Glossary

Savitar Oio Luximi’s Complete Florian Glossary for the Puzzled (Glospuz) A

Adventures

Aichan

Aigo

Aikami

Aipia

Airwalk

Amarita

Antisense

Arahant

Armimal

Artificial intelligence

Astrocity

Atma

Avatar

B

Babaylan

Backglow

Braincoral

Brainsludge

Basha

Bashinda

Baths

Berry

Binary pyramid

Bishi'i

Birth

Bitrot

Boca

Borb

Breathe vacuum

Brood

Bubble

BullyBoys

C

Carousel

Carouseling

Child

Childer

Childeria

Circle of Games

Circle of Light

Circle of Love

Cloud

Cloudsplash

Collector

Cooked

Comet Strike

Contact

Cornerstoning

Crackerbox

Crackerboxing Day

Cradle of Hands

Cream

Cucaon

D

Dark

Day of Open Sky

Delver

Dog

Dogla

Dogspeeding

Dog tasker

Dollar

Doomsday Section

Double Money Standard>br /> Doula

Downstream

Downstreamers

F

Fanos

Feast of Discovery

Feed

Feedbling

Feedfraud

Fix

Flat access

Flavour

Float

Floradiem

Florian

Florian Age

Flowering

Foam

Foamstone

Fount of Life

Forest

Foresting

G

Gadget Toaster

Gamebox

Gene Hackman

Generation Matrix

Globetrotter flu

Go Games

H

Hana

Hanyo

Heart pussy

Hideout Cooker

Hodhan Limit

Hodhan Mind Maps

Honeycomb

Humane Choice

Human Resources

Hypercampus

Hyperhammer

I

Indranet

Interface

J

Jeck

Jogin

Jop

Joplog

K

Kami

Kadmin

Karma

Karma flavour

Karma mill

Karma pour

Karma soak

Karma sucker

Karmastream

Karmatula

Karma paddler

Klimacteric

Klimax

Klimaximus

Kochan

L

Lifepod

Loophead

M

MAKER . Maternal Assisted Kubernetic Embryo Environment Regulator. Gel tanks for the management of pregnancy, from which the orbs later descended. Manchine Ro. Disparaging term used by some rootkittens meaning a machine in a sexual relationship with a person. They believe machines should only have sex with each other etc.

Money Paper or metal tokens exchanged for goods and services. In 2069, the currency was split into two layers: Monpia Mother Myris drug similar to DMT which is synthesised in myris pods, an inhaler type device.

O

Orb

<h2P

Pharm Girls

genetically engineered women designed to produce various drugs and compounds in their breastmilk. They were created during the Radical Age as playthings and assets for rich hanyos. Pia – Fl. Lover and/or childing partner. Roughly corresponds to ‘best friend’. So called after one of the inventors of the Pia Pushpa process. Preef – Fl. An imprecation, shortened form of preflorian, roughly equivalent to ‘shit’. Pushpa-Pia

method used to produce babies in the Florian Age. Pushpa and Pia were RanDs employed by Dynacorp at the Texas Science Park, punished under the Human Germplasm Protocol for creating parthenogenetic children by exchanging genetic matieral between their eggs and finding a way to turn off genetic imprinting and produce normal babies. They were executed but their case became a cause celebre, and finally when the population of the earth had fallen to 3.3 billion in 2230 their work was revived. See simultiply.

R

Radiation torches Weapon, either stationary or mounted on a moving platform. Spewed short half life radioactive material into the air or water. Often used in stealth missions where it would be disguised as some inoffensive object such as a travelling sex show. Radical Age from 2007 to 2134

RanDee Pronounced ‘rendy’. Science person of the Radical Age. After the Best Practice Convention of 2071 science people were selected by competitive exam before the age of five. They were then surgically altered to remove their auditory centres and all sense of hearing, on the grounds that hearing promoted emotional development through music and conversation. All RanDs wore white overalls and had whiteboards and markers around their necks, with which they communicated in formulae and equations.

Rape

Rez to create a virtual object which may or may not be printable in the real, or ruubaruu world.

Rootkit – Ra. Sometimes written 2007 or 2007/617. The radical groups descended from the rebels and underground workers of the Radical Age, many of whom were soldiers, hackers and securitymen (q.v.). They invented their own sublanguage, rootleet (q.v.) and had a complex quasi-religious culture. Some of their cardinal beliefs include the manmade nature of the Hanyo Revolution (which turns out to be true). Tira proves this and becomes their hero to her great amusement. The culture survives on the edges of the inhabited world: in the White Zone terton bashas and in space. For many it is nothing more than a fashion statement, but for a small hardcore ‘the beliefs’ are deadly serious. They are encoded in the Rootkit Database, which has 617 entries and functions as a holy scripture. Rootkit ritual is very ancient and preserves some remnants of Preradical culture. Their traditional greeting is ‘hop over’. This refers to Radical Age recruiting rituals but also to the belief that ‘The Rootkit saved the past and will be first to the future.’

Rootkitten one who affects rootkit dress and mannerisms. Rootleet – an archaic slang language created out of hacker jargon from the twentyfirst century, used by rootkit groups. Examples include ‘unmount’ (stop, remove), ‘ping’ (annoy), ‘alt’ (radical) ‘gigs’ (very, an intensifier) ‘commented out’ (ignored) ‘mobiru’ (any expensive or desirable gadget) ‘pwn’ (defeat, destroy), and of course ‘rootkit’ (originally a virus that gave a hacker admin-level access to a hacked machine).

Roots The life-patterned tubes that grow out from the basha canopy and feed the stacks including lifepods, bubbles and orbs. 2. The afterbirth and cord.

Ruubaruu Short form ruub. Pertaining to the real or fleshly world. v. ruubing

S

SAAFS Steroidally Augmented AndroForm Soldier. These were security and army types create d by removing all female tissue from the body of the volunteer and replacing the pituitary gland with a Sergeant-on-Duty, or SOD: a device that released male hormones into the cerebrospinal fluid. Once the hormones were onstreamed these SAAFS became overnight better at maths, skilled at tactical manoeuvres, disciplined and steadfast. Well, that’s what the brochure said, anyway.

Sangsara

Scroll

Sentinel

Shamesticky

Sheerishta

Skinship

Shinzo

Siddha

Siddhi

Sillero

Simultiply

Soapbox

South Pole 3

there are three detected South Pole areas, one in the Sahar, one in the Bay of Bengal and one in Scandinavia and at least two North Poles, one in the South Pacific and one in the Amazon Basin. These are aggregates of magnetic behaviour rather than actual poles, and they move around. Opinion is divided as to whether they will disperse or travel to the highest latitudes Spakes

space-shakes. Also spaking Spinchild

Squeeze

Squeezebox

Stacks

Stiltroots

Stone palm

Survivarium

Swach

T

Tableleaf

Terton

Testo

Three minute reset

Trackle – Semi-sentient bicycle network mounted on rails in large full circle bashas. Twean

W

World Tree

Wormery

Z Zigsa

Zigsa’s Nest

Zomia