Saga of the Seven Suns

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The Saga of Seven Suns is a series of science fiction novels written by Kevin J. Anderson. As of July 2006, it is an open-ended series, currently with seven books planned, with the sixth to be published next year. The series is set in a space opera scenario, a distant future in which humanity has spread out among the stars, colonizing a number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Prequel: Veiled Alliances (Graphic Novel) (2004)


Centuries ago, the human race began searching the Milky Way for hospitable planets, hoping to alleviate crowded conditions on Earth. Eleven ships filled with self-sufficient explorers set out for the stars, knowing that, at best, their grandchildren might someday find a new home. And now the Caillié, a generation ship on the verge of despair, has discovered something FAR more interesting - an advanced race capable of faster-than-light travel.

The Ildirans not only help the people of the Caillié settle the planet Theron, they seek out survivors of the other ships launched so long ago. Once they've located most of the remaining human pioneers, the Ildirans send an envoy to the much-changed planet Earth seeking an alliance between the two races. The Earth is now governed by the wisened King Ben, with the shadowy figure of Chairman Malcolm Stannis pulling the strings for the Terran Hanseatic League behind the scenes.

Book 1: Hidden Empire (2002)
Having colonized the worlds of the Spiral Arm, the three branches of humanity -- the Earth-based Terran Hanseatic League, the telepathic green priests of Theroc, and the fiercely rebellious, starship-dwelling Roamers -- consider themselves lords of creation. After all, humans share the galaxy with only two alien species, one harmless and one extinct. The benign Ildirans are an ancient, senescent civilization, while the Klikiss vanished ages before, leaving behind vast ruins filled with technological wonders, but no clues to their mysterious disappearance.

So ambitious humans see the galaxy as wide open for the taking. And when two xenoarchaeologists discover a Klikiss device that can convert gas giant planets into new, life-giving suns, the humans promptly put their new technology to the test. The result is hideous beyond imagination. For the supposedly uninhabitable gas giants are the homeworlds of another alien species - the Hydrogues. Infinitely more advanced than the Ildirans, supremely more powerful than the Klikiss, and now the victims of accidental genocide, the hydrogues don't seek explanations, apologies, or reparations. Instead, armadas of invincible, city-sized warships emerge from their gaseous worlds with a single purpose: to annihilate every last human - whether Hansa, Theron, or Roamer.

Suddenly, humans need allies, but the Klikiss can't help them and the Ildirans won't. In their pride, the upstart worlds of Man have misunderstood the brutal realities of the galaxy and now face their own impending doom.

Book 2: A Forest of Stars (2003)
Five years after attacking human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the enigmatic hydrogues maintain absolute control over the galaxy's gas giant planets. On Earth, the corrupt government is exploiting the crisis, tightening an iron grip on rebellious colonies while seeking to dominate the other humans throughout the galaxy. Earth's alien "friends", the seemingly gentle Ildirans, are secretly abducting and breeding people in enforced sex camps. And the government is using military robots to build cybernetic legions to fight the war, robots that have exterminated their own makers and may turn on mankind.

Five years ago, humans thought they ruled the cosmos. Today they're the galaxy's most endangered species. But when an incredible new race of elemental entities suddenly appear, they destroy all known balances of power. For these beings have suffered genocide for millions of years and are seeking to annihilate all living things.

Now for the humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin.

Book 3: Horizon Storms (2004)
The titanic war between hydrogues - powerful aliens that live within gas-giant planets - and faeros, fiery creatures inhabiting suns, continues to sweep across the Spiral Arm, extinguishing suns and destroying planets. It is a time when Chairman Basil Wenceslas of the Terran Hanseatic League and his figurehead King Peter must unify all branches of the human race to stand together against the threat even if they must resort to deception and oppression to do so.

But the freedom-loving Roamer clans and the forest-dwelling people of Theroc, whose "green priests" can communicate across vast distances through a network of sentient worldtrees, will not give up their independence so easily.

The iron-fist policies of Chairman Wenceslas force the disparate civilizations to forge alliances of their own, creating turmoil that may break human civilization apart, as surely as the destructive Hydrogues will.

Partly as a distraction from their peril, partly as a desperate hope, the Hanseatic League launches an ambitious new colonization program using the new network of alien transportals, instantaneous gateways that take hardy pioneers to settle new worlds once abandoned by the ancient insectlike Klikiss race. But the new territory comes with its own dangers and deeply buried mysteries.

In the ancient Ildiran Empire, Jora'h - the newly crowned Mage-Imperator - must face the awful responsibilities and sinister secrets his predecessors have imposed upon him: from the extensive breeding program forced upon a colony of hopeless human captives, to a surprising and uneasy pact with the beetle-like Klikiss robots that could result in the total extinction of the human race. But Jora'h must also survive a threat no other Mage-Imperator has faced in ten thousand years - open rebellion among the Ildirans, an astonishing civil war and a challenge to his rule that could break apart the entire Empire.

Book 4: Scattered Suns (2005)
The destructive Hydrogues continue their war against humans and the fiery entities, the Faeros -a struggle that kills planets and extinguishes whole stars. Newly crowned Mage-Imperator Jora'h, the leader of the ancient and vast Ildiran Empire, struggles with the knowledge that the Hydrogues are only willing to give them peace if they help destroy the humans. But Jora'h's empire is destroying itself from within, when his mad brother launches a bloody rebellion across the Ildiran planets, appointing Jora'h's own first-born son as its leader.

In the Terran Hanseatic League, Chairman Basil Wenceslas continues his red-herring war against the Roamer clans, eager to achieve a decisive victory, even against a supposed enemy that poses no threat. Their homes destroyed, the wandering Roamers scatter into hiding, trying to keep their culture and government intact, even when faced with enemies from all sides. Cesca Peroni, leader of the Roamers, finds herself stranded on a small icy outpost where miners have uncovered a hibernating army of alien Klikiss robots. Once released, these robots trigger another dark and ancient plot, one that could lead to a massacre across all human-inhabited planets. In a galaxy torn by war, treachery, and shifting alliances, it is clear that many of the races are untrustworthy, and that they are likely to turn on each other.

Book 5: Of Fire And Night (July 2006)
"Of Fire And Night Presents an opera series of science fiction. This title brings to us the sweeping war between titanic races; the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes who collide in a fury that obliterates planets, extinguishes entire stars, and exterminates whole races."

-- The extermination of mankind is at hand. In a war against alien races, killer robots, and elemental beings, Earth slips deeper into desperation. The Terran government always knew the hydrogues were a vicious enemy bent on humanity’s destruction, but they didn’t predict how many other factions would turn against them.

With his increasingly irrational leadership, Chairman Basil Wenceslas has driven humanity into a corner. The Chairman’s punitive treatment of Hansa colonies and free-spirited Roamers, as well as his refusal to aid the burned forest world of Theroc, has made enemies all around. Enemies that Earth cannot afford. --

Earth’s own Soldier compies have rebelled, taking over much of the military, stealing ships and slaughtering crews across the galaxy. Even our staunch allies the Ildirans, led by Mage-Imperator Jora’h, are secretly scheming with the hydrogues to exterminate the human race.

As the war continues to go badly for Earth, the remaining factions of humanity plan for their own salvation. Worldtrees allied with “green priests” on Theroc have rallied hulking, thorny tree battleships, while Roamers work with powerful water entities, the wentals, to seed scattered planets with a growing force to challenge the hydrogues.

After Chairman Wenceslas has alienated and cut off so many potential allies, it seems clear that Earth is not well defended, and that it may be destroyed.

Timeline
Ca. 1940's - Ildirans discover Klikiss robots on Hyrillka ice moons.

2100 - Peary, Balboa, Marco Polo; first 'Generation' ships to depart from Earth.

2103 - Burton, Caillie depart.

2104 - Amundsen departs.

2106 - Clark, Vichy depart.

2109 - Stroganov departs.

2110 - Abel-Wexler departs.

2113 - Kanaka departs, last Generation ship.

2196 - Kanaka leaves colony at Meyer rubble belt; becomes Rendezvous.

2200 - Christian Gellar made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2215 - Roseanna Burke made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2221 - King Ben crowned on Earth.

2223 - William Danforth Pape made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2230 - Mage-Imperator Yura'h ascends.

2243 - Malcolm Stannis made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2244 - Ildirans encounter Caillie; Theroc established as colony.

2245 - Ildirans come to Earth, search for more Generation ships.

2247 - Kanaka found, settlers taken to Iawa.

2249 - Compy OX returns to Earth.

Thara Wen (14 years old) becomes the first to 'take the green'.

2250 - Roamers begin skymining operations at Daym and elsewhere.

2253 - Francine Meyer made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2254 - Dobro experiments begin.

First Klikiss ruins (Llaro) reported by Madeliene Robinson.

Theroc officially delcares its independence from the Hansa.

King Ben poisoned; King George crowned.

2270 - Adam Cho made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2274 - King Christopher crowned.

2291 - Bertram Goswell made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2298 - Regan Chalmers made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2299 - Sandra Abel-Wexler made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2307 - King Jack crowned.

2315 - Clare Faso made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League. 2323 - King Bartholomew crowned.

2337 - Mage-Imperator Yura'h dies; Cyroc'h acsends.

2338 - Miguel Byron made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2347 - Tam Charles Wicinsky made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2352 - Uthair and Lia Theron born.

2357 - Bram Tamblyn born.

2359 - Caleb Tamblyn born.

Robert Roberts II made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2360 - Andrew Tamblyn born.

2363 - Wynn and Torin tamblyn born.

2367 - Kelly Kirk made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2372 - Alexa Theron born.

2373 - Uthair and Lia Theron become Father and Mother of Theroc.

2375 - Yarrod Theron born.

2376 - Karla Baker born.

2380 - Maureen Fitzpatrick made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2381 - King Frederick crowned.

2389 - Ronald Palomar made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2390 - Margaret and Louis Colicos married.

2397 - Ross Tamblyn born.

2400 - Idriss and Alexa married.

2402 - Reynald Theron born.

Jess Tamblyn born.

2403 - Beneto Theron born. Uthair and Lia Theron retire.

2406 - Sarein Theron born.

Basil Wenceslas made Chairman of Terran Hanseatic League.

2408 - Nira Khali born.

2411 - Tasia Tamblyn born.

2413 - Raymod Aguerra born.

2415 - Estarra Theron born.

2417 - Celli Theron born.

2427 - Oncier ignited with Klikiss Torch.

Ross Tamblyn dies.

King Peter crowned.

Humans
The human race is no longer confined to simply their home planet of Earth, and have spread out among the galaxy. Originally this was done using vast "Generation" spacecrafts which took generations (as their name implies) to reach their destination. However, after the Generation ships were 'rescued' by the Ildirans, all spaceships quickly adapted to their far superior ekti-driven stardrives. There are three main factions among the humans.

Terran Hanseatic League (Hansa)
The Terran Hanseatic League, known as the Hansa, control most of humanity's planets. They are an extensive commerce-based federation in control of Earth and most Terran colonies. They have a puppet king, who is more for show than anything else. The real power lies with the Chairman of the Hansa, who controls the king. They have trade relations with the Ildirans, who gave them the original Ildiran stardrive. Their military is the Earth Defense Forces, also known as the EDF. Their main religion is Unison, the head of which is the Archfather. They use compies, short for competent computerized companion. Compies are intelligent servant robots available in Friendly, Teacher, Governess, Listener and other models. This is an interstellar version of the Hanseatic League which existed in northern Europe from the 13th through the 17th centuries.

Roamers
The Roamers originated from the Kanaka, the last of the eleven generation ships to leave Earth. Originally intended to arrive on a planet and become colonists, they instead became the Roamers. This was brought about soon after the Ildirans brought their ancestors to the fertile planet, Iawa; during their first major harvest, the colonists' crops were all but annihilated by a virus that attacked Terran-based plant life. With their food reserves rapidly dwindling, the people decided to take their chances in space (where they had thrived), and so they all boarded the still intact Kanaka and set out into the vast galaxy once again. Eventually they re-established contact with the people they had left at the Meyer rubble belt, and all banded together to find a new way of life amongst the stars.

Roamers are well-known for their fierce independence, as well as their highly innovative (though somewhat dangerous) methods. They are normally referred to as 'Space gypsies' or 'Roachers'. The Hansa do not think well of them, though they are required to trade with them for ekti, a vital stardrive fuel. This is one of their main sources of income. The Roamers use skymines, ekti-harvesting and processing facilities located in gas giant clouds, to acquire this fuel. They are the main source of ekti for both the Hansa and Ildiran Empire, though they do not have much trade with the Ildirans. They have next to no military force, relying mainly on secrecy to ensure their safety. The Roamer society is split up into multiple clans, their leader being a Speaker. Their 'capital' is at Rendezvous, a site which is kept very secret. They are extremely adaptible and can adjust their equipment and lifestyle to suit various harsh conditions. They rely on others for assistance, products, etc. as little as possible.

Therons
The Therons originated from the Caillié, fifth of the generation ships to depart Earth and first to be encountered by the Ildirans. The colonists of this ship were taken by the Ildirans to settle on Theroc. Their rulers are a Father and Mother, similar to a King and Queen. They live mainly on biological products, using next to no inorganic materials. The Therons have the capability of bonding with the worldforest (or Verdani) to become green priests, who have telepathic relationships with the worldforest. They are, strictly speaking, independent of the Hansa. They have next to no military, although their alliance with the Verdani does give them protection to a certain degree.

Ildirans
The Ildirans are a polymorphic species ruled by the quasi-mystical Mage-Imperator, via an empathic link called the thism. Lens kithmen are able to focus the thism. Socially, the Ildiran are separated into castes (kiths), according to their dominant genetic traits. Each kith ends its name with a different phonetic sound and cross-breeds combine the sounds:
 * 'h  rulers/nobles
 * 'n  soldiers/warriors/guards
 * 'nh military leaders/generals
 * 'k  workers
 * 'v  bureaucrats
 * 't  singers
 * 'l  lens kithmen
 * 'f  scientists
 * 'o  technicians
 * 'of engineers
 * 'a  teachers
 * 'th artists
 * 'sh rememberers
 * 'x  miners

They are a stagnant race, mired in ritual and protocol, uninterested in expansion and content with the past glories described in their epic poem, the Saga of Seven Suns. The Saga of Seven Suns supposedly records every significant event in their history, and the task of retelling this epic is given to the rememberers. They are dependent on their thism-link with other Ildirans, and terribly afraid of the dark. This is due to the fact that their homeworld is bathed in constant sunlight, from seven suns, and thus they had difficulty adapting (and comprehending) night-time on other worlds. The Ildirans invented the Ildiran stardrive, which uses ekti (an allotrope of hydrogen found mainly in gas giants, although other sources of hydrogen are found in places) to travel great distances in remarkably short amounts of time. It is the only viable form of space travel.

Klikiss
The Klikiss were an insectoid race that was thought to have become become extinct 10,000 years before the beginning of the series. Their only remains are numerous ruins (some more or less intact, whilst others are wrecked beyond repair) scattered amongst worlds across the Spiral Arm. It is later discovered that some of the Klikiss' technology is still salvagable, as proven by the use of the Klikiss Torch and the inter-planetary portals found in a large number of their cities.

Aside from this, the only other legacy left behind by the Klikiss race is the large number of robots (apparently designed in their likeness) that were reactivated half a millenia ago by the Ildirans. The robots themselves are very intricate in terms of design, with largely unknown inner workings. Though they all look identical, they each consider themselves unique in some respect, as they assign names to each member of their race. They have blunt speech mannerisms, and often do not reveal too much about themselves or their motives.

Although they do not expose them very often, the Klikiss robots are equipped with a variety of built-in weapons systems and advanced wings that allow them to fly. It is worth noting that their infrastructures are practically indestructible, with nothing seemingly able to deal them damage; three robots were hit by a monsoon and came back with no damage, and later a large number of them could exist at the core of a gas giant with no trouble whatsoever.

The cause for the Klikiss' disappearance is a mystery to the rest of the galaxy, and the intelligent robots claim to have no knowledge of the events. Thus the dead race provides a very complex mystery, one which the human race has tried to unravel by studying the Klikiss ruins.

In reality, they were wiped out by the Hydrogues, their robots (which turned on them) and the Ildirans, who did so to avoid being wiped out by the Hydrogues. The surviving robots are free to roam around the galaxy, but their purpose is dubious. The Ildirans do not have many dealings with them, although the Klikiss robots acted as negotiators between them and the Hydrogues, and some humans are wary of them. Although it appears that only a few of them survived, the 'awakened' ones are reviving their dormant comrades. They are allied with the Hydrogues, and are at war against Humanity in order to free their servant robots ("compys") - a reason why the Ildirans do not use similar technology.

Some small number of Klikiss evidently survived the genocide, as they reappear at the end of Of Fire and Night, ready to reclaim their old worlds, now colonised by the Hansa.

Hydrogues
Little is known about the Hydrogues. They are a highly aggressive, mercuric lifeform residing in the centres of gas giants and appear to lack emotions, being somewhat robotic in this sense. They possess incredibly devastating weaponry (icewaves and powerful electrical blasts), and have no regard for the human race or Ildirans. They reappeared after the humans ignited the gas giant Oncier, which they inhabited, and began to destroy all human and Ildiran facilities, not appearing to distinguish between the many factions of the two races. Their ships are spherical, heavily armoured (seemingly made out of diamond), and possess a great deal of firepower. They can completely destroy small celestial bodies within a day, and even extinguish stars. The "wind" aspect of the 4 super-powers.

Faeros
Faeros are firey entities that dwell within suns, and are seemingly unaffected by the hazardous temperatures. They are considered to be treacherous by the Verdani. They once fought with the Verdani and Wentals against the Hydrogues, but then shifted alliances (for reasons relating to the Klikiss robots). In the ongoing war, they appear to have shifted alliances again, attacking the Hydrogues while sparing the other races. The "fire" aspect of the 4 super-powers.

It is suggested in Scattered Suns that the faeros may be the "lightsource" from which the Ildiran thism is derived. This is expanded in Of Fire and Night, in which the pretender to the Imperial Throne, Rusa'h, appears to be linked with the faeros, possibly in a similar manner to Jess Tamblynn and the wentals, or Beneto and the verdani.

Verdani
Also referred to as the "World Forest", this race manifests itself as a telepathic network of trees that some humans (the Green Priests) can communicate with. Once the Verdani were present on thousands of worlds across the galaxy, but the conflict with the Hydrogues forced them to near-extinction. Losing the war has seemingly caused the Verdani to lose much of their combat resolve, as the mere thought of engaging a Hydrogue terrifies them.

Currently the largest concentration of Verdani reside on the planet Theroc, although they have started to be spread around the galaxy again with the aid of humans. They demonstrate the ability to absorb information like a sponge and store it eternally for later use by either themselves or other beings. This makes their thirst for new knowledge, whatever it may be, practically insatiable. Green priests are able to use Verdani as instant communication devices, sending any message across vast distances almost immediately. Although the Verdani are made up of many trees, they manifest themselves as one being. The "earth" aspect of the 4 super-powers. Green priests have the ability to become part of the world-forest's mind upon their death, if they have time and ability to pour their souls into a tree as they die. The verdani are then capable of building a golem from one of these "ghosts", as they did with Beneto.

With the addition of wental water, the verdani are capable of producing "treeships", vast trees capable of interstellar flight, and able to destroy hydrogue warglobes with apparent ease. Each treeship requires a green priest joined in a permanent symbiosis to act as a pilot / navigator; such ships had been produced for the last war, ten millenia ago, piloted by a now-forgotten race of bird-like humanoids. These ships were sent into deep space, and retured to Theroc at the end of Scattered Suns. An additional hundred were built during Of Fire and Night.

Wentals
A water-based race who were considered extinct after the war with the Faeros/Hydrogues, but in fact were broken up and dispersed throughout the interstellar void; Whilst Wentals are unable to die, they can be "disassociated" into their more basic components, nullifying their sentience and thus putting them in a form of suspended animation. Like the Verdani, they have some kind of telepathic link and speak as one.

However, Jess Tamblyn accidentally collects Wental essence while gathering water during a solitary deep-space mission. Because of this, the Wentals are effectively brought back to life. They establish a telepathic link with him, telling him about the intergalactic war that took place millennia ago. Jess took the Wentals to an uninhabited oceanic planet and introduced the Wentals into the raging sea, initializing the first phase of the race's rebirth. They have the ability to take control of any water-based body (e.g. planets, comets) and control it, regardless of the state of the water. They can then manipulate the climate and lifeforms of the planet, and this is how they reproduce. The "water" aspect of the 4 super-powers.

Shana Rei
An ancient, demonic race who lived in dark nebulae, and were defeated by the Ildiran Empire eons ago. They are said to be the primary reason why Ildirans are afraid of the dark. In the fourth book of the series (Scattered Suns) some characters are told that the Shana Rei have never existed, and their war with the Ildirans was a fabricated part of the Saga - as part of a conspiracy by the Mage Imperator. In the fifth book of the series (Of Fire And Night) however, it is suggested that they might be real after all.

Bird-Like Humanoids
A forgotten race, not in any records, hidden in the mind of the worldtree, who once played the part of the first green priests ages ago in the first war before humanity had stated creating cities on Earth, all that remains of it is wisps of its lifeforms piloting the orginal verdani battleships.

Aguerra, Esteban
Esteban Aguerra was the father of Raymond Aguerra. He fled to Ramah and changed his name after an arguement with his wife. He was killed on the order of Basil Wenceslas to leave no loose ends from Raymond Aguerra's life.

Aguerra, Raymond
Raymond Aguerra was the birth name of King Peter.

Aguerra, Rita
Rita Aguerra was the mother of Raymond Aguerra and was killed in an apartment fire engineered on the orders of Basil Wenceslas.

Brindle, Robb
Robb Brindle was the son of two EDF veterans and enlisted in the Earth Defence Forces at the start of the war against the hydrogues. Robb earned the command of a squadron of remoras in the EDF's Grid 9 fleet and served at Jupiter, Yreka and Boone's Crossing. Robb managed to trace the hydrogues that attacked the colony at Boone's Crossing back to Osquivel.

Robb Brindle volunteered to act as a diplomat for the Terran Hanseatic League at Osquivel and was presumed dead by the EDF when his transmissions cut off and the hydrogues attacked the EDF fleet. However, Roob was in fact one of a score of human prisoners the hydrogues had taken and he was secured with others in one of the hydrogue cityspheres.

Cain, Eldred
Eldred Cain was the heir-apparent and deputy of the Chairman of the Terran Hanseatic League, Basil Wenceslas.

Clarin, Eldon
Eldon Clarin was an engineer and was aboard Berndt Okiah's skymine at Erphano when it was destroyed by the hydrogues.

Clarin, Roberto
Roberto Clarin was the manager of Hurricane Depot at the time of its seizure and destruction by the EDF.

Colicos, Anton
Anton Colicos was the son of Louis and Margaret Colicos, and was the first human from the Terran Hanseatic League to be allowed to study the Ildiran epic the 'saga of the seven suns'.

Colicos, Louis
Louis Colicos was a xenoachaeologist, husband of Margaret Colicos and father of Anton Colicos. He was killed by Klikiss robots on Rheindic Co.

Colicos, Margaret
Margaret Colicos was a xenoarchaeologist, wife of Louis Colicos and mother of Anton Colicos.

Covitz, Jan
Jan Covitz was a colonist that settled on Corribus after leaving Dremen. He was killed in the attack on the human settlement by the Klikiss robots.

Covitz, Orli
Orli Covitz was the daughter of Jan Covitz and was one of two survivors of the Klikiss robot attack on the settlement on Corribus, after moving to the planet from Dremen.

Kellum, Del
Del Kellum was the owner of the Roamer shipyards located in the rings of Osquivel.

Kellum, Zhett
Zhett Kellum was the daughter of Del Kellum.

Kett, Rlinda
Rlinda Kett was a trader and was once the head of a group of trader ships but this was reduced to only the Voracious Curiousity when the rest of her ships were commandeered by the EDF.

Khali, Nira
Nira Khali was a green priest from Theroc and one of two green priests that travelled to Ildira to study the saga of the seven suns. While on Ildira, Nira fell in love with the Prime Designate Jora'h but also captured the interest of his brother Udru'h who wanted her for the experiments on Dobro. Consequently Nira was kidnapped and her green priest companion on Ildira, Otema, was killed.

Nira Khali was the mother of four children - Rod'h, Gale'nh,Tamo'l and Muree'n - as a result of the breeding program on Dobro in addition to Osira'h, her daughter fathered by Jora'h. After Jora'h's ascension to Mage-Imperator and conviction to find and free Nira, the green priest was moved by Udru'h out of the breeder camps and to an island on the other side of the planet. However, shortly before this happened Nira managed to get in contact with her daughter and relate the truth of the experiments of Dobro.

Lanyan, Kurt
General Kurt Lanyan was the commander of the Earth Defence Forces.

Lotze, Davlin
Davlin Lotze was an exosociologist employed by the Terran Hanseatic League and was assigned to the former Ildiran world of Crenna to investigate the species. Later Davlin was reassigned to investigate the disappearance of the xenoarchaeologists, Louis and Margaret Colicos, which resulted in his rediscovery of the Klikiss transportal network. After serving as a transportal explorer for some time Davlin Lotze took a break and went back to Crenna. However this sabbatical coincided with the hydrogue attack on Crenna sun and Davlin Lotze volunteer to travel to the nearby world of Relleker on the planet's only ship. He succeeded in rescuing the citizens of Crenna after the death of the system's sun with the help of Rlinda Kett and Branson Roberts.

Okiah, Berndt
Berndt Okiah was the grandson of Jhy Okiah and a Roamer skyminer who managed facilities at Glyx and then Erphano, where he died in a hydrogue attack.

Okiah, Kotto
Kotto Okiah was the grandson of Jhy Okiah and a Roamer engineer who managed to set up colonies in the extreme environments of Isperos and Jonah 12. In addition to this Kotto engineered several improvements for Roamer skymines, aided the Therons after the hydrogue attack on Theroc and designed an effective weapon against the hydrogues.

Okiah, Jhy
Jhy Okiah was a former speaker of the Roamer clans.

Otema
Otema was a green priest and former ambassador to Earth, being succeeded in that role by Sarein. She was chosen for the assignment of travelling to Ildira to study the saga of the seven suns and died their during the kidnapping of her assistant Nira Khali.

Tamblyn, Bram
Bram Tamblyn was the eldest of five Tamblyn brothers and was the head of the Tamblyn clan and of the water mines of Plumas. He had three children - Ross, Jess and Tasia - and was made a widower after his wife Karla died. Due to his and Ross Tamblyn's similarly stubborn attitudes Bram disowned his eldest son but was deeply hurt when the hydrogues attacked Blue Sky Mine and killed Ross. Bram died on Plumas soon after Ross's own death.

Tamblyn, Jess
Jess Tamblyn was the second son of Bram Tamblyn and Karla Baker and was made the heir to the Plumas water mine after his elder brother Ross Tamblyn was disowned. Although Jess remained on good relations with Ross there was some friction as Jess was in love with Ross's fiance, Cesca Peroni, though Ross was ignorant of the fact. Jess's old compy EA that had been passed down from Ross was gifted to Tasia, whom Jess had taught to pilot a few types of Roamer craft and they sometimes went out looking for the lost generation ship Burton.

After Ross was killed by the hydrogues Jess engineered at counterstrike at Golgen by launching mountains of rock from the gas giant's rings into the atmosphere of the planet. Jess served as pilot when Kotto Okiah first travelled to Isperos and also as a spotter at the blitzkreig ekti raid on Welyr five years after Shareen Pasternak's skymine was destroyed there.

Although continuing on his relationship with Cesca Peroni and planning to announce their engagement almost six years after Ross's death, Jess departed as a volunteer in a nebula skimmer venture to avoid a pained break up with Cesca when it became clear that a marriage to Reynald Theron would be advantageous.

While partaking in the nebula skimming venture Jess also collected water particles in his small craft, which gradually reassociated into the ancient water-entity of a Wental. Departing from his task of scouring for ekti Jess travelled to a couple of unknown worlds to aid with the rejuvenation of the Wentals, however he encountered a hydrogue warglobe at the second planet and had to swallow Wental water to keep it hidden from the hydrogues.

Although crashing on the unnamed planet Jess managed to survive due to the state of his new Wental infused body. Using the new powers he received from the Wentals Jess managed to leave the planet on a specially constructed ship and after his escape Jess travelled to Rendezvous to enlist the help of the Roamers to spread the Wentals.

Tamblyn, Ross
Ross Tamblyn was the son of Bram Tamblyn and Karla Baker but was disowned by his father after a heated arguement, Bram Tamblyn agreeing to give his eldest son his inheritance early which Ross invested in the Blue Sky Mine. Although Bram Tamblyn refused to speak with Ross, his brother - Jess Tamblyn - was a frequent visitor to the Blue Sky Mine at Golgen and often brought presents from himself and their sister Tasia. Ross was betrothed to Francesca Peroni who had agreed to marry the black sheep of the Tamblyn family if he managed to make a profit on his skymine within five years. During the betrothal Ross made a present of a black skypearl necklace for Cesca Peroni. Ross Tamblyn died before he managed to make a profit from Blue Sky Mine when the skymine was attack by hydrogues.

Tamblyn, Tasia
Tasia Tamblyn was the youngest child of Bram and Karla Tamblyn and resolved to join the Earth Defence Forces after the death of her oldest brother Ross Tamblyn. Tasia achieved great scores in training and was made the commander of a weapons platform. Tasia served as Platcom at Jupiter and Yreka but was promoted to command a Manta Cruiser before the hydrogue attack on Boone's Crossing. Tasia's service was so good that she was selected to deliver a Klikiss Torch to Ptoro.

After the Hansa announced the Roamers to be hostiles Tasia was sidelined by the Terran Defence Forces and was assigned to train new EDF recruits on Mars.

Earth
The Capital of the Hanseatic League, Earth is the centre of Human culture and economy.

Mars
Mars is controlled by the Earth Defence Forces, and used as their primary base for administration and training purposes.

Relleker
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League mainly known as a resort world. Due to its reliance on imports the residents of Relleker were hard hit when ekti supplies dwindled.

Ramah
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League mainly known as a religious haven.

Dremen
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League known for its dismal climate.

Yreka
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League, Yreka was the site of a blockade by the Earth Defence Forces after it was discovered that the Yrekans had been hoarding ekti.

Boone's Crossing
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League that was attack by the hydrogues due to its forested surface while the gas giant dwellers were searching for the worldforest.

Corvus Landing
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League and the site of Beneto Theron's death.

New Portugal
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League, New Portugal is known for its production of wine.

Palisade
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League.

Usk
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League.

Paris 3
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League.

Crenna
A member world of the Terran Hanseatic League that was formerly inhabited by an Ildiran splinter colony before the onset of a blindness disease that claimed the Designate of the planet among others. Crenna was also the site of an outbreak of 'orange spot' which was unconnected to the Ildiran illness. Crenna was made uninhabitable when the star system's sun was extinguished due to hydrogue activities.

Oncier
Oncier was a gas giant with four large moons. It was selected as the world on which the Klikiss torch would be tested (turning it into a star and making its moons habitable). After this test was successful, unknown craft attacked and destroyed the four moons as well as the Hansa research station nearby. Later a huge battle raged between the Hydrouges and Faeros, that resulted in the new star being extinguished. The four moons of Oncier were named George, Jack, Christopher and Ben and were pre-emptively named as colony worlds of the Terran Hanseatic League.

Theroc
A human populated world independent of the Hanseatic League. It is the world most heavily populated by the Verdani, or Worldforest, and is the cultural and spiritual home of the Green priests. Theroc is ruled as an independent state by its Father and Mother, and usually takes a neutral political stance.

Ildira
The Capital of the Ildiran Empire, heavily populated due, primarily, to the fear of isolation, common amongst Ildirans. Ildira is in a binary system, however its unusually close proximity to two other star systems, results in seven individual suns being clearly visible with a high degree of magnitude in the Ildiran sky, as a result the planet experiences no night.

Dobro
Dobro is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the second born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. The most notable feature of Dobro is its human population. The humans from the Burton generation ship were taken to Dobro by Ildirans, under the guise of sharing the world between both races. However the Ildirans imprisoned the humans to be used for their breeding experiments, with the aim of using new human DNA to produce hybrid offspring with telepathic abilities superior to that of an average Ildiran. These experiments have been kept secret from all humans.

Hyrillka
Hyrillka is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the third born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. Hyrillka is located in the Horizon Cluster. It is notable for being the centre of production of the potent stimulant drug, Shiing, which has a disruptive effect on an Ildiran's connection to the web of thism.

Colusa
Colusa is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the fourth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Scotia
Scotia is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the fifth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Alturas
Alturas is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the sixth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Galt
Galt is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the seventh born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Kamin
Kamin is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the eighth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Shonor
Shonor is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the ninth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Heald
Heald is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the tenth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Vondor Qe
Vondor Qe is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the eleventh born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Hrel-oro
Hrel-oro is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the twelfth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator. Hrel-oro is a dry and warm planet with very few plants though the world is rich in minerals and is used by the Ildirans for the mining of desirable metals. Due to the planet's arid climate it is populated mainly by members of the 'scaly' kith. Power is supplied to settlements on the planet by solar-power stations and wind turbines.

Dzelluria
Dzelluria is a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire, its Designate is traditionally the thirteenth born noble son of the ruling Mage-Imperator.

Maratha
Maratha is a planet used as a resort world by the Ildiran Empire with a splinter colony being located permenantly at the Maratha Prime complex. A Maratha Secda complex is being built on the planet on the other side of the world from Maratha Prime so the world can be utilised throughout its orbit.

Comptor
Comptor is a forested planet and is home to a splinter colony of the Ildiran Empire. A former designate of Comptor, the favourite of the then Mage-Imperator, is remembered in the Saga of the Seven Suns due to his death in a forest fire on the planet.

Rendezvous
Although not an actual planet, Rendezvous is a structure constructed from several connected asteroids in the Meyer system and is the Roamer seat of government. Rendezvous was started when the generation ship Kanaka stopped in the Meyer system to collect vital resources required to continue on their journey, but some of the colonists decided to remain in the system when the Kanaka departed. Rendezvous served as the Roamer seat of government until it was attacked and destroyed in a raid by the Earth Defence Forces.

Osquivel
Osquivel is a gas giant occupied by hydrogues and its rings are the site of Roamer starship manufacturing managed by Del Kellum. These shipyards had to be disguised when the Roamers were notified that the Earth Defence Forces would be sending a battle group to Osquivel after Robb Brindle traced the hydrogue warglobes that attacked Boone's Crossing back to the gas giant. In the battle between the EDF and hydrogues at Osquivel the humans were soundly beaten and retreated from the planet. Roamers from the Osquivel shipyards managed to recover survivors from the wrecks of EDF ships after the battle who were subsequently barred from leaving the facility. A complete hydrogue warship was also found at Osquivel and Kotto Okiah was pulled out from Jonah 12 to study the find.

Plumas
Plumas is an ice-bound where Roamer operated water mines are located. Run by the Tamblyn clan the main settlement on Plumas is deep under the surface in caverns lit by artificial means.

Hurricane Depot
Hurricane Depot is a facility used by the Roamers consisting of an artificially constructed station located at the centre of a pair of orbiting planetoids. During its management by Roberto Clarin the Hurricane Depot's artificial complex was destroyed in a raid by the Earth Defence Forces.

Isperos
Isperos is a planet that orbited close to its system's sun and was rich in precious minerals. The Roamer Kotto Okiah planned to build a settlement on the planet as it would yield vital materials and travelled with Jess Tamblyn to the planet to have a look at the planet. Kotto's plans were later approved by the Roamer speaker Jhy Okiah and a Roamer settlement, including a railgun to launch bricks of minerals in space for collection, was built on Isperos. After a meteor passed close to the planet and misaligned the railgun built by the Roamers, causing a number of consequent problems, the Roamers were forced to abandon their settlement on Isperos.

Jonah 12
Jonah 12 is an incredibly cold planet and the location of a Roamer colony designed by Kotto Okiah after the unfortunate decline of the mining facility on Isperos. Roamers on the planet mine the gases frozen on its surface for use in Roamer industry.

Golgen
Golgen is a gas giant occupied by the hydrogues and the first place where they were encountered by humans when they destroyed by the Romaer skymine 'Blue Sky Mine' - owned by Ross Tamblyn. After the death of Ross, his brother Jess Tamblyn staged an attack against Golgen by sending asteroids from the planet's rings into the planet.

Ptoro
Ptoro is a gas giant occupied by the hydrogues and used to be the site of a Roamer skymine - owned by the Tylar clan - before the hydrogues' ultimatum when it was pulled from service. Later Ptoro was used as the site of the first offensive use of the Klikiss Torch by the Earth Defence Forces.

Glyx
Glyx is a gas giant and was a site mined by the original Ildiran skymines. At some time after the Ildirans passed over skymining to Roamers the facility at Glyx was managed by Berndt Okiah.

Erphano
Erphano is a gas giant occupied by hydrogues and was the site of a Roamer skymine managed by Berndt Okiah. This skymine was one of the earliest to be destroyed by the hydrogues.

Welyr
Welyr is a gas giant occupied by hydrogues and was the site of a Roamer skymine managed by Shareen Pasternak. This skymine was one of the earliest to be destroyed by the hydrogues. Welyr was also the site of a Roamer blitzkreig raid that took place five years after the destruction of the Roamer skymine.

Klikiss
Many Klikiss world were repopulated by the Terran Hanseatic League after the transgate network was reactivated.

Corribus
Corribus was the world where it was thought the Klikiss race was finally exterminated by an unknown foe and was where Margaret and Louis Colicos discovered the Klikiss Torch and was repopulated by humans after it was rediscovered by Hud Steinman. The colony was later attacked by Hansa warships in the command of the Klikiss robots who scourged the planet of all humans aside from Hud Steinman and Orli Covitz.

Rheindic Co
Rheindic Co was the world where the first Klikiss transgate was reactivated by Louis Colicos and the hub of the Hansa colonisation effort.

Pym
Pym was a desiccated world that used to be inhabited by the Klikiss.

Iawa
Iawa is the world the Ildirans transported the humans from the generation ship Kanaka to when they discovered the colonists. However, after becoming accustomed to a different way of life onboard the Kanaka and their cereal crops suffering from an awful plight, the colonists left Iawa to reunite with the community that had been left to form Rendezvous.

Dularix
Dularix was a forested world uninhabited by any humans or Ildirans that was attacked by the hydrogues when the gas giant dwellers were searching for the remnants of the verdani.