evidence of their change. This change also restricts their
diet to blood, preferably fresh from a human donor. As a rule, they
have no difficulty finding donors; their projective empathy allows them
to share their feeding-pleasure with the donor. Attempts by Kins to
eat normal food result in violent nausea, and most have an
equally-violent allergy to strong spices.

KNIGHTS, IMPERIAL: Those who have given the Empire service beyond the
expectable, but not of a degree that would make a Life Nobility
appropriate. Knights are granted arms and may use "Knight of the
Imperium" (abbreviated KI) with their names. They should be addressed
and referred to as Sir Firstname.

KORE, Subsector 6-F:
No. systems: 59 Sector: Scorpio
with 3 inhabited planets: 4 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 10
with 1 inhabited planet: 26

KORIL: Fermented milk Irschchans drink as humans do wine.

KRANATH: (Of Clan St'nar) Supreme Lord of the Circle, first of the
Traiti gods known as the Circle of Lords.

KRANATH, Subsector 21-D:
No. systems: 90 Sector: Traiti
with 3 inhabited planets: 5 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 14
with 1 inhabited planet: 21

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LADY OF LOVE: The Arriani deity, depicted as an attractive human
female but of no other set appearance. Although not specifically a sex
deity, her followers do consider sexual activity a form of worship
particularly pleasing to her (especially with a gynandra or, if
off-planet and able, with a woman).

LANDER: The smallest of the Imperial spacegoing craft. It is shaped
rather like a streamlined bus, and is about that size, so small it is
not considered a class of ship. Its commonest use is as a shuttle
between a spacecraft too large to land and a planet (from which it gets
its name), but it is also useful for suborbital flights. While the
configuration is usually for passenger transport, palletized
construction allows rapid reconfiguration when necessary.

LANGUAGE, Traiti: A tonal language that gives their Imperial English a
pleasant lilt. Like German, it combines small words to make larger
ones as a matter of course, and the grammatical structure is also
similar to German. Some of the terms that have made their way into
Imperial English, though primarily used only in the Traiti Sector, are
found under their individual e