Fifth Dynasty: 2498–2345 BC
Fourth Dynasty: 2613–2498 BC
Galea (ga-lay’-ah): The enormous asteroid that is the primary Lucien settlement. It lies at the edge of the Kinley star system.
Great Life (or Blessed Life): A modern Kinley imprecation. This curse derives from the generations of Kinley who struggled to keep the race alive.
Great War, the: The Kinley name for the ancient war between Lucien and Kinley that resulted in the near destruction of both races. Called the Plague by the Lucien.
Haight (hite): An ancient language of the Kinley, at one time the dominate language of science.
Herrod (hare’-ed): The home planet of the Kinley. It resides in a neighboring star system to Rheat, once the home planet of the Lucien.
Horus: Egyptian god, son of Osiris and Isis. He avenged his father’s murder by slaying Seth (they have many legendary battles). He ruled over all of Egypt and at the end of his rein turned over the empire to the line of human pharaohs.
Isis: Egyptian mother-goddess. Wife of Osiris and mother of Horus.
Jack, The: Forty-two years old. Male. Ancient Kinley. Member of the Kinley Earth Survey crew. Specialist in numerous disciplines, including the study of atmosphere and the interaction of humans with their environment. Known as a “Jack of all trades.”
Jean-Claude: Eighteen years old. Male. Earth human, black. A French prostitute, working in the slums of Cairo.
Katalla-Oman: A collection of Lucien religious teachings emphasizing the individual’s inherent ability to achieve unity with others around him and with the universe at large. Much of the Katalla-Oman is attributed to Omani, the god of wisdom.
Kinley (kin’-ly): The human natives of the planet Herrod. During an earlier incarnation of their society, they were quite varied in genotype, with over a dozen distinct races. After the Great War, however, the tiny remaining gene pool resulted in a homogenized race, in which every member shared the same basic coloring and bone structure. The modern Kinley has copper-colored skin, hair that varies from dark brown to reddish brown, and blue, green, or gray eyes.
Lion: Twenty-one years old. Male. Ancient Kinley. Zoologist and member of the Kinley Earth Survey crew. Named “Lion” by the Earth natives for his resemblance to this animal. Son of the Captain and the Archaeologist.
Lucien (loo’-shen:) A nonhuman, mammalian race that evolved in a neighboring star system to the Kinley. Notable aspects of their physical appearance are their silver skin, which becomes reflective when exposed to sunlight; the triangular, slightly insectile shape of their heads; the heavy sheaf of bone that provides protection to their chests; and their two knee joints, one bending forward and the other backward, which allow their legs to absorb much greater impact than a human leg could withstand.
The Lucien originally inhabited Rheat, but after the Kinley-Lucien war, Rheat was left uninhabitable, and the Lucien society was thereafter based on the asteroid Galea at the outer edge of the Kinley star system.
Mechanic: Forty-three years old. Male. Ancient Kinley. Member of Kinley Earth survey crew.
Mother: The chief goddess in the ancient Kinley religion. Her name is often found in imprecations such as “Mother’s Love,” “Sweet Mother,” or “Mother-of-all.”
Nate Douglas: Thirty years old. Male. Earth human, Caucasian. An employee of the American Embassy in Cairo.
Niks, Sentinel Defender Niks Arras of Telivein (niks): Twenty-five years old. Male. Kinley. Leader of the Kinley team sent from Herrod to Earth.
Old Kingdom: A period of Egyptian history encompassing the Third through Sixth Dynasties, approximately 2700–2200 BC.
Omani (o-ma’-ni): The Lucien god of wisdom and unity.
Opening: A ritual meditation and mental exercise performed by Lucien. It involves expanding one’s spiritual reach to encompass the surrounding environment and sometimes the mind of another person.
Osiris: Egyptian god. Ultimately became the god of the dead and is believed to have been the first mummy. Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth and eventually avenged by his son Horus. His wife and sister was Isis.
Plague, the: The Lucien name for the ancient war between themselves and the Kinley. It is so called because the Kinley’s final action in the war was to release a specially engineered disease into the atmosphere of Rheat. This man-made plague wiped out the entire population of Rheat, leaving only the Lucien who lived on asteroid colonies alive.
Plaguers: A Lucien term for the Kinley. See Plague. Pruit, Sentinel Defender Pruit Pax of Senetian (Proo-it): Twenty-five years old. Female. Kinley. Member of the two-man Kinley team sent from Herrod to Earth.
Rheat (ree’-aht): The original home planet of the Lucien. No Lucien live on the planet in present day. It resides in a neighboring star system to Herrod, the home planet of the Kinley.
Saving Father: A modern Kinley imprecation. The “Father” referred to is the ancient genetic scientist who mapped out the recovery of the race following the Great War.
Sentinel, the: An elite military group charged with the ultimate responsibility for the future of the Kinley race.
Seth: Egyptian god, brother of Osiris, whom he betrayed and murdered.
Skinsuit: A web of cells that lives in the upper layers of the host’s skin. The cells of the suit can retreat into the host’s body or rise to the surface to provide an additional layer of “skin” as needed to protect the host from microorganisms in the environment.
Soulene (soo-leen’): The modern language of the Kinley.
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