A Abuser | A synthet with an implant rate (IR) above the civilian limit of 65%. See also: implant rate
Academy, The | A military educational institution established in Ares in 103 AW. The most prestigious of its kind on Kyos.
Axis | A source of energy discovered during War (Pion scholars often speculate that Axis is a side effect of the Conflagration, and that it did not exist in the BW era). Axis powers up domes and machines which have Axis drives, and is used to generate power for various other purposes. See also: Axis-rich grounds
Axis-rich grounds | Also: Axis grounds. Territories rich with underlying Axis, which provide the objective reality without the protection from Demons. See also: Axis, flux field
Aya | The home planet of the sentient species of The Universe of Seven, the only known habitable planet in the binary Logan-Hades star system. See also: Hades, Logan
B Battle at the foot of Aegis [314 AW] | The final battle of The March of the Damned, which ended Daniel’s advance and effectively put an end to the demonspawn army. See also: March of the Damned
Beacon | Also: flux master. The one who sustains a flux field or tethering a large group of visitors to their subreality. See also: flux, flux field, subreality
Blue Box | The main processing unit of an AI entity (usually of an android or a personal assistant); originally the control unit of a large group of Bygones. See also: cell
C Calm [212 AW] | A cataclysm that took place on Ilyon in 212 AW. Not much is known about the event itself, but the original Ilyonians were never seen again. See also: Ilyon
Cell | A self-sustaining group of Bygones, usually controlled by a Blue Box. See also: Blue Box
Collapse [2 AW] | The failure of the objective reality outside of the Axis domes on Kyos as a result of the simultaneous activation of six of them.
Collective | A large group or cluster of Corrupted; e.g.: Flavia Collective.
Conflagration [Year 0] | The Mass Manifest which happened in the Norther Research Center several weeks after its lockdown. Also known as the Awakening. See also: Kindling, Manifest
Crawlers | Lesser Corrupted.
D Daisy | A synthet (usually with high IR) who goes to great lengths to conceal their augmentations, particularly by avoiding any apparent face implants.
Doctors | Research personnel at the Northern Research Center (in context). Often referred to as “the Good Doctors”.
E Elder | A sept leader. See also: sept
Empyreans | Creatures existing outside the corporeal plane, summoned by Heralds.
Explorer | Also: hunter (not to be confused with station hunters). Someone who ventures Outside for personal benefit.
F Felandrite | A source of energy which was considered an alternative to Axis. Felandrite was first obtained in 502 AW as a result of a joint effort of several corporations from Nova, Ares and Mira DCs in a region later called Gambler’s Fallacy. However, mining it proved difficult and unprofitable, as keeping the flux fields stable was a difficult task in that part of Kyos, and the site was abandoned only three years after its launch.
Firstborn | The esper or espers theorized to have manifested during the Kindling. See also: Kindling, Manifest
Flux | A device used to move between subjective realities. Commonly used as a verb: to flux. See also: beacon, flux field
Flux field | An AOE flux which can be sustained by its beacon for prolonged periods of time with a flux field generator (ff-generator). See also: Axis-rich grounds, beacon, flux
G Gemas | Precious gems; a common alternative to the lot on black markets and in backdoor deals. See also: lot
Grasp | A lifespan allowed by the Kyosian society to an android, determined by that android’s cognitive capacity, which is in turn governed by the number of its limiters and their settings (patterns). Also known as TTD, “time till deactivation”, or as overdue androids like to say, “time to die”.
H Hades | A red dwarf that Aya circles twice a day, the lesser of two stars of its binary star system. See also: Aya, Logan
High Council and its wings [312 BW–Year 0] | The High Council was established as an advisory body by Elara Bates in 312 BW, but its presiding families took full power in 152 BW, after Ortis Long refused his claims to the Tetrian throne. See also: Ivy Oligarchy, Tetra
Hopper | An android which acts against the will of its master or authority, or hops over it.
Hysteria [238 AW] | The riots in Soma DC which resulted in hundreds of casualties and thousands of damaged and destroyed androids. When Arthur Soma returned from his expedition to The Conduit, he claimed (despite never having reached it) that the NRC was directly supervised by agents from Ilyon. Whether Arthur was pursuing his own agenda, or made valid assumptions based on other evidence he uncovered is unknown, but his announcement sparked a shattering civil unrest. It took the Somas almost three month to set the crowd at rest; they had no choice but to bargain with their people, and limitations on import and production of Axis drives they introduced back then stayed in effect until 523 AW.
I Ilyon | A continent to the south of Kyos, the land where penguins come from for their pilgrimages, and where the technology for androids was first developed. See also: Calm
Implant rate | A percentage of augmented and artificial tissue (soft and hard implants) in relation to total body mass. Commonly abbreviated as IR.
Ivy Oligarchy [152 BW–Year 0] | A Tetrian political setup during which the High Council effectively ruled the country. See also: High Council, Tetra
K Kate Wars [357 AW] | A short but intense conflict between the Tali and Artas septs, started by Kate Artas over an expedition that claimed several artifacts from the long abandoned Artas Estate. The expedition was funded by the Talis, but Kate demanded an extradition of the apparently valuable items; her request was refused, and several Ares PSF were hired by Artas to wage war. The conflict effectively came to a halt after a railway connecting the two domes was destroyed in large battle later called the Skirmish of the Steppe.
Kindling [Year 0] | A tragedy that took place in what was once known as the Northern Research Center (NRC), now The Conduit, which happened during the spiritualists’ attempts to trigger a Manifest. Some accounts say that it was a massacre carried out by one of the research subjects, while others speculate that the first Demon was born back then, and nobody was ready for what came. Whatever really happened, the event allowed NRC personnel to initiate a lockdown of the facility and intensify their research in the absence of surveillance, which eventually led from the Kindling to the Conflagration, or the Awakening, and fueled War. See also: Conflagration, Firstborn, Manifest
Kyos | The land of domes and Demons. D&D?
L League | One of basic Kyosian units of length – good for measuring distance.
Leechers | Those who flux to participate in the last minutes of a conflict to claim its spoils; sometimes used as a generally contemptuous characteristic. See also: flux
Logan | A large star in the center of Aya’s star system. See also: Aya, Hades
Logan’s Law [148 AW–ongoing] | A set of treaties between all seven septs of Kyos regulating various aspects of their interactions, including (but not limited to) trade, traffic and networking.
Lot | The universally accepted currency of Kyos. Plural is lots.
M Magister | The Chairman of the Council of Ares.
Manifest | The act of an esper birthing their Demon into the world (manifesting).
March of the Damned, The [312–314 AW] | The advance of the demonspawn army, led by Daniel the Shunned, from Western through Eastern Plains towards Pion DC, made in an effort to reclaim the city’s newly built second dome, originally intended as a demonspawn habitat, but annexed by the main city upon completion. Daniel and a large group of demonspawn were just a couple hundred kiloleagues away from Pion when it happened; unfortunately for them, they were on the wrong side of Low Pass. Since going by Nova, the most well-armed city on Kyos at the time, was too dangerous, and many more demonspawn were scattered far and wide, Daniel decided to make a full circle, rallying more troops under his banner on the Kyosian plains. He planned to take Mira and Tali on route, and certainly gathered a large enough army to accomplish that, but met with unexpected resistance along the way. Both septs used large, mounted fluxes to fight outside the objective reality, wearing the demonspawn down until the decisive battle in 314 AW, during which their relatively small, but much better organized joint force defeated Daniel’s army, killing him in the process.
Master Demon | A Demon more powerful, but (with a few notable exceptions) less intelligent than others of Their kind. Master Demons are often bound to Their espers, and Their names usually start with “Ki”.
Megaversity (of Pion) [est. 68 AW] | Scholarly grounds in Pion DC, the largest and most reputable on Kyos.
Mesh | Also: Meshnet, MeshNet (some people just can’t get it right). Kyos-wide network of interconnected devices. Most of the Meshnet’s servers are located on the Mira Platform.
N Nutcracker | A synthet who blazons their augmentations, preferring antique-looking ones at that.
O Old Language | An elevated style of written language used by Tetrians before War.
Old World | World before the Conflagration; a rarely used expression.
Order of Priestesses (of Syl) | A female religious order of the followers of Syl based in Tali. The priestesses are well-known not only for their social service and charity, but also for their interest in pre-War technology. See also: Syl
Orphan | (In relation to androids) An instance of an android left without its master or authority, but still powered on. In groups, orphans are known as unallocates. See also: unallocates
PPin | An affectionate nickname that the natives of Kyos gave to penguins. Plural is pinz.
Pure humans | Also: Purists, sticklers (offensive). Humans with a 0% IR. See also: implant rate
SSawbones | Those who illegally modify androids by removing limiters, replacing parts and/or altering patterns.
Scourge, The [12 AW] | A mass exodus of Corrupted from all over Kyos to Flavia. Whatever original settlements survived the Collapse, The Scourge has put an end to them. See also: Collapse
Sept | A clan governing a dome, either officially, as in most DCs, or via its proxies, as is the case with Artas.
Skirmish of the Steppe | See Kate Wars
Station hunter | A portable or stationery device used to detect espers by scanning for their sigils. Most commonly put to use at train stations inside the DCs.
Subreality | A common abbreviation for a subjective reality.
Syl | The Elder Goddess of the universal Kyosian pantheon.
TTrial | A challenging dungeon.
Tetra | A state Elara Bates created in 320 BW by unifying Kyos. Tetra was destroyed during War, and its former citizens went back to calling themselves Kyosians. A citizen of Tetra was a Tetrian. See also: War
UUnallocates | A group of orphans, powered on androids left without their command. The most well-known refuge of androids was founded by a group of unallocates not far from the Republic of Artas; it’s based around a former train graveyard called Terminus. See also: Orphan
WWar [Year 0] | A short but chaotic and utterly devastating conflict between the nation of Tetra on one side and the majority of espers and their newly manifested Demons on the other. War effectively came to an end after the discovery of Axis and subsequent foundation of Tali and other domes throughout Kyos. War separates the Kyosian timeline into BW, Before War, and AW, After War, with Year 0 between the two eras. See also: Conflagration, Tetra