Maglite — Type of flashlight often preferred by police and special operations personnel.
Manassas — Town in north-central Virginia.
manjack — Automated machine gun.
Mashad — Major city in northeastern Iran.
Mayport — City and naval base in northeastern Florida near Jacksonville.
McCall, Camp — Small military base near the much larger Fort Bragg.
Milnet — Military internet interface and analogue.
Milspecs — Galactic Technology glasses. In appearance simple “wrap-around” sunglasses. Provide full light enhancement ability.
Minié — Type of bullet used by both sides during the Civil War.
monomolecular — Single very large molecule. A substance that is not only incredibly strong but also almost infinitely thin and therefore sharp.
Montrose Heights — Large hill overlooking Richmond, VA.
Mosby Hill — Large hill overlooking Richmond, VA.
MRE — Meals-Ready-To-Eat. Military combat rations. Come in plastic packaging.
Myer, Fort — Military base near Washington, D.C.
nannites — Very small mechano-electric machines that are used for a wide variety of purposes by the Galactic Federation.
NCO — Noncommissioned Officer.
Nomex — Fireproof fabric.
Occoquan — River, town and reservoir in northern Virginia.
oolt — Posleen: Group or company. (Lit. “Pack”)
Oolton — Posleen: Battalion or brigade. Used interchangeably. (Lit. “Big Pack”)
oolt’ondai — Posleen: Battalion or brigade commander. (Lit. “Big pack leader”)
oolt’ondar — Posleen: Battalion or brigade.
oolt’os — Posleen: Posleen normal. (Lit. “Pack member”)
Oolt’pos — Posleen: Command Dodecahedron. Holds 1400- 1800 Normals and 3-6 God Kings along with some light, simple armor.
orna’adar — Posleen: Final battle or Ragnarok. A scramble for dwindling resources that leads to destruction of the world and extinction of all the Posleen on it.
Panatellas — Long, thin cigars.
Panzergrenadier — German Mechanized Infantry.
PDC — Planetary Defense Center.
plasteel — Galactic armor material.
Po’oslena’ar — Posleen: “The People of the Ships.”
Po’osol — Posleen: Lander. Holds 400-600 normals and one God King.
Posleen — Enemy aliens. Yellow-grey centauroids. Thirteen to fifteen hands high at the shoulder. Arms jut from a combination shoulder. Sauroid head with multiple teeth is mounted on a long, snake-like neck. “Hands” are four-fingered talons with an opposable talon, similar to a fish-eating bird of prey. Feet are foreshortened talons adapted for running and slashing.
Proteans — Term for current generation of manjacks.
Provigil — Anti-sleep drug.
Pyronics — Manufacturer of the world’s leading detonators, preferred by professional demolition personnel and terrorists the world over.
Qualtren — Megascraper on Diess.
Quantico — Military base in central Virginia.
Quarles Gas — Petroleum supply company outside of Fredericksburg, VA.
Rabun Gap — Low pass in the Appalachians in northern Georgia.
radome — Radar Dome.
Ragnarok — The end of the world in Norse mythology.
railguns — Rifle that accelerates its projectiles magnetically.
Rappahanock — River in central Virginia.
Reaver — 155mm wheeled mobile artillery.
REMF — Military acronym that starts with “Rear” and “Echelon” and goes downhill from there.
Reticulan — “Like a net.” Military plan that called for distributed forces so that no single force would be landed upon and destroyed by the Posleen. Referred to as “victory in detail” by its proponents and “Ridicuplan” by its opponents.
Richbrau — Microbrewery in Richmond, VA.
Robertson, Frank — Commander of the 229th Engineering Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel — Light. Fredericksburg, VA.
Rockledge Manor — Restored home in Occoquan.
rubbling — Destroying structures to produce rubble for defenses.
Sammadar — Posleen Battalion commander.
Schockoe Bottom — An area of late 19th-century factories in Richmond, VA.
SecDef — Secretary of Defense.
Simosin, Arkady — 10th Corps Commander.
SpecOps — Special Operations.
Spotsylvania — County in Virginia.
Stenarnatta — Posleen Battalion commander.
Sten’lonoral — Posleen Command ship/battalion commander.
TacCO — Tactical Actions Officer for Continental Defense Command.
TacSO — Tactical Systems Officer for Continental Defense Command.
Tamerlane — Name often used for Timur, a Mongol invader of Iran who destroyed the last remnants of the Persian Empire.
tanglefoot — Barbed wire stretched taut at knee height designed to catch and “tangle” assaulting enemy troops.
Tchpth — Galactic race. Pseudoarthropods with a remarkable resemblance, other than being blue and red, to a Dungeness crab. Renowned scientists and philosophers.
Tel’enaa — Battle Demons. Part of a wordy curse. (Demons ofbattle eat and defecate their souls!)
te’naal — Berserk charge.
Tenal’ont — Posleen company commander.
tenar — Posleen God King’s saucer vehicle. Has a heavy weapon mounted on it and a suite of sensors.
terawatt — One trillion watts.
Thermopylae — A famous defense in ancient Greece. Also, a primarily automatic close defense system for battleships.
thresh — Posleen: Food.
Threshkreen — Posleen: Enemy. (Translates literally as “food with a bite.”)
Thunderchiefs — Air Force aerobatics demonstration team.
Tindar — Clan of the Darhel.
Tir — Intermediate rank Darhel.
Tir Dol Ron — Darhel senior executive.
uut — Posleen: Fecal matter.
Zoroaster — Primary god of the religion that preceded Islam in Persia.
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