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
H
- Habitats
A reference to all twenty individual habitats scattered around the planet, usually referred to as “Earth” by its inhabitants.
(view full entry) - Heart Family
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) - Hecate
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) - Hierarchy of Needs
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) - High Conflict-Oriented Personalities
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
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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I
- Inadaptas
A name coined by Noodin Kasabien to describe a group he associated with regularly.
(view full entry) - Inner Circle
The innermost area of most of the living floors surrounded the platform tube and its surrounding elevators. The term is also used to reference that direction, as opposed to the outer wall.
(view full entry) - Interface
Generic name for any device that allowed access to the habitat’s computing systems.
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J
- John Barleycorn
A harvest legend coming from the North Western European area of England or Scotland, the poem, later set to music, symbolizes the growing season of a field of barley.
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- Kefir, Water
A fermented beverage made by feeding a specific culture of bacteria and yeast known as water kefir grains with sugar and then further fermenting the finished product with fruit and herbs.
(view full entry) - LCO Initiatives
A form of outreach focusing on people from all different cultures living all around Earth in the habitats to learn to work together and come to a consensus. Members of the LCO, Liaison Community Outreach led the Initiatives.
(view full entry) - Liaison Conference
The First Liaison conference saw every Foundation Board Member, every General Manager of Habitat Administration, every liaison head, and twenty members from every habitat’s newly formed LCO staff gather at North American Habitat East (NAHE) for a two week, in-person conference.
(view full entry) - Liaisonsupdated
The Liaisons were created 17 years pre-catastrophe by the Foundation Board via a mandate as the population in the habitats began to be sustainable. The Board determined to create a third entity, which was neither the Foundation nor individual habitat management but an administration that focused on the people of the habitat.
(view full entry) - Libation Plate
Commonly used in Wiccan rituals, a libation plate is a plate or shallow bowl holding a small amount of each dish served at a feast.
(view full entry) - Lift
The common name for the vertical transportation system that moves between sections along the concave outermost wall of the habitats.
(view full entry) - Listening Meetings/Tours
The term for the interactions Alexandra undertook after the Catastrophe. Her purpose was to connect with and hear what the people had to say, visiting each section in each habitat either physically within her home habitat or virtually for the others.
(view full entry) - Living Floors
Livable floors were where people typically resided, worked, and spent their free time. These floors tended to mimic surface conditions in which videos of the sky above were shown, and the ground level contained plants, trees, and a sense of being outdoors. Most floors kept the temperatures relatively constant and did not fluctuate as they would for similar seasons on the planet’s surface.
(view full entry) - MAGA
Originally derived from Donald Trump’s 2016 pre-catastrophe campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again”, it eventually came to be associated with the extremism and hate that Trump, along with other power-hungry individuals, stoked.
(view full entry) - Micro Light Emitting Diodes
Known as mLEDs, these tiny light-emitting diodes are used throughout the habitats.
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