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Photon Lance: A sword-like weapon similar to a lightsaber, with it’s main function being to enhance the existing powers of whoever is wielding it (sounds almost like an inventus bond, hmm?)

Rildrea: A fictional planet inhabited by genderfluid, aquatic Rildreans (aka, hottie merman with cozy lil pockets).

Sedimentary: Rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air.

Sensei (East Asian): Teacher.

Star Hopping: The universal term for how Stellarians teleport by following unique vibrations along the path to his destination. Star Hopper was also the name Ziggy went by on Earth while moonlighting as a Deathball-playing superhero.

Stellar collision: What Stellarians call their fated mate bond. Also, the coming together of two stars caused by the dynamics within a star cluster, or by the orbital decay of a binary star due to stellar mass loss or gravitational radiation, or by other mechanisms not yet well understood.

Stellarian/Stellaria: A fictional alien species (Ziggy’s species!) that resembles a spiral galaxy—with starry tendrils that fade from gold to mauves, deep purples, teals and more as they spiral inward to a central core.

They are incorporeal symbiotes, who are drawn toward other species to inhabit their bodies as vessels.

Stellarian is also their language and Stellaria is their home planet, located in the Invenio-Astralis galaxy.

P.S. In my many rabbit holes of research, I discovered that Stellarians exist, as a non-binary gender from the galactian alignment system (a system created for non-binary people to describe their gender without having to use binary terms), specifically someone who is abinary/unaligned, or neutral-aligned.

I hope anyone on this planet who identifies as such knows I borrowed the term with the upmost love.

Stellula (Latin): Translates to “little star.” What the Eki call their children, which are created in a similar way to Stellarian novas, except the Tendril Touchy Time happens inside a vessel.

That is where the stellula remains for three weeks, until they are ready to form their own shell/vessel, and therefore delivered via cesarean section.

Symbiote/Symbiotic (Greek root): An organism living in symbiosis with another.

Tarkare/K-59 Salus-Fides

The Knowledge: The legendary Kaalanesean library first visited in Earth Boys Are Easy, housing archives in both bound and digital format, and collected from across the galaxies.

Ziggy describes it as having “walls of alternating concave and convex glass panels allowed sunlight to filter in while creating a soft, rippling effect to disguise the sharp angles required for book storage.” Very aesthetically pleasing (if not life-changing in the secrets revealed within).

Trol: A fictional alien species from the planet Karn and containing the coveted karnilian stone, deep within their chest cavity.

Trols are characterized by a thick coat of shaggy, chestnut-colored fur, pointed ears, large yellow eyes, a thin, hairless tail, pangolin claws on their front and hind feet, and a suspicious resemblance to a Felis catus.

When threatened, they first attempt to curl themselves into a ball or scare away their attacker with an ear-splitting yowl.

As a last resort, the fur hanging from their face parts to reveal thick tentacles while the end of their tail balloons, creating a ring of spikes, like a medieval morning star.

Their jaw can also hinge wide, like a snake swallowing its prey whole, while tiny fangs extend to enormous canines nestled in two rows of equally deadly teeth. They’re really just a baby.

Versipellis (Latin): Fictional alien species from the Yaaritzi galaxy, which is known for its metalwork. They are powerful shapeshifters and incredibly skilled matter manipulators, with the Latin translation being “skin-changer.”

Via Lactea (Latin): Known as the Milky Way Galaxy, containing Earth, our sun and moon, at least 100-300 billion planets and at least that number of stars. Just a stop on the Intergalactic Highway .

Vrir/Vririte/Vririan

Xuniaa YS/Xunis/Hy Phae

Zeanidion: A fictional alien species that looks like a cross between a gargoyle and a Minotaur. The texture of its skin seems almost stone-like, and its craggy face is bovine than anything, with its massive size making it look like one of Notre Dame’s gargoyles come to life.

Science Ho List:

Yes, I decided to make this way easier on myself (and on my page count) by simply listing my internet rabbit hole topics for you to explore on your own.

6-Dimensional (6D) Space

Black Hole/White Hole (and keep digging for more on Event Horizons and Spaghettified objects)

Cosmic Pluralism

Dark Energy/Dark Matter

Einstein’s Theory of (General) Relativity

Electromagnetic Bonds

Giodarno Bruno

Heliocentric

Infinite Universe

Intergalactic space (the space between galaxies)

Mycelial Networks (with fungi)

Nanotechnology

Quantum Gravity

Stilpnomelane (Phyllosilicate mineral)

Sir Isaac Newton’s first law of Inertia (An object in motion stays in motion, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force)

Star Stuff (Carl Sagan)

The Big Bounce

The Theory of Everything (Stephen Hawking)

Pop Culture References:

Area 51: According to Military . Com (which HELL NO, am I going to link to), it’s a highly classified United States military installation within the Nevada Test and Training Range, but… the truth is out there .

Cap’n Crunch: According to the official website , the “famed adventurer and breakfast connoisseur bringing adventure to your breakfast table and beyond.” Also the author’s favorite guilty pleasure breakfast cereal.

Again, we see reference to Candyland Court from the Candyland board game. Micah describes Astrum Force this way because it’s similarly (and deceptively) pastel.

Once again, we get to see Micah’s Trumpet of the Swan harp in action, which is called that in reference to the children's novel by E. B. White published in 1970, where a swan is born without vocal cords (or something equally traumatizing) and gets himself a trumpet so he can call to his mate.

A reminder that Ziggy’s spaceship— Lodger 79 —was named after the 1979 David Bowie album, Lodger. Speaking of Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (album) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (movie) are also mentioned in this book.

On that note, I shall mention again that this book is a PARODY, so any references to the media mentioned above or Star Wars—including Jedis, Queen Amidala, or the author’s Space Daddy babygirl Mandaloria—are also protected under the First Amendment and and not to be confused with licensed use of material owned by Lucasfilm/Walt Disney Company, etc.

Same goes for the nod to Galactus and Guardians of the Galaxy/Groot from Marvel and Bruce Wayne (Batman, duh) and Mr. Terrific and his T-Spheres from DC. I make no claim aside from parody.