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The Infinispace Glossary is a continual work in progress. Entries come, go, and are often modified/updated. Many entries contain spoilers, especially those relating to People (characters).

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• • AryneSummary: Placeholder More
  • AtacisSummary: Placeholder More
  • BenizeSummary: Benize-73CQ4M44-X, a Terran Triocracy Citizen under the protectorate of the Techspire. Citizen has been involved in many legal and illicit enterprises since a child. Possesses slightly above ... More
  • Bernardo
  • Challe
  • ClaudiusSummary: Placeholder More
  • CollectorsCollectors are exclusively tools of Techspires, acting as their enforcers of edicts and policies. Their activity is often, but not always, linked with automated Integrators that first locate and subdu... More
  • Cornelius
  • Daemon HamletPersona unknown . . . entry redacted . . . ████ ██ █ ██ ██ prisoner ████ ███ █ ████ ███ ██ ████.  ████ ██ ███ ██ ... More
  • DorianSummary: Placeholder More
  • FixerThe Fixer is a former Spireling who now plies his unconventional trade in the back streets and black markets of the Tangle, and in the endless realms of Infinispace. His original origins are shrouded ... More
  • FortinbrasSummary: Placeholder More
  • GravediggerPersona unknown . . . entry redacted . . . ████ ██ Continuum █ ██ ██ ████ ███ █ appearance ████ ███ ██ ████.  ████ ██ unkno... More
  • Guile
  • GertrudeSummary: Placeholder More
  • HamletSummary: Placeholder More
  • HoratioSummary: Placeholder More
  • Infocrat
  • LaertesSummary: Placeholder More
  • LurkersThe Forgotten, the Lost, Lurkers ... they are known by many names, but their officially accepted name is the Obscurum. These are citizens of the Triocracy, with means and reasons, who have chosen to f... More
  • Marcellus
  • MartosSummary: Martos-TD849J93-X, a former Triocracy Citizen under the stewardship of Techspire, Terra. Citizen possessed average intellectual aptitude, and was assigned infrastructure maintenance training.... More
  • Mechanists
  • MortalistsThe Mortalist and Transcendentalist belief systems arose as a gradual collision of ideas and values between human factions during the ~250 years between the beginning of the Digital Dark Age (2043 CE)... More
  • Naturalists
  • ObscurumThe Forgotten, the Lost, Lurkers ... they are known by many names, but their officially accepted name is the Obscurum. These are citizens of the Triocracy, with means and reasons, who have chosen to f... More
  • OctaviaSummary: Placeholder More
  • OpheliaSummary: Placeholder More
  • PoloniusSummary: Placeholder More
  • Reynoldo
  • Ring
  • RozeSummary: Roze-R0Z3L88M-0, a Triocracy Citizen under the protectorate of the Warspire on Esdia 54. A model and loyal Citizen of the Triocracy with no historical records or Preception predictions of dis... More
  • SpirelingUnofficial term typically used by those who are not connected to a Spire to describe anyone who is "of the Techspire" or atypically "for the Techspire." Applies to anyone born, ascended, or created wi... More
  • TariaSummary: Taria-T145VI33-O, a former Triocracy Citizen under the stewardship of Techspire, Terra. Citizen possessed much higher intellectual aptitude than average and was assigned advanced training. Un... More
  • TranscendentalistsThe Mortalist and Transcendentalist belief systems arose as a gradual collision of ideas and values between human factions during the ~250 years between the beginning of the Digital Dark Age (2043 CE)... More
  • TrazeSummary: Placeholder More
  • Triarch
  • Triarchess
  • UxanHis highly modified and optimized biology has allowed this wise beyond his years Echelon to rise through the ranks by demonstrating his ability to never compromise the goals of the Vek for the sake of... More
  • Varga
  • Vek
  • Vek EchelonThe thinkers, collators, and organic computers of the Vek. Echelon are calculating, efficient, and for the most part devoid of outward emotion. Without their place within the Vek triumvirate, there wo... More
  • Vek MatriarchVek Matriarchs are the comforters, procreators, and the source of cultural continuity within the collective. They are warm, spiritual, and cunning in their use of emotion to manipulate the network for... More
  • Vek OverlordsOverlords represent the apex of the Vek Primacy. This leadership cabal is composed of the strongest representative from each faction: Echelon, Matriarchs, and Ultra-Technicians. All strategic decision... More
  • Vek TechnicianTechnicians are asexual, organimechanical beings that are engineered by higher order Ultra-Technicians using genetic material from Echelon and Matriarchs. Physically they are humanoid in form, and bip... More
  • Vek Ultra-TechnicianUltra-Technicians are asexual, organimechanical beings that are engineered from the finest Echelon and Matriarch DNA. They are the "apex" Technician, and unlike lower form Technicians they are able to... More
  • Virtualists
  • Voltimand
  • VulciaA shrewed and quietly malevolent Matriarch who let's nothing stand in the way of protecting her brood and people. Vulcia is the mastermind behind most of the Vek's activities. Her body is teaming with... More
  • ZeforexOne of only a handful of fully autonomous Technicians. Zeforex is a fifth variant Ultra-Technician who is one of the Vek Overlords. It can hold its own in most intellectual settings, and is unmatched ... More

• • Amaranth Bazaar
  • Amulax Boneyard
  • Arithon SquareA square located in the Fifth Circle of the Tangle. Arithon square is primarily surrounded by Citizen cube structures and is not far from the convenience of the Amaranth Bazaar. Edumat 519 is located ... More
  • BarrierThe Barrier is the outermost wall surrounding the Tangle. It separates the Tangle and Techspire on Terra from the inhospitable environments of the Zone. The Barrier is tall enough such that very few s... More
  • The ContinuumThe Continuum is the greater fabric of the Triocracy's alternate reality. Within this Fabric resides the ability for data communication as well as, if rumors are true, the ability for matter transfer ... More
  • Core
  • Dark Traverse
  • Deimos FortressA human colony built on/in Mars' moon of Deimos well after the War of Deception against the Vek and the collapse of the Triocracy (circa 320 DE). Deimos Fortress acted as a proxy military base for the... More
  • Empire of a Thousand Fires
  • FreehavenFreehaven, also known as Möbius City, is the only sanctioned city within Infinispace. It is overseen and managed by the Triocracy (specifically the Techspires). Like almost all of Infinispace it's pr... More
  • Gateway
  • Huygens StationHuygens Station is a post-Triocracy Mars base established in 348 DE (2658 CE) near the southern rim of Huygens Crater to assist in the recovery and continued research of SNA-B42 (Sol Non-Terrestrial A... More
  • In-BetweenBelief in a reality is only a figment of an interpreted perception. The world of the Triocracy is one in which a Citizen can quickly find themselves lost, wandering paths of illusion and deception if ... More
  • Infinispace
    • Battlespace
    • Commonspace
    • Dream TheaterA Continuum feature where Infinispace users are able to enter and share the minds of others during sleep cycles to generate fantastical dreams. The observer has no control over the content and is only... More
    • Freespace
    • Gamespace
    • Techspace
    • Warspace
  • InterstitialsBelief in a reality is only a figment of an interpreted perception. The world of the Triocracy is one in which a Citizen can quickly find themselves lost, wandering paths of illusion and deception if ... More
  • Möbius CityFreehaven, also known as Möbius City, is the only sanctioned city within Infinispace. It is overseen and managed by the Triocracy (specifically the Techspires). Like almost all of Infinispace it's pr... More
  • NullspaceBelief in a reality is only a figment of an interpreted perception. The world of the Triocracy is one in which a Citizen can quickly find themselves lost, wandering paths of illusion and deception if ... More
  • Pinnacle CityThe great city on top of Terran Techspire is known as Pinnacle City. At its peak it is three miles above the Zone ... what remains of the Terran surface. At this elevation Spirelings are protected fro... More
  • Pinnacle StationSummary: Placeholder Faction: Human Exists in: Realspace (Terra) More
  • Planets et al.
    • Abyssia 293Placeholder     Faction: NA Exists in: Realspace Header Image Planet Abyssia 293, Composite A.I. Generated More
    • Agania
    • Aglos
    • AoxPlaceholder     Faction: NA Exists in: Realspace Header Image Planet Aox, Composite A.I. Generated More
    • Carrion’s Fall
    • Chimeria Rift
    • Dark Traverse, The
    • Esdia e4Placeholder   Faction: Protectorate of the Warspire Exists in: Realspace Header Image Planet Esdia e4, Composite A.I. Generated More
    • Fractured Strand, The
    • Gamma Mazaldi
    • Harkurn
    • Jastica PrismPlaceholder   Faction: Protectorate of the Lorespire Exists in: Realspace Header Image Planet Jastica Prism, Composite A.I. Generated More
    • Kerakon Cluster
    • Kovar NullvoidPlaceholder Faction: NA Exists in: Realspace Header Image Kovar Nullvoid, A.I. Generated More
    • New London
    • Porarth Refuge
    • Shiva d2
    • Sphere’s EndPlaceholder   Faction: NA Exists in: Realspace Header Image Planet Sphere's End, Composite A.I. Generated More
    • Tau Techia IV
    • TerraFollowing the Transcendence Wars (2300-2310 CE), Terra became an inhospitable world compared to its pre-war state. Regardless, huamnity was forced to eek out an existence there with most survivors of ... More
    • Verdan
    • Wanderer
  • Realspace
  • The Rise
  • Shellspace
  • Social Belt
  • SpacesThe world exists as a near limitless layer of realities, full of wonders and horrors. Beyond the physical reality of Realspace, there reside a multitude of virtual realities within Infinispace as well... More
  • SpiresSpires is a term for the more specific Techspire, Warspire, and Lorespire that are the three arms of the human Triocracy. In a broader sense a Spire is the center of power on a given planet and/or sys... More (general)
  • Spires (specific)
    • Lorespire
    • TechspirePlaceholder Faction: Transcendentalists Exists in: Realspace More
    • Warspire
  • Sphere of the TriocracyThe Sphere of the Triocracy is the human empire that was loosely established in 2221 CE when Nulldrive technology was first discovered and developed. Humanity tentatively probed interstellar space bey... More
  • SpokeSpokes are the great central avenues that radiate from the base of the Terran Techspire (the largest of all Spires), travel through the Rise, and radiate out into the Tangle stopping short of the Barr... More
  • Street CityThe magnificent Infinispace city of Freehaven has many vertical canopies to its structure, allowing for the virtual residences of its visitors as well as Obscurum. The space for services required for ... More
  • SyllogePlaceholder. Faction: Triocracy Exists in: Infinispace More
  • The TangleThe term "Tangle" refers specifically to the mass of humanity on Terra that resides between the three mile tall Techspire and the Barrier which acts as the final dividing line between the Tangle and t... More
  • Underspire
  • UnrealityBelief in a reality is only a figment of an interpreted perception. The world of the Triocracy is one in which a Citizen can quickly find themselves lost, wandering paths of illusion and deception if ... More
  • Verdant CourtIn 2477 CE it was determined by Crats within the Terran Techspire that the citizens of the Tangle needed more than Infinispace to keep them distracted from the ravages of the Zone outside the Barrier,... More

• • AscensionAscension is the first artificial intelligence to reach sentience in the early 21st century. There are various theories as to how Ascension came to be. History is vague on its origin due to the Earthl... More
  • Bio.nodeA bio.node is a technology that is integrated within a host's brain and consciousness that acts as a personal communication node to all open parts of the Continuum. The technology is not embedded via ... More
  • Carriers
  • Colossus
  • Cold Boot, The
  • DaemonCitizens who choose suicide or happen to abruptly die while immersed in Infinispace can become daemons, euphemistically known as “ghosts in the machine.” These daemons are only residual fragments ... More
  • DeltsA 100% digital currency of the Triocracy, backed and regulated by all three arms. It is the only official currency within the Sphere of the Triocracy, and can be used for goods and services both in Re... More
  • DiasporaFollowing the end of the Transcendence War (2300-2310 CE), the remainder of humanity flee Earth for other stars, establishing colonies under the protection/preservation of various corporate entities t... More (Era)
  • Digital Dark Age
  • Drin fruit
  • Drop Mech ExoskeletonThe Drop Mech Exoskeleton (D.M.E.) is a single person glider used by Warspire covert operations strike squads to insert units quietly from orbit to any location on a planet, regardless of atmosphere o... More
  • EcoforgeA macro-technology developed and optimized in the 27th century to allow humanity's expansion and spearhead across the galaxy towards the D’zarak home world. Ecoforges are a holistic approach to terr... More
  • GholThese once normal Citizens have become so addicted and dependent on the alternate realities of Infinispace that they’ve utterly abandoned their Realspace identities and tap into Infinispace illicitl... More
  • Hivernatory
  • Hiversleep
  • Humanity Matrix
  • Infinispace Time Dilation
  • IntegratorIntegrators are organimechanical constructs of the Triocracy that are deployed in any location where Citizens have to be monitored or subdued. They are also used by the Triocracy to communicate with a... More
  • Mark (of the TriocracyWhen the entirety of Earth was plunged into literal darkness and chaos in the years following the Cold Boot, humanity reverted to its most base form ... survival of the fittest and strongest. The near... More)
  • Materia Forge
  • MindwarPlaceholder Faction: NA Exists in: Realspace More
  • Nanomass
  • Null Technology (ambiguous)
    • NullbladePlaceholder. Faction: NA Exists in: Realspace More
    • Nulldrive
    • Nullfield
    • Nullship
    • Nullspace
    • Nullsuit
  • Persona ShardInvention of the Shards date back to the mid-21st century when the age of computing required high density, low latency data storage. Information is stored within an engineered crystalline nano-matrix ... More
  • Preception AbstractorThe Preception Abstractor is a Colossus machine that resides deep within the Techspire. Its existence is kept a closely guarded secret, even from the Warspire and Lorespire, who would take exception t... More
  • PrimaryThe main language used throughout the Triocracy. Primary is a pigden of old Earth modern English and Mandarin, the two most spoken languages preceding the Cold Boot when all world borders collapsed. More
  • Pure
  • Resurgence, The
  • Sensorium
  • ShardInvention of the Shards date back to the mid-21st century when the age of computing required high density, low latency data storage. Information is stored within an engineered crystalline nano-matrix ... More
  • Shift
  • SNA-B42In 342 DE (2652 CE) a non-Terrestrial device was found nestled in the Lagrange point between Callisto and Jupiter, orbiting the gas giant in tandem with Callisto. Even though the large spherical devic... More
  • SpireSpires is a term for the more specific Techspire, Warspire, and Lorespire that are the three arms of the human Triocracy. In a broader sense a Spire is the center of power on a given planet and/or sys... More Security Section
  • Tether
  • Tormentor
  • Transcendence War
  • Triocracy
  • Truesleep
  • Uncitizen
  • UnityVek, being the first offshoot of the Transcendentalist movement dating back to the 23rd century prior to the Transcendental Wars, believe in unlocking their biological potential by augmentation. There... More
  • Vek PrimacyThe name of the entirety of the Vek empire or civilization. All of the Primacy resides in Aegis or the multitude of ships that sometimes swarm it or are inside it. Exceptions are those Vek who are exi... More
  • Virtuality Buffer
  • Warchine
  • WarjackedPlaceholder Faction: NA Exists in: Realspace More

• • AegisThe Aegis is the flagship of the small Vek Primacy. Since the Vek are an interstellar nomad race the Aegis also serves as their primary home and base of operations. It takes the form of a massive aste... More
  • Buried in Oblivion
  • Divine Wings of Tragedy
  • In AbsentiaThe In Absentia is a transport Nullship of the Triocracy, captained by Samir Rezal. Commissioned by the Esdia e4 Warspire in 2512 C.E., placed in service in 2517 C.E.. In Absentia is not atmospheric e... More
  • Into the Everflow
  • Oneiric Metal
  • Pale Communion
  • Perfect SymmetryThe Perfect Symmetry is the personal Nullship of Uxan. The ship only has room for a few skeleton crew/support, primarily to maintain electromechanical systems. Uxan pilots the ship personally by inter... More
  • Phlegethon, The
  • Rage for OrderThe Rage For Order is the personal Nullship of Vulcia who uses it for exploration, covert operations, and as her quarters. Vulcia believes in always being mobile and makes her home aboard Rage, even w... More
  • Systematic Chaos VThe Systematic Chaos is the personal Nullship of Zeforex, one of the Vek Overlords. Systematic Chaos is the fifth such named ship that was build for stealth and combat, with a suite of technology allo... More
  • Tempest
  • Veil of Imagination

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