business,
when the circumstances became known.

JIREL, Subsector 7-D:
No. systems: 184 Sector: Cygnus
with 3 inhabited planets: 1 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 11
with 1 inhabited planet: 23

JUDICIARY, IMPERIAL: The Empire has no judiciary as such, since it has
a minimal number of laws and they are violated seldom enough that a
separate judiciary would be impractical. Instead, disputes and
violations are handled by the commanding officer of the nearest
Imperial base or ship. Appeals are permitted--for cause, not as a
matter of routine--through all higher levels of command, up to and
including the Sovereign. Very few of those appealed, however, go
further than one or two levels.

K

KA'NAYA: (Traiti) Female person. Used by a male to a female not of
his clan, with or without another title. It is a form of respectful
address equivalent to "My Lady" or "Excellency."

KAPLAN, Robert: Leader of the Nemran rebellion, in which Ranger
Esteban Tarlac was seriously injured. Second child of Count Jonathan
Kaplan.

KA'RUCHAYA: (Traiti) Literally, "female clan parent"; Clan Mother.

KEISHA: An aphrodisiac drug produced from a plant of the same name,
which grows only on Purgatory. Processed by a secret method known only
to one merchant family on Origani, the drug is extremely expensive and
has almost religious connotations. Attempts to grow the plant
elsewhere, or duplicate the refining process, have been uniformly
unsuccessful. (Linda Gerhart)

KETTER:
Sector: 5, Pegasus Year:
Subsector: A, Bayard Day:
System: Webster Gravity:
Settled/established: Axial tilt:
By: Oxygen:
Satellites: % Water:
Ident code prefix: KET Continents:
Ruled by:
General: A poor world, its local economy is based on smuggling.
Ketteran local nobles own and operate smuggling ships, with their
social standing determined by the amount of wealth they contribute
to the planet's economy.

KINDRED OF THE DRAGON: Kins and Bloodmates, those susceptible to and
changed by the nosferatu pseudo-virus. They are classed as
human-variant, due to the extent of changes made by the virus. They
are Narvon System's local no