List of terms (TOS-RH)
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This is a listing of terms that appear in the glossary in "Armageddon", from page 310—312. Terms appearing in List of terms (TOS) do not appear here.
- imager: a high-tech mirror
- info-sphere: data storage capsule
- kirasolis: a sticky, caramel-like candy
- kyluminum: a lightewight, plasteen/saligium alloy
- launch aperture: energy-shielded opening in a starship bay through which smaller ships take off and land
- magnalift: hi-tech crane
- mealprep: a kitchen
- micronoscope: powerful electronic microscope
- mucoid: slimy, sticky; likely an adjective
- mugjape: maggot-like creatures; the larval stage of skreeters
- musiclink: radio; primarily for music and entertainment
- navi-hit: the pilot's stick in a Viper
- novayahren: birthday
- ogliv: a fruit described as prickly skinned and sweet; perhaps similar to pineapple
- oregg: a precious metal, equivalent to gold
- plasteen: an indestructible plastic
- pulsar: an engine aboard a starship
- saligium: heavy metal alloy used in construction
- S-cube: simulcast sight-and-sound unit; a video camera
- sensorline: physical connection between two technology systems
- servitor: waiter
- skreeter: described in the book as a "bothersome but essentially harmless insect"; perhaps similar to flies or, at worst, mosquitos
- skyeye: a multiple-lensed, spherical camera capable of hovering
- slagger: slothful person
- support vapors: life support aboard ships
- sylvanus: metal used in jewlrey, similar to brass
- "trank it": calm down
- TransVid: television
- temblor: a ground tremor or seismic planetary phenomenon
- tulipian buds: exotic appetizier or side dish made from vegetables
Contradictions
- pogees
- In "The Living Legend, Part II", Lucifer uses the term similar to how "shit" would be utilized; e.g. "They're blowing the pogees out of it."
- In "Armageddon", pogees is a term for testicles.
Differences
- centari: equivalent to nearly one minute; one hundred microns
- centon: equivalent to nearly one hour; one hundred centari
- micron: equivalent to a fraction of a second; 1/100th of a centari
- week: defined as "ten days"; which would make 25 weeks in a yahren
- yahren: while still equivalent to a year, a yahren is 250 days
Notes
- With the numbers given, there is a disconnect between Earth time and Colonial time. For instance, someone living 100 years (2,500 weeks) in Colonial time would be only be 48 Earth years old.