OTHERS: (Sandeman) Those not of the warrior caste. This includes
standard humans, human variants, and non-humans, as well as Sandemans
who are neither warriors nor warriors'-women.

OTHERS, THE: A post-technological race that encouraged the development
of intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, then left for another plane of
existence. They are part of cloudcat and Traiti legend/history, having
transported both races from their worlds of origin to different ones in
order to save them, then provided them with psionic support equipment
(survival aids for the cloudcats, Godhome for the Traiti). They are
also known as Those Who Went Before.

OWAJIMA, Kiyoshi: Began his career as a Kai-school ninja, a mostly
hereditary group that provides the Nippon-Ni Shogun's secret police.
Like the others, he is honorable and idealistic, though his standards
do not necessarily match most Imperial citizens'; for instance, he
firmly believes the Kai school's teaching that some form of
well-trained, well-disciplined secret police is essential to the smooth
functioning of a society, able to unobtrusively remove disruptive
elements that the open police and courts cannot touch. During this
period, his cover was that of an artist, and he was much admired for
the disciplined spareness of his work. When he discovered the
existence of IntelDiv field agents, he decided his skills could be put
to excellent use as one of that group, and after Nevan DarLeras swore
fealty to Corina Losinj, was the top-rated field agent until his own
retirement.

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PADRE: Proper title and form of address for a priest of the Arriani
Lady of Love. It is also the common, though unofficial, way of
referring to all military chaplains.

PAIVA, Subsector 1-H:
No. systems: 78 Sector: Orion
with 3 inhabited planets: 6 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 9
with 1 inhabited planet: 24

PALACE COMPLEX: Located at the foot of the Sentinel Mountains in
Antarctica, this is a hundred-kilometer-diameter circle centered on the
Imperial Palace, protected from the elements by a modified defense
screen. The inner ten kilometers is parkland surrounding the Palace;
the rest consists of air- and spaceports, residential and
administrative areas, and some commercial activity, but no major
industry. It also has entertainment of almost every conceivable type,
a wide variety of eatin