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The Alliance - Modern Terrans educated enough to know their history can become very uneasy around the Bulrathi race. The Bulrathi themselves hold no grudge but pledge no remorse either.
No official apology had ever been given and top Bulrathi officials barely acknowledge the early history of their race, standing by on their claim that they can find no documented proof within their own carefully guarded and very private historical archives.
The Klackon were not so lucky. They had gotten real close to extinction before a cure was discovered and even after 50,000 years to the present time, the Klackon race is an old and feeble race. Not likely to flourish again.

The Cluster - The Cluster refers to the collection of stars that includes the human race and its local neighbors. It is bordered by two vast stretches of sparsely habitable space called “The Northern Corridor” and “The Southern Corridor”.

Drone - a drone is a cloned human with a portion of the brain removed and replaced with computerized ganglia. They form the best foot soldier. Free of fear and remorse and immune to shell shock. They were grown and assembled in an industrial atmosphere and in great numbers. They would kill indiscriminately and mercilessly. They are considered by historians to be one of mankind's most heinous creations. They were manufactured by China during the Second Dark Ages.

Defense Command Center - the Defense Command Center constructed on Terra consisted of a centralized underground fortress with personal transporters able to transfer troops instantaneously across the planet. This technology of being able to transport complex organic materials such as people was a new and carefully guarded secret and was destroyed in the bombardment of Terra.
Rumors have arisen that perhaps plans still do exist though. Terra is still considered the official capitol and a functional government is in place within the underground Defense Command Center.

Encyclopedia Galactica - The Encyclopedia Galactica is a summary collection of all the historic and scientific data gathered during the reign of the Orion Empire. It is the only record existing that gives any indication of the universe during its younger eras. There are some 1700 volumes excavated and translated. Many individual collections are incomplete and rare volumes are guarded carefully. The information contained in these volumes far exceeds the capabilities of most races and translating the original text is often the most difficult part. The Encyclopedia Galactica is the oldest reference collection in existence and scholars estimate its origins somewhere about 500,000 years ago.

The Marn - the Marn is a race of four to six foot beings with gray, hairless, skin and large oval heads with large dark eyes. They followed the path of many races. They guided and helped the races reach the platform of technology that most are accustomed to. In the case of the humans, they foresaw the rise of the Terran human and knew that it would lead to the eventual demise of the Marn race.

Martian Human - The Martian human played an extensive role in the evolution of the Terran. They were the gods of the Greek, Hindu, Egyptian, and Mayan cultures. They also appear in ancient religious texts as beings from the sky that bring words of wisdom from the heavens.
What they brought was enslavement, torture, and widespread genetic manipulation. They created huge armies of the original subordinate races and augmented them with creations of their own making.
After the Bulrathi put an end to the Martian Empire, the few remaining surviving Martians created a ruling class to permanently control the rest on Terra. But in time, the Martians would eventually be genetically absorbed or destroyed by the Cro-Magnon.

Metatonic Particle - The metaton is a particle that can be manipulated by the human psyche, either consciously or unconsciously. One man’s magic is another’s psychic energy. Once isolating the metaton, scientists created amplifiers.
The Nameless One created the BEAST. Bionic-Energized Amplification SysTem. This was a complex AI mainframe/metatonic amplifier hybrid. He proclaimed himself the messiah god for all gods. He performed great feats of science/sorcery and claimed they were miracles.

Minervan Human – The original human race. With all other races having been spawned or evolved from older races, the Minervan is the only know race to develop on it’s own except The Ancients themselves.
Minervan males lose all hair on their heads upon entering puberty. Having any hair as an adult was a sign of immaturity in the culture. They were also predominately left handed. The restricted the growth of the right side of the brain in Subs in order to reduce their creativity. Subs are predominately right handed as a result.

Social Cellular Theory - The Terran civil war came as a surprise to no one. The chain of events that lead to the war followed a definitely logical and predictable order. A deep rooted study into the natural cycles of human social and cultural evolution is known as the “Social Cellular Theory”. This theory was written by Dr. Hostile, the leading authority in the subject of Mass Human Relations at Triton Planet University on Triton. It suggests that Human societies become stable and expand.
The new social system then destabilizes and reforms into multiple social systems resulting into violent conflicts only to eventually unify, stabilize, and expand all over. Each cycle of this social cellular reproduction increases the area inhabited by the social system. This natural one step back and two steps forward is a necessary step in Human social evolution.
There are many steps that are required to cause the downfall of a unified social system. The first and important step is the acquisition of either a large unexplored and uninhabited area or the development of new and extraordinary technology.
Sometimes, as in The Great Terran War, both cases may be true. Mankind, in his mad genius, can refine an act of evil so efficiently that his own guilt causes law and order to ban it though never completely removing it. In the course of a cycle every new act of evil that arises resurrects all the other previous evils until law and order is absorbed by chaos and anarchy. In order to regain control this “expanded” social system breaks down into smaller, more manageable units.
These individual units absorb one another in a violent cascade of social nuclear fusion. Not unlike a corporate buying frenzy when the economy bottoms out. By understanding these natural cycles, we can begin to understand the human society as a whole and not as a collection of beings wandering randomly through this vast, cold void.

Subs - Many Subordinate races existed on Ancient Earth and throughout The Cluster. Over time most of these races have gone extinct, including the Minervan survivors. Until the end of the Second Renaissance the last surviving races on Terra were the Terran human, the Sasquatch, and the Yeti. Most races throughout The Cluster can trace their roots to the Minervan humans.