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
S
- Section
Sections were distinct miniature cities within the habitat. Each one contained everything necessary for its residents to live, work and thrive. In an emergency, sections could be self-contained, each able to supply life support to the floors it held.
(view full entry) - Shield (energetic)
As used in these stories:
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An energetic shield may protect a person from harmful energies coming from another entity. - Sigils
A magical symbol using correspondences to represent an elemental force or desired outcome that can be activated energetically when desired.
(view full entry) - Sky Dome
The name applied to the shallow concave ceiling on the living floors, which usually depicted a 24-hour video mimicking the sky on the surface on a similar date.
(view full entry) - Slice
A manner of referencing a distinct portion of a quadrant. Each quadrant was divided horizontally into three curved “slices”, commonly referred to by number.
(view full entry) - Socio-Economic Models
The principles and philosophies that tie together a community’s political/social and economic basis. It can be used to suppress certain people or to elevate others by granting extra capital to a favored group.
(view full entry) - Sol
A class G2 yellow dwarf sun located in a spiral arm known as the Orion Spur in the Milky Way galaxy.
(view full entry) - Special Interest Groups
SIGs are groups of ordinary people sharing common priorities and concerns who band together to effect change. They could include people of a particular age group, gender, familial status, disability, work, or neighborhood.
(view full entry) - Stores
The common name for the supplies stocked by the Foundation within the habitats. Basic and upgraded furniture, appliances, and technology all came from Stores. Items could be ordered for pickup at specific locations on the Mercantile Floor or delivered should they be too big.
(view full entry) - Subsidies
Subsidies are the allotments of an individual’s basic needs, providing them with furnishings, clothing, personal grooming, hygiene products for both home and self and daily dietary requirements.
(view full entry) - Systems
Systems is a comprehensive term for everything within the computer network available to those in the habitats. This included the data, architecture and applications used by those in the habitats, which could be accessed via the interfaces.
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- Terra
The name adopted for the planet of humanity’s origins after its destruction.
(view full entry) - Themis
Designated as HD 186302, Themis was identified as a potential solar sibling to Terra, being similar in spectrum and size.
(view full entry) - Thought, Conscious
Conscious thoughts are the thoughts we are aware of. These thoughts are responsible for our awareness of what is about us and the choices we make with our minds and act upon. Our conscious minds represent what we think of when we ask ourselves, “Who am I?”
(view full entry) - Thought, Subconscious
A part of our minds and thoughts we are not conscious of until we think about them. Our subconscious mind influences our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
(view full entry) - Thought, Unconscious
The part of our mind outside of our consciousness and not available for introspection.
(view full entry) - Tradition, Wiccan
The word “tradition” in a Wiccan context can be understood as a pseudonym for the different sects of Wiccan spirituality, which have commonalities and discrete areas of difference.
(view full entry) - Training
Preparing for the Worst” meant each Habitat supported security forces, whose existence was to protect the people of the Charter against any enemy.
(view full entry) - Travel Corridor
The travel corridor, arranged around the outer wall, has airlift entrances along its concave wall on specified floors. All floors contain elevators for travel within the section arranged along its convex wall. In the middle of the corridor, a moving walkway with entrances and exits every 500 feet (152 meters).
(view full entry) - Treadroom
A small, rounded room in a gym facility capable of supporting 360 spherical video emulating a walk on the surface.
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