Glossary
Glossary items define how terms are used within stories and commentary. Glossary entries are updated to incorporate more information revealed within a story. All glossary items are available here. Browse glossary items in alphabetical order, by date published or sort them by the date they were updated.
Glossary in Alphabetical Order
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- Habitat
Individual Bio-spheres scattered around Earth, typically built under and within mountain ranges for extra protection, were self-contained and self-sustaining cities that could be inhabited for hundreds of years.
(view full entry) - Habitat Administration
Habitat Administration was tasked with ensuring the habitats were always livable. All departments, from recycling to water and energy requirements, logistics, Stores, and even venue rentals, were under the Habitat Administration.
(view full entry) - Habitat Governance
The democratically elected government of the Habitats. Duly elected representatives of each habitat work with the Foundation Board to decide on courses of action for the habitats as a whole.
(view full entry) - Habitat Structure
As designed and constructed, each habitat was a cylinder with identical dimensions. Its inhabitable space was 5 miles (8.05 kilometers) in both height and diameter. Within that space, 14 separate sections were constructed, each of which could form a self-contained biosphere if necessary.
(view full entry) - Habitats
A reference to all twenty individual habitats scattered around the planet, usually referred to as “Earth” by its inhabitants.
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The term was adopted by people recruited pre-catastrophe as a name for the familial groups formed that were not related by blood.
(view full entry)Part of the Greek Pantheon, Hecate is a deity of witchcraft and magic. Despite her formidable reputation, Hecate was the deity with whom Alexandra shared a unique bond.
(view full entry)First proposed by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow in 1943, pc (pre-catastrophe) was the idea that individual humans have stages of growth that are only supported when earlier stages are actualized.
(view full entry)Individuals with certain personality types exhibit a consistent pattern of intense and repetitive conflict within their relationships and struggle to control their emotions. These individuals tend to react negatively to any form of criticism, no matter how minor.
(view full entry)Hyperspace travel is a means of achieving faster-than-light travel through folding space and moving between two points along that fold. Hyperspace travel was slowly achieved through the Nguyen-Nguyen Principle, which discovered a means to identify a point in space through a relationship with another point and then fold space in order to travel between those points instantaneously.
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