaglon space ship fleet. A Defence Group is made up of four space ships.
Aegean: Community warship (battlewagon). A star ship equipped with the latest type of Alcub Drive.
Aikko: Racoven (Supply and support space ship) of the Brai. A part of the ‘A’ Defence Group of the Diaglon space ship fleet. A Defence Group is made up of four space ships.
Assalireino: Verusta (Defence space ship) of the Brai. A part of the ‘A’ Defence Group of the Diaglon space ship fleet. A Defence Group is made up of four space ships.
Atacarino: Verusta (Defence space ship) of the Brai. A part of the ‘A’ Defence Group of the Diaglon space ship fleet. A Defence Group is made up of four space ships. The Atacarino is the command space ship.
Prozent: Percent.
Simorko: Verusta (Defence space ship) of the Sbnai space group.
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CREATURES (AND A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY)
Author’s Note - Warning
This section contains some ‘spoilers’. I have tried to keep them to a minimum in case any of my readers are like me and can’t help but take a quick peek.
The stories about what happened before the events of this book can be read from within the pages of the ‘Planet Wolf’ series. If you do wish to read about what happened in this series stop now, close this book and try the first one, ‘Wolves and War’. It is a free e-book.
As an author I see free, first in series e-books as a type of sampling - as if a reader is sitting in a comfortable armchair in a bookshop and taking a look. If the potential customer likes a book he or she will buy it and if he or she doesn’t like it, it goes back on to the shelf, no harm done and no money spent.
Humans - The humans who came from Rybak are the descendants from two space ships that set out from Earth in the twenty-fourth century. They had originally been heading for Riga, an established colony. A cosmic storm swept them off course and they ended up light-years away, in the middle of unexplored space. One shipload landed on the southern continent, where the Kingdom of Murdoch was established, and which became, in time, a semi-feudal, rather militaristic country. In the north, two nations were founded. One was called Argyll and the other Vadath, the latter being governed equally and jointly by humans and Lind. It is from Vadath that the Vada come. The technology used when they landed was largely lost during the eight centuries since, including the advanced weaponry carried inside the WCCS Argyll and the WCPS Electra.
Lai - The Lai are a sect within a group of creatures known as the Diaglon. They resemble dragons and can fly and breathe fire. In size, they have about twice the bulk of the bodies of the Larg although their tails and wings make them seem much bigger. They live for a number of our centuries (around eight). Those of great age can remember humans arriving on Rybak although there are very few of those alive now. There are five sects of Diaglon. The Brai are black-skinned, the Dglai are green-skinned, the Rai are blue-skinned, the Sbnei are red-skinned and the Lai are golden-skinned (the gold turns copper-like as they age). They originate from the planet Dagan (now uninhabitable) but they have a new home planet, which is called Dagana. The Diaglon are very advanced, technologically speaking and have had the ability of spaceflight for very long time indeed, since before mankind evolved on Earth. The Lai landed on Rybak around 20,000 B.C., Earth time, found there the ancestors of the Lind and the Larg and took them under their protection. They extended this protection to the human inhabitants and their descendants of the two space ships, the WCCS Argyll and the WCPS Electra when they landed on 0 AL (Anno Landing). Long lost from their fellow Diaglon, they were located in c. 750 AL by the Diaglon exploratory space ship that was searching for the Ammokko, a ship belonging to a group of renegade Dglai. The Lai, together with the Lind, the Larg, those humans vadeln-paired with Lind with their dependants and some five hundred humans from the southern Kingdom of Murdoch, left for a new world (Tak) in 808 AL in large transport space ships. Tak is a Brai planet. They welcomed the settlers from Rybak and although the Brai still rule Tak, Human-kind, Lind-kind and Larg-kind are being gradually integrated and educated.
Lind - The Lind are native to a planet called Rybak (Planet Wolf). They are wolf-like and in stature and in dimension, resemble thoroughbred racehorses. They are highly intelligent and are telepathic. They are fast runners and prefer to live in forested areas. They are also committed to saving lives and to peace - although they will fight when the situation requires them to do so. Some Lind are life-bonded and mind-bonded with certain emphatic humans. This is known as vadeln-pairing. During the eight centuries when they and the humans co-existed on Rybak the Lind and those with human partners formed a military force called the Vada. The Vada protected peace on the planet. This included defending the northern continent from the Larg and defending the planet from a group of renegade Dglai who tried to invade it.
Larg - The Larg are very similar to the Lind, having descended from the same genotype. They are wolf-like and in stature and in dimension, resemble carthorses. They cannot run as fast nor for as long distances as can their cousins, the Lind. They prefer to live in open areas. They are telepathic but their mind-sending abilities are not as good as those of the Lind. Although a few have the ability to mind-bond with a human, this is very rare. For eons before humans arrived on the planet the Larg, who lived on Rybak’s large southern continent fought the Lind from the large northern continent for domination and supremacy. For the last two centuries before they and the Lind left, there was peace between them.
Vada - The Vada is a Lind/human cavalry force dedicated to fighting evil and protecting those who must be protected. It has a distinguished history. It has been in existence for 816 years, 808 of them on Planet Rybak. It is made up of 51 Ryzcks (Companies) of 35 vadeln-pairs each plus support and training personnel. The total numbers are around two thousand three hundred vadeln-pairs and four hundred humans who have not life-bonded with Lind. As well as the fifty-one fighting Ryzcks, there are trainees (cadets), medical personnel (Holad), message and delivery staff (Express), supply station operatives and trainers, cooks etc. The Vada is commanded by the Susa. The Ryzcks are each commanded by a Ryzcka. The Vadryzkas are junior officers and there are four in each Ryzck.
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