Redemption
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Avalon Brookes
Avalon Brookes is the inventor of the sphere drive. His propulsion technology makes the Copious expedition possible.
Brookes's Venus facility
The Flaxens provided Avalon Brookes with a facility on Venus in which to modify the hawks. It also served as his place of recovery after punishments imposed by the Flaxus.
Claudius Sirister
Claudius Sirister held the title Flaxus and ruled the Flaxens from the Hawk's Retreat on Venus. He struck an agreement with Avalon Brookes to defeat Echo and accelerate the conquest and extermination of Earth's remaining Human population.
Cyrus Eppleston
Cyrus Eppleston is United Earth’s Minister of War during the struggle against Flaxen conquest.
Defense of Cylli
Cylli repelled Brookes's attempt to enter and destroy Echo. She refused his forged command, resisted his sphere beam, and drove his hawk away.
Destruction of the First Air Fleet
Brookes destroyed United Earth's First Air Fleet in northern Scotland using two hawks. The attack removed approximately half of United Earth's air power.
Echo
Echo is a United Earth starship and the self-aware artificial intelligence who operates the vessel. Commanded by Kip Eastcott, he carries roughly one thousand people on the Copious expedition.
Europe
Europe is contemporary United Earth's political heartland and a principal target of Flaxen air attacks. United Earth retains all of Europe when Echo surveys the war.
First Air Fleet
United Earth's First Air Fleet was based in the northernmost part of Scotland. Brookes destroyed its aircraft with two hawks, removing roughly half of United Earth's air power.
Flaxen dissenters
A small minority of Flaxens on Earth opposed the war and the genocide of Humans. Some secretly sheltered people whom the authorities called Zoons.
Flaxen reproductive system
The Flaxen state controlled reproduction to support its army and preserve genetic diversity. Girls were expected to bear two sons and one daughter, each with a different father.
Flaxens
The Flaxens are the people of Venus who claim a separate and superior identity to humans. Their state wages a campaign of conquest on Earth.
Florus
Florus was one of the four Flaxen prisoners captured at Mount Aconcagua. He gradually began speaking to Helen Chute and questioning his beliefs after contact with Cylli.
Hawks
Hawks were advanced arrow-shaped transport craft taken from Cylli by Brookes and modified as weapons. Their speed, stealth, protection, and sphere beams initially overwhelmed Echo's remaining defenses.
Helen Chute
Lieutenant Commander Helen Chute is Echo’s counselor. She supports the crew through the personal consequences of their displacement.
Holographic avatars
AIs could communicate through lifelike projected avatars when suitable equipment was available. Cylli presented herself as a girl in a red dress and could briefly make the image physically tangible.
Indoctrination schools
Flaxen indoctrination schools separated children from their mothers and prepared them for compulsory roles in society. Boys were taken at eight and girls at twelve.
Megan
Megan is a human prisoner in Camp Skadi and Serilda Corazon’s closest companion. Seriously weakened by the camp’s conditions, she depends on Serilda’s care and shares her concern for their fellow prisoners.
Megan's foster parents
A Flaxen hunter and his wife sheltered Megan for three years after her mother's death. They opposed the war and treated her as their daughter while hiding her from the authorities.
Megan's mother
Megan's mother lived secretly with her daughter in a remote forest cabin. A Flaxen patrol killed her while she was foraging for food, when Megan was ten.
Scotland
Northern Scotland housed United Earth's First Air Fleet. Its location was near the limit of Flaxen striking range while allowing aircraft to defend much of Europe.
Serilda Corazon
Serilda Corazon is a woman of human and Flaxen parentage imprisoned at Camp Skadi. She cares for her friend Megan and the other occupants of hut seven while strange visions of a starship trouble her sleep.
Sphere beam
A sphere beam is a directed violet energy weapon powered by energy diverted from a sphere drive. Its output depends on the materials available to conduct that energy.
Sphere drive
The sphere drive is Avalon Brookes's propulsion technology, which draws photonic energy from higher dimensions through a hypersphere. It is intended to propel the Copious expedition at eighty percent of light speed.
Steve Thomas
Captain Steve Thomas commands Formidable, United Earth’s flagship. A veteran of the war against Mars, he leads the Copious expedition alongside Captain Kip Eastcott and Echo.
The Torment
The Torment is a Flaxen punishment drug that stimulates pain receptors throughout the body while nearly paralyzing the victim. It is used to discipline soldiers whose offenses do not warrant execution.
Venus
Venus is the terraformed homeworld of the Flaxens. Earth and Mars transform it from an extreme environment into a habitable planet before the Titan.