Glossary
From Black Country Role Playing Society
- Ahmilahk
- The six-fingered prophet. Founder of the Mundas Humanitas
- Anvil
- Planet-based armed forces: soldiers, tanks and planes. Also refers to unpowered infantry armour.
- Bright Mark
- A scar that the vast majority of psychologists bear. it glows when they use their psychological power.
- Corvus
- Ritual depilation required of anyone who joins the lords-pilot.
- Crucis
- A cross-shaped cybernetic interface implanted at the base of teh skull. A crucis is necessary to pilot iron and hammer.
- Distortion Drive
- A drive technology that manipulates the value of time to allow faster-than-light interstellar travel.
- Fusor
- A squad support weapon that projects a tongue of plasma, energized to the point of nuclear fusion, at great distance and with great effort.
- Grav/Pressor
- A technology that manipulates gravity to provide reactionless drive inside a gravity well.
- Hammer
- Space-based naval forces: battleships, cruisers and transports.
- Hanrilke
- The last dynasty to rule the old Federated Empire. Their collapse brought on the age of the Iron Empires.
- Iron
- Powered battle armour symbolic of and exclusive to the nobility in the Iron Empires.
- Kerrn
- A plant-based species artificially created by the Vaylen. They rebelled and now fight against their creators.
- Lord-Pilot
- A noble rank that allows its bearer to own and operate iron and hammer-class spacecraft.
- Mukhadish
- A bioengineered slave race created by the Vaylen as a labour force. They and the Kerrn despise one another.
- Mundas Humanitas
- The foremost religion of the Iron Empires. Their symbol is a burning wheel. They believe all fate is predetermined.
- Naiven
- A worm. It is the natural state of a Vaylen. Once implanted in a host, a Naiven becomes a Vaylen.
- Psychology
- The power to read thoughts, communicate telepathically and forcefully alter a target's behaviour or personality with only a thought.
- Sled
- A small vehicle, typically using grav/pressor technology.
- Vaylen
- A creature consisting of a host and an implanted Naiven worm. The worm dominates the host's personality and intelligence with its own. Vaylen is the common name for the enemies of humanity. Also referred to as "the worm" and "the terror."
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