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Psi

**Psi** ability was first introduced in Deathworld as Jason's ability to control dice, cards and other gambling devices to cause him to win money. It comes and goes which he has no control. When he 'feels' his psi ability, he is able to win at gaming. This is how he won the money that Kerk asked him for and some extra for himself, but, when it 'went away', he was unable to control his winnings, the last win was a natural win. On Pyrrus, his psi ability allowed him to sense the 'death' psi emanating from the local lifeforms that were lethal to humans.

The city Pyrrans seemed not to have any psi ability. Because it was so overwhelming from the surrounding wildlife, it was probably naturally suppressed.

Some grubbers are known as 'talkers', who have psi ability which enabled them to control local wildlife in most cases. Jason's psi ability enabled him to do so a little, but, since he was inexperienced and untrained, it wasn't much.

Known as 'quakemen', other grubbers could sense impending earthquakes, much as local wildlife could. This is another manifestation of the psi ability. This enabled the local community to escape the quake and survive.

Here, on earth, it is known as parapsychology, those having these abilities are known as having psychic abilities. There are many forms, and many claims to these abilities. However, there is no scientific proof that theses phenomena exist.

After Deathworld, Jason's psi ability was never mentioned again.

## External links

Parapsychology at Wikipedia

List of psychic abilities at Wikipedia
Brucco

**Brucco** is head of the adaptation clinic in the mining city of Pyrrus. It is his responsibility to keep himself and the city dwellers up to date on the latest lethal life forms and methods of defense. He has simulators in various stages of lethal capabilities from the basic warning alarms to virtually real conditions as are experienced outside the compound. Everyone begins training from the time they can crawl for defense from the lethal life forms on Pyrrus.

In Deathworld, Brucco tests and administers Jason dinAlt with serums and antibodies, fits him with a wrist-mounted power holster and gun and with an automatic medical kit, then Jason trains for several weeks in the simulators.

In Deathworld 3 (The Horse Barbarians), Brucco remains behind on Pyrrus when Jason and 168 Pyrran volunteers go the planet Felicity to open mining operations on the highlands. Brucco was killed in the final attack on the city by the local life forms.

## Appearences

Deathworld
Deathworld 3 (The Horse Barbarians)
Ch'aka

Ch'aka was the leader of a small hunter-gatherer group of people on a planet in the DB89-046-229 star system at the time Jason dinAlt and Mikah Simon crash landed in the ocean just off shore. The tribe travels on foot a short section of desert adjacent to the shore in search of food. Other tribes control adjacent stretches of desert. Ch'aka captured Jason and Mikah and made them part of his tribe. Ch'aka is dressed in primitive skins, a large sea shell over his head with holes cut for his eyes. Ch'aka sports a long beard which protrudes below his shell helmet. Animal teeth are fastened to the helmet and gloves to give a meaner look to his outfit. At night he sleeps separately from the rest of the tribe and he surrrounds himself with small bells hanging from strings just above ground level at varying distances to warn him of approach.

Ch'aka and his tribe speak Esperanto. Ch'aka was also the third owner of Ijale.

Ch'aka was killed by Jason to become leader of the tribe so that he could attempt to contact the D'zertanoj.
Pride of Darkhan

The ***Pride of Darkhan*** is a spaceship owned and operated by the planet Darkhan, in the system which includes Cassylia. Entering the ship while grounded on Cassylia or any other planet is considered to be entering Darkhan territory which Cassylia dares not violate, as a result of the armed neutrality of both planets after an interplanetary war which almost destroyed both worlds.
Atom bomb

The **atomic bomb** is a weapon that uses the energy released by fission of a suitable isotope such as U235 or Pu239 fissions or splits into two or more smaller isotopes, one or more neutrons, and various electromagnetic radiation and/or neutrinos.

The fissile material must be delivered into several pieces, each less than the critical mass, then combined into one mass highly compressed into a very great density and with the addition of extreme heat in one of two ways.

The first method involves the fissile material placed in a spherical shape in several pieces separated, surrounded by a mass of high explosive. When the H.E. is detonated the pieces are violently forced together such that it is highly compressed to an extremely high density and combined with the extreme temperature of the detonation, causes the material to undergo the fission process. The Uranium or Plutonium atoms absorb neutron and split into two smaller isotopes and releases neutrons which are further absorbed into other atoms thereby sustaining the reaction. The release of gamma and thermal radiation provides the destructive energy.

The second method involves containing an amount of fissile material at one end of a cylindrical bomb less than critical mass, and a smaller amount at the other end, both adding up to greater than critical mass. High explosives behind the small mass detonates forcing the mass to impact with the other mass, creating the high density and temperatures required for the fission reactions.

That's a sort of basic simplified explanation of the fission reaction of the atomic bomb.

A backpack size atom bomb was used against native Pyrran life forms on an island offshore by the mining city dwellers when they thought this would end the local lifeforms from attacking the city.
Kreno

**Kreno** (pl. krenoj)(Esperanto for horseradish) is an edible tuber which grows on the planet in the DB89-046-229 system upon which Mikah Simon and Jason dinAlt crash landed their ship. Krenoj are dug up by the hunter-gatherers living in the desert along the sea coast.

Kreno is the root of a plant which grows in the sand in the desert along the sea coast. It is grey and wrinkled and barely edible.

## External links

Kreno (horseradish) at Wikipedia.

Tuber at Wikipedia.
Rhes

**Rhes** was one of the 'grubbers' of Pyrrus, living as farmers growing crops and raising livestock in the area around the city.

The first time Jason met Rhes, he was very ill almost to the death. Jason was able to use his medikit on Rhes who recovered very quickly. Rhes and Jason became friends and helped to create a friendship between the city dwellers and the grubbers on Pyrrus for mutual trade.

Rhes accompanied Jason to the planet Felicity to attempt to set up mining operations on the upper continent occupied by the Horse Barbarians. Rhes became a merchant in Camar on the lower continent of Ammh to set up trade with the Horse Barbarians.
Steam Engine

The **steam engine** is a heat engine that uses steam to perform work. Water is placed in a closed container (the boiler) and is heated to a temperature above the water boiling temperature at atmospheric pressure. This causes the water to produce steam at a pressure above atmospheric. For example, heating the water to 184°C (363°F) produces steam pressure at 1034 kPa (150 psig). The steam can be led off through piping to one side of a piston in a cylinder where it pushes the cylinder through its stroke, the piston is connected to a cam which changes the linear motion to rotary motion, through a valve arrangement connected to the piston, the steam is cut off. If a flywheel is connected to the rotary shaft, inertia caused the piston to return to the top of the stroke, whereby the steam is admitted to the cylinder starting the next stroke. An improvement of the system would be to admit steam to both sides of the cylinder through the valve arrangement so that power can be applied in both directions. The rotary motion on the power shaft can be used in various ways.

The people of Appsala manufactured the caro to be powered by a steam engine with the wheels mounted on the shaft to drive the caro. The engine was protected by a liquid that if inadvertently released would be lethal, thereby protecting the secret of the engine. Jason found a way around the trap and revealed the secret workings of the engine and introduced improvements to the engine.
Jump-space

**Jump-space**, also referred to as hyperspace, subspace, and others, is a concept used by various science fictions writers to allow spacecraft and communications to travel between star systems in a realistic time periods for the purposes of the story.

In the real universe, to the extent of current knowledge, C is still the ultimate speed limit » 299,792.458 kilometers per second, or just over a billion kilometers per hour. So, it'll take about 6 hours to reach the orbit of Pluto, and almost 5 years to reach the nearest star. That would really drag out a novel.

The other difficulty is that unrealistic amounts of energy would be required to accelerate the ship to anything near C, so it'll take even longer to move between star systems. When we refer to the mass of an object, we are referring to the rest mass, or the mass of the object when not in motion. When an object is in motion in reference to an observer, the apparent mass of that object increases. This may be referred to as relativistic mass, given by the equation

# M
m

/

1
−

v
2

/

c
2

{\displaystyle M = m/\sqrt{1 - v^2/c^2}}

 where *M* is the relativistic mass, *m* is the rest mass, *v* is the object's velocity relative the observer, and *c* is the speed of light. As the object approaches C, it's relativistic mass approaches infinite mass, therefore the energy required to accelerate to approach C, the energy required will approach infinity.

So, writers have collectively invented in the science fiction universes the concept of travelling faster than light, in most cases, it is not really explained the theory behind it, or in some cases, either the ship passes into a space outside of the stories universe into some unexplained space which allows the ship or communications signal to travel from place to place much more quickly, or wraps some sort of field envelope around the ship which allows it to remain stationary within the fabric of the jump-space field while the field itself travels to the destination within a reasonable period of time.

In the Deathworld universe, the term is jump-space, ships and communications propagate in this manner. The jump-space shortens travel to destinations from years to just weeks, communications may be even shorter. Apparently, one can't just look out the window to see where one is, the location of star systems are displayed on a computer screen and the ship's control calculates a course for the trip. It also seems that the control cannot compute the course directly, it must be recorded onto some sort of tape fed from a course computer which then must be fed into the jump-space control to plot the course.

## Appearances

*Deathworld*

*Deathworld 2 (The Ethical Engineer)*

*Deathworld 3 (The Horse Barbarians)*

## External links

Mass in special relativity at Wikipedia.

Speed of light at Wikipedia.

Hyperspace (jump-space) at Wikipedia.
Esperanto

**Esperanto** is a constructed language spoken by approximately 2 million users throughout the world. It was constructed by L. L. Zamenhof, a Russian-Polish opthalmoligist and linguist in the late 1870s and early 1880s. It was created to be used as an international language, easy to learn, and to foster international understanding between speakers of different languages.

In the Deathworld universe Esperanto is spoken in the Terido worlds and on the planet upon which Mikah Simon and Jason dinAlt crash landed.

## External links

Esperanto at Wikipedia.

L. L. Zamenhof at Wikipedia.
Galactic Exchange Notes

**Galactic Exchange Notes** is a means of monetary exchange between inhabited planets of the galaxy with space travel capability. For example, Darkhan has contact with other planets, whilst Felicity does not. Felicity does not use Galaxy Exchange Notes.

The notes are printed in a gold and sepia color scheme.
Jongleur

**Jongleur** is a term applied to storytellers in ancient times. Jongleurs were also variously referred to as minstrels, bauds, etc. The jongleurs were the storytellers, usually in song, of events that occurred in far away places or in times past. They were considered the historians of the day. The songs were a method used to remember details of the story. Although they had their own stories to tell, jongleurs frequently memorized stories and songs of others to pass along.

Jason dinAlt posed as a jongleur of the "Pyrran" tribe when he visited the Horse Barbarians.
Merope

**Merope** is the name of a life form native to the planet Felicity used as horses are used on earth, for riding and beast of burden.

# Description

The Merope is *"horselike in many ways, yet twice as big as any horse, and covered with shaggy fur. The creature's head had an equine appearance, but it was disproportionately tiny and set at the end of a moderately long neck. It had long limbs, especially the forelegs, which were decidedly longer than the hind legs, so that its back sloped downward from the withers to the rump, terminating in a tiny, flicking tail. The strong, thick toes on each foot had sharp claws that dug into the ground as the beast paced by, guided by the rider who sat just behind the forelimbs at the highest point on the humped back."*
Drill Press

A **drill press** is a too used to bore circular holes in various materials. The spindle of the drill press spins and holds the tool which bores the hole. The drill press can be used to drill a hole in size and location with accuracy as opposed to a hand held drill.

The d'zertanoj used a drill press whose spindle is turned by a belt powered by the slave-driven capstan.
Kerk

**Kerk Pyrrus** is the leader of the people in the mining city on the planet Pyrrus. Kerk is tall, middle aged, but, immensely strong and has one surviving son, Welf, whom he was training to succeed him on Pyrrus until Welp was killed saving Jason dinAlt's life during an attack on the city by native lifeforms.
Main Page

The show has been described as "a supernatural cop drama—with a twist... a dark and fantastical project about a world in where the latest in a line of young men and woman known as "Vampire Slayers" or simply "Slayers". In the story, Slayers are "called" (chosen by fate) to battle against vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness. Like previous Slayers, Adam Knight the series main character is aided by a Watcher, who guides, teaches, and trains him.

 Spinoffs and Movies
Slayer: Redemption - Netflix Movies and Specials -  Vampires in LA Season 1 - Faith -Tales of the Vampires
Piton

**Piton** is a short spike made of steel used in mountain-climbing. It is driven into crevices in the rock face to aid in giving anchor to prevent falls or to create hand and foot holds. Jason used them when climbing the rock spire during the attack on the Weasel clan by the tribes under command of Temuchin.
Vitristoj

**Vitristoj** was the name of a clan in Appsala who holds the secret of glass making. It was the Vitristoj who made the glass jar at a very high price for the Perssonoj so that Jason could make his akumulatoro (leyden jar) to store electricity for the Perssonoj.

## External links

Glass at Wikipedia.

Glass Production at Wikipedia.
All Hail the Hertug Maker

**All Hail the Hertug Maker** is another of Jason's inventions that he unveiled to Hertug Persson, the leader of the Perssonoj, who are the keepers of the secret of electricity on the planet in the system DB89-046-229. This was an apparatus with a hand crank which when operated, turned a set to contacts which sends a voltage to a pair of curved wires on top between which a spark jumps between the wires, in a sequence of three short 'dots', three long 'dashes', three 'dots'. Jason told Hertug that it stands for H.A.H., *"Huraoj al Hertug", All hail the Hertug.* Unbeknownst to Hertug, this was a spark transmitter which transmits a broad band signal which is the standard 'S.O.S.' to any spaceships that are in the vicinity of the planet. Apparently, in Jason's universe, standard Morse Code is still used for non-voice radio communication.
Ijale

**Ijale** was a female member of the Ch'aka tribe of hunter-gatherers living along the coast of the planet in the BD89-046-229 system. Jason befriended Ijale on the evening that Mikah was traded to the Fasimba tribe.

Ijale accompanied Jason for the remainder of Deathworld 2, cooked and took care of Jason's needs until she was kidnapped by the Trozelligoj with the help of Mikah Simon.
After Jason was rescued from the planet by Meta, Ijale was dropped off onto an unnamed planet with enough money to take care of her needs. She was never again mentioned in the Deathworld Trilogy.
Flamethrowers

**Flamethrowers** used a liquid fuel which when ignited projected a flame some distance from the device. This will incinerate anything within reach. The flamethrower can be operated automatically and has a timer which can be calibrated to throw the flame at seemingly random intervals to natural lifeforms, but, could be ascertained by humans by observation for a short period of time.
Porgorstorsaand

**Porgorstorsaand** is the planet where Jason dinAlt was born and raised. Jason was raised in an agrarian community and was expected to follow his father as a farmer, which, of course, Jason was unwilling to do.

In *Deathworld 3*, Jason, Temuchin, and 23 other clansmen had raided the lowlands when Jason used a shovel as a quarterstaff to defeat a local farmer armed in the same manner, which Jason had learned as a child.

## Appearances

*Deathworld 3 (The Horse Barbarians)*, mentioned only.
Meta

**Meta** is the pilot of the Pyrran spaceship. As Deathworld begins she is nineteen years of age and had two children, one of which has died. Meta has short blond hair, skin tanned, and typical of those born and raised on Pyrrus, she was very strongly built, but in an attractive feminine manner, and exceedingly beautiful.

Her main interest after she met Jason on board her spaceship after lifting off from Darkhan was the arms that was loaded aboard with Jason's winnings on Cassylia. After that she was very interested in other worlds since she rarely has opportunity to visit and asked Jason many questions.

When not piloting the spaceship, Meta acts as a perimeter guard.Later when Kerk creates the 'Department of Investigation and Research', Meta becomes Jason's assistant.

## Deathworld 2

In Deathworld 2, after Jason is kidnapped by Mikah Simon, Meta begins to search for Jason. When her spaceship enters the DB89-046-229 planetary system and she detects his ad hoc S.O.S. radio signal, she rescues him from the planet.

## Deathworld 3

In Deathworld 3, Meta assumes the role of Jason's mate, and Grif assumes the role of their son and jongleur apprentice as they infiltrate the Horse Barbarians tribes of Felicity to attempt to set up mining operations on the planet.

Jason, Meta, and Grif meet up with the rat clan while enroute to Temuchin's tribe. That evening, while they were setting up camp, one of the clan members tried to accost Meta. Meta karate chopped him in the larynx. He then tried to, then, attack her with a knife, but, she took his knife away from him and killed him with it. The three then had to guard against reprisals from other rat relatives. By the end of this novel, Meta is now twenty-three years of age.

## Appearances

Deathworld

Deathworld 2

Deathworld 3
Temuchin

**Temuchin** is the name of a warrior of one of the Horse Barbarians which inhabit the plains of the northern portion of the continent on the planet Felicity. It seems that the author of the Deathworld series derived the name from Temüjin, the birth name of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire.

At the time that the John & John Minerals Company arrived and left Felicity and Jason dinAlt and the Pyrrans which accompanied him arrived, Temuchin has united most of the tribes of the plains under his leadership. The creed of the tribes is that the plains are to remain free and open without buildings, fences, and other trappings of modern civilization. The Song of Temuchin was written about Temuchin by jongleurs.
S.T. Pollux Victory

Stellar Transport ***Pollux Victory*,** Captain Kurkowski commanding, was the transport vessel that brought 55,000 settlers to Pyrrus during the last wave of human expansion throughout the galaxy. The ship was towed to its destination by tugs and landed by the tugs and single use rockets on the planet.

Jason, Meta, and Poli discovered the ship's log in the storeroom below the library. The log contained entries of the journey to Pyrrus and of the first two months on the planet. Entries included details such as that the colonists came from the planet Setani, an agrarian planet, but, the colonists themselves were from the cities of Setani, and comments concerning the horrendous weather, nearby volcanic activity keeps the ground warm enough to grow crops more easily and that the local lifeforms are becoming increasingly dangerous to the colonists, but, the Captain writing the journal thought that they were discovering more dangerous life forms; he didn't realize that they were evolving. The last entry was by a different writer that Kurkowski died from an insect bite.
Ramon Llull

**Ramon Llull** (c. 1232-c. 1315) was an historic philosopher, logician, and writer. He was also a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Llull was born in Palma, Kingdom of Majorca.

Llull was known to have authored at least 265 works including *Llibre qui es de l'ordre de cavalleria (The Booke of the Ordre of Chyvalry)* written sometime between 1279 adn 1283.

In Deathworld 2, while being held captive by Mikah Simon, Jason dinAlt referred to and asked to see the book (in the book, the author's name was spelled 'Lull') during a discussion of ethics and ethos. Jason threw this book and the *Stellar Ephemeris* at the jump drive control knocking the ship out of jump drive.

## External links

Ramon Llull at Wikipedia.

Third Order of Saint Francis at Wikipedia.

Kingdom of Majorca at Wikipedia.
Har Palo

**Har Palo** was mentioned in the logbook of the Stellar Transport *Pollux Victory*, Captain Kurkowski commanding, as one of 55,000 from the agrarian planet who voyaged to Pyrrus to colonize the planet.

Har Polo maintained a theory that local volcanism kept the ground warmer than normal which should improve the growing of crops.

## Appearances

*Deathworld* (Pollux Victory log entry only)
2099 BC

Map 24: 2099 BC. Previous map: **2113 BC**. Next map: **2092 BC** (*Maps Index*)

**Panthos**
***Pelasgi***
**KHETI**
**Cureta**
***W. Pel.***
**`Aratta**
**Caspian Saga**
***Alani***
**Tegarama**
**`Ariana**
***Massagetae***
**TAGA**
**Solima**
**SCYTHIA**
**LUL.**
***Galli***
**SAMOTHEA**
**YAWANA**
**AFRICA**
**Getulia**
**MANNHREGYA**
**Jadera**
**Sala**
**Dalm.**
**Moesia**
**Epirus**
**PALA**
**SARMATIA**
**Maeonia**
***Rifati***
**Ema.**
**AEG.**
**Withelsleth**
**Alashia**
**Hedua**
**HARAN**
**CIMB.**
**RAZENUA**
**Saturnia**
**Trinacria**
**Hyr.**
**FOMOIRE**
**PARTH.**
**Brigantia**
**BITHYNIA**
**TREBETA**
**GOTHICA**
**Sued.**
**Senaar**
**U.**
***AISTONES***
***FENNONES***
**Ascania**
**Ingebonis**
**Ustabonis**
**Carmania**
**Postandis**
**L.**
**MARI**
**TRACIA**
**Aus.**
**INA.**
**GUT.**
**SHI.**
**KANAAN**
**TA NENNESUT**
**TA WASET**
**Shus.**
**SUBARTU**
**AMURRU**
**EBLA**
**Liguria**
**Akk.**
**Aks.**
2099 BC - DOWNFALL OF LUGAL-ANNE-MUNDU

## MAIN EVENTS

### 2112-2100 BC - Travels of Abraham

In 2112 BC Abram, still in independent Haran, became Abraham and was blessed by the Lord. In 2110 BC he moved from Haran to Canaan. Hebron was built and Damascus rebuilt in 2109 BC.

In 2107 BC there was a famine in Canaan, so Abraham and Sarah went to Egypt and stayed with Mentuhotep. In 2102 BC Avaris (Tanis) was built in Lower Egypt, and another Canaanite tribe, Ayner Arwad, migrated to Kush, that was ruled then by Horkam.

In 2100 BC, Abraham and his household returned to Bethel in Canaan. That same year, Sutum south of the Dead Sea rebelled against Lugal-Anne-Mundu of Senar.

### 2100 BC - Phaeton settles Liguria

In 2102 BC, King Brigus was succeeded in Iberia by Tagus Orma, whom some have misidentified with Togarmah son of Gomer; he renamed the realm Taga after his name.

A Zemarite tribe led by Phaeton had been displaced from Canaan by Myrina decades earlier, and had been wandering the seas without a permanent home, but in 2100 BC Malot Tages of Razenua allowed them to settle on the Po river; these became known as Ligurians after Phaeton's son Ligur.

### 2099 BC - War of Kings, defeat of Lugal-anne-mundu

In 2099 BC, Lugal-anne-Mundu aka Aralius, Amraphel, after defeating a rebellion in Marhashi, came to fight the rebels in Sutium, along with vassals Kudur-Lagamar of Elam and Tudiya of Asshur.

Lugal-anne-mundu routed the rebels, but Abraham with a force of 318 defeated the Mesopotamian forces in turn, and pursued them as far as Damascus. In this defeat Lugal-Anne-Mundu died or was overthrown, and his empire broke apart as city governors declared their independence: Lugalanda in Lagash, Puzur-nirah in Akshak, and Lugal-zagesi (Baleus Xerxes) in Umma.

Sharumiter (Hidaar) of Mari at first controlled Nippur, along with it the title King of the Land.
Library of Pyrrus

The **Library** in the city on the planet Pyrrus contains only technical information which are contained on spools of tapes. It is automated in that one enters in index for text to be retrieved and the tape is delivered automatically in a few seconds. Poli is the caretaker of the Library and is aware of old books in the storeroom below, but, has never bothered with them.

After searching the storerooms, all have been destroyed by Pyrran rats except the log of S.T. *Pollux Victory* kept safe in a locked steel log box.
Aventinus 28

Johannes Turmayr's 1520 History of Bavaria, Chapter 28 - translated and annotated by Ras Feqade, AD 2020.

* Previous Chapter: Aventinus 26 and 27
* Next Chapter: Aventinus 38
* (To Table of Contents)

## 28. Of King Herman, the fifth emperor in Germania

After the above mentioned noble Ausstäb, King **Herman**, his son, managed Germania until his 63rd year, a fresh bold noble and a good warrior (as his name shows). The fourth and largest district in Germany (as indicated above) was called Hermenia from him; he first taught the Germans to fight properly and made them travel.

[Herman ruled Germany from 2084 to 2057 BC, only 27 years. Although the Latin translation and Anderson agree in giving him 63 years, he could not have ruled so long, as the fires in Italy (2084 BC) are mentioned in his predecessor Istevon's reign, the flood of Ogyges in Attica (2051 BC) in his successor Marsus' reign.]

At the same time there were wild warriors in Hispania, Greece and Italy, the bold pushing the people over the masses, didn't think much.

Phaëto, king in Italy, left the country, even gave way over sea to the black Moor land.

[Ethiopian annals indicate that the Canaanite Weyto entered Kush in 2071 BC, this is no doubt the migration of Phaeton to Ethiopia.

One paragraph is omitted here, concerning how King Herman taught the Germans to fight better.]

This king Herman built a city there, where the three waters of the Danube Nab and Regen converge, named after him Hermansheim; is formerly located on one side, around midnight worth about.

[Herman's capital Hermansheim is the modern Regensburg.

The next nine chapters are omitted from the translation at present. Eight of them are mere short paragraphs describing various social conditions at the time of Herman. The ninth continues the Genesis narrative, as wrongly synchronised by Jerome et al.]

* 29. Of the warriors and at first of the men.
* 30. Of the war and armor.
* 31. Of the beginning of war and ending.
* 32. Of manslaughter and enmity.
* 33. Of pastimes. [Only one sentence: "*The old Germans had some entertainment and games at their weddings: young friends had to do a sword dance, had to dance naked over an unsheathed sword.*"]
* 34. Of inspection and removal.
* 35. Of the merchants.
* 36. Of wine, how the old Germans didn't drink it nor let it be brought to them: how they honored King Herman.
* 37. Of Isaac, Abraham's son.
Bowie knife

**Bowie** was a name given to a knife designed by James Black for Jim Bowie. The knife designed and made by Jason in Deathworld 3, consists of a blade the width of his hand, had a clip point which is sharpened along the entire length of the blade side and about halfway on the other edge with a guard between the blade and handle. It is made thicker than typical knives to give it strength and weight to combat against swords. Jason used this knife to combat the last surviving male member of the Rat clan after that clan attacked Meta and Grif. After Jason killed the Rat member, he reluctantly gave the knife to Temuchin. Later, he borrowed the knife during the attack on the fort in the lowlands, giving it back after the attack.

## External links

James Black at Wikipedia.

Jim Bowie at Wikipedia.

Bowie knife at Wikipedia.
Psi detector

A **psi detector** was built by Jason in order to detest sources of *psi* signals to ascertain why the local lifeforms are directed at destroying the city dwellers. The detector was mounted near the windshield of a lifeboat that was inoperable. If successful, Jason desired to contact the source of the signal and contact them to ascertain why they were sent to the lifeforms at the city.
Felicity

**Felicity** is the name of the fifth planet in the system of an unnamed star.

The star is a class F1 star, the color index is white, the luminosity is about twice that of the star about which Pyrrus orbits and emits more ultraviolet than the Pyrran star.

Felicity is covered to about 90% water with some volcanic islands and one continent. The axial tilt of the Felicity to that of the ecliptic is near zero, so, there are no seasons to speak of. The continent appears like a flattened dagger with the point toward the south and is divided in the middle by a geological fault in the form of a high cliff about three to ten kilometers high, the north part of the continent higher than the south portion of the continent. The surface temperature at the equator is nearly the boiling temperature of water, the temperature at the surface of the high continent rarely exceed freezing. Prevailing winds from the south hits the escarpment of the continental divide producing almost constant precipitation at the cliffs. The rotational period is 20 earth hours. Gravity is approximately 1.5G.

The southern portion of the continent shows evidence of civilization and agriculture but is of no interest to mining expiditions. The upper continent holds the mining wealth, but is populated by fierce nomads known as the Horse Barbarians which wiped out the John & John Minerals Company except for 17 survivors escaping in the spaceship.
Earth

**Earth** is the planet from which all the humans in the Deathworld universe are descended.

Earth is the third of eight planets from the Sun and the densest. Radiometric dating indicates that Earth was formed about 4.54 billion years ago.

## Orbital characteristics

The average distance from the Sun is 149,598,023 km, the orbital eccentricity is .0167086, which brings the earth as close as 149,095,000 km and as far away as 152,100,000 km from the Sun. Average orbital speed is 29.78 km/sec.

## Physical characteristics

The mean radius of the earth is 6,371.0 km, the radius at the equator is 6,378.1 km, and the radius at the poles is 6,356.8 km. The Earth is flattened at the poles at a ratio of 1/298.257222101.

Earth's axial tilt is about 23°26'21.4" from the plane of its orbit. In the course of one orbit, Earth rotates 366.26 times resulting in 365.25 solar days.

The mass of the Earth is 5.97237×1024 kg, mean density is 5.514 g/cm3, the volume is 1.08321×1012 km3. Surface area is 510,072,000 km2.

The escape velocity is 11.186 km/sec at the surface. Surface temperature ranges from -89.2°C to 56.7°C, the mean temperature is 15°C.

Atmospheric pressure at mean sea level is 101.325 kPa, and the atmosphere consists of 78.08% Nitrogen (N2), 20.95% Oxygen (O2), 0.930% Argon (Ar), 0.039% Carbon dioxide (CO2), and about 1% Water vapor (H2O).

Earth has one natural satellite, the Moon.
Belial

**Belial** is a Hebrew adjective meaning 'worthless', which, in the Hebrew Bible has come to represent the devil.

**Asmodeus**, in Greek mythology is a king of demons (Ashmedai in Hebrew).

**Abaddon**, Hebrew term appearing in the Bible as both place of destruction and the name of an angel. The Greek equivalent is **Apollyon.**

**Baal-zebub** is a contemporary name for the devil.

In *Deathworld 2,* after his ship crash-landed on a planet in the DB89-046-229 star system, and when Mikah discovered that his boots were stolen by Ch'aka, Mikah uttered all these blasphemes at once.

## Appearances

*Deathworld 2 (The Ethical Engineer),* uttered by Mikah Simon when he discovered his boots were stolen by Ch'aka.
Grenade

**Grenades** are small bombs designed to be thrown by hand or hand-held launchers.

Grenades fired from launchers are usually designed aerodynamically for flight to the target and detonates on impact.

Hand grenades are usually activated by pulling a lock pin allowing a spring to start a timer which then detonates the explosive.

Pyrrans use grenades against the lethal life forms near the city. They were also used in the attack on the life forms living in the caves on the island when Jason dinAlt detected their *psi* blast.

## External links

Hand grenade at Wikipedia.

Rocket Propelled Grenade at Wikipedia.
Ballad of the Flying Strangers

**Ballad of the Flying Strangers** is a song made up by Jason dinAlt while he was posing as jongleur of the tribe of the fighting Pyrrans as he was attempting to infiltrate the Horse Barbarians to gain information to open up mining operations on the planet Felicity.

The Ballad begins:

*Though they had the swords of lightning,*

*Die they did in countless numbers. Arrows' flight*

*Did speak to strangers,*

*Bidding them to leave our pastures...*
Truth Party

The **Truth Party** is a group that has a following of believers with a self-proclaimed code of conduct and has deemded Jason dinAlt a criminal. Mikah Simon is the leader of Party and has a number of followers. Simon came to Pyrrus and tricked Jason into coming aboard his ship and rendered him unconscious with a gas, leaving Pyrrus with him.

For many months, Simon supports Jason during any activities which he and his Party happen to support, but, turns against him for any activity that is against his belief.

Among activities considered sins by the Party are tobacco, alcohol, and extramarital sex.

## Appearances

*Deathworld 2 (The Ethical Engineer)*(mentioned only)
Junkman

**Junkman** (**Junkmen**, plural) was the name attributed to the mining city dwellers by the agrarian 'Grubbers' due to the trade items offered for foodstuffs offered by the grubbers. Junkmen, having the only spaceship on the planet, had access to technology not available to the grubbers but for that offered by the junkmen.

Junkmen and grubbers completely detested one another.
Ahankk

**Ahankk** is the second in command after Temuchin of the Horse Barbarians. When Jason dinAlt was imprisoned by Temuchin after conquering the lowlands on the planet Felicity, Ahankk was the prison guard captain when Kerk arrived to rescue Jason. Kerk backhanded Ahankk who fell either unconscious or dead, likely dead, as indicated by the angle of his neck while lying on the ground.
The Booke of the Ordre of Chyvalry

*Llibre qui es de l'ordre de cavalleria (**The Booke of the Ordre of Chyvalry**)* was an historic book written by Ramon Llull (c. 1232-c. 1315).

In *Deathworld 2 (The Ethical Engineer)*, while Jason dinAlt was held hostage by Mikah Simon in his spaceship, during a discussion of ethics and ethos, Jason asked to borrow a copy of this book and a copy of the *Stellar Ephemeris*, whereupon he threw them both at the jump drive control causing the ship to drop out of jump drive and crash land on a planet in the system DB89-046-229.
Naxa

**Naxa** was one of the 'grubbers' of Pyrrus, living as farmers growing crops and raising livestock in the area around the city.

Naxa had some *psi* abilbity similar to Jason and was referred to by the other grubbers as a 'talker', in that he could communicate somewhat with the local lifeforms and direct their actions.
Snarbi

**Snarbi** was a soldier of the Perssonoj clan on the planet of the DB89-046-229 system. The Perssonoj clan were the keepers of the secret of electricity. Snarbi helped Jason dinAlt, Ijale, and Mikah Simon escape the d'zertanoj clan, but, betrayed them to the Perssonoj when they arrived in the city of Appsala.
Akumulatoro

**Akumulatoro** is a device built by Jason for the Perssonoj to store electricity on the planet in the system DB89-046-229. It consists of a large glass jar custom blown by the Vitristoj clan. Jason then coated the inside and the outside of the jar from the bottom to about two-thirds up the sides with foil he fabricated from tin (esperanto-*stano*), hence the term tinfoil. Next, Jason made a plug for the mouth of the jar from *gumi* (gum) through which he passed an iron rod with a chain from the rod to the tinfoil on the inside of the jar and an iron ball on the top. This action will store a static electrical charge between the foil on the two sides of the jar. This apparatus was invented in Leidon, Holland in 1745-1746, hence the term *Leyden Jar**.***
Standard Interstellar Code (Morse Code)

**Standard Interstellar Code** is a radiotelegraphy code used throughout the inhabited galaxy when voice communication is impossible or impractical. It is in today's terms Morse Code. It uses a series of 'dots' and 'dashes' to represent alphabet letters, numerals, special characters, usually using a contact key to either emit the radio carrier as the dots and dashes or to transmit a continuous carrier and modulate the characters as a tone.

The Morse character set is as follows.

* The length (time) of a dot is one unit
* The length of a dash is three units
* The interval of space between parts of a character is one unit
* The interval of space between characters is three units
* The interval of space between words is seven units

**MORSE CODE**

Additional characters are available in the references at the end of this article.

However, in Deathworld 2 when Jason dinAlt set up the *All Hail the Hertug* maker, he desgined it to transmit **• • • — — — • • •** telling Hertug that this signified H.A.H., *Huraoj al Hertug,All Hail the Hertug*, but, in reality it was transmitting S.O.S. in case any passing spacer was passing by and received the signal.

## External links

Morse Code at Wikipedia.

SOS at Wikipedia.

Morse Code at the America Radio Relay League official site.
Krannon

**Krannon** was a resident of the mining city on Pyrrus at the time Jason dinAlt visited the city. Krannon had made the unfortunate mistake of falling asleep while on perimeter guard duty and was permanently assigned to food services as a laborer and to make contact with the grubbers to trade items for foodstuff. When Jason dinAlt was found by the grubbers after he escaped from Kerk in the spaceship's lifeboat, the grubbers killed Krannon to obtain his medikit and save Jason's life.
Electronic binoculars

**Electronic binoculars** were an optical device which when looked through magnified whatever the observer was looking at electronically, which presumably provided a greater magnification than optical binoculars and intensity was adjustable according to ambient light levels. Output to the eyepieces was in grayscale rather than in color.
Cassylia

**Cassylia** is a planet which hosts gambling casinos and is considered the gambling 'playspot of the nearby cluster of star systems'. Jason dinAlt gambles with credits given to him by Kerk to win so that the Pyrrans can purchase equipment in the defense of the mining city on Pyrrus.

Later, Meta travels to Cassylia to find Jason after he was taken by Mikah Simon, later finding him in the system DB89-046-229.

## Appearances

Deathworld
Deathworld 2 (The Ethical Engineer), mention only.
DB89-046-229

**DB89-046-229** the designation in a Stellar Ephemeris for the star that Mikah Simon's spaceship was passing with Jason dinAlt held hostage as Jason began an argument about Ethics and Ethos. Jason used the ephemeris and another book to damage the ship's control causing the ship to drop out of jump space into normal space forcing Mikah to land on one of the system's planets.
Molotail

**Molotail** (Molotov cocktail) is a type of incendiary device consisting of a fragile bottle of fuel with a wick for igniting. It is used by lighting the wick and throwing it at the target whereupon it shatters spreading the burning fuel in the area.

Jason used molotails to set portions of refinery ablaze when he, Ijale, Mikah, and Snarbi escaped from the d'zertanoj.
2378 BC

Map 8 - 2378 BC. Previous map: **2386 BC**. Next map: **2352 BC** (*Maps Index*)

*Tina*
*Ma'ot*
*Gedir*
***GALLIA
TERR.***
**KHAMAZI**
**Panthos**
***Pelasgi***
***WESTERN ISLES
TERR.***
**KENE'AN**
***Kheti***
**Martu**
***Khefturi***
***W. Pel.***
***KERASO
TERR.***

**Caspian Saga**
***Alani***
**Tegarama**
**`Ariana**
**KIENGIR**
**Khanigalbat**
**`UriKi**
**Kish**
***Massagetae***
**`Abowa**
**MAGOGIA**
**Fenninga**
**`Aistia**
**Gethica**
**Sweona**
**Rhodis**
**Ters.**
**TOBELIA**
**Rithin**
**Turas**
***`ALBIONA
TERR.***
**Solima**
**`Araba**
***Kesdim***
**SHUS.**
**SUBUR**
**`OTS**
**`Scythia**
**LUL.**
***Ludi***
**GOMERA**
**RASENNA**
**SAMOTHEA**
**YAWANA**
**TAWY**
**AFRICA**
**GETULIA**
**Theissia**
**Danica**
**Albia**
**TUYSCONIA**
**Adula**
**Istria**
**Jadera**
**Sala**
**Saba**
**Dalm.**
**Moesia**
**Epirus**
**Tsarmautia**
**MAEONIA**
**RIPHATHI**
**HYR**
**Withelsleth**
**Alashia**
**Hedua**
2378 BC - FURTHER DISPERSION

## MAIN EVENTS

### 2384 BC-2379 BC - The race eastward

In 2384 BC some of the tribe of Gomer under Ganges who were still in Bactria departed for the east and then dwelt from the Ganges to the Yangtse, the same as Chi-you of Asian history.

In 2381 BC, additional states were formed in China: Heliochora or Shennong by Barwain, and Yoshong by Huang-di.

### 2381 BC - Mebarasi founds Nippur

At this time, Mebarasi (Enmebaragesi, Kambiros) king of Kish built Nippur intended to be Senar's new "holy city" after the abandonment of Eridu. (*Tummal*, Mich. Syr.)

### 2379 BC - Recognition of States

45 years after the Abzu collapsed, Dumuzid of Uruk gave official recognition to the independence of four states: Asshur (Subur and Kish), Madai (ie Aratta Saga), Moesia (ie. Tuysconia) and Magogia. Haran and Kasdim would still recognize his claim to overlordship.

In this year also were established Maeonia and Lud Mayon, while Tuiscon established the Alans under Aram Duron with his protection, and also sent Aram's sons Mesh and Gether to form the Massagetae to their north. (*Defloratio, Aventinus*)
Oraiel

**Oraiel** is the name of a member of the tribe of Temuchin who was a jongleur telling stories of places and times.

It was Oraiel who befriended Jason dinAlt when he was captured by Temuchin and was ordered killed. Oraiel hid Jason in his tent because he wanted to hear more about offworld. Oraiel then drew his weapon to capture Jason and turn him over to Temuchin; Jason beat him and tied up his mate and son, escaped the village and trekked across the plain to be rescued by the Pyrrans.

After the war with the Weasel clans, Oraiel identified Jason to Temuchin as the offworlder described above, whereupon Kerk cast Jason into Hell's Doorway and was killed.
Crossbow

The **crossbow** is a weapon made by the grubbers, consisting of a short stock with a stringed bow mounted horizontally. It fires a projectile such as an arrow or bolt. By drawing and latching the string, a trigger mechanism releases the string and fires the projectile. The grubbers use a metal bolt as the projectile.

A variation of the crossbow is also used by the hunter-gatherer people on the planet in the DB89-046-229 system. They apparently do not manufacture the crossbow, but, trade krenoj for this technology.

## Appearances

*Deathworld*

*Deathworld 2 (The Ethical Engineer)*
Stellar Ephemeris

In the context of the Deathworld universe, a **Stellar Epheremis** is a book containing all the stars located within the inhabited territory of the galaxy, including data such as location, type, mass, and any planets in the system.

In *Deathworld 2 (The Ethical Engineer)*, while Jason dinAlt was held hostage by Mikah Simon aboard his spaceship, during a discussion of ethics and ethos, Jason asked to borrow a copy of the Stellar Ephemeris and a copy of Ramon Lull's *The Booke of the Ordre of Chyvalry.* Jason then threw them into the jump drive control knocking the ship out of jump drive causing the ship to crash land on a planet.
Power Holster and Gun

The **Power Holster and Gun** is the weapon no Pyrran would ever be caught without.

If consists of a holster worn on the inside of the wrist and contains a powerful gun on the end of a special cable. the holster has sensors on the inside of the wrist; when it detects the tendons of the wrist in a pattern that the holster recognizes as 'ready to receive gun', it powers the gun into the wearers hand in a few milliseconds. If the trigger finger is bent a little more, as the gun is powered into the hand the finger automatically presses the trigger and the gun shoots, the ultimate in quick-draw. Pyrrans wear on of these from the time he/she is an infant.

Jason is fitted with a power-holster the day he arrives on Pyrrus then begins training against all life forms in simulators.
Mengiste Semayat

## መልአከ መንግሥተ ሰማያት

1. የመንግሥተ ሰማያትን መልእክት ለሰው ልጆች ከሚያመጣው ከመልአከ መንግሥተ ሰማያት ጋራ አራተኛው ቁርባን ነው።
2. ከመላእክት ጋራ የሚሔድ ከደመናት በላይ ለመምጠቅ ይማራልና፣ የሕይወት ቅዱስ ዛፍ በሚቆምበት በዘላለማዊው ባሕር ውስጥ መኖሪያው ይሆናል።
3. ሞት ታላቅ ምስጢሩን እስኪገልፅ ድረስ አትቆይ። እግርህ በመሬቱ አፈር ላይ እየተራመደ የሰማዩን አባትህን ካላወቅክ፣ በዘመነ መንግሥተ ሰማያት ከጥላ በቀር ምንም አይኖርህም።
4. እዚህም አሁንም ምስጢሩ ይገለፃል፤ እዚህም አሁንም መጋረጃው ይነሣል። አትፍራ፣ አንተ ሰው ልጅ ሆይ።
5. የመልአከ መንግሥተ ሰማያትን ክንፍ ያዝ፤ የመንገድም ፍጻሜ ለመድረስ ዘወትር ወደ ዞሩት ወደ ከዋክብት፣ ወደ ጨረቃ፣ ወደ ፀሐይ፣ ወደማይቋረጥ ብርሃን ጎዳና ብረር፤ ወደ ሰማዩ ዘላለማዊ ሕይወትም ባሕር ምጠቅ። *[በያሽት 13:57-58]*

ሥላህ።
1:1:1

The **1st Year of the 1st Subae of the 1st Eyobelyu** began at 6 PM (UTC+3) on March 21, 4062 BC (Gregorian Calendar; 1:1:1:1:1), and continued until 1:1:1:12:31, ending 6 PM March 21, 4061 BC, with 365 days.

Also known as: **1 Anno Mundi; 4062-4061 BC Gregorian**

Note: 1.1.1.1.1 through 1:1:1:1:5 ("March 21-26, 4062 BC") are taken as encompassing all preceding time, not 24 hour periods, as there were no people to count time.

* 1:1:1:1:6 (March 26-27, 4062 BC) - Adam born near the Pishon River, now the Red Sea
* 1:1:1:1:7 (March 27-28, 4062 BC) - first *Senbet*
* 1:1:1:1:8 (March 29, 4062 BC) - Adam names wild beasts
* 1:1:1:1:9 (March 30, 4062 BC) - Adam names cattle
* 1:1:1:1:10 (March 31, 4062 BC) - Adam names birds
* 1:1:1:1:11 (April 1, 4062 BC) - Adam names reptiles
* 1:1:1:1:12 (April 2, 4062 BC) - Adam names sea creatures
* 1:1:1:1:13 (April 3, 4062 BC) - Adam meets Heywan
* 1:1:1:2:16 (May 6, 4062 BC) - Adam brought into Eden, now the Rub al Khalid desert
* 1:1:1:3:26 (June 15, 4062 BC) - Heywan brought into Eden, where they remain learning tillage from the angels and protecting Earth from animals, until 1:2:1:2:17 (May 7, 4055 BC).

* Reference: *Book of Jubilees* 2, 3